Suspicious..

[dynosoar]

I finished combining on Friday afternoon. So I thought I would get everything back home into the yard.
After dropping the header off I noticed that one of the rear tyres on the combine was very slack on pressure. Too low to road home and a lucky break that it didn’t cause trouble in the field at work.
My tractor has air on it, so it was an easy job to bring it up to pressure and it was still round after dropping the header back to the yard and drove home with no trouble.
Next morning I found this.
Which seemed to me a little suspicious considering the machine was parked next to a footpath the previous night.
What are the odds of both failing together after twenty odd years of being no trouble.

Anyway. Onwards and upwards!

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[Spud]

I finished combining on Friday afternoon. So I thought I would get everything back home into the yard.
After dropping the header off I noticed that one of the rear tyres on the combine was very slack on pressure. Too low to road home and a lucky break that it didn’t cause trouble in the field at work.
My tractor has air on it, so it was an easy job to bring it up to pressure and it was still round after dropping the header back to the yard and drove home with no trouble.
Next morning I found this.
Which seemed to me a little suspicious considering the machine was parked next to a footpath the previous night.
What are the odds of both failing together after twenty odd years of being no trouble.

Anyway. Onwards and upwards!

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Did you remove the elevator bottom?

 

[PeterPrestbury]

If it was left in a location where something like that could have been done by a low life, perhaps be grateful it wasn't anything worse that happened?

 

[dynosoar]

Yes, all home safe.
The elevator covers are off for end of season cleaning

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[Tucker]

the machine was parked next to a footpath the previous night.

That's a brave call, we haven't risked that for a very long time. (The last time cost quite a few quid in hoses and cables, little bar stewards !!!)

 

[farmerm]

have they stayed up since.....

 

[suffolksmallholder]

The one time the neighboring farmer stacked ALL the straw from 40 acres in a single stack, it was torched.
I saw the flickering light from the blaze and the fire engines blue beacons so popped up on my push-bike.
The Firemen thought that I was the arsonist as I discovered later that arsonists like to visit the scene of their crime as it is ongoing. I obviously look well dodgy

Anyway, sadly, by morning there wasn’t anything left except a lot of ash which the wind blew away over the following week.

So IMO yes to this being deliberate but I think you were quite lucky.
Sad though that folk feel the need to do this type of thing
SS

 

[Jsmith2211]

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The one time the neighboring farmer stacked ALL the straw from 40 acres in a single stack, it was torched.
I saw the flickering light from the blaze and the fire engines blue beacons so popped up on my push-bike.
The Firemen thought that I was the arsonist as I discovered later that arsonists like to visit the scene of their crime as it is ongoing. I obviously look well dodgy

Anyway, sadly, by morning there wasn’t anything left except a lot of ash which the wind blew away over the following week.

So IMO yes to this being deliberate but I think you were quite lucky.
Sad though that folk feel the need to do this type of thing
SS

we’ve dealt with our fair share of that over the years. Currently have 3 smallish stacks of straw in a field on the block we have issues with so slightly worried just hoping the weather keeps the little sods at home! Don’t understand people that cut tyres and hoses, can kind of understand arsonists as they like a bonfire!

 

[tullah]

I always cut the few acres against the village last. At least there’s only an afternoons work left to complete while the combine stands idle.

 

[dynosoar]

have they stayed up since.....

Nope. Both down flat by end of day.
It could just be coincidence but does seem unlikely that they would both give up at the same time.
As others have said, it is lucky that nothing else was tampered with.
There is someone around that area who is somewhat militant with regards to paths and access. I have six metre grass margins around the fields and in an effort to stop people just wandering where they fancy I placed a row of plastic electric posts with off cuts of the white tape (not energised) to lead across the margin to the crop path.
They were removed and thrown into a ditch probably on the same day.
I continued to retrieve and replace them but each time a bit further apart. Thus the culprit would have to trespass away from the defined path to perpetrate their crime.
I did record all of this as it made me seethe but instead of going down the wildlife camera route or the trip wire blank cartridge methods I just thought that I have more important things to get on with.
Still bugs me though.

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[dynosoar]

Nope. Both down flat by end of day.
It could just be coincidence but does seem unlikely that they would both give up at the same time.
As others have said, it is lucky that nothing else was tampered with.
There is someone around that area who is somewhat militant with regards to paths and access. I have six metre grass margins around the fields and in an effort to stop people just wandering where they fancy I placed a row of plastic electric posts with off cuts of the white tape (not energised) to lead across the margin to the crop path.
They were removed and thrown into a ditch probably on the same day.
I continued to retrieve and replace them but each time a bit further apart. Thus the culprit would have to trespass away from the defined path to perpetrate their crime.
I did record all of this as it made me seethe but instead of going down the wildlife camera route or the trip wire blank cartridge methods I just thought that I have more important things to get on with.
Still bugs me though.

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I even used green poles to be less conspicuous to the rural idyll.
The last time I put them back up after first finding where they had been thrown they were at least six metres away from the path line. Same result though.
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