Where to mount fire extinguishers

[valtraman]

I had a close call with a round baler almost on fire today and it got me thinking I should have an extinguisher on baler. Where would be best to mount one or anybody any pictures I could copy idea. Baler is a 550 mchale

 

[Bobthebuilder]

would it not be better on the tractor, then it's with you whatever you have on the back

 

[Lukehaynes]

Agree with Bob

 

[KennyO]

We have them in all tractors. Saved the baler last year (although dad panicked and forgot the first time it went on fire)

 

[avag]

Having had a baler fire last week I had a fire extinguisher in the cab I did save the baler but it felt like ages jumping from the baler to the tractor and back and what was smoke turned into 3ft flames when I returned moments later. I’ve replaced the tractor extinguisher and also fitted one to the baler now as well

 

[deleted user 837354]

On the floor beside the seat in the tractor.

If a fire has become 'larger' rather than smaller and you don't think a fire extinguisher will make any difference for godsake unhitch it and keep well away.Tyres under pressure can throw burning rubber at you and heat diesel or oil enough and they become nasty. Watching a machine go up before is not something you readily forget- it's only metal and it is insured.

 

[valtraman]

Don’t always bale with same tractor so thought mounting in the machine would be better somewhere in about drawbar area.

 

[Tim G]

Finished baling some hay this evening and as I shut the gate on the field I could smell something a bit hot. Opened the side door on baler and saw some dust smoldering away. A bearing had collapsed and it was very hot in there. As luck would have it the was a bucket just next to the gate and a water trough in the field. But when I go for a bearing tomorrow I'm getting a fire extinguisher too.

 

[ARW]

On the floor beside the seat in the tractor.

If a fire has become 'larger' rather than smaller and you don't think a fire extinguisher will make any difference for godsake unhitch it and keep well away.Tyres under pressure can throw burning rubber at you and heat diesel or oil enough and they become nasty. Watching a machine go up before is not something you readily forget- it's only metal and it is insured.

Not sure I fancy a fire extinguisher to the face if you overturn the tractor!
I’ve had a few machinery fires, first one I sacrificed my clothes and drink and instantly regretted saving the horrible tractor!
The second was a forklift, by the time you would have got the pin out of the extinguisher it would be a waste of time!

 

[Lofty1984]

Ignore the stones!! This is where all ours are mounted in proper holders

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

Presumably you’d need water ones for baler/combine & other types for machinery ?

 

[Courier]

Some 60 years ago our contractor had his Claas SF Combine on fire.....

His line to the insurance Co. was "If I'd had a second fire extinguisher I could have saved it".

























Mind you, a first fire extinguisher would have helped even more.

 

[valtraman]

Presumably you’d need water ones for baler/combine & other types for machinery ?

I’m not sure I was thinking a powder one

 

[Tim G]

Powder ones are frowned upon now.

 

[valtraman]

Powder ones are frowned upon now.

Why? Excuse my ignorance I know nothing about extinguishers

 

[Tim G]

Why? Excuse my ignorance I know nothing about extinguishers

Apparently they make too much mess (I did question this as I thought a fire would be messier). But having seen one that went off in the back of a van, and the corrosion it caused after a couple of years I would go for an alternative.

 

[valtraman]

Apparently they make too much mess (I did question this as I thought a fire would be messier). But having seen one that went off in the back of a van, and the corrosion it caused after a couple of years I would go for an alternative.

Another reason I’m not keen on having in the cab in case it goes off .

 

[Steevo]

Why not mount one on the tractor outside the cab? Inside the cab is just asking for trouble.

 

[Tim G]

Not sure I fancy a fire extinguisher to the face if you overturn the tractor!

Ignore the stones!! This is where all ours are mounted in proper holders

I think the fire extinguisher to the face looks a better outcome if @Lofty1984 's tractor rolled!

 

[Robert K]

Only small ones on the machinery here but everything has one all buildings have a few large ones too