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Where to mount fire extinguishers
- Thread starter valtraman
- Start date
- Location
- northumberland
would it not be better on the tractor, then it's with you whatever you have on the back 
Lukehaynes
Member
- Location
- Surrey
Agree with Bob
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
Member
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.
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.
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
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.
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!
- Location
- South wales
YorkshireAndrew
Member
- Location
- West / North Yorks border
Presumably you’d need water ones for baler/combine & other types for machinery ?
Courier
Member
- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
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.
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.
I’m not sure I was thinking a powder one
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
Powder ones are frowned upon now.
Why? Excuse my ignorance I know nothing about extinguishers
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
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
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Why not mount one on the tractor outside the cab? Inside the cab is just asking for trouble.
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
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!
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- baling mchale round baler