Tractors fighting fire - Combine lost

Tractor fighting a fire with a disk. Firetrucks and fire. Burnt up combine on fire. The combine was a CASE 1470 from 1984.
Fires seem to be happening everywhere. It feels like there are more fires than I can remember. Tractors can be the first line of defense in a field fire. Don't forget your disks at home boys and girls. Bring it with you to the field for reasons just like this. Thanks to everyone who showed up.
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[@garrettmartin9229]

That is my grandpa’s combine, that was his dads combine that he bought back in the day (My great grandpa Howard). Crazy you made a video, that is my grandparents discing the field for the fire. Sad I didn’t work this season since this is their last year farming.

[@combinelover8988]

I'm so sorry for their loss. Just because she wasn't the only combine, doesn't mean there wasn't a big hole left in the harvesting team! Everyone is important, and it's just going to take that much longer for completion of the harvest, and then having to deal with the insurance and mounds of paperwork. My heart still hurts for the poor combine, too.

[@TrevorStruthers]

Man that is really sad. A lot of history in these old machines. I am glad this doesn't happen as often as it could.

[@anthonybeardmore5413]

So much destruction from one combine, it's amazing just how far and how fast fire can spread.

[@johannbuer1727]

Trevor it's hard to see, burning down the wheat . Thank you for sharing the video. Greetings from a german farmer 🇩🇪

[@TrevorStruthers]

Thanks for watching

[@patwalgamott4867]

Your great coverage of a terrible event is fantastic. and the dramatic guitar work is amazing. Thank you for the documentary. Be safe out there!

[@rupps_timber]

Been there done that. Couple of old Challengers getting after it. Cool video; They always happen every year and you hate to see farmers lose standing grain and equipment in these situations.

[@williskinder7794]

Another interesting subject of what can happen and does on the farm thanks Trevor.

[@joegotz1971]

Been there in the fires a few times. It really gets your blood pressure up because you are not sure if the wind will kick up and get the fire really burning.

[@belhsanabdeli7450]

its sad to see all of those fields burning

[@haykelhermi507]

Great video

[@TrevorStruthers]

Thanks!

[@joelg8004]

Glad no one was hurt!

[@combinelover8988]

THAT is the MOST IMPORTANT thing of all! Albeit it tragic for the farmer and his combine, HE or the operator, CANNOT be replaced. Another farmer, with his own combines, will fill his shoes after he's retired.

[@joescheller6680]

Sad to see a lot went into that crop and now its gone up in smoke

[@jiggyquinn5635]

Hope the recovery from the loss is speedy and of minor setback.

[@WheelingDairyFarmer]

Wow I am glad we don't have such fire dangers around here. It is not so dry here. Good job of showing the scale of the fire and what would happen if it wasn't contained. Thanks and good job Trevor

[@Bearded_Tall_Guy]

i work on a wet lands area in denmark just last year i had to stop a fire starting 3 times.. a larger rock in grass when mowing. set a water trench on fire. with a wheat field getting harvested besides it. it happens even when you don't expect it.

[@flanacre]

Oh, I'm very sorry that so many hectares of fields were burned even with a combine harvester ((

[@rickdavidson3534]

The best drone footage. I would have liked more commentary about why they are doing the discing the way they did. Explain the tankers at the road intersection. Many dont see wildland fires and dont understand how rural firefighting works. But!! its still a great video with a positive end..

[@TrevorStruthers]

Next time! This winter I could use some fire footage to explain the tenders and all that. You even see them running out of water up in the field in one of the F-Series trucks.

[@AK-FS]

Another excellent video - thank you! Just tragic to lose the 1470. They don't make them like that anymore; it was an excellent hillside harvester! Do you happen to know what caused the fire? Was it caused by something in the combine itself, or some other source?

[@TrevorStruthers]

No. I didnt hear the how it started

[@luisnunes7933]

Hello! Prevention is a must! On board automatic extinguishers instalation should be considered...

[@ElsaLay]

That's a good point... Here in Australia on our farm, our harvesters are fitted with a fire suppression system.. Harvesting sunflowers is a very hight risk for fire in a combine...

[@luisnunes7933]

@@ElsaLay You're quite right.Greetings from Portugal.

[@combinelover8988]

I have advocated this for 32 years now. It's just a thing with airplanes. Back then, a small single engine plane was only about half the price of a big combine, too! All the greedy combine companies care about, is selling more $100, $200, $400 K...$1,250,000 combines, but they don't give a darn about the combines themselves!!! Really sad, because each generation of them are bigger, stronger, more advanced and just more beautiful than the previous, and they should have the utmost care and respect, because each one carries the responsibility of its owner's ENTIRE FISCAL INVESTMENT AND ROI, on its back!!! God bless the combines, as well as the farmers and their families!!!

[@combinelover8988]

Sunflowers are sooooo FREAKING DANGEROUS!!! I actually don't use that oil, for that very reason. I use CANOLA, instead, because it's just more combine-friendly.

[@luisnunes7933]

@@combinelover8988 👌

[@samkf250]

Pretty scary.

[@dypk-x3n]

tragic

[@TrevorStruthers]

Irreplaceable, each one of these old machines.

[@dypk-x3n]

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[@HasanAli55123]

I'm very sorry bad news .

[@YacIne-t8j]

😮😮😮😮

[@John-nc4bl]

Impressive video, thanks Trevor. I wonder why he didnt fold the outer gangs of the disk down when he was going down the hill which would have made a wider fire barrier. Going uphill with them folded down may have made the Cat spin the tracks as the hill looked to be steep.

[@dougfalstad5227]

He wanted to get better penetration in the hard dry soil. Turn up more dirt.

[@John-nc4bl]

@@dougfalstad5227 Thanks for your reply. I was just thinking that a while after I wrote the question. The two outer disk gangs would put more weight on the center gang and make it cut deeper. Hopefully he has max angle cut on the center gang blades to bury more wheat stalks and turn more topsoil up on to the top. It must have taken quite a while to get the Cats with the disks in action from looking at the amount of wheat ground burn tafter the combine went on fire.

[@TrevorStruthers]

It was probably a half hour before the cats started rolling. Even if they're at the edge of the field, that may be a mile away. Thanks John! I have never seen anyone else do the folded up drill, but what do I know. Doug may have gotten it right with the penetration being better from the added weight.

[@Dapalm24]

Excellent video was that the small combine ?

[@TrevorStruthers]

I haven't verified but it looked a lot like a 1470

[@spike3082]

Definitely is a 14 series IH/CaseIH combine as the 16 series CaseIH combines had the fan as I call it on the back of the combine instead of the side that's the easiest way to tell the difference between a 14 series and a 16 series

[@AnthonyJonas-eh4fu]

Was it a 1670 that was lost??

[@threetwomotorsports]

1470. It's my dad's combine. Grandpa bought it brand new in 84

[@AnthonyJonas-eh4fu]

@@threetwomotorsports that sucks

[@threetwomotorsports]

@AnthonyJonas-eh4fu definitely sub optimal. It was his last year before retirement and the combine decided to retire with him I guess.

[@combinelover8988]

Sorry.

[@spike3082]

Definitely a sad way to lose a classic machine

[@charlestibbey2666]

Thanks Trevor, very scary. Is this the farm you are working on and this year's harvest?

[@TrevorStruthers]

No, this was about three miles from my house up in the skyrockets.

[@YacIne-t8j]

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[@rupps_timber]

not the 1470!!

[@timflomer2438]

Sure looked like a 1470.

[@spike3082]

Sadly I think it was

[@John-nc4bl]

White man smoke signals drifting eastbound-!