The day the farming died.
This morning the Lear's tractor died. No one was hurt.
The Pierceville Fire Dept. got some practice with their new truck.
Tom is having a bad month, losing a tractor this week and his daughter next week. (She is getting married.)
They are pretty fortunate that this didn't happen while the tractor was pulling a grain cart through a corn field.
According to deere.com, the BASE price for a new 9420 tractor is $213,824.00
posted by lobiwan at 1:44 PM
5 Comments:
That's terrible...
2:24 PM, August 30, 2006
How does something like that happen?
3:41 PM, August 30, 2006
oh my...was anyone in the tractor when the fire started?
3:56 PM, August 30, 2006
The two probable causes would be either a hydraulic leak which managed to spray onto the exhaust manifold on the engine, or a wiring problem. Abe had gotten out to look at a leaky hydraulic line underneath where the tractor articulates and when he was getting back in the cab he noticed that the front of the cab was on fire, so it actually sounds like an electrical fire. I guess it spread pretty quickly, though. My pictures were taken about 1 1/2 hours after it started.
10:58 PM, August 30, 2006
One other interesting note, in the first picture you will notice that the 3-point hitch is still up. It was crazy because it just settled down really slowly as the fire burned the hydraulic fluid, whereas you would think it would just lose pressure suddenly and just drop.
11:01 PM, August 30, 2006
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