Tractor fire

Good job! Just shows what you can do if you have an extinguisher handy when you need one.

There are several new types of extinguishers on the market now. One of them is fire freeze additive for water extinguishers
Http://www.firefreeze.com/products
The loss prevention agent from our workman's comp carrier first showed us an ad for this stuff. I need to look into this myself because I carry both a large ABC rated extinguisher and a 2.5 gallon water/compressed air extinguisher on my combine. I have been using a little detergent in the water to supposedly aid in suppressing the fire over plain water, but that is just here-say that it may help.

I got a lesson in the importance of having a water extinguisher available a couple years ago when we had a bearing go out in the transmission of a tractor and it got hot and ignited the oil. Operator stopped and called for help. As each person arrived they brought another 10 pound ABC rated extinguisher which put out the fire for a minute only to have it reignite. After discharging a half dozen canisters into this fire, it was finally stopped by throwing water on it and cooling the site down. The end result was a repairable tractor vs scrap iron.

I cannot find the website of the other type extinguisher at the moment. It is an aerosol type material that seemed similar to the halon type extinguishers that used to be available. High performance but high cost as I remember.

Good job! Just shows what you can do if you have an extinguisher handy when you need one.

There are several new types of extinguishers on the market now. One of them is fire freeze additive for water extinguishers
Http://www.firefreeze.com/products
The loss prevention agent from our workman's comp carrier first showed us an ad for this stuff. I need to look into this myself because I carry both a large ABC rated extinguisher and a 2.5 gallon water/compressed air extinguisher on my combine. I have been using a little detergent in the water to supposedly aid in suppressing the fire over plain water, but that is just here-say that it may help.

I got a lesson in the importance of having a water extinguisher available a couple years ago when we had a bearing go out in the transmission of a tractor and it got hot and ignited the oil. Operator stopped and called for help. As each person arrived they brought another 10 pound ABC rated extinguisher which put out the fire for a minute only to have it reignite. After discharging a half dozen canisters into this fire, it was finally stopped by throwing water on it and cooling the site down. The end result was a repairable tractor vs scrap iron.

I cannot find the website of the other type extinguisher at the moment. It is an aerosol type material that seemed similar to the halon type extinguishers that used to be available. High performance but high cost as I remember.

WOW! Good thing you were home. They do make them bigger. I have a couple of the smaller ones like you used and I have several 8 to 10 pounders for around the machinery. They cost a little more but they can save the day.

Good job in responding like you did! Glad the guy wasn't seriously injured!

Any idea what caused it to go up like it did?

Rick

Hey Gang,

Fires are popping up all over in the west. One of my previous employees lost everything last night in the MiddleTown Fire. 1000's of structures lost. [attachment=31129]image.jpg[/attachment][attachment=31128]image.jpg[/attachment]

Looks like that D3? could have been used to clear a fire break, but I know its often impossible to prepare ahead of time with that kind of explosive fire situation. Much better to save lives than stuff! Hope they were well insured.

I doubt we will ever see that kind of wildfire danger here in the southeastern USA. Guess we will dodge tornadoes and hurricanes instead.

There have been many fires in the western states http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/