Field Fire In Standing Corn

Thai Drama Official

3 months ago

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00:00just a quick disclaimer before we start the video none of the burned equipment or field

00:14fires shown in this video are mine or grants these are things that happen to neighbors of

00:19ours so still close and in a community but I just wanted to clear up any confusion not ours

00:30well we're back in the combine are we surprised no you shouldn't be because we're in the very middle

00:41of harvest almost exactly the middle of harvest actually considering the fact that according to

00:48my math I don't know how accurate it is I'm using some rough numbers but I think we are halfway done

00:53with all the acres that we need to harvest so that's really exciting and that's combining corn

00:58soybeans and seed corn we're down a green cart we're having some problems with the PTO shaft

01:05and you need to have the PTO shaft on to run the augers to get the grain out of the green cart

01:11so we took that in to be fixed so right now yes I am still harvesting even though I don't have a

01:17green cart it's just maybe not quite as efficient so I have a semi truck and trailer on that side of

01:23the field and a semi truck and trailer on that side of the field so I am just picking until I'm full

01:30unloading into the truck going down picking until I'm full unloading into the truck and then I have

01:35dad running trucks back and forth between our grain system at the farm site and the field so we are no

01:42longer bringing things into the co-op we are bringing things back to our home storage facilities the grain

01:49bins that we have on the farm it's just a tad bit wet then we'd like to store it permanently or like

01:57for the next three to six to nine months and so we are putting it in a designated bin called the wet bin

02:04and then running it through the grain dryer which does exactly what you would guess it does it runs

02:09off propane and it blows hot air and moves the grain along until it's dry to like 15 and a half

02:1716 percent moisture and then it goes into the designated bin wherever we want it to go

02:22so we're harvesting today

02:25here's the cab view I'm hoping that that pivot is going to be out of my way I think it should be

02:35if I line it up straight I think we should miss it that's moving out of our way right now

02:40here's what I'm looking at for my monitor and I'm specifically looking at the moisture

02:47the yield and then making sure these sensors don't get into the yellow or the red areas

02:53and then obviously looking at my oil temperature and my fuel level and then my engine load so I'm

03:02not going too fast right now I'm not in too much of a hurry because I want to make sure that dad can

03:06keep up with me but I'm making sure that engine load doesn't get too high and then here is where

03:13I see how much grain I have back there

03:15do you think I can weasel my way under the pivot to get my auger

03:25into that truck we shall see oh yeah oh yeah I think we can make this work

03:36perfect

03:47I mean I'm pretty sure that combine isn't in my field

03:59okay

04:01I look so funny going down the road

04:04it was going so slowly and the corn is so tall across the two fields

04:10across the two fields I thought um for sure there was just another combine harvesting the field here

04:19we're good it's driving down the road

04:22it's kind of slow going but it's still working

04:28here's a little field sorry about the glare let's do a little field update

04:32here's our field the green stuff is what we've done

04:36so all outside all that not too shabby just uh plug and ride along here

04:43I uh went and grabbed some lunch for grant I was going to deliver it to him in the field

04:59um but then I was looking out of the corner of my eye I saw all of this smoke which was

05:08I was concerned about smoke this morning because it is so windy outside

05:14um 30 mile an hour sustained winds

05:17oh I just got goosebumps uh with gusts up to 50 miles an hour

05:22I'm just driving past combines and tractors and they're all stopped

05:28which in my mind means that everyone is out seeing what this is

05:35I'll show you what I'm looking at here

05:36I'm hoping that it's nothing but I mean it's definitely something

05:40this is what I'm looking at

05:43scary

05:45dad and I just hooked up um the disc on our field yesterday

05:52because fire is a huge concern this time of year because everything is super dry

05:58and there's lots of equipment moving around all the time

06:01um lots of heat I don't know it's just really scary and fields can go up in flames fast

06:08um and really all you can do is just disc around them

06:11so oh this looks really bad

06:14my main concern is that I hope everyone is okay

06:21we have a piece of equipment started on fire

06:24I hope that everyone was able to get out

06:29okay while they have a tractor out here

06:40oh my goodness

06:43yikes there's people walking around

06:50I think that combine started on fire

06:52I just got off the phone

07:07with the neighbor um and everyone's okay

07:11he said he was actually on the phone with the combine operator

07:14and he said I gotta go fire

07:16um hopped off the phone

07:18there's lots of tractors

07:20lots of discs

07:21no one was hurt

07:22um I don't know what the extent to the combine damage was

07:27but just a really scary thing

07:30the good thing that comes out of situations like this

07:35is neighbors coming together to help each other

07:38I mean they were here um on scene helping out immediately

07:43I just called more more people are on the way

07:46um and I know for a fact that if his combine is rendered useless

07:51I know people will come help him harvest

07:53and I love being able to see that

07:57so that's and

07:59well I was gonna say I mean

08:04oh I don't know

08:06it's scary though

08:07www

08:15I don't know

08:19I don't know

08:27I don't know

08:29Oh, my God.

08:59out. Hopefully they can contain whatever fire is burning before it spreads to other unharvested

09:07fields all right I'm just going to let firefighters do their job as always I'm incredibly thankful for

09:34them and the work that they do it's incredible so I'm just going to get out of their way let them do

09:41their job deliver grants lunch and we'll check back later. I delivered Grant's lunch and then I

09:51hopped in the green cart he is running trucks and I looked over there's another fire the other one

10:02was to the east this one is to the west it's just terrible

10:06kind of a crazy day

10:20um but overall a good one considering that no one was hurt

10:26we'll be harvesting until probably about nine o'clock tonight and everything seems to be going

10:34okay uh wild ride though so luckily that combine didn't burn down in the field fire from earlier

10:43however this is what a burned combine does look like again no one was injured um this incident

10:53actually happened overnight I think they had like a plugged head and things just got hot and

11:01overnight started on fire and the whole thing burned up there's silk clean grain um in the tank as you can

11:12see up there took a perfectly good new looking combine and made it look like it's been sitting in a junkyard

11:23for years and years and years

11:25there's the fire extinguisher

11:30look at this the back of it like melted off

11:36I got really really hot

11:46hopefully something like this never happens to me

12:02here's the aftermath of the first fire from yesterday

12:09burned ditch

12:11and then this cornfield all these endros were standing

12:15and they just went ahead and disked them under

12:17you can see all the full cobs of corn

12:19there

12:21but in total

12:2311 tractors hooked up to discs showed up

12:26um from area farmers

12:28and got things under control I think three or four different fire departments responded

12:33um

12:34I have a friend who lives just right down the road

12:37luckily I'm so glad his house didn't burn down

12:40um so from all this so thankful that no one got hurt

12:43um and we are blessed with

12:45very quick to act

12:47neighbors and farmers who are always willing to lend a hand

12:50and local fire departments with volunteer firefighters

12:53we're very lucky and fortunate

12:56so

12:57in the end

12:59all's well that ends well

13:01everything's gonna be okay

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