Ever Seen A Mower Fire?

Ever Seen A Mower Fire? MOWERS Mowers (31H) 25-6-33 Combine fires are relatively common but have you ever heard of a mower fire? I was driving down a country road recently near Raymond, Ill., when I spotted a farmer coming in from the field with his mower ablaze. John Sale had been chopping cornstalks when he noticed the flames. He used his cell phone to call the nearby Raymond-Harvel Fire Department and then headed back to the farm. I offered him the use of my car fire extinguisher but he figured the fire department would be there in minutes. They were and they put the fire out in a jiffy. Sale assumes it was a hot bearing that set off the fire in the dry trash that builds up on top of the mower.

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