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B-Diddy · 07-12-07, 07:17

One day I was helping a friend of ours a couple farms over roll bale some hay. He had about 40 acres cut, and raked up and it was getting ready to storm so I took our 4230 JD and JD 530 baler over to help out.
I was running along with him on the windrow beside me when all of a sudden he stopped and and jumped out of his tractor cab and ran over beside me with a fire extinguisher. I stopped and he instantly started spraying it underneath the hood. It turns out he saw a flicker of flame under the hood and I didn't know about it.
It turns out the alternator had caught fire, but no other damage was done. I went up to his shed and "borrowed" an alternator off one his JD's and we finished without any more problems.

07-12-07, 07:17	#10 (permalink)
B-Diddy Registered User B-Diddy is offline Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 60	Re: This will ruin any farmers day! One day I was helping a friend of ours a couple farms over roll bale some hay. He had about 40 acres cut, and raked up and it was getting ready to storm so I took our 4230 JD and JD 530 baler over to help out. I was running along with him on the windrow beside me when all of a sudden he stopped and and jumped out of his tractor cab and ran over beside me with a fire extinguisher. I stopped and he instantly started spraying it underneath the hood. It turns out he saw a flicker of flame under the hood and I didn't know about it. It turns out the alternator had caught fire, but no other damage was done. I went up to his shed and "borrowed" an alternator off one his JD's and we finished without any more problems.