Up in Smoke

[Bart]

[David oakman]

Not a very good advert for john deere this thread:lol:

[Stephen Blair]

poor guy, i hope he is ok and gets paid out in full asap. this kind of thing can wreck a business.

[tommer9]

John DEAR more like. Expensive and no more reliable than any other. They must have more fires than any other manufacturer. i know of a good half dozen that have gone up in smoke in the last 8 odd years.

[Tree Man Tom]

Combines can go up in smoke so easily, as for the john deere... its a john deere, never been a fan lol

[Husqvarna King]

Combines can go up in smoke so easily, as for the john deere... its a john deere, never been a fan lol

 

HAHA the Case engineer that used to come to the farm where i worked always used to say "They paint John Deeres green so that they blend in with the hedges when there broken down at the side of the field"....Dont think either of those two would have blended in!!

[Stephen Blair]

Combines can go up in smoke so easily, as for the john deere... its a john deere, never been a fan lol

 

i thought it was when the combines hit flint on the surface when working that caused the fires:confused1:

[Charlieh]

its when the operators skimp on servicing that combines catch fire, i worked on one place that one operator had the combine caught fire 6times in one harvest, each time it was caught quickly and ended in no more than discoloured paint,

 

also more john deeres break down as more have been sold they have the biggest market share! i love my deeres driven loads over the years but in the last 6years they havent got better in fact quite the opposite, I have mates from uni that work in product support for JD, New Holland, Case, and AGCO and i know which are the busiest and it aint the deere guys

 

(FTR i currently drive a MF)

[Tree Man Tom]

HAHA the Case engineer that used to come to the farm where i worked always used to say "They paint John Deeres green so that they blend in with the hedges when there broken down at the side of the field"....Dont think either of those two would have blended in!!

 

haha sounds about right, i like red tractors me

[Tree Man Tom]

i thought it was when the combines hit flint on the surface when working that caused the fires:confused1:

 

I have heard of this happening, but my grandad spends every dry day during harvest on the combine and told me its just because your dealing with a product that is very dry (corn/straw) you only ever work on dry days (usually hot) plus a large machine with lots of moving parts which get hot. So the fire risk is high.