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Bizarre - Field Caught on Fire While Plowing
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Posted by Bill in NC on March 24, 2007 at 16:42:02 from (65.188.155.69):
Was plowing my red clay, rocky garden patch here in central NC
this afternoon. My 140 was bellowing in first gear as my 2-14
plow was digging deep. I smelled smoke and then saw smoke
drift by me. I turned around and there was a 3 foot diameter
patch ablaze along the furrow where I had just been. Jumped off
the tractor ran over to the nearby woods, broke off a cedar limb
and stamped out the brush fire of last years garden thatch. The 140 has a top side muffler. Nothing was on fire on the
tractor. I'm stumped as to what caused the brush fire next to
the furrow. The wheels were slipping big time as I juggled the
touch-control levers to keep the tractor going forward while
keeping the plow down deep. Can a slipping drive tire create
enough friction to set dried grass/stalks on fire? Do you reckon
it was two rocks being ground under the wheel setting off
sparks? Anyone seen this happen while plowing under heavy
load?
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