Toasted DT 220

[70ds]

After we ate today my brother in law said he wanted to go show me a tractor. I had heard about a fire a month or so ago. He said the guy was drilling wheat and stopped for lunch and it caught fire while he was gone. The only thing they saved was the commodity cart. He said he thinks that the drill was totaled as well. I wouldn't want it anyway. That hitch was really hot.
On with the pics. The insurance company wanted them to tarp it. Not sure why there is not much left.

Melted turbo.








Puddle of aluminum.





The guys that own it are big hog farmers. Here are a couple of their hog houses.

The cart that survived and a loader tractor.

On the way back to town we saw a nice white tail buck.



Some more pics I snapped on the way to town.



This is a pic I took the other day.

Thanks for looking.

[samuel]

Ouch, glad no one got hurt. It could been much worse.

Hope they get a replacement soon.

[sean]

Anyword of what happened???

Sean

[70ds]

As far as I know they don't know what caused it. The guy went to lunch and it started while he was gone.

[Austin Stewart]

Just a guess but their are no shields on the hood to prevent straw and stuff to get onto the manifold on the right side. We have has smoldering corn cobs in there after harvest so possibly some straw got up in there? We have a habit of walking around there every once in a while to check.

I guess it had saddle tanks on it and they completely melted?

I actually think the only possible thing that can be saved is the front weights.

Keep us updated on this

Austin

[Josh Nuxoll]

Wow that is not good. Glad no one got hurt

[shawntelaak]

Nov 26, 2009 22:59:50 GMT -5 Austin Stewart said:

Just a guess but their are no shields on the hood to prevent straw and stuff to get onto the manifold on the right side. We have has smoldering corn cobs in there after harvest so possibly some straw got up in there? We have a habit of walking around there every once in a while to check.

I guess it had saddle tanks on it and they completely melted?

I actually think the only possible thing that can be saved is the front weights.

Keep us updated on this

Austin

Well when i took plastics, fire can effect different types of plastic differently. it may have burned up as there is nothing showing that they melted. Plus the chemicals in the tanks could have burned the tanks right up to.

But the good thing is nobody was in the tractor. They wouldn't have made it out of the tractor with the saddle tanks on it.

[70ds]

I am sure if they would have been running it they would have been able to get out. I really doubt it got that big that fast. If he wouldn't have been at lunch he may have been able to put it out before it got out of hand.

[treymo]

Man, That is a mess.
~TREY~