Exciting time with a plow!

Well Gents,
Took the old Oliver rooster-comb 2x14 plow out on the just as old Cockshutt 30 yesterday, to plow a grassed over garden patch.

Tractor had been in the shed since last year, as I used more modern ones most of the time.
Plowed (ploughed) up one side, and hadn't it set quite right. Coming down the other way, it ran out of the ground, so as I lifted out to back up, I noticed smoke from under the bonnet/hood. Got off to see what was going on, and noticed grass was on fire behind tactor!

Pulled to one side & stopped, then spent 15-20 minutes fighting fire. Only had my boots to put her out, and pressed my shirt into duty as well, as it is as dry as H--l here at present.
After the fun, I thought not risk it again, so came home and took bonnet /hood off, and yes, a mouse had built a nest on the manifold, out of stuffing out of the grain truck seat....all fuzzy stuff and that is what had caught fire.

Crop not coming up yet. Some of it won't until it rains.
Few showers about, but we have had only had 1 rain since the snow went. I didn't want to start another 'Fort McMurray' a bit further down the province!!

Must say, the rooster -comb lift worked flawlessly!

I thought you were going to say you pulled it so fast that the friction started a fire. LOL

A few years back my brother was plowing way out in back, also with a two-bottom rooster comb plow, and when he got to the end of the field and turned around he saw where sparks from the tractor muffler had started a stubble fire. This was before cell phones, and he was too far away to go for help before things would have gotten out of control, so he was on his own.

So what did he do? He plowed a couple of furrows around the fire for a firebreak, and let it burn itself out. Worked like a charm.

Hi TJ,

Plowing around the fire wouldn't have helped with me dropping smoldering mouse -beds off the manifold!

With the wind we have had, and the hot dry weather, I was just plain lucky to get it out.
Put another one out a few weeks ago, caused by a motorbike prang.
Got it stopped about 20 yards from the neighbour's house. (he wasn't home at the time.)

Richard.