Question about exhaust fumes

Tractortef20 · Sep 11, 2015

When driving a tractor like a MF 35 or MF TEF 20 the exhaust is quite close to you so can this cause carbon minoxide poisoning? when driving mine sometimes I get a whiff of the fumes and just wondering how harmful this is?

Charles in Aus. · Sep 11, 2015

In short , yes , but it is a rare occurrence out of doors . There have been a few cases here and some documented by your own Government authorities .

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00050544.htm

maxwell99 · Sep 11, 2015

I had an upright muffler on my TO35, because I kept catching the field on fire with my
under belly muffler when picking corn.

However, I did not like the fumes and having to watch tree limbs so close as I mowed
under my fruit trees and fence rows.

So when the up right muffler broke off the rear corner of the exhaust manifold, I
installed a new manifold and placed the muffler back under the body of the tractor.

It is less noise for me with the muffler under the tractor and with the extra support bracket mounted to the tractor body, I think the muffler exhaust pipe is stronger with much less vibration.

David G · Sep 11, 2015

I would agree with the others, there is CO there, but a lot of fresh air out in the open. The waste treatment has a slogan, the secret to pollution is dilution.

2tractors · Sep 11, 2015

I've got one under the foot rest and it melted my shoe glue and the sole fell off.

MF#1 · Sep 11, 2015

Many years ago I was overcome with CO from the rear exhaust on a MF 50 gas while setting tobacco. No wind and in a long narrow field with trees on three ends. It was so bad that I had a tobacco plant in both hands and was twirling them around in a cicle according to my uncle. I was sitting on the exhaust side, he wasn't. I've set many acres of tobacco with that same tractor but only had the problem once. I will never forget the smell of the exhaust though CO is odorless.

ptfarmer · Sep 11, 2015

The worst one is the one underneath with the turn down at the end of the muffler, you sit in a cloud dust, and exhaust fumes the whole time. If you have one underneath a removable exhaust pipe extension that puts it straight out the back helps.

Tractortef20 · Sep 12, 2015

(quoted from post at 20:13:15 09/11/15) The worst one is the one underneath with the turn down at the end of the muffler, you sit in a cloud dust, and exhaust fumes the whole time. If you have one underneath a removable exhaust pipe extension that puts it straight out the back helps.

Apparently diesel doesn't produce as much CO so do you think i'm fine if it's a windy day? when I come off the tractor I don't feel sick or anything but i do feel as if im slightly affectted by something not sure if exhaust or just being in the sun for a long time

wellmax99 · Sep 14, 2015

when we used a tractor with the under belly muffler to set tobacco,
we added an tail pipe extension that came out and up above the drivers head. This directed the exhaust fumes away from the setter riders and the driver,

it worked, guess the tailpipe extension is still setting in the old setter plant basket.

MF#1 · Sep 14, 2015

Yep, we did the same thing to get that patch done. Man, what a stinker!
The next year we used a 245 diesel with vertical exhaust, no problems.

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