This'll give a boost

Farm equipment and truck sales will get a boost here before spring. Another big fire. Crooks Farms had a similar fire a few years ago and Sackett Farms not long before that. Last fire we had here at home was way back in 64 when our old dairy barn burned. My sympathy goes out. They've got a lot of ground to cover in the spring.
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WOW sure hope their insurance is paid up! That's a lot to lose.

I'm half tempted to drive over and get a picture of the rubble. Maybe the DN will have a picture of it later in an updated story. With all the acres they work and all the different crops they grow,it had the potential to be packed full of stuff that would run up in the tens of millions. I'd hope they didn't have everything in one place,but you never know. They grow potatoes,sugar beets,dry edible beans,corn,wheat,you name it.

This story reminds me of growing up in the 60's and seeing barn fires. One was just the back side of block we lived on. You could see the flames above the trees. That one started when a motor caught some hay on fire going into the mow. There was also a guy torching barns near us every Friday night. One barn each Friday. As a kid it always made me scared to go to the barn after dark. I never heard if they caught the guy. Something happened as the fires eventually stopped.

Almost worth it not to keep too much of it inside. Definitely not in one building.

(quoted from post at 10:43:04 01/02/19) Maybe the DN will have a picture of it

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We had a fire bug here who was torching things. He burned one of the local elevators as one of his last acts before he got caught. He turned out to be a member of a volunteer fire department. After he set the elevator on fire and left,he ran over a cop standing in the road when he came back in his gear to help put it out.

Our barn burned on a Sunday while we were gone for a family picnic. Happened in July when it was packed full of hay. We were coming home and saw the smoke rolling out over the road when we got close enough to see it. One of the neighbors saw it early on and said smoke was coming out of the milkhouse. Said there was just a big whoosh when it went up in to the hay.


An old gal south of town said they had roofers out one time and they had taken a break. One of them tossed a lit cigarette and a bird picked it up and flew up in to the door to the haymow in the end of the barn. She said they kept watching it turn its head in and out of the barn,hoping beyond all hope that it didn't fly in or drop it inside. She said it finally turned its head and dropped it outside. You just never know what's gonna start a fire.

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Man! That's a big barn!

Ya it used to be an Ore-Ida potato storage. I don't know what the dimensions are,I'd guess 60x400 or so.

It's an awful thing to see, worse when livestock can't get out. In '95 I watched my long time friends machine sheds and dairy barn burn to the ground, on Fathers day, while the family was out together. The heat from it was unimaginable, there was a prevailing wind and they could do nothing to prevent the dairy barn from going up, it was over 100 feet away. The heat made it spontaneously combust. From my house the black smoke plume from the fuel tanks that burned looked like an airplane crashed. I have some photos of it taken from my back steps. Their farm was 1/2 mile or so away. He told me it was set, had something to do with the new Walmart's going in next to him that was another farm. I've never seen fire destroy something completely so quickly and there was nothing that could be done, you just can't fight a fire like this. 3 concrete stave silos heated up so much that they starting venting gases, eventually it lit up like a Bic lighter ! To add to it, the town absolutely refused to let him have a benefit party to help with the recovery, and they were even harder on him when he tried to develop a piece for self storage. The whole thing reeked of corruption or something, that administration was beyond disgraceful.

It's an awful thing to see, worse when livestock can't get out. In '95 I watched my long time friends machine sheds and dairy barn burn to the ground, on Fathers day, while the family was out together. The heat from it was unimaginable, there was a prevailing wind and they could do nothing to prevent the dairy barn from going up, it was over 100 feet away. The heat made it spontaneously combust. From my house the black smoke plume from the fuel tanks that burned looked like an airplane crashed. I have some photos of it taken from my back steps. Their farm was 1/2 mile or so away. He told me it was set, had something to do with the new Walmart's going in next to him that was another farm. I've never seen fire destroy something completely so quickly and there was nothing that could be done, you just can't fight a fire like this. 3 concrete stave silos heated up so much that they starting venting gases, eventually it lit up like a Bic lighter ! To add to it, the town absolutely refused to let him have a benefit party to help with the recovery, and they were even harder on him when he tried to develop a piece for self storage. The whole thing reeked of corruption or something, that administration was beyond disgraceful.