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Static electricity combines and balers

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Does anyone still drag a short
piece of chain that barely touches
the ground to ground the machine
for static electricity. Or is this
old school thinking ?
 
Very low humidity, and dry conditions are prime movers of static. The US West seems like a place where it could be a challenge. Dust sticking to everything, and nasty arcs between fingers and metal parts. It can ignite grain dust, but i have not seen evidence of it starting field fires. Jim
 
I have seen a piece of 1 banding type metal hanging from the rear of many pickups around here(south Louisiana).guess its not just for ag equipment.mostly seen it on combines during soybean harvest
 
I remember seeing gas trucks dragging a chain.
I figured if they drug a chain and got rich, I'd drag a chain too. I never got rich. So much for dragging a chain.
 
We had a chain on your Massey 410.510 and on our Gleaner. I know the chain was on the Gleaner when dad bought it. I have not paid any attention to the new combines running up and down the road. I'll be watching this up coming wheat harvest to see.

Wheat harvest use to last two weeks. Now it's only two or three days.
 
years ago our neighbor ran their elevator with a farmall b on a leather belt. you had to hang a chain over the drawbar because of the static electricity. if you didnt it would knock you on your butt!
 
For the aviation fueling facilities I have designed, we always used a retractable real with a clamp attached to a grounded wire to connect to the truck. But for a combine or something else that moves and static buildup poses a problem, dragging a chain will help.
 
We never drug anything. Besides with flex heads running on the ground why would I need a chain? The head should ground it out. Wheat the straw should make a connection to ground also. We didn't drag a chain cutting wheat on the plains from TX to ID We cut in all those states TX,OK,KS,CO,WY,MT,ID,then back to the San Luis Valley in CO again for taters barley and wheat. Milo and corn in KS and NE Cut a bit of milo In Walsh and sw TX Seminole area. No static electricity problem with 10 machines.
 
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