A little advice - on the modern cars with cable operated hood latches, the moment you think you have an underhood fire, pull the hood release and get the hood up. I've tried to extinguish several car fires where the hood was too hot to touch and/or the cable mechanism had failed from the heat. I've put out at least a half dozen engine compartment fires with my little truck mounted fire extinguisher, but I've struck out on several where the hood was either still latched or too hot to touch.
My own fire - I glanced at the dash gauges on my 630 JD and figured my ammeter had shot craps - the needle was pointing at 9 o'clock. Then I saw the flames. I'd just filled the gas tank. Jumped off with my leatherman pliers and cut every wire that I could reach - luckily got the ones that needed to be cut. A wire hold-down had broken, and the alternator wire had gotten against the exhaust and shorted after melting the insulation. Saved the tractor and baler, but had to do a midnight re-wire on a steep hillside in the hayfield.
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Today's Featured Article - Bad Vibes - by Curtis Von Fange. One of the strangest ways to communicate with our tractor is to ask it how it feels. "Ask it how it feels," you say? Yup, ask it how it feels. Now, as with the other articles in this series one has to be able to hear what 'ole blue' is trying to say in response. The nice thing about our old iron friends is that they are usually quite consistent in their response, rather unlike some people I know who might change what they say due to the weather or other mitigating circumstances. But since t
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