How You Can Prevent Combine Fires

How You Can Prevent Combine Fires

By Amanda Brodhagen, Farms.com

The 2013 harvest season is well underway and practicing farm safety should be top of mind. Preventing combine fires and other farm accidents from occurring is important. The following are a few things to consider in order to preventing combine fires from occurring:

• Use heat-resistant insulation;
• Always keep electrical wiring and fuses in good condition and in the right position;
• Replace and insulate wires if they become broken or frayed;
• Keep fuel lines clean and in good working condition;
• Never refuel near a source of heat i.e. open flame
• Secure any fires immediately and ensure any flammable material is cleaned up.
• Ensure flammable plant mater is not tangled up in any equipment.

When operating a combine or any other type of machinery, it is important that you are educated as well as everyone else on the farm about the safest practices to use. Preventing an accident is in everyone’s interest, do your part, be informed and most importantly, have a safe harvest!