I can literally feel the pain of these farmers, hope they stay blessed and can progress even better after this unfortunate loss
This is pretty standard procedure. It’s not uncommon for farmers to have a tractor/disc standing by when harvest season is unusually dry. The ignitions are the result of machinery fires. If the combine gets too full or has a mechanical problem, friction between moving parts and the dry plant material quickly reaches ignition temperature. Just watched this video. It reminds me of 2 true stories . 1, Compared to most farms in the UK and world we were tiny, of 50 acres at the time. We used to buy straw from “Behind the Combine” for animal feed and bedding. 2 men loading and hauling 4 miles each way then off loading by hand, on their last loads out of the field of over 1000 small bales a day, saw in the 1970’s a Ford County tractor approx would say 80Hp with a chisel plough driving through flames of the stubble, before my father even got out of the field. The second is, that some youths”Rent a Mob” had set alight to some straw, and the wind carried the flames faster than “A Horse could Gallop”. A good job sadly to loose any crop, the wind was blowing in a direction to save some crop on this video.
