[Brian Hale]
Here's more on the fire danger during cotton harvest season from David Misener.
[David Woodruff]
I can't remember the word that I'm trying to say, but the cotton seeds are they're an oil feed, are they not?
[David Misener]
Yes, they are. They're an oil seed in the cotton when it's put into a bale. It's got give off a fume kind of like gas is the easiest way that I could say it. The spark will go a long ways and create a lot of problem really fast and and all the dust and the leaves and the stocks and just your machine is so dirty. You got to be really careful with it when you're harvesting and clean your machine every day to help minimize that fire when it does happen.
[David Woodruff]
So then it looks like there's three things that you have to worry about. The cotton lint, that's got to be super flammable and then that oiliness of the seeds, I know I had a neighbor that raised hemp and he had to stop every round and go and blow off the manifold on the combine because that oily dust would catch on the manifolds and it could be smoldering away and it wouldn't be too long until it burned that John Deere right down. So he had to be out there. Some of the big square balers I understand they have a compressed air system blows off the knaughters every so often. Has anybody done that for cotton strippers?
[David Misener]
Not that I know of, but I can say myself, I do have one of them big air compressors that you pull around you know that it's a whole by itself machine and got a diesel engine in it. Yeah it just when the fire happens there's just a lot of trash out there that can fuel for that fire. It's just laying all over the machine hanging on everywhere.
[Brian Hale]
That's going to do it for today's Harvest USA report. Thanks again for listening and may God bless. I'm Brian Hale.
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