Farming Video | What Happens When a Combine Sparks a Field Fire?

1 Nov 25 • 1m 1s

Kelly Garrett had a real scare out in the field—his first-ever harvest fire. While cutting corn along the creek, the first grain cart turned around and caught sight of flames in the first 12 rows. Dry weather, wind, and hundreds of acres of standing corn nearby could’ve spelled disaster. But thankfully, Kelly had a Demco fire suppression system on hand, and it did exactly what it was supposed to do: put the fire out fast. No major damage, no spread—and a whole lot of gratitude. It was a day of firsts, and not all bad ones.

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00:00:00 Hi, Kelly Garrett from XT Extreme Ag. We had two firsts today here at Garrett Lamb and Cattle. One, not good one. Really good. 00:00:06 Uh, never had a field fire before. And today the combines are cutting in here, going down along the C creek. 00:00:12 All of them are going, um, first grain cart turns around, comes back out, fields on fire. 00:00:17 It's in the first 12 rows. The first corn head or something must have thrown a spark. And uh, there's no telling, you know, it's dry out. 00:00:24 It's a little bit breezy, things like that. There's no telling how far this fire could have spread. There's 200 acres of corn right here this morning 00:00:31 that it could have gotten into. We used the Demco, we fire suppression system to put it out, and as you can see, it really didn't get very far. 00:00:38 But had it not been for that system, that's the good thing that happened today. We had that, we had water in it. 00:00:43 Everything worked as it was supposed to, and we got this fire put out and I'm very thankful. Um, thousands of acres of corn stalks around here, hundreds 00:00:51 of acres of corn in the field. 00:00:53.595 --> 00:00:55.605

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