Our 1968 Ford 3000 caught fire today.
We had been working it for a couple of hours, pulling the Goossen Versa-Vac around and picking up the cottonwood leaves that were already starting to fall. We parked it to let it cool down and continued with our day.
A little while later, we noticed black smoke coming from the front.
I walked over and could actually hear it burning. I lifted the hood, and there was a fire toward the back of the engine bay.
Luckily, we had just bought a brand new fire extinguisher. I grabbed that instead of the old one that was about to expire and emptied the whole thing into the fire.
One extinguisher was enough to put it out.
We just got the tractor back from service this week, too.
The brand-new battery and cables definitely need replacing, and I’m guessing there’s probably more wiring damage underneath the hood. I didn’t take it apart tonight. We’ll start digging into it tomorrow.
Could’ve been a lot worse. Glad we saw the smoke when we did.
