When, my parents farm began chopping (harvesting) corn this fall one of the tractors basically died. This was not one of your average dieing, this tractor went in a blaze of glory, well maybe not glory but defiantly a blaze. No one was hurt thankfully. The first picture is a picture of the same tractor as we had that I found on the web. The next two are of the tractor after the incident.
This is a shot of the hole that was made in the engine block from the tractor over reving.
More of the burnt out tractor
Basically what happened the governor on the turbo charger for the engine broke. This allowed the engine to get into a runaway condition. Once the engine was in a runaway condition it over heated and one of the pistons in the engine broke which beat the hole in the side of the engine block which you see. From there the tractor caught on fire and they ended up calling the fire department to put the fire out.
One of the surprising outcomes from this is after the fire we thought that it would be difficult to get rid of the tractor but within one week they had four offers for the tractor.
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