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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5836830" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>The type disk I was using was an old pull-style disk, that only has a single hitch attachment that used a vertical pin to keep it attached (took the ball off my hitch and ran the pin through the ball bolt hole). These are old disks that used to be common before 3-point hitches and hydraulics became the norm on tractors.</p><p></p><p>I was disking a long narrow food plot (powerline right-of-way), which required constant sharp turns at both ends of the plot. Cranking the steering wheel all the way to the stops over and over put so much stress on the power steering that eventually the steering pump housing cracked, spraying power steering fluid all over the hot engine block. This immediately vaporized and turned to a big cloud of steam. I though I had ruptured a radiator hose, and was just about to step out of the truck when the huge steam cloud ignited (probably from a spark plug). The truck did not "catch fire," it literally went up as a huge fireball from the cloud of vaporized power steering fluid. One minute I'm surrounded by a cloud of steam and the next I'm completely engulfed in a raging inferno. I could actually feel the vacuum effect of that much fire burning up the oxygen around the cab. Luckily, I had the windows up at the time or I would have been seriously flash-burned. Anyways, I waited until the fireball had abated before bailing out of the truck as fast as possible.</p><p></p><p>The fire burned so hot that the insurance adjuster said - by looking at what had melted and what hadn't - that the interior of the cab had exceeded 1,400 degrees. All of the aluminum parts of the engine melted and ran as liquid aluminum lava across the ground.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5836830, member: 17"] The type disk I was using was an old pull-style disk, that only has a single hitch attachment that used a vertical pin to keep it attached (took the ball off my hitch and ran the pin through the ball bolt hole). These are old disks that used to be common before 3-point hitches and hydraulics became the norm on tractors. I was disking a long narrow food plot (powerline right-of-way), which required constant sharp turns at both ends of the plot. Cranking the steering wheel all the way to the stops over and over put so much stress on the power steering that eventually the steering pump housing cracked, spraying power steering fluid all over the hot engine block. This immediately vaporized and turned to a big cloud of steam. I though I had ruptured a radiator hose, and was just about to step out of the truck when the huge steam cloud ignited (probably from a spark plug). The truck did not "catch fire," it literally went up as a huge fireball from the cloud of vaporized power steering fluid. One minute I'm surrounded by a cloud of steam and the next I'm completely engulfed in a raging inferno. I could actually feel the vacuum effect of that much fire burning up the oxygen around the cab. Luckily, I had the windows up at the time or I would have been seriously flash-burned. Anyways, I waited until the fireball had abated before bailing out of the truck as fast as possible. The fire burned so hot that the insurance adjuster said - by looking at what had melted and what hadn't - that the interior of the cab had exceeded 1,400 degrees. All of the aluminum parts of the engine melted and ran as liquid aluminum lava across the ground. [/QUOTE]
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