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Editor's notes
Mike Donovan comments on diverse issues which affect farmers. Recent issues have criticised the warnings about machinery firesThese messages concentrate on telling us about fires and how dangerous they are, how much they cost the country and how many people get hurt. Then follows a brief mention of blowing chaff and dust off and following manufacturer’s recommendations - which are necessarily bland as every combine on fire requires replacing. So they faill to mention fitting automatic extinguishers, or smoke alarms. They fail to recommend having a water tank, pump and hose fitted to the chassis of one or more grain trailers, providing a source of water and a means of delivery which is on the spot. Every large fire starts as something small and an agreed procedure as what to do can snuff it out before it takes hold.