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I see in pictures some restored tractors have what looks like a black mat on the platform. Some might be a brush on bedliner. Any suggestions for what kind of black matt or where one might find one?
 
stop at your local farm store, look at the rubber mats for horse stalls, also the mat to stand on concrete, semi truck mud flaps and the rubber pickup bed mat also works.
 
Put one on my tractor (an H) and was a dumb idea.....It is a haven for lots of water to collect in the divots where the platform bolts are. Just leave it be (if i were you)


-Cole
 
(quoted from post at 19:39:37 03/11/11) Put one on my tractor (an H) and was a dumb idea.....It is a haven for lots of water to collect in the divots where the platform bolts are. Just leave it be (if i were you)


-Cole
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(quoted from post at 18:04:45 03/11/11) Why? Water will collect under that mat and weep into the tranny.
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How so? I'm assuming the people that are doing this have restored machines that they store in sheds. They will know when the tractors get wet and I bet they are the same people that would dry the tractor off.
You (Gordo) and I use ours as well as fix them up so we may not be able to avoid water like they will. I know mine sits in the shed whenever possible, but I have been known to leave it in a field for a week if I am plowing and can't finish/get some rain. I also leave my SMTA on the trailer quite a bit if I have a lot of pulls coming up.

I just heard Saturday that the cheap Menards door mats work really well for this purpose. Put the carpet side down and rubber up. They only cost about $6.
 
(quoted from post at 07:29:41 03/14/11)
(quoted from post at 19:39:37 03/11/11) Put one on my tractor (an H) and was a dumb idea.....It is a haven for lots of water to collect in the divots where the platform bolts are. Just leave it be (if i were you)


-Cole
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(quoted from post at 18:04:45 03/11/11) Why? Water will collect under that mat and weep into the tranny.
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How so? I'm assuming the people that are doing this have restored machines that they store in sheds. They will know when the tractors get wet and I bet they are the same people that would dry the tractor off.
You (Gordo) and I use ours as well as fix them up so we may not be able to avoid water like they will. I know mine sits in the shed whenever possible, but I have been known to leave it in a field for a week if I am plowing and can't finish/get some rain. I also leave my SMTA on the trailer quite a bit if I have a lot of pulls coming up.

I just heard Saturday that the cheap Menards door mats work really well for this purpose. Put the carpet side down and rubber up. They only cost about $6.
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My 1940 H is equipped with a Woods belly mower, so it does get used, and it does get parked in a dry shed when not being used. Even so, after I finished painting it, I did lay a rubber floor mat on the platform so I wouldn't scuff up the paint. The mat lasted for about three times total mowing the lawn before I got disgusted with trying to keep it in place so I got rid of it. I figure if the paint on the platform gets TOO scuffed up, I'll just repaint the platform. After all, it is a WORKING tractor, and the paint IS going to show it.
 
I don't disagree that the shifting mat will be a PITA, but I don't think water is going to be the key issue.
 
(quoted from post at 09:03:47 03/14/11) I don't disagree that the shifting mat will be a PITA, but I don't think water is going to be the key issue.
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I agree. Anyone who is that particular about a tractor is probably NOT going to leave it set outside in the weather.
 
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