What paint on a wagon?

MCL · Jun 7, 2011

I have a wood bed hay wagon with sideboards. I want to paint it (red of course). What paint do you guys suggest? I painted a wood truck bed a few years back with oil-base equipment enamel and it took FOREVER to dry. It had a few tacky spots two weeks later. Don"t want to deal with that again. Thanks.

Gary from Muleshoe · Jun 7, 2011

I would paint the wood with exterior house paint, tinted to the color you want. Schrwin Williams has good quality paint and should be able to match it exactly to the color you want.
There are other that can do this as well.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 7, 2011

I got 2 gallons of red deck stain, a stack of tongue&groove boards, and 2 wagons waiting on a rountoit. Thinking (hoping) the deck stain will be the ticket.

fixerupper · Jun 7, 2011

What kind of implement enamel did you use? I painted three wood wagons IH red using IH branded paint and they still look pretty good thirty years later. I know paint makeup has changed since then but still, IH enamel should be dry to the touch in less than an hour. Rustoleum will be slow to dry but it's good stuff in the end. Jim

Justin SE IOWA · Jun 7, 2011

Let me guess... it was "Van Sickle" paint? I have used it many times. Dries hard as a hammer head but it takes a month to get there!! I know other people that have said the same thing about it.

RalphWD45 · Jun 7, 2011

I would not use colored house paint again! I used, new tonge& groove lumber,to build sides, and endgates, on my John Deere hay wagon, so I could haul grain. I went to Home Depot, and bought the same house paint, that I painted my house with 5 yrs ago, and had them color it John Deere green. 6 months after painting the new sides, with it, I have bagging paint, and big blisters, in the paint. A friend said it was because there was too much humidity in the air, when I painted it! I had the sideboards, on saw horses inside of my machine shed, out of the weather, till they dried.

MPK · Jun 7, 2011

I would use red barn paint of the oil base type if you could get the color you want.

Brad Gyde · Jun 7, 2011

A while back I worked in a paint department in a store much like wal-mart..

What may work well for you would be solid color deck stain. We never sold alot of it, but from what I recall, it was thinner than paint (much like a regular deck stain) but when dried, looked more like paint. Was supposed to soak in and not leave a "layer" like paint would that can/will peel off (never personally used it to confirm though). The stuff we sold was also tintable to most colors.

Brad

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