paint it or leave it old.......

I got a feeling about the answer already but let's hear it.....

My tractor will never be a show tractor and it'll spend most of it's life muddy and dirty....

Neighbor kid that rebuilt and sold it to me and bails me out on repair problems wants to paint it...

My idea was to juggle spare time and clean/brush and/or roll on paint after straightening as best as possible and fixing a couple rust spots......

His is pressure wash, wire wheel, rust repair, and spray primer and paint. His will take a weekend or couple evenings and not be a perfect job with a little overspray, runs (?), and orange peel (??). Mine will take a lifetime and have orange peel and maybe a couple runs.....

Let him do it and have it look better than it does now and preserve it better, or hold out on my rountuit while it keeps rusting and fading?????

Leave him do it, A little bit of paint will cover up a lot of sin.

With a good paint job,mud and dirt will wash right off.We haul Pooh for our garden, and tractor goes into area where horses are fed.Mud,dirt, Pooh gets on tractor -loader, but cleans up nice as new with a power wash. Still show room new!!!!! Have him do a good job. LOU.

(quoted from post at 03:12:08 04/30/12) With a good paint job,mud and dirt will wash right off.We haul Pooh for our garden, and tractor goes into area where horses are fed.Mud,dirt, Pooh gets on tractor -loader, but cleans up nice as new with a power wash. Still show room new!!!!! Have him do a good job. LOU.

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keep thinkin about that uglyass tractor you have and wondering if I'll ever have time to make mine look so nasty..... He won't do a perfect job, but it'll be good quality paint......... Guess I can suffer thru it....I'll see what he has in mind then.............. guess I can look at it as a plus that I don't have one of them ugly lookin cabs :roll:

Since the game plan is just to keep it from rusting away, I would just clean it and paint it with a brush. To really paint it right the tractor would have to be largely unassembled to paint it. Then when you go there you find a multitude of small problems to fix you didn't know you had. What maybe started out being a few days work could turn into months because you wouldn't want to put a broken part back on and have to search the world over to find a replacement.

Dave,I helped celabrate the opening of the new Tractor Supply store in our area this weekend,buy taking my tractors there for display.My Farmall Regular is rusty,My F12,14 is cheaply painted,the furgerson is rust spotted and dirty from being used,and the JD B has good paint,As a group they looked good,I think people are changing there mind about tractors,Tractors in there work cloths are beautiful.If its rusted bad paint it if its orginial paint clean it.

jimmy

Try a sponge brush. They do a fairly even job. You will need alot off them because the paint will loosen the glue holding the brush to the handle. If the kid is using a spraygun let him do it.

I think you'll enjoy it a little more, something about a tractor that looks good, you'll want to look after it more etc., The kid's idea sounds the best, why not keep the paint up to date on a worker, would look better longer vs. letting it go, neat orderly, but not necessarily having to be a fancy paint job, just one that compliments the tractor.

What Color are you going to Paint It??

Let the kid do it.

Rick

Paint it Green and double it's worth!!! LOL

Nothing at all wrong with not painting it, but I promise you this,..if you do have it painted, you will surely find yourself taking better care of it.

(quoted from post at 07:27:55 04/30/12) Paint it Green and double it's worth!!! LOL

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I was going to tell him not to paint it woodland camo......he'd never find it! Wait that may be an idea......honey I can't find the tractor....looks like I need to buy another!!!! ROFL!

Rick

And wile your at it why dont you get some Faisal paint for your self.. :idea: :idea:

I wasn't a big fan of painting stuff when I was young and on the farm, my time pulling wrenches for the
country club changed some of that, my time in the Air Force really got me to expect things like leaks be fixed
for equipment to be kept clean and in order including paint. My time in the rendering plant got me to really
like paint. Paint has two purposes, to look good AND protect metal from it's environment. At the rendering
plant we had a rotater go bad on one of our hide plant forklifts. While we had totally apart we sent the gear
cases and other outside parts out to be powder coated, my boss complained about the cost. After reassembly we
sent the unit back to the hide plant- salt doesn't stick to the powder coat, a brief rinse at the end of the
shift and all the salt was gone. If the stupid thing had been powder coated from the factory it wouldn't of
needed to be rebuilt salt wouldn't of gotten caked on and wouldn't of worked it's way into the gear assembly.
Same thing at the County highway department, our patrol trucks rust before they wear out. Paint makes it
easier to see leaks, protects the tractor from corrosion and makes you think twice about doing stupid stuff
because psychologically your tractor has more value. Do I advocate two stage polyurethane base coat/clear
coat paint with hours of prep work to guarantee a see-your- reflection-in-the-hood result? No tractor enamel
will give your the benefits- it's blue jeans for your tractor not a coat and tie.

(quoted from post at 07:02:29 04/30/12) Let the kid do it.

Rick

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He's been a good friend.