Funny color equipment/tools!!!

Don-Wi post below made me remember a neighbor painting his bale mover bright pink. He had one of the first ones around here. This would be 15-20 years ago. HE was always having to go look for it as about all the other neighbors would use it to move bales. HE finally had the local parts place mix him up a fluorescent pink paint. He painted it and not near as many people used it after that. The really funny thing is that that mover sets out side all of the time. That paint is still in pretty good shape. The ones that are still the factory paint only have rust left.

Another fellow that lives the next county over has four brothers that all live around him. They are always mixing the tools up. One of them might have a full set of sizes but they would be different brands . The one brother rounded up all of his tools and painted them PINK. The other brothers saw that and thought it was cool. They all chose different wild colors for their tools. That worked for a little while but I was there a few weeks ago and now all of tools boxes look like a rain bow collection. They have mixed up all of the tools again. They said they have the kids sort them out every now and then but the girls like the multi colors and sort them into sets of different colors to "decorate" their Dad's tool box.

Dad had the first blue Ford tractor around. He had some blue paint that he'd gotten cheap somewhere and painted a 9N with it. That must have been around 1958-59.

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I suppose you could search for my old blue tractor

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A neighbor a few miles from me once painted his B John Deere Volkswagen blue. With a stiff brush. Free paint. It was a pitiful looking thing. Kinda gave it a dejected look. The old B met it's demise when he hooked a one bottom walking plow to the cultivator lift arms, then caught the plow on a root in some newly cleared ground. His eight year old son was driving the tractor, and as it reared up, the boy stepped out on the left axle housing until the hood went by him, then jumped off in front. Dad was almost caught under the tractor because he was so busy screaming at son to jump, that he forgot to run himself. Whenever I see an off-color tractor, I think of old Delmar and his blue John Deere.

Which reminds me - years ago I was repainting my 630 JD, so where did I go for paint? John Deere, of course. I think the cans cost as much as the paint, with their fancy paint jobs and silkscreened labels. Imagine my surprise when I opened the cans and they were dark blue! I took them back and the counter guy noisily got a laugh, saying I needed to stir it because the yellow was on the bottom. I told him to show me (and the crowd that had gathered). The more he stirred, the bluer it got. The only color change was in his face - it turned red. Turned out that all of his JD green paint was blue, save for one or two cans with different lot numbers. That counter guy was a good man and knew the old 2 cylinder tractors from front to back, but he was stymied that day on his paint.

I guess I'd have thought "stir it" too. I had some Oliver green mixed and they started out with about 7/8ths of a can of black,then he added blue before yellow.

Not a farm implement but when I was a kid a neighbor drove a Buick straight 8 that he painted red, white and blue after he came home from WW2. Wish I had that car. Jim

Probably But I found it easy enough. I just spelled out the U tube dot com and then added /watch?v= and your string

There was a guy near here that ran nothing but used equipment, brand didn't matter, whatever he could get cheap. But he did like stuff to have fresh paint, no matter how beat up it was. Well, he got his hands on a pallet full of USN surplus battleship gray paint (probably for free) and guess what color everything eventually turned?

Neighbor had an old Ford car one time that he painted. He mixed up all the old paint that he had around,came up with a kind of gray color. He wrinkled a fender. The body shop couldn't match it and had to repaint the whole car.

When I was in High School, the kid next door who was 18 had a ratty old 61 Chevy. He got his draft notice to go to Nam. I came home from school a few days later and he was in the driveway painting that old Chevy, a gallon of white latex paint and a 4 inch brush. Paint was dripping off onto the ground around the car. He was in a big hurry as he had to leave the next morning and he didn't want his car to rust while sitting there while he was gone (he still lived at home with Mom and Dad). Didn't matter, Mom sold the car a few months after he shipped out. She said she was sick and tired of looking at it sitting there. The paint drops were still on that driveway several years later when the boy got home.