Speaking of tractor colors....

JerryS · May 13, 2012

In various wear areas it appears that my John Deere 1020 must have originally started out as a yellow tractor (I bought it 10 years ago), and it seems I've heard that some JDs came from the factory that color. Can someone tell me the reason for that, and what it means if you have a yellow JD?

wilson ind · May 13, 2012

yellow primer

Leroy · May 13, 2012

Highway or safty yellow (school bus) would mean it was probably a goverment tractor but Deere yellow would just have been an indrustrial version.

rrlund · May 13, 2012

Industrail 300 was the same tractor,but I don't know if that was it or not. Mine's yellow underneath too. I figured primer of some sort.

tomstractorsandtoys1 · May 13, 2012

John Deere used alot of yellow primer. It seems that it shows rather often on the Debuque made utility tractors after they age and the green begins to fade or wears off.The front end casting that the fuel tank mounts on always ends up showing yellow with age.But there also has been lots of used 300,301 and 302 industrials repainted green and sold as ag tractors.

Ron in NS · May 13, 2012

Most likely yellow zinc chromate primer. Not common any more, because of the chromium content. Superseded by epoxy primer about 30 years ago by a lot of manufacturers.

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