What Did You Do With Your Green Tractor Today?

[JohnRowehl]

Planning to use the 77 and 4240 plow at our club’s plow day in April. Tractor had one set of wheels weights on the inside of the rim. No fluid in tires. Picked up a couple more sets of weights last fall. Got one set cleaned up when we had some warm weather a few weeks ago and could work on them outside. Painted them up and got them mounted yesterday.View attachment 7233

Charts show (just) water in those tires would add just under 400 lbs per tire. At 140 lbs. per weight, I should probably go ahead and get the other set on there to be comparable.

Does anyone have any experiences to share about weighting a 77 to pull a 2x14” plow? (Silt loam soil)

Here we go again. Skipped sandblasting on these weights. Started with liquid formulation of Rustoleum Rust Reformer after surface prep.

 

[LandonT]

John, can you prime/paint directly onto that surface, or are there additional steps?

 

[JohnRowehl]

John, can you prime/paint directly onto that surface, or are there additional steps?

On the first set there was some white residue so I rubbed it down with Scotchbrite, used one coat CIH red oxide primer ( that I had on hand), then one coat Tallman’s gray primer before finish coats of Tallman’s.

With the second set, I didn’t have much of the white residue show up so I skipped the Scotchbrite. Maybe I did the wrong thing but I passed on the red oxide primer and I put on a coat of gray primer. Saw some brown discoloration on the paint brush as I was applying the primer so I think I should have done something to wipe/clean the surface off first. Plan to put on a second coat of primer before finish coats.

If you haven’t seen this thread you might want to take a look.

Rust Reformer

Specifically, Rustoleum’s product, instructions state that after it dries, it can be “painted”. It doesn’t say ”primed”. I would think it would need to be primed like you normally do. Would there be any reason not to apply primer? Using it on wheel weights.

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The instructions on the product I used say to apply a primer before putting on a water based paint but with an oil based paint, you can go directly over the rust reformer.

 

[JohnRowehl]

Forgot I had this.

 

[JohnRowehl]

Back to a little work on the 4240 plow. Wasn’t looking forward to changing the bolts that attach to the springs on the two adjustment levers. Was almost going to leave well enough alone. Glad I didn’t. Turned out to be easier than I thought.

 

[GermantownGreen]

Got the 1800c out and Hadley aired up the spreader tires, maybe get to the manure pile someday soon.
GG Wes

 

[Mike(NEOhio)]

Not much of late. It's been sitting in the garage with the Allied blower on the back, unused since January due to lack of snow.

 

[GermantownGreen]

Father in law and I hauled out the calf lot after we loaded out 32 calves.
Ran the 1800c from 530-845 pm. Wednesday evening.
He was moving on in the skid loader.

GG Wes