The psychology of tractor colors.

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There are certainly what I would call "heritage" colors such as JD, Massey,Kubota,etc. Ford chose a blue color that they've had for a very long time after their red and grey and white tractors. The historical part is very interesting because I for one would like to know what influenced some companies to select their colors. Blue is the most popular color for us humans. Did Ford base their color on this association? There are all kinds of psychological aspects to colors beyond popularity and most of this stuff was never studied in the early 1900's so maybe colors were purely randomly selected based on what the CEO's of the time liked. What is also interesting is how far reaching some of these decisions are where they are still effecting us today. Can you imagine the uproar if say JD changed their color scheme to maroon with gold wheels? I think the earth would tilt off axis no matter how good it looked.

 

[pjbci]

Arrow, you should've heard the loggers around here fuss when JD started painting there forrestry equip green instead of yellow. They put up quite an uproar. As for me, I wish I could get a green dozer.

 

[Martian]

There are certainly what I would call "heritage" colors such as JD, Massey,Kubota,etc. Ford chose a blue color that they've had for a very long time after their red and grey and white tractors. The historical part is very interesting because I for one would like to know what influenced some companies to select their colors. Blue is the most popular color for us humans. Did Ford base their color on this association? There are all kinds of psychological aspects to colors beyond popularity and most of this stuff was never studied in the early 1900's so maybe colors were purely randomly selected based on what the CEO's of the time liked. What is also interesting is how far reaching some of these decisions are where they are still effecting us today. Can you imagine the uproar if say JD changed their color scheme to maroon with gold wheels? I think the earth would tilt off axis no matter how good it looked.

Imagine if JD and Kubota came to an agreement where JD started painting their tractors Kubota orange and Kubota painted theirs JD green! I would be confused as heck!

 

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Arrow, you should've heard the loggers around here fuss when JD started painting there forrestry equip green instead of yellow. They put up quite an uproar. As for me, I wish I could get a green dozer.

One could at one time pj. Today it would probably smack into some federal regulation of being a "non compliant" color for construction use. I think a big JD dozer would look quite nice with a green body and yellow blade and cage.

 

[pjbci]

My next one just might go to the paint shop before it goes to work.

 

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My next one just might go to the paint shop before it goes to work.

hmm... JD Green body, yellow blade and operator cage and perhaps the track chassis also yellow. It may have enough yellow to meet a Fed code and you might create quite the rage there pj. You might have to open up your own paint shop to keep up with the demand!

 

[Baby Grand]

There's a light blue metallic color that I think GM used in the late 60's - early 70's that would look drop dead gorgeous on a tractor with nice, rounded, sheet metal. I remember seeing a debadged, lowered VW squareback with the bumpers removed, done in this color about 20 years ago and it completely transformed the car from plain-ole-plain-ole into something that looked surprisingly solid and powerful.

 

[jdbnh]

when dealers order a tractor, we can request any color we want. A New Holland instead of bein blue can be just about any color from white, to orange, to yellow, purple, green, pretty much you name it.....

 

[buck12]

when dealers order a tractor, we can request any color we want. A New Holland instead of bein blue can be just about any color from white, to orange, to yellow, purple, green, pretty much you name it.....

Henry Ford said basically the same thing as long as it was black.

 

[D7E]

There are certainly what I would call "heritage" colors such as JD, Massey,Kubota,etc. Ford chose a blue color that they've had for a very long time after their red and grey and white tractors.

These silver jubilee colours were nice too !