Do any of y'all seal, wax or ceramic coat your tractor??

[olenjohn]

1979 - Not a restoration for show. This is farm use regularly. Wash and wax does wonders.

 

[sixdogs]

1979 - Not a restoration for show. This is farm use regularly. Wash and wax does wonders.

What a beautiful and valuable tractor.

 

[BubbaSam]

A thought occurred to me today when I was applying a DIY "Ceramic coat" to my car this morning, now I'm curious if any of y'all do any kind of paint protection on your tractors?

Hello Greg,

Well, I may be one of those types that DOES wash and wax. I have a 19 year old CK30 HST. I do pressure wash it at least 2 times per year followed by waxing it. I also use a degreaser I purchase from a gent who manufactures it from Boston. It is called Excel but I call it Purple Stuff. It works GREAT but you don't want to leave it on aluminum or glass very long. The photo of my Kioti I attached was bought new has just over 840 hours on it. I live in north central MA on a 13 acre farm that gets a lot of snow. It's my best buddy and I've put it through hell. Great tractor.

 

[oosik]

Sometimes it is just a lost cause. My mile long gravel driveway will soon be quite dusty. Top layer is - gravel, sand, silt & volcanic ash.

This is the way it is here - living in the country.

 

[rockinbbar]

For those who have both agricultural use farm tractors and lesser use limited use tractors, I see nothing wrong with keeping the light use one relatively clean and nice looking. I do it myself and the extra credit I put into it doesn't take long and often yields big price premiums at sale time. I have people in line to buy when I sell equipment and can get 50% to 75% more than uncared for equipment. I get more for ag-used equipment too but that doesn't get as nice of care.

I will cleaner-wax a tractor sheet metal to start with and then try to use spray detailer on it every couple of years. Nothing fancy but just keep the metal looking nice. In between I pressure pressure wash the outside once a year at low--1000(?) psi but nothing serious and I leave the engine dirty or maybe just a light pass.

For implements I pressure wash once a year before storage and then spray with a mix of new synthetic oil and diesel fuel, maybe 25%-75%. The metal look shiny and like new and no rust on ground-engaging tools. My 15 year old Brillion seeder looks shiny and from 10 feet away a fast glance would look like it was new or a clean demo. When I trade or sell almost anything, my accountant says I'm the only guy he knows that gets more than he paid for equipment.

So I'm compulsive about this in a limited way only because I grew up pretty poor and have worked hard to get what I have. I'm proud of it and am probably paid handsomely per hour in extra $$ at sale time for not much extra effort.

I'm much the same with my tractors.

When I buy a new one, I hand wax it before taking it afield. Being in the ag service business, and do lots of shredding on pastures with brush, and especially having to cut around oaks and mesquite trees, the wax helps keep the brush scratches off the paint.

I wash them when they get dirty. I blow them and my batwing cutters off, and fill up with diesel at the end of each day.

I grease daily in the morning before I start. Also keep the interiors clean and as dirt free as practical.

A bit of effort, kind of like taking good care of my livestock... But when it comes time to sell or trade, my stuff brings top dollar.

Just pulled out my big deck over trailer and knocked the dust off of it because I really don't have much use for it, and someone else probably does, so I'm going to sell it. Touched up where rust was bleeding through the paint, greased all the fittings and got it ready to sell.

Bet it brings decent money for a nearly 10 year old trailer. Especially with the prices of new ones like it bring today.

 

[macdoesit]

I used some ceramic called NU-Finish about 20 years ago on a 2000 white Chevy pickup, 6 months later it turned yellow and was peeling off. Never again. I wax and keep engines clean on my tractors and other vehicles. As others have said, I always make money on my vehicles, trailers, tractors, etc when I sell.

 

[Soloz2]

First thing I did when I got my B2601 last year was to hit it with my foam Cannon, rinse it off then apply CarPro Hydr02. It's a simple spray on, spray off sealant.

 

[icnu]

What a beautiful and valuable tractor.

I have a Bobcat telehandler.
After a machine buff, i used Zaino(use on vehicles). Lasts easily >6mo, easy wash, and can keep the larger panels looking good with a mist wipe down. I too deal with red Ga clay-down near pine mountain. Im not OCD by any means but think its good for my kids to see things being taken care of and how to do it-

 

[Fields_mj]

If you have enough time on your hands to wax or creosote your tractor, I'm pretty sure you don't really need a tractor. I get the idea of washing it off from time to time, but anything beyond that is down right disturbing.

 

[macdoesit]

If you have enough time on your hands to wax or creosote your tractor, I'm pretty sure you don't really need a tractor. I get the idea of washing it off from time to time, but anything beyond that is down right disturbing.

I for one will lose a lot of sleep knowing you are disturbed. LOL