MarblemountLane
Bronze Member
- Joined
- Dec 28, 2007
- Messages
- 52
- Location
- Skagit Valley, Washington
- Tractor
- Massey Ferguson 204 circa 1959
I like colors that blend in. Did a lot of work with a gray ex-Navy IH 4x4. Both my wife and I like Hunter Green. But we like bright colors on smaller things that can easily be lost. Her old peavey has a broad yellow stripe (yes, my wife can move logs). I often put bright colors on hand tools. But let’s make the bigger machines easy on the eye.
My old Massey 204 is an early industrial spin-off of the MF 35, so it’s not the comfortable gray with red. At this stage it is multiple shades of yellow, held together by rust. One of those shades is the Ford ROPS installed by a previous owner.
I like bigtiller’s suggestion of offering tractors in a choice of colors, like cars (heck, I wish we could shop in the 1950’s when they offered two tone cars). And ptsg digging up a brand that does so was great. Growing up around logging and heavy equipment, I miss that days when they were unique instead of mostly yellow.
For now, as I work on various parts of my tractor, that part will be painted as close as I can make it to the original MF industrial yellow, which is pretty subdued, not bright. I’ll never buy anything new, but if I had a choice I’d choose Hunter Green.
My old Massey 204 is an early industrial spin-off of the MF 35, so it’s not the comfortable gray with red. At this stage it is multiple shades of yellow, held together by rust. One of those shades is the Ford ROPS installed by a previous owner.
I like bigtiller’s suggestion of offering tractors in a choice of colors, like cars (heck, I wish we could shop in the 1950’s when they offered two tone cars). And ptsg digging up a brand that does so was great. Growing up around logging and heavy equipment, I miss that days when they were unique instead of mostly yellow.
For now, as I work on various parts of my tractor, that part will be painted as close as I can make it to the original MF industrial yellow, which is pretty subdued, not bright. I’ll never buy anything new, but if I had a choice I’d choose Hunter Green.