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[oosik]

About twelve years ago I built a farm wagon. Brand new ten ton Horst running gear. I've never registered it but I never take it off the property.

I do have the sales receipt for the purchase of the running gear.

 

[5030]

Around here we call that the '5 gallon finish'....lol People selling older JD's like to do it, they don't even bother to pressure wash off the old dried on grease, they just paint over it. Guess they figure it gives character. Overspray kills grass I believe and I bet his lungs are loaded with it as well.

 

[Sportsman762]

How did they find it? The thief left the original numbers on it?

I do not know the details. I think it had a stamped serial number.

 

[JeepHead]

My new ditch and bank flail mower is green and orange-yellow with black accents. It doesn't go with Ford blue but who cares. It's one of the best flails on the market at a great price. It's supposed to be delivered tomorrow.

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The mfg must been trying to appeal to both Kubota and JD and couldn't make up their mind....

 

[newbury]

Edit: When I called my son, I did tell him, I'm 90% joking, OK, but you and your friends really didn't, did you. I know when I was a teenager, we took a JD-544 front end loader on a joy ride once, but returned it unharmed a few hours later. Not endorsing that kinda behavior, just kids do dumb stuff

Back about 1962 (on a Halloween night) some of my older cohorts late at night,
borrowed a tank from the Vermont National Guard range in Under Hill Center, Vt., drove it to Underhill Flats (aka Underhill) and parked it in front of the school principals door with the muzzle pointing at the door.
Since the "leader" of the group was the eldest son of the lumbermill owner he only got his pp slapped and it was kept out of the papers IIRC.
Kids do dumb stuff.

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

My father in law had that same bucket of red paint. I chuckled because he did the same thing, slowly all of his junk started turning red, a piece at a time. He ran out before he got to the tractors though.

 

[Tinhack]

The mfg must been trying to appeal to both Kubota and JD and couldn't make up their mind....

I suspect they didn't care one way or the other and powder coated it to stand-out from the run of the mill trash. It's not sold on the color. It's sold on what it can do.

They didn't cheap-out on the flails either--The flails don't break in half if you hit a rock like others.

 

[paulsharvey]

My father in law had that same bucket of red paint. I chuckled because he did the same thing, slowly all of his junk started turning red, a piece at a time. He ran out before he got to the tractors though.

When I was a kid, dad had a bucket of safety orange oil based paint, that he called "big bad orange", that he dipped virtually every tool handle in. Main reason was to find it, when his cracked headed children ran off with them, and left them laying somewhere they shouldn't have been

 

[stucknutz]

I would never purchase crap like that!

 

[paulsharvey]

I would never purchase crap like that!

I'm definitely not above purchasing crap bordering on scrap, But I'm not paying a premium for the crap paint job. I would probably pay less, cause you know 20% of the red probably will stick, and then we end up with over spray, rust, red, and probably some Ford blue, alone with painted on bolts/bearings/tires