[AJD] Clean Bottoms Club

[John Boehm]

I have a bucket of old grease that I use to keep the
bottoms from rusting up after I use them. If I know
the plow will not be used for a few months, I
completely coat the shares and bottoms. I suppose
using grease is not as environmentally friendly as
plow paint, however, but it does work. 

Just got back from the Heidrick Ag Museum's Family
Farm Festival. I plowed today with my JD 820 using
both my John Deere 5-12  trip plow and a friend's Case
4-16 hydraulic plow. Also with my JD 420 using a Case
2-14 trip plow. More plowing tomorrow, then grease
them up and put them away for the summer. Might do
some more plowing at one of our fall shows.

My advice on the one that is sticking is to keep using
it, even stopp to scrape off the sticking soil once in
a while. Eventually it should polish up and scour
properly.

John Boehm
Woodland, CA
Visit my web site at http://vintagetractors.com



John Boehm
Woodland, CA
Visit my web site at http://vintagetractors.com



 
--- Bill Brueck <b2 at chooka.net> wrote:
> We painted, too, but with old oil.  Probably
> wouldn't work if you didn't use 
> it again the next year, but it seemed to hold up for
> a season that way. 
> Sometimes if old oil wasn't handy we'd grab a
> handful of gun grease and 
> smear it on.
> 
> B²
> Bill Brueck (brick)
> Chatfield, MN, USA
> 
> Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than
> ignorance.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave Ernst" <shop at cccomm.net>
> To: "Antique John Deere mailing list" 
> <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 9:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [AJD] Clean Bottoms Club
> 
> 
> > Back in the days when we were plowing large
> acreages in California an old 
> > timer taught us something. Paint. When the
> moldboards are polished and 
> > when you put it away, paint them. It stops the
> rust and that is what 
> > creates all the friction, when you use it again
> the paint quickly wears 
> > off.
> > Dave
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Louis R Godena" <louisgodena at ids.net>
> > To: "Antique John Deere mailing list" 
> > <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 6:39 AM
> > Subject: [AJD] Clean Bottoms Club
> >
> >
> >> How does one belong?   I have two plows.  One
> shines up clean, the other 
> >> builds up dirt into a gluey like substance,
> although the share shines up. 
> >> What makes that?  And is there a remedy?
> >>
> >> Louis G
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