[AT] Tractor colors

Dave Merchant kosh at ncweb.com
Thu Dec 10 14:05:17 PST 2009


My, what an angry looking grille!

Most likely, Ford picked the cheapest available paint.

But I think I read somewhere that Ferguson wanted drab gray
because he was just that kind of person.

If it was postwar, they might have used surplus Navy battleship gray.

Been working on a 1947 built house, all the heating ducts are
aircraft grade aluminum, clearly mil surplus.

My father built a garden tractor around a B29 APU,
with 2 of the original generators paired for electric drive.
He later replaced the APU with a more normal engine,
with a hydrostatic gun turret drive as the transmission.

Personally, I think the Ford redbelly scheme is one of the best ever done.

Dave Merchant


At 04:19 PM 12/10/2009, you wrote:
>I was looking at Mike Sloan's excellent restoration of his 2N
>Ford/Ferguson (We never called our 9N a Ford, it was always the
>Ford/Ferguson).. A lot of my friends that moved up here from KY kept
>insisting on calling it a Fordson. :-)
>As I was looking at the pictures Diana walked up and looked and said
>"Is that painted? It looks like it is just primed". When I indicated
>that it was indeed nicely painted she responded with "eeew! what a
>drab awful color!".
>Now I have been dropping seeds of thought for some time that one of
>those needs to be appearing here one of these days soon. Rather than
>just saying "I want one of those"I started showing her more brightly
>colored tractors with color schemes that I could use on one here if I
>had one.  Now I have almost convinced myself as well. I looked at
>Mikes tractor again and that really is a pretty pathetic color when
>you look at it...
>I don't consider paint to be a permanent thing like chopping metal etc.
>Two of the prettiest tractors around IMHO are Larry and Gary Dotson's
>Cockshutts which have reversed color schemes from each other. Another
>color scheme I like a lot is the Ferguson 40.
>Our TO-20 bought new in about 1949 did have a little better color than
>the 9N. It had more of a hint of blue instead of just dead carp gray.
>:-)
>When we restored it in the late 1960s we used the Massey Ferguson
>colors. We were not doing it for showing, we just thought it would
>look sharp and it did.
>As I was looking at colors today it occurred to me that the color
>scheme of the Case 300 might look sharp on a 9N/2N...
>http://media.photobucket.com/image/case%20300/NZTRACTORDUDE/scan0008.jpg
>I would get a lot of fun from watching the "correct police" gasp and
>gag over one painted like that. ;-)
>I know, I have a mean streak... :-)
>
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>aka "farmer"
>Central Indiana USA
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