<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Thanks Phil, Mark and Mitchell. I’ve decided against paining the 430 V. It looks really great in his work clothes right now. Very little surface rust. But you’re right: That refurbished John Deere rake does look a little too new behind it :-)<div><br></div><div>And yes Mark the rain stayed away but we actually had some small chances during the cloudy days and had a light mist the morning after I cut. No worse than a heavy dew so the hay remained unaffected. A few local showers did show up but missed me thank goodness. So I avoided the “clean” hay.</div><div><br></div><div>Mitchell. My grandson is visiting this weekend. Last week before his daycare opens up. Interestingly, he was fixated with the temperature gauge this time. “It’s going up to normal, grandpa!“. I also had to pull a few hills with a low throttle setting and a higher gear so he could hear it “work“. He loves to hear that 430V putt, putt, putt when the governor opens up a bit. </div><div><br></div><div>I’ve been teaching him to steer too. Here’s a video. Probably one of the last lessons. He’s getting too big to safely sit on may lap while we joy ride.</div><div><br></div><div></div></div></body></html>