What did others use?

300guy · Jul 17, 2014

I have a disk that I have to store outside. I just bought it last fall. I put grease on the disks and thought that would stay on for a long time. Well it didn't last past spring. Years ago when he was alive my Dad mixed some type of grease and used oil together and it seemed to last all year. Any one have suggestions on what to cover the disks with to keep them from rusting?

DeltaRed · Jul 17, 2014

John Deere makes a spray-on plow moldboard coating.Lasts for years.But several cans can get expencive.Take some asphalt chunks and soak in some gasoline.Disolve the tar out.Paint the 'solution' on disk parts.The gas will evaporate and leave the tar.Wipe of with a 'gassey' rag when you need to use it next.

MN Mike · Jul 18, 2014

Grandpa would just use rattle can paint on his plows and discs after spring tillage. I've done that and it seems to hold up pretty well.

mkirsch · Jul 18, 2014

I think you'll find that most people let secondary tillage tools like disks form their own protective coating of surface rust. It comes right off the next spring after a couple of rounds in the field. Coating each individual disk with grease is just too tedious, is very messy, takes a lot of grease, and doesn't last if left outside.

rustyfarmall · Jul 18, 2014

(quoted from post at 05:14:26 07/18/14) I think you'll find that most people let secondary tillage tools like disks form their own protective coating of surface rust. It comes right off the next spring after a couple of rounds in the field. Coating each individual disk with grease is just too tedious, is very messy, takes a lot of grease, and doesn't last if left outside.

Exactly. The moldboards on the plow need a protective coating, but the disc will be just fine with nothing on it.

John M · Jul 18, 2014

We never put anything on any of our plows at all.
Dad couldnt justify the "extra" expense and
contamination oil or grease or whatever caused. We
didnt use a bottom plow except to make terraces, and
what rust did get on them was sanded clean by the
dirt, usually within a few hundred feet.

D beatty · Jul 18, 2014

DeltaRed thats all we ever used was melted asphalt on plows and it would last years if you didn't use the plow.

CenTex Farmall · Jul 18, 2014

I use whatever cheap or leftover paint I can find. Sometimes the hardware store has them for a buck or two. My old books talk about coating shares and discs with some kind of grease that dries to a coating, probably functionally similar to painting the dissolved asphalt.

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