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Michael Price

02-07-2007 08:28:42




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Ive heard of some stuff called plow coat on this site but Ive never seen it or used it or have ever seen it used. I would like to get some for the disk Im fixing up but I cant find any. I looked a quality farm and home or whatever it is now and they dont have any and didnt even know what it was.




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Michael Price

02-08-2007 06:49:36




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 Re: Plow coat in reply to Michael Price, 02-07-2007 08:28:42  
I read about a guy who made some undercoating for his jeep fenders from 5 gal of roof cement and he mixed 1 gal of paint thinner in it. He said it stayes a little soft but is almost like paint. This sounds like it may work good.



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MF Poor

02-08-2007 05:06:34




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 Re: Plow coat in reply to Michael Price, 02-07-2007 08:28:42  
An easy-to-find alternative is high heat black paint. (Like used to paint headers on a car) It won't "cure" without the exhaust heat, so it comes back off almost the instant you stick the plow back in the ground. Should work similarly on a disc blade I'd think. I've always used grease on plow bottoms and let the disc blades rust. They'll clean right up as soon as you start using them.



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Hugh MacKay

02-08-2007 03:40:22




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 Re: Plow coat in reply to Michael Price, 02-07-2007 08:28:42  
Michael: Like the others said, don't spend much money. Back when I was doing a lot of plowing, I never used anything. The rust was only surface rust and was there for such a short percentage of total plowing time, it didn't really make much sense. Now that I don't plow much any more I just spray on graphite. I still don't use anything on a disk.



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James22

02-08-2007 10:07:22




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 Re: Plow coat in reply to Hugh MacKay, 02-08-2007 03:40:22  
I think a gallon was less than $8.00, and will last a long time. It is lot cheaper than graphite spray, but more work. Thought about doing disk blades one time, but the paint is thin and would be difficult not slop on the journals and mud scrapers. Have painted the field cultivator shovels and chisel points many times, not that bad of a job. I believe this is a better use of time than waxing tractors and combines, particularily if the item is not used every year. One plow had to be outside for several years. The bottoms were painted with plow coat and never rusted.

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Hugh MacKay

02-08-2007 12:23:23




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 Re: Plow coat in reply to James22, 02-08-2007 10:07:22  
James: I use quite a bit of spray on graphite for different uses. What I like about it on moldboards is the minute you start plowing, soil slips over the moldboard with about same friction as if I had just plowed 50 acres per bottom. Since I only plow a garden anymore with a 2 bottom plow, it's just not worth keeping paint around. As much as I use graphite for other reasons, I have used the same $6. spray can of graphite two years in a row on my plow.

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James22

02-09-2007 08:48:28




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 Re: Plow coat in reply to Hugh MacKay, 02-08-2007 12:23:23  
Understandable, if I didn't already have the gallon of plow coat, would do the same. No doubt it would be less messy.



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Hugh MacKay

02-08-2007 12:22:57




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 Re: Plow coat in reply to James22, 02-08-2007 10:07:22  
James: I use quite a bit of spray on graphite for different uses. What I like about it on moldboards is the minute you start plowing, soil slips over the moldboard with about same friction as if I had just plowed 50 acres per bottom. Since I only plow a garden anymore with a 2 bottom plow, it's just not worth keeping paint around. As much as I use graphite for other reasons, I have used the same $6. spray can of graphite two years in a row on my plow.

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Don-Wi

02-08-2007 00:28:58




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 Re: Plow coat in reply to Michael Price, 02-07-2007 08:28:42  
We use the cheapest spray paint we can buy, ussually black but if we got something else at the time it works just as well. Don't waste your money on special paint, it all scours off and does the same thing. Works a heck of a lot better than grease too.

The trouble comes when it's too cold to paint the bottoms after plowing. That's where we're sitting this year, and almost every fall because it's ussually below freezing by the time we're done plowing. In the spring though we make sure to paint it, makes it a lot easier the next time...

For a disk, don't bother because they always scour up just fine. Unless it's a show peice only....

Donovan from Wisconsin

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FM

02-08-2007 09:58:37




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 Re: Plow coat in reply to Don-Wi, 02-08-2007 00:28:58  
Don, What trouble do you have with grease on a plow bottom? That is what we've always done and never had any kind of problems.

Mike



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Don-Wi

02-09-2007 12:42:08




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 Re: Plow coat in reply to FM, 02-08-2007 09:58:37  
We"ve done it, but it comes off if we don"t reapply it after a while then we start back from square one with a rusty plow again. We ussually rent a chisel plow in the fall and the plow isn"t used every year, so paint is a little better in the long run when it gets parked in the weeds behind the barn for a year or more between uses.

Donovan from Wisconsin



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Don-Wi

02-08-2007 00:28:51




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 Re: Plow coat in reply to Michael Price, 02-07-2007 08:28:42  
We use the cheapest spray paint we can buy, ussually black but if we got something else at the time it works just as well. Don't waste your money on special paint, it all scours off and does the same thing. Works a heck of a lot better than grease too.

The trouble comes when it's too cold to paint the bottoms after plowing. That's where we're sitting this year, and almost every fall because it's ussually below freezing by the time we're done plowing. In the spring though we make sure to paint it, makes it a lot easier the next time...

For a disk, don't bother because they always scour up just fine. Unless it's a show peice only....

Donovan from Wisconsin

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JMS/MN

02-07-2007 11:25:55




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 Re: Plow coat in reply to Michael Price, 02-07-2007 08:28:42  
I've been pulling disks for bunch of decades- never coated the blades with anything. Plow bottoms- whole different matter. Dad, in the 50s, always taught to coat the bottoms with grease when you park them. Still use grease or JD black paint, or actually any paint to cover the surface will work. Need something to stop the oxidation of the base metal. On plows, coating the bottoms helps them 'scour'- dirt will not hang up on them. Disk- scouring has never been a problem, but certainly nothing wrong about painting them with something. First couple rounds in the field will wear off the paint and they will shine.

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James22

02-07-2007 10:31:05




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 Re: Plow coat in reply to Michael Price, 02-07-2007 08:28:42  
I bought mine from Blane's Quality Farm & Fleet, but should also be at available at Fleet & Farm, or TSC. Thin black type of paint which is brushed on, almost like creosote, but doesn't smell quite as bad. Really holds up if equipment has to be outside. Also looks good. Look around the store's farm area where they sell graphite paint or near the area where they sell replacement tillage parts.

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big jt

02-07-2007 08:34:52




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 Re: Plow coat in reply to Michael Price, 02-07-2007 08:28:42  
John Deere has it, They call it soft black paint.

Case should also have the stuff.

Just ask the parts person for Plow Paint.

Farm stores should have something for this purpose. Not the Graphite paint though.

jt



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