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How do I keep my mouldboards rust-free

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BBurton

04-23-2008 12:31:06

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After I plow and scour my mouldboards and coulters clean, what"s the best way to keep them rust-free? What kind of oil, grease, spray, etc, would others reccommend?

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Don-Wi

04-25-2008 15:14:42

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Re: How do I keep my mouldboards rust-free in reply to BBurton, 04-23-2008 12:31:06

Any kind of paint laying around that'll stick to metal. That's all we do and it works great. Shines off within a round or less.

Donovan from Wisconsin

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flying belgian

04-24-2008 20:06:31

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Re: How do I keep my mouldboards rust-free in reply to BBurton, 04-23-2008 12:31:06

Pa made the dealer throw in a can of the plow coat paint when he bought a brand new plow in 1972. we've been using it every year on a 4 bottom plow since. still working on that original quart can. It is about 3/4 gone. I don't know what it costs today but it seems like a small price to pay for a product that will last 40 years and is made specifically for the job at hand.

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BCnT

04-24-2008 11:08:00

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Re: How do I keep my mouldboards rust-free in reply to BBurton, 04-23-2008 12:31:06

best way i know of is to USE the plow...i know its different conditions and soil but i've never had problems getting moldboards clean after settin a few months...we farmed the Gulf Coast for many years and never did anything special to plows and they sat outside about 2 miles from the gulf all the time...i still use em now with no problems.

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RodInNS

04-23-2008 20:45:23

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Re: How do I keep my mouldboards rust-free in reply to BBurton, 04-23-2008 12:31:06

Cheapest rattle can of enamel I can find. One can does four bottoms if applied thinly enough and scours off on the first pass. By my calculations it's cheaper than grease.... and cleaner.

Rod

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RobMD

04-23-2008 20:26:44

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Re: How do I keep my mouldboards rust-free in reply to BBurton, 04-23-2008 12:31:06

i found an old bucket of military grease. I use that. old putty knife and put a small amount on. Lasts near forever. Engine oil washes off in the rain. Paint works too, but i bet it doesn't come off easily at first.

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Pete7

04-23-2008 14:43:03

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Re: How do I keep my mouldboards rust-free in reply to BBurton, 04-23-2008 12:31:06

I just use the cheapest spray paint I can easely get. The plow goes thru a winter (left outside) here in the Buffalo NY area that way with no problem. Just takes a minute to spray the plow and it comes right off on your first pass with the plow. Spray it right after your done with thew plow for the last time in the season. Pete

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Hugh MacKay

04-23-2008 14:35:23

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Re: How do I keep my mouldboards rust-free in reply to BBurton, 04-23-2008 12:31:06

BBurton: I use graphite, either spray on or brush type out of a can. Now that I'm retired, just plowing a garden I use spray on. Back when I had 5 bottom plow and a host of other uses, i found the brush on type most econimical.

The beauty of the graphite is the first furrow slides across the moldboard just as easily as it would after 10 acres. Quite important if one is only doing a garden once per year.

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Gerald J.

04-23-2008 14:30:52

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Re: How do I keep my mouldboards rust-free in reply to BBurton, 04-23-2008 12:31:06

If you can keep them inside, sometimes used motor oil works. But grease inside works better. The soft plow spray paint keeps about a year outside, most any spray paint will keep more than a year outside. And the dirt will take even the dried plain (cheapest can in the store) paint off in a couple hundred yards of plowing. Soft paint comes off easier and grease and oil clean most rapidly, but might not completely stop rust every year.

If you have coulters, they need protection as do the landsides.

Park them off the ground or the floor. That will slow the rusting too. Some bits of 2x work just fine for that.

Gerald J.

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Paul Em

04-23-2008 13:59:07

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Re: How do I keep my mouldboards rust-free in reply to BBurton, 04-23-2008 12:31:06

Neighbor down road brought us a barrel that had some vasoline still left in the bottom. I used it on the plow one year and worked perfect, no rust even through a Canadian winter.

Only problem was in the summer, the cows actually licked it off!!

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Hugh MacKay

04-23-2008 14:11:06

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Re: How do I keep my mouldboards rust-free in reply to Paul Em, 04-23-2008 13:59:07

Paul: If it had been grease, cows still would have licked it off. Back in the days when we bought grease in buckets about 15" high, I left one half full where I shouldn't have. Cows licked until they got the lid off, then licked the bucket clean. Not a trace of grease left, I think one could have carried drinking water in it when they were done.

i used to leave my skid loader in the barn with 120 holsteins. I think they licked every inch of that machine above the tire line every day, especially the loader pivots.

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El Toro

04-23-2008 13:44:11

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Re: How do I keep my mouldboards rust-free in reply to BBurton, 04-23-2008 12:31:06

I would coat them with that stringy wheel bearing grease. It would help if they were sheltered too. Here's a plow that was made in 1936 and it was nice & shiny when I bought the tractor & plow in 1960. I keep it in the mini- barn. Hal
PS:It came with a Viking garden tractor.

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James22

04-23-2008 18:50:43

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Re: How do I keep my mouldboards rust-free in reply to El Toro, 04-23-2008 13:44:11

Dad used the "rubbery" grease formulated for the old wagons without precision bearings. Worked great. Both the grease and Dad are long since gone, so I use a brushed on black plow coat

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LenND

04-23-2008 13:18:36

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Re: How do I keep my mouldboards rust-free in reply to BBurton, 04-23-2008 12:31:06

TSC stores have a coating like paint made for plows and it works good. It is put on with a brush or any old rag. They also had some in a spray can that worked real good too. The brush on comes in a gallon can and will last for years.

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LenND

04-23-2008 13:26:13

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Re: How do I keep my mouldboards rust-free in reply to LenND, 04-23-2008 13:18:36

I forgot to mention in other post the paint on stuff you don't do anything to it when you are ready to plow. Just put the plow in the ground and it will come off in just a short time.

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benny2

04-23-2008 12:44:13

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Use this Re: How do I keep my mouldboards rust-free in reply to BBurton, 04-23-2008 12:31:06

Any cheap spray paint works well for over winter storage even outside, comes off in a a round or 2. Isn't messy like non drying liquids. Good paint takes a while longer to get off.

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Rootsy

04-23-2008 12:37:48

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Re: How do I keep my mouldboards rust-free in reply to BBurton, 04-23-2008 12:31:06

Well I reckon you have a few choices... paint them, grab a brush and bucket of grease and smear it on or do what I do...
I use a product called LPS rust prohibitor... it comes in a spray can... goes on as a liquid and hardens to a waxy film. I generally give it a couple of going overs and it works just fine over a winter...
Lot less messy than taking a heavy coating of grease off...

but that is just my way... 50 million ways to skin a cat...

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