- Location
- our house, Norn Iron
Black on the cab not painted but all the rest, polish had worn the paint off the top of the bonnet.
How Do You Clean Your Tractor, Or Dont You?
- Thread starter bluebell
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Finn farmer
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Ever walked on a ploughed field or had drinks and food with you?
ColinV6
Member
I wash ours once or twice a year apart from fert spreading tractor and straw chopper tractor they need more often but as a general rule I hate getting them wet. Washing wears the paint out and fades it also it takes a huge amount of work to dry and oil properly again. Cabs are blown out now and again I don’t mind a bit of straw and dry soil in there but can’t abide crap bottles and fast food wrappers
Ali_Maxxum
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- Location
- Chepstow, Wales
Oldest is 11, does have some unfortunate war wounds as it spends the majority of its life on a hedge trimmer, does 7-800hrs a year. Middle one is 6 and was doing 1000-1300 hrs a year now down to 7-800 and the new one be a year old in May at a guess will be around 800-1000hrs.
All kept mint, inside and out and yes, they do get stinking, and I mean a barrow load of mud and all sorts of other crud off just one tractor. Rads are kept clear, greased more then plenty, serviced, everything working and as it should be. Seat covers on all, rubber mats October-March and carpets April-September or weather permitting.
All the machinery is the same, washed and maintained properly. Contracting and no livestock to attend to may well be a crucial factor.
Am mega busy all the time but just have to say right, I am washing the tractor or whatever today, and get on with it. Will have a good swill between stinking jobs and then at the end of a busy period or a wet spell will have a mega clean. Gloves used for hitching/unhitching, doesn't take a whole lot of effort .
I have a life and involved with lots of other things too!
alomy75
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If it’s the spec and hours you want you’re hardly going to walk away because it’s dirty. I looked around Cheffins at the weekend and they were all remarkably clean…
Lakesdigger
Member
A tractor like @ColinV6 would deffo stand out in a line of second hand one's. But it's surprising how a really good valet can get a real dirty from new tractor looking good. In fact a good layer of dirt can actually help keep the paint of a poorly looked after tractor looking good underneath. I wouldn't recommend it mind.
alomy75
Member
I quite agree and I enjoy giving mine a yearly really good wash and touch up any bits of paint etc but in my little world I can’t be cleaning mid season apart from a litter pick and a windows-wash as required; I’d rather spend that time with my family. I haven’t even washed the combine yet 
Finn farmer
Member
Some operators just don't care. One snow contractor was giving sh!t to my brother for our Deeres and Case being stored in a warm workshop during winter when they're not used. 
Said that Valtra'll start well even when kept outside. Well, if we had Valtra it'd also be stored in warmth, it's not about starting, it's about the longevity and well being of the engine.
Said that Valtra'll start well even when kept outside. Well, if we had Valtra it'd also be stored in warmth, it's not about starting, it's about the longevity and well being of the engine.
@ACEngineering you say you don’t need to brush . That Chem must be very alkaline? Does it not affect your paint long term? I’m guessing it’s a white van? I hate brushing of sponging as it will ever so slightly scratch. My car is ceramic coated and the sort of TFT you describe would blast it off leaving it unprotected .
ACEngineering
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- Location
- Oxon
Its metallic grey. Indium grey from VW to be exact.
On rare occasions I rub the brush over the front to help remove bugs in summer. It may not be the 100% perfect wash but its quick and easy with next to no effort.
And nope paints still fine BUT I do use something else after.
Jennychem do something call sapphire blue which I mix up 50/50 in a knappsack type sprayer. Basically after rinsing off the snow foam I spray the 50/50 mix lightly all over the van windows and all, then rinse it off with water.
I do not buff it or anything BUT it does leave some water Mark's which disappear with the first rain shower the only ones that are annoying are the Mark's on windscreen but you just stick the wipers on after rinsing and that mostly sort them out, you could buff it and would look better but I cant be bothered, unless you look closely you wouldnt notice and it is a work van so often dirty again within a day anyway
The sapphire blue is some kind of quick easy wax stuff, after the water beeds off and it shines nicer.
I not got time to keep buffing off a large panel van! So its ideal.
Supposed to last a few washes but imo you dont use much of it so I just do it every wash now.
I like to keep my tractor clean, but don't waste much time doing it, just pressure wash and got some cheap tfr too. Cab floor is a bit of a mess at the moment, but it's winter andy wellies will always be muddy. Would be different story in summer.
A clean tractor is a happy tractor
A clean tractor is a happy tractor
ACEngineering
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- Location
- Oxon
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Correction on the sapphire wax, it was slightly unclear imo cause it says spray on neat but then says Dilute at 1:5, i did the 5:1 not 50/50 and it works fine at that.
They often text me offer codes for 10, 15, or 20% off the website prices, and on my first order of 25litres snow foam and 1litre of wax they surprised me with a sample box of 8 products in 250ml bottles, good marketing cause in it was ironx which i had never used before and i will be adding a bottle of that to my next order as thats good stuff.
G4RETH
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- Location
- Ceredigion
You’ll see a bigger reward when you sell it aswellLive shots. Busy tipping muck on stubble with no hydraulic door so it’s a bags and wellies kind of day. Not a speck of mud or grease on any points of contact though.
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the difference between arable and livestock shines through here
- Location
- south norfolk
That’s true but when we kept 2500 fat pigs and 100 sucklers everything was still kept pretty clean and everything was washed weekly.just done more washing in those days
nick...
