Protecting your mouldboards from winter rust?

[Petetheploughman]

What is the best LONG TERM (i.e. for about 11 months). WD 40 is okay for about a week.



Is this any good? Or is it like car body underseal, that is horrible to get off?

Morris Ankor Van Car Wax 5L Litres Rust Proofing Corrosion Preventative Wax Oil | eBay

It dries to leave a continuous firm wax protective coating that imparts excellent corrosion protection properties. Ankor Wax is easily applied by spraying, brushing or dipping. If parts that have been treated with Ankor Wax are to be subsequently painted, the coating must be removed prior to...

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[Mydexta]

Seen some use emulsion paint, then carefully apply nitromors when you want to go again

I cover my boards with grease during the off season

 

[davidroberts30]

What is the best LONG TERM (i.e. for about 11 months). WD 40 is okay for about a week.



Is this any good? Or is it like car body underseal, that is horrible to get off?

Morris Ankor Van Car Wax 5L Litres Rust Proofing Corrosion Preventative Wax Oil | eBay

It dries to leave a continuous firm wax protective coating that imparts excellent corrosion protection properties. Ankor Wax is easily applied by spraying, brushing or dipping. If parts that have been treated with Ankor Wax are to be subsequently painted, the coating must be removed prior to...

www.ebay.co.uk

Ankor wax or waxoyl
Cheaper than grease

 

[bobk]

Red oxide and forget

 

[farmerm]

waste oil, park undercover, repeat occasionally if necessary If you are generous enough with the oil you might never have any surplus to dispose of....

 

[DrDunc]

Grease

Apply it thick with a rag

It's what us "amateur" farmers do when we don't own a shed big enough for undercover winter plough storage

 

[bobk]

Grease

Apply it thick with a rag

It's what us "amateur" farmers do when we don't own a shed big enough for undercover winter plough storage

Grease is expensive

 

[Nearly]

Grease is expensive

Lard?

 

[tr250]

Waste oil through a spray gun is what I do. But plough is inside but hasn’t been used for 4 years

 

[bobk]

Lard?

Ooh matron

 

[bobk]

Waste oil through a spray gun is what I do. But plough is inside but hasn’t been used for 4 years

Waste oil with a brush outside , 18 boards once a month , fork that off

 

[DrDunc]

Grease is expensive

Relative to pitting your mould boards?

Doesn't need a spray gun or even a dry day to apply

I'm gonna splash out on a 25kg drum of grease every decade or so until I can afford a pole barn lean-to shelter for the plough

 

[bobk]

Relative to pitting your mould boards?

Doesn't need a spray gun or even a dry day to apply

I'm gonna splash out on a 25kg drum of grease every decade or so until I can afford a pole barn lean-to shelter for the plough

litre of red oxide is a fiver , can do my ploughs with that , grease cartrides are 2 quid , i cartridge = 3 boards , do the sums

 

[An Gof]

Grease is expensive

Cheap compared to new boards and cheap compared to the time and grief from sticky board next time you use the plough.

 

[bobk]

Cheap compared to new boards and cheap compared to the time and grief from sticky board next time you use the plough.

You can;'t tell us northerners how to look after boards
Do manufacturers put grease on new boards ................

 

[An Gof]

You can;'t tell us northerners how to look after boards
Do manufacturers put grease on new boards ................

Oh I don’t know, try living in the wet SW with salt in the air blown in from the Atlantic.

The grief I had getting the paint off my new KV plough I wish they did send new ploughs out with grease on the boards.

 

[bobk]

Oh I don’t know, try living in the wet SW with salt in the air blown in from the Atlantic.

The grief I had getting the paint off my new KV plough I wish they did send new ploughs out with grease on the boards.

Blimey , take the paint off in 10 yards here .

 

[zero]

Power harrow grease and a large brush works well. And a pair of Ai gloves help me keep clean.

 

[davidroberts30]

litre of red oxide is a fiver , can do my ploughs with that , grease cartrides are 2 quid , i cartridge = 3 boards , do the sums

Think waxoyl is slightly cheaper again

 

[Bury the Trash]

What is the best LONG TERM (i.e. for about 11 months). WD 40 is okay for about a week.



Is this any good? Or is it like car body underseal, that is horrible to get off?

Morris Ankor Van Car Wax 5L Litres Rust Proofing Corrosion Preventative Wax Oil | eBay

It dries to leave a continuous firm wax protective coating that imparts excellent corrosion protection properties. Ankor Wax is easily applied by spraying, brushing or dipping. If parts that have been treated with Ankor Wax are to be subsequently painted, the coating must be removed prior to...

www.ebay.co.uk

Thats a generic waxoyl it looks like. Which is good for the job generally speaking
,11 months is too long for waxoyl to stay totally effective outside on totally exposed surface As it difficult to put on really thickly and is not like paint or tar / bitumen either.
If used it Some times it needs a bit of help to scour off on less pressured areas of board or skim especially on ground that doesn't help in that way , but it stops rust.
driving rain down on openly facing areas of metal for for any length of time will wear it off tho mind.
Shiny parts, wheel and all, Would be better done with that and put undercover, if you havnt got a shed how bout build a simple tin sheet cover of some sort to just keep the rain off and waxoyl on for that length of time?
A small conventional ploughwouldnt be too difficult to cover or even partly cover
surely.