Green, Orange, and Yellow?

Boner · Aug 2, 2001

I have been seeing a ton of Yellow New Hollands on the road sides lately. (road maint) Has New Holland gone School Bus Yellow on us, or is the State possibly special ordering them that way. ...I guess it would make it tougher to steal one.

Ben

toddler · Aug 2, 2001

Probably the state got them specially painted. JD does that. I don't know how they look in school bus yellow, but thought they looked great in bright lemon yellow in the JD brochure for the older 855 / 955 ... series.

Like overgrown toys.

Todd

ERNIEB · Aug 3, 2001

It seems to me, that sometime back someone else mentioned seeing yellow NH tractors, in California I think. I'm pretty sure they were state tractors. Can't remember the thread.

Ernie

jinman · Aug 3, 2001

DFW Airport has their Fords and New Hollands painted very light yellow and it matches their firetrucks. Go figure...the firetrucks aren't painted red.

JimI

Joe_W · Aug 3, 2001

Some states order them specially painted for increased visibility in low light situations. Some colors like blue and red are very hard to see in low light. For years John Deere made yellow tractors for the construction trade and for highway departments.
Joe W.

Boner · Aug 5, 2001

Yeah, I figured it was something along those lines.

Thx

Ben

GlueGuy · Aug 7, 2001

Saw one again today.

In California the highway dept. (CalTrans) uses orange as their "color". So, at first it was a surprise to see orange JD's doing mowing on the median....

...but then I knew. JD is actually a subsidiary of Kubota. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

The GlueGuy