One drawback to plastic tractors

   / One drawback to plastic tractors #11  
<font color=blue>dig out the Bondo and body tools</font color=blue>

Heck, just sand it smooth and slap a decal over it. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Looks like a good place for an Amercian flag sticker to me.

Of course, if you didn't keep your tractor so clean, you wouldn't notice it anyway.
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   / One drawback to plastic tractors #12  
Hoss

I'd have to agree with the sand it and buff it philosophy. The hood is probably polycarbonate with color straight through, and a little light sanding and buffing should fix it. Be alot cheaper than either repainting or replacing. Paint over polycarbonate is tough to make look good.

Or, if the mark is in the right place, you could bore a hole though it and mount a hood ornament. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

SHF
 
   / One drawback to plastic tractors
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#13  
<font color=red>It is out of sight and makes a great home for wildlife</font color=red>

Know what ya mean there. Ya should have seen the rats runnin' out of the piles when the fire started. Next time, I'm goin' to keep my 22 with me and do some "big game" huntin'.


<font color=red>Is the color all the way through on your hood?</font color=red>

Yup, goes all the way through. The burn spot is about 3/4" in diameter. While it's difficult to see in the picture, there are actually several little pin-holes in the bottom of the burn that go all the way through the hood. If you open up the hood, you can see daylight. It wouldn't be hard to fix but the molded in green is a little lighter in shade than painted green. Might be able to mix a little white in with some J.D. Green and get the match pretty close, but it wouldn't be perfect. So goes life./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Hoss
 
   / One drawback to plastic tractors
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#14  
<font color=red>Of course, if you didn't keep your tractor so clean, you wouldn't notice it anyway.</font color=red>

That's kinda funny, Harv. I actually cleaned the area of the hood to take the picture cause I was too embarrassed to let you guys see my tractor that dirty. Last month, I took the tractor to one of our shootin' ranges to help clean up after the ice storm. One of the other guys there helpin' was lookin' over my tractor and said, "Pretty nice. What is it, two or three years old?" Not sure he believed me when I told him it was only about six months old. When I was showing my wife the burn hole, she was just giving me that sarcastic look wives give when you do something stupid. Told her I didn't buy it to look at, I bought it to work it. Sounded good to me.

Hoss
 
   / One drawback to plastic tractors #15  
Go get ya one of those old MACK truck bulldogs and mount it over the hole.Butt,a top off an ol bowling trophy Will work in a pinch im thinkin! Dang fire ball woulda heated up a steel hood ,warped the bee gee bers outa it ,never ta close properly again.Green plastic rules!
 
   / One drawback to plastic tractors #16  
Kerr

Or, if the mark is offset to one side, he could get a set of deer antlers or cow horns and mount them. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif That way there'd be one for each side.

(Actually, I've seen a few guys mount antlers to the front bumpers of their trucks. But they usually don't stay there too long.)

SHF
 

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