outside tractor storage canvas tarp?

[displacedPA]

So we sold our place and are moving to friends house until we find something else They have plenty of land to store my stuff tractor implements ect. But nothing under roof. Should I buy a good quality canvas tarp and cover my tractor? I know tractors are ment to be outside ect. I was just worried about the instrument pannel ect. I could also wrap the pannel with a trash bag or something.

Thanks

 

[gwdixon]

Every year I buy several large plastic tarps from Costco and/or Sams club. They work absolutely perfectly and won't mold like canvas. They last over the winter on the tractors and then are used the next winter on implements. Two years is about it for plastic.

Plus, wait until you price canvas.

Tractor Supply has a selection of plastic and canvas tarps for you to look at.

 

[AStanton]

If you store it without running the motor for awhile, be sure to put stuff there to discourage mice: such as dryer sheets and moth balls.

 

[3930dave]

So we sold our place and are moving to friends house until we find something else They have plenty of land to store my stuff tractor implements ect. But nothing under roof. Should I buy a good quality canvas tarp and cover my tractor? I know tractors are ment to be outside ect. I was just worried about the instrument pannel ect. I could also wrap the pannel with a trash bag or something.

Thanks

I gave up on plastic tarps. I've had good luck with a basic 10x12 canvas tarp, which I got on sale at Princess Auto (our version of Harbor Freight). Something like $60, maybe less.

Had it about a year and a half, and have treated it once with varsol/paraffin - that worked out fairly well.

It is standing up decently, and I like that it is heavy material - it doesn't flounce around in the wind as bad as the cheap plastic tarps do.

Rgds, D.

 

[s219]

How long? My B was outside from June-December after we moved into our new house (no barn yet, and my wife kicked the tractor out of the garage). I left it uncovered the whole time. There were no noticeable issues. Worst hassle was wiping off the seat after rain, dew, frost, etc.

I think the worst thing you could do is wrap it tight and trap in moisture. If you use a tarp, keep it loose. And don't let it trap ground moisture underneath.

 

[displacedPA]

Prob 6 months to a year before I can store her inside again. Good idea on the dryer sheet... I think ill do that. Amazon had 10oz canvas tarps for a good price. But, as some are saying here they can mold and loose their water replenecy. The tractor will be stayimg where I'm staying so I plan on starting it up and warming it up at least once a month. All fluids including fuel are topped off. Anything else I'm missing?

 

[Thomas]

I would tarp..every little bit helps,don't snug tight let air move.
If your area your parking ground could become soft park tractor on planks etc. also place block wood under fel and 3pt hitch attachment so doesn't freeze in.

 

[timster2]

TSC has a Garage-in-a-Box®, 12 ft. W x 20 ft. L x 8 ft. H for about four hundred. It would store your tractor and more. You could take it down and move it to your new place when needed. I have one for two years now and it is still going strong no problems.

 

[jeff9366]

TSC has a Garage-in-a-Boxｮ, 12 ft. W x 20 ft. L x 8 ft. H for about four hundred. It would store your tractor and more. You could take it down and move it to your new place when needed. I have one for two years now and it is still going strong no problems.

This reads like the best solution for the tractor, to me.

My tractor is garaged. Most of my implements are outside under 18 ounce cotton canvas tarpaulins. I like 18 ounce weight. You do not have to bungee tarps to the implements, the heavy canvas drapes and remains secure. (If I knew of a hurricane coming, I would tie the tarps down.) My implements are tarped 50% for weather protection, 50% for camouflage.

The place to buy canvas tarpaulins is Chicago Canvas site on eBay. Very wide selection of lengths and widths in 18 ounce weight. I have bought seven tarps from them, sized for each implement. Excellent customer service. I have NOT experienced any mold with these tarps, despite Florida high humidity. Tarps have that "old time" tarp smell, maybe it is the "traditional" wax + turpentine waterproofing applied?

Canvas Tarp, Heavy Duty items in Tarpaulin store on eBay!

 

[RKJeepXJ]

I kept a canvas tarp over mine for 6 months until I got a carport built for it. Just got a tarp that made a nice tent over the operators station with the ROPS and extended most of the way out the hood. Kept the electronics and all the plastic parts covered. Used trucker straps to tie it down.

 

[BeezFun]

Should I buy a good quality canvas tarp and cover my tractor?

I bought 3 like these before I had a barn. Got them at Menards, they were about $400 when I got them. Where you live I would not cover anything with plastic or tarps, they condense moisture on their inside surface and then it drips on your equipment and can't evaporate. They also don't allow enough air circulation so the equipment can't get to air temp quickly and it condenses moisture. If you lived in New Mexico or Arizona it would be different.

 

[jeff9366]

Where you live I would not cover anything with plastic or tarps, they condense moisture on their inside surface and then it drips on your equipment and can't evaporate.

They also don't allow enough air circulation so the equipment can't get to air temp quickly and it condenses moisture.

I have not experienced inside condensation with COTTON tarpaulins.

When the sun strikes Olive Drab COTTON tarpaulins they absorb heat rapidly. Might be steamy underneath for awhile but COTTON tarpaulins are permeable. I believe inside moisture comes from saturated soil and is not COTTON tarpaulin related.

I used to cover my woodpile in pre-retirement Maryland with an Olive Drab COTTON tarpaulin. After a good snow, the tarpaulin would be snow free and dry sometimes five days before snow melted on the ground around the woodpile. The wood, stacked on pressure treated 4 X 4s, was dry and ready to burn.

 

[3930dave]

I have not experienced inside condensation with COTTON tarpaulins.

When the sun strikes Olive Drab COTTON tarpaulins they absorb heat rapidly. Might be steamy underneath for awhile but COTTON tarpaulins are permeable. I believe inside moisture comes from saturated soil and is not COTTON tarpaulin related.

I used to cover my woodpile in pre-retirement Maryland with an Olive Drab COTTON tarpaulin. After a good snow, the tarpaulin would be snow free and dry sometimes five days before snow melted on the ground around the woodpile. The wood, stacked on pressure treated 4 X 4s, was dry and ready to burn.

That's been my experience as well.

Until you get into actual commercial truck tarps, today's retail plastic tarps fall apart pretty quickly with sun exposure. The cheap tarps will work for short term (month or 2) in my climate.

Canvas tarps will breathe, but even so I don't wrap equipment super tight. Plastic tarps don't breathe at all, so keep that in mind when wrapping equipment with those.

Gore Tex might be about perfect, but a building might be cheaper !

Rgds, D.

 

[tcreeley]

20x13 alpine shelter logic temp building from Home depot- 500$ works for me as a temp solution. I'm on my second winter- does well with snow and wind and rain. For flooring I put blue tarp down on gravel and old plywood sheets on that. It stays flat and dry.
I keep the tractor in it ready for winter plowing.

 

[Tollster]

As other have said, be sure it breathes, I try to wax things before storing outside, cover the air filter with a ziplock and stuff a rag in the exhaust, perhaps you could find a car cover that's priced reasonable. I have one I purchased in the late 80's for my Cj-5, it had 2 years of winter weather outside before I moved it inside the barn, it has been in use during the winter months only ever since.
Always try to keep the UV away from your paint if you can, Kubota paint seems to fade.

 

[displacedPA]

Well its uncoverd for now moved it to its temp. home. I never knew how much junk we had until we moved We look like real white trash i have a chicken coop on a trailer implements set through the woods an ATV in the woods I have all plastic tarps over the implements but i think im going to loosy cover the tractor with a canvas tarp to keep the UV and some weather off of it. Know i just need to figure out the size. chicago canvas looks like the brand of choice.