Washing your tractor

[123rday]

I have tried rinsing it a couple of times, but with the hard water just seems to leave bigger spots.:confused2: But after my last job where I replaced the roof on a lean to in a barn yard, I had my son give it a good hosing. I didn't think my 3038e would have seen any farm use as well as the benefits of cheap fertilizer.:laughing:

 

[oldballs]

Mr Bird in Texas,
I, too, used to wash my car/truck engines back in the 60s and 70s, but quit doing that when I bought new 1999s. They have so many electronics, modules, sensors etc that I don't do that anymore. I've been just hand wiping and using compressed air. Of course, now that i'm one of those old retired geezers, a. I don't drive that much anymore. b. hardly every get off a paved road. Thus there's lots of time to fiddle with my BX...but it rarely needs more that wipe down and compressed air. IMHO.

 

[gauthier]

I have owned three tractors,never ever washed one of them,blowed them off with air,,alot,cleaned lights with a rag,but never washed,,,same with lawnmowers,,,now never had mud from head to toe on one either,maybe if that was the case,I might,,had mud on them don't get me wrong,,just not to that washing point.[for me]

 

[willfick]

I washed Mr. Haney, my old Farmall, back in 2003 when he was going to be in a parade. I've committed to taking him to the same event again (Coon Dog Day, Saluda, N.C.) in 2013; I imagine he'll need another bath. Maybe a spritz of paint here and there, too.
Old Stoney, the backhoe, gets cleaned as needed for maintenance. He got a new clutch last winter; that took a lot of power washing and soot scraping.
Wm

 

[Tig]

When I first got the tractor I cleaned the engine with a tooth brush. I keep it up by wiping with a rag. The rest of it gets "washed" with a broom. After snowblowing season it's pretty clean.
I'll do better, someday, I guess.

 

[Rogator]

Isn't it in the manual??? Every ten years or 1000 hours???

I'll let you know if it gets washed.... I have not done it, yet... five years and counting.


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In your profile you said your pto dosent always shut off.
Maybe its full of dirt.

 

[johnamon]

I wash the 2320 three or four times a year, unless I get it real dirty. It gets waxed once, maybe twice a year.

Today for the first time since we have had the tractor, four years, I tool off the wheels/tires, scrubbed both sides, and sprayed on a nice coat of tire shine.

Almost every time I mow I blow it off, under the hood and radiator included.

 

[teg]

In your profile you said your pto dosent always shut off.
Maybe its full of dirt.

Oops... corrected that Thanks... The cable that turns it on and off broke a little while ago and has been replaced with a new bracket and cable, it's been working fine since. It hasn't seen that much dirt... 2005 model with 250 hours... :ashamed: The cable is a poor design but that's just my opinion...

 

[clemsonfor]

I sprayed the pollen off with water once or twice, to get the yellow haze of off it and so i was not covered from touching it. When real dusty or seedy i hose it off, not washed it yet but i only had it like month and its under cover mostly. Heck i dont even wash my vehicles much more than once or twice a year and never more than the pressure washer on the onld k10 and i have had it 6 years, i spray the mud off the under side to slow rusting, and it stays under a shed.

 

[dave1949]

I use the same procedures as Bird and Ray66v more or less. I hose my tractor off a couple times a summer, clean the radiator fins out a bit. I try to keep it clean enough to see everything clearly and it's not a pain to do maintenance. I do enough bush hogging in deep stuff that the underside is always shiny.

I hose it off on a nice sunny day with a breeze, let it air dry. Then I start it up and run it to cook off any remaining moisture around the engine. The dryer the better. My tractor is always parked in the garage at the end of the day, even if it is mud-caked from backhoe work.

Someday - I need to tackle the grease globs around my loader pins. Some of those are not easy to wipe clean since they are back inside a channel. Simply Green and a pressure washer would be the way to go on those I think.
Dave.