Where do you park/store your tractor?

[thankyouTBN]

When not in use, I park my tractor in a carport with a gravel floor. It's a Kubota B2320 that I bought new in 2014. I am starting to notice quite a bit of rust on the tractor and am wondering if this is normal for being storing on a dirt floor, or has Kubota paint quality gone downhill.

Would love to hear how you all store your tractors and your issues & solutions to rusting or preventing rust.

What a funny coincidence. I was just thinking about this. I have to move my lawnmowers out of the garage to a lean-to shed. I gotta work on my truck in the garage. Years ago I put a log splitter down there and the mice packed the air blower system with nest building materials. At the timeI jury rigged some quarter inch wire cloth to keep them out, but it’s too hard to do that to the lawnmowers. Just a little while ago I was thinking I gotta get like a pint of eucalyptus oil or whatever it is you use to deter mice. I never like using mouse poison because I’m always worried about the owls eating the poisoned mouse and killing the owls.

 

[ning]

I don't exactly understand why, but those seem to be somewhat notorious for "container sweat". Not sure I'd want to keep a tractor in one unless I took steps to reduce it. Maybe you have/will, just thought I'd mention is.

My high-cube has small vents near the top on the sides, and it's sitting about a foot off of the ground (well, 6" at one end and about 16" at the other end) on RR tie blocks under the corners. We have pretty wet winters - zero noticeable humidity inside. I help a local music camp that stores a bunch of stuff in a couple 20's and they had really bad moisture issues; we jacked up the containers (farm jack) and put them on blocks and no more inside rain despite them being placed over totally unprepared surfaces.

Just make sure there's enough room for small predators to get under the container to keep vermin from nesting there.

I'd be really really careful driving a cabbed tractor in any container; probably best to have a level entrance. Web says my tractor is 98" at the rops, and I have a very short gravel "ramp" for it to get in (remember the container is up off the ground) and while it's got a couple inches to spare it feels like it's about to hit the roof, probably because of the angles.. and definitely don't want it to bounce going through the doorway.

 

[Skypilota72]

When not in use, I park my tractor in a carport with a gravel floor. It's a Kubota B2320 that I bought new in 2014. I am starting to notice quite a bit of rust on the tractor and am wondering if this is normal for being storing on a dirt floor, or has Kubota paint quality gone downhill.

Would love to hear how you all store your tractors and your issues & solutions to rusting or preventing rust.

 

[Skypilota72]

When not in use, I park my tractor in a carport with a gravel floor. It's a Kubota B2320 that I bought new in 2014. I am starting to notice quite a bit of rust on the tractor and am wondering if this is normal for being storing on a dirt floor, or has Kubota paint quality gone downhill.

Would love to hear how you all store your tractors and your issues & solutions to rusting or preventing rust.

I park my Mahindra Cut in my 3rd garage that is insulated and has baseboard heaters.

 

[Ridersupfarm]

Under a shed roof on the side of a barn on some thin gravel. It's a 2011 and no rust so far. Is yours getting wet and not drying for some reason? Or maybe you just got one with a bd paint job.My problem is keeping mice out of it. They have chewed up the dash wiring twice.

We have barn cats and no mice. Best mouse trap ever invented.

 

[Aquabird]

When I had my Ford tractor, that I bought new, I parked it in a pole building with a dirt floor, 30'x40'. I had a cement floor put in it. After 301 yrs I sold that tractor and it looked new.
I BOUGHT my new Kubota 3 yrs ago and have had it in my other pole barn with cement floor since, 42'x60'. It looks new now.

 

[deserteagle71]

When I had my Ford tractor, that I bought new, I parked it in a pole building with a dirt floor, 30'x40'. I had a cement floor put in it. After 301 yrs I sold that tractor and it looked new.

WOW! Would you happen to have a photo of that old Ford you could post? Don't believe I've ever seen a tractor over 100 years old, much less 300........

 

[Mtsoxfan]

I'm sure the quality/type of paint matters. Not sure what they use overseas, but it is my understanding that oil based paint has been a no no for many years in the U.S.

 

[WinterDeere]

...it is my understanding that oil based paint has been a no no for many years in the U.S.

Not so. I've purchased and used 5 quarts of oil-based paint in the last two weeks alone!

They've applied new VOC limits to most types of oil paint over the years, and of course eliminated the lead since 1978, but alkyd-based enamel is still very popular. All "Tractor and Implement" paints of which I'm aware, or at least those I actually use, are still oil based.

 

[rmk700]

When not in use, I park my tractor in a carport with a gravel floor. It's a Kubota B2320 that I bought new in 2014. I am starting to notice quite a bit of rust on the tractor and am wondering if this is normal for being storing on a dirt floor, or has Kubota paint quality gone downhill.

Would love to hear how you all store your tractors and your issues & solutions to rusting or preventing rust.

I have an 40’ x 50’ installed steel shed