Posted by Billy NY on February 20, 2022 at 08:03:56 from (74.70.92.92):
In Reply to: Rust Removal? posted by 1370rod on February 19, 2022 at 05:45:54:
I never realized that depending on the soil conditions, that coating the moldboards to protect them can be very important, as the soils here are abrasive enough to scour them year to year or many years. When considering the finer kinds of soils, clay/gumbo and similar, sure made sense as the plow will pull with less resistance and not build up soil because of the polishing of the steel. We do have some areas with those kinds of soils actually. None of the farmers would coat the moldboards that I have seen.
In my experience with moldboard plowing, I was able to get a barn kept, 101 Ford plow that was mirror like polished. I rebuilt it, shares, shins, landsides, leaving the OEM Ford scripted moldboards. It does live outside, so the first year or so I coated with grease. In the weather conditions we have here, I was not all that impressed, but the grease certainly protected them, but it wears off after a year, not all of it, better than nothing too!
I'm also fussy with hand tools, especially my compost fork, I never let the tines get rusty or leave any tools like this outside, they reside in a dry basement that is heated during the winter.
I coat them with Rustoleum white paint, it lasts for years, will show the smallest spec of rust and for the money, it works great. There is a coating specific to this purpose, I never found it locally, so just decided that painting them was effective and no worries about it failing anytime soon.
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