Combines Put on your shades

yes and finish up with a spay on wax ever so often (not as good as rub on but wow what a job that would be on top of rub compound) to prevent oxidation which is the enemy of all paint and metalic surfaces. You have found what is true in most things in life. Elbow grease is a necessary ingrediant for any project undertaken. I have often wondered if after removing oxidation if there was a spay on clearcoat paint that would stickIJ After all we have broken down and started painting the new ones now..... any paint gurus out thereIJ

I just watch a gleaner k2 sell at auction, yesterday. The owner had painted it silver and black. Just wondering, will that paint stickIJ It did not sell very good, $1450. The owner said it sat outside for 5 years and that why he painted it. Most bidders, including myself wished that he had not painted it.

ehh I doubt it. If all the Galvanized was off it would, there are surface preps which when used have to be painted I have heard of that will make it stick. As to values, used to be nearly everyone in N American had Ag roots. When they went to town to get a job they loved to hobby farm on the side. Now one had better have a REAllY good job if you want to farm 1 to 300 acres. We have lost that segment of the market in mass numbers. Farms are getting larger and demanding bigger equipment. Who will buy the used machinery in the numbers the new ones are being sold in the future, IJ Will there be many farms who would hire a mechanic full time to recondition combines and thus save big bucks by running more used reconsIJ I don't know, wish I did, or maybe we might not want to know. If there is anyone out there who has a crystal ball and can see the future please post your .com businesss here and make a fortune. I'll subscribe , with a money back non-Enron_Anderson guarantee though....

Hmmmm, well basically to see what the future holds just look to any of the low farm support countrys. The last 30 years have shown just the pattern you have predicted. I guess subsidies are just postponing the inevitable.

You sure said it with Anderson too Tbran. Those boys have been bad all over. They were the auditors of one of Australia's biggest corporate collapses too.

I make a decent return on my 300 acre diversified operation (small-square hay, ear corn, soybeans, oats, and wheat (grain and straw.) Not all of us believe in the "bigger is better" dogma. The big guys who fight with each other over $150 acre cash rent ground are just chasing each other down the same rat hole. I have people pay ME $30 an acre to plant something on their ground, plus I keep the crop. I guess what I do won't work in other places, but I'm taking advantage of the local situation in the name of profit. Is it true average net profit per acre in Iowa is $15 for soybeansIJ My net profit last year per acre in soybeans was about $100.

The bigger you are the harder you fall. There still is a place for the small farmer. Those big guys work on volume. I would just as soon stay small and not bid everybody up on high cash rent to get the volume. Find a tall tree and a short rope for the Enron execs and Anderson.

Hi oatboy, Do you know off hand the brand name of the rubbing compound that you usedIJ Also, I think they make several different strengths of that stuff, is yours the mild or the aggressive kindIJ I tried some old stuff that I had around and it didn't do much, but I think it is supposed to be used with a rotory buffer. Thanks!! DAB

Wow, $150 US acre for rent. Thats ridiculous.

I crop about 250 acres. I do it because I want to. I do not see it as "mucking around". I enjoy it and would not know what to do if I did not have it to do.