Cleaning Your Equipment

Cleaning equipment offers several benefits:

• It prevents dirt from entering the engine.
• It allows you to identify oil leaks, loose nuts, cracked housings and other faults more quickly.
• It enables you to work on the tractor more easily.

Precautions

• Let the engine cool off first – pouring cold water on a hot engine could crack the block.
• Cover the exhaust outlet with a tin to prevent water entering the exhaust system.
• Cover the alternator/generator with a plastic bag.
• Cover the instruments and don’t point the hosepipe at them.
• Don’t spray directly onto any lights.

Method

• Start by using paraffin to remove grease and oil.
• Clean and remove battery acid with clean, warm water.
• Wet the tractor with clean water.
• Wash it using a soft cloth and mild, soapy water.
• Dry it with a soft cloth.
• Polish it with a motorcar wax compound.

Undercover Storage

Storing your tractor properly prevents sun and wind damage to the paintwork, tyres, seat and instruments.  It also stops rain from finding its way into instruments, the electrical system and the seat.  To build a suitable shelter, simply put up four poles supporting a thatched, plywood or tin roof.  Use the same material to construct a wall on the side of the prevailing wind.

Cleaning equipment offers several benefits:

·         It prevents dirt from entering the engine.

·         It allows you to identify oil leaks, loose nuts, cracked housings and other faults more quickly.

·         It enables you to work on the tractor more easily.

Precautions

·         Let the engine cool off first – pouring cold water on a hot engine could crack the block.

·         Cover the exhaust outlet with a tin to prevent water entering the exhaust system.

·         Cover the alternator/generator with a plastic bag.

·         Cover the instruments and don’t point the hosepipe at them.

·         Don’t spray directly onto any lights.

Method

·         Start by using paraffin to remove grease and oil.

·         Clean and remove battery acid with clean, warm water.

·         Wet the tractor with clean water.

·         Wash it using a soft cloth and mild, soapy water.

·         Dry it with a soft cloth.

·         Polish it with a motorcar wax compound.

Undercover storage

Storing your tractor properly prevents sun and wind damage to the paintwork, tyres, seat and instruments.  It also stops rain from finding its way into instruments, the electrical system and the seat.  To build a suitable shelter, simply put up four poles supporting a thatched, plywood or tin roof.  Use the same material to construct a wall on the side of the prevailing wind.