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Ami the only one who waxes??

emmett518

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Considering how much money I spent on my 310L backhoe, I’ve been waxing the exterior of my hoe. I use liquid wax, and find that it keeps the paint shiny and bright, and the cylinder pistons clean.
Am I the only person who does this?
I don’t own a sports car that I polish. I own a backhoe.
 
Acoals

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I don't know, our stuff runs every day, I guess we would only run two or three days a week if we had to keep them waxed ...
 
John C.

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Most of the crane outfits around here made the oiler wax the visible parts of the house and truck body. I'm not sure that happens anymore.
 
colson04

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We used to regularly wash and wax our tractors and combine after planting and harvest. Anymore, they just get power washed, greased, and put away.
 
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I've been using that wash/wax on the trucks. Usually have to wash at least the bodies with degreaser to get the grease paw prints off then use the wash/wax on the second round.
 
crane operator

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No oilers here to wax the cranes. There are still "oilers" on the big crawler cranes on union sites. I've got a guy with me on my 100 ton, but in rental, we are so busy going from site to site, that we don't have the time like a crawler guy does on a jobsite. We are too busy moving.

If you don't have enough to do with the equipment that you have time to wax it, you don't have enough work to do.
 
emmett518

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Well, I’m not running an excavation business. I use my hoe on my rescue farm, and real estate business, so time demands aren’t as strict. I just hate to see an expensive piece of equipment looking like crap.
 
colson04

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emmett518 said:
Well, I’m not running an excavation business. I use my hoe on my rescue farm, and real estate business, so time demands aren’t as strict. I just hate to see an expensive piece of equipment looking like crap.
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I can certainly appreciate that. I've waxed a combine a few times. There is a lot of square footage of panels to cover on a machine that size, but there is some serious satisfaction at watching it shimmer in the sun as you get ready to put it away.
 
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emmett518 said:
Well, I’m not running an excavation business. I use my hoe on my rescue farm, and real estate business, so time demands aren’t as strict. I just hate to see an expensive piece of equipment looking like crap.
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We have a small CAT 908M, bought used 3 years ago. We use only for snow removal , sits in the shop etc,waxed 4 times per years, washed after every event and dried.....yup OCD!
 
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