All my dad’s farm trucks were baby blue. Kinda a family brand. My youngest son who is taking over the manufacturing operation is suggesting that. I have never seen a baby blue piece of construction equipment. I wonder if it connotes softness, weakness? It would not show the spatter very much. I guess we could do two tone with more of a royal blue like my logo.
From: Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2022 12:07 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Cc: ch...@go-mtc.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Machinery colors I like money more than political ideologies. I am a greedy, naked capitalist, opportunist. I am sure some would buy it just because it was red white and blue. But some would brand me some kind of alt right company I am afraid. Just like I judge a large pick up truck, rollin’ coal, with a huge US flag or flying the stars and bars. I immediately categorize them and start to plan my escape in the event of road rage... While I sometimes am a sympathizer to the right, I am more in the middle on many issues. Perhaps my age has something to do with it. I see more shades of gray now. When I was young, I was almost a John Bircher. From: Robert Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2022 11:26 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Machinery colors Red white and blue? On 2/20/22 9:16 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: I have a new product, larger than anything I have made before. It is a self propelled grout mixer similar to the Ditch Witch R300 with a 1CM mixer attachment. I have some significant improvements over their product but they both do the same thing and look a bit similar. Our attach method between the grout mixing tub attachment and the rest of the machine is almost identical to DW to allow interchangeability between brands. Similar to a universal skid steer attachment. This is a high demand machine for the micro trenching world. I am at the point where I have to choose a color for the machine. I will avoid Ditch Witch colors. The John Deere trademark decision says I could paint it green but not the same green with yellow of JD equipment. I hate to paint it the generic cat/JD/vermeer type of yellow that everyone else seems to use. It is not agricultural so probably not JD green. Not sure if Ford blue communicates solid USA made good stuff. Thinking Kubota orange, but does that communicate inferior Kubota? Years ago Kubota was truly inferior but now-a days they make good stuff. It will soon get lots of grout spatter on the outside. Almost impossible to keep these things spotless. So darker colors will emphasize the mess. Could paint it concrete gray to minimize that but that does not excite me at all. What color makes you think “solid, American Made, durable, good value”? Chuck McCown McCown Technology Corporation 8401 N Commerce Dr Lake Point, Utah 84074 801-250-9503 435-830-4306 cell www.mccowntech.com www.microtrench-blades.com www.terabitnetworks.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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