So, my first work was doing various industrial programming jobs for the local sawmill.
They had two company trucks which tended to get beat up/ scratched just because they spent a fair bit of time in the woods in areas without well cleared roads. As a result they ended up repainted fairly often just to prevent rust and the like. The first repaint was always into a color that exactly matched the color of the local dirt that they'd typically pick up in use. You could never tell they were dirty except the one had a pinstripe which would dissappear when covered with muck. So maybe "dirt'. On Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 10:17 AM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> 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 >
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