Do you grease the loader settled on the ground or lifted up?

[sixdogs]

Do you grease loader pins with the loader settled to the ground or lifted a bit? One way takes the pressure off the loader and one way doesn't. It must matter in some way because I've taken loaders apart with worn pins but it sure looked like the pins were greased. How do you do it?


Below is an old thread with pictures of a loader pin that didn't get grease from a plugged fitting. I've seen others that apparently were greased but not enough grease and they looked just like these pics.

Here's why you grease your loader faithfully.

Here's why you pay attention to greasing loader pins and why plugged grease fittings mean pay attention now and not later. Look at this picture of the pin out of a 2002 Kubota M6800 loader with only 400 hours on it. I posted photos in another thread but this is more direct. The enlarged photo...

www.tractorbynet.com

 

[Shawn T. W.]

I usually grease while loader or BH is in the air ... There are two zerk fittings on the BH though that I need to drop the bucket on the ground and put a tiny bit of pressure on it for them to take grease, just setting on the ground won't do ...

I'm not bashful about using grease often!

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/how-do-you-clean-your-greasy-loader-pivots.592155/

 

[oldnslo]

I grease my loader in what ever position it happens to be in. I have replaced most if not all of original zerks since they quit taking grease.

I believe wear is not so much position greased in vs frequency of greasing during use.

 

[Wagtail]

I grease my FEL whilst it's on the ground, before starting the tractor.

At the very least for safety.

 

[jaxs]

Do you grease loader pins with the loader settled to the ground or lifted a bit?

I don't grease,paint,repair,wash or otherwise screw with equipment in a position that can cripple or kill with an accidental bump of control or resulting from leaky hydraulics.

 

[Torvy]

Few people have ever been injured or killed for being overly careful with equipment. It would be easier on my back to lift it up. Not worth the risk.

 

[dieselscout80]

It depends mostly on the ground.

That said when servicing the tractor I use two pieces of thick aluminum angle to block the loader cylinders up.

While in that position I have greased the zerks I can reach.

 

[oosik]

Had to think about it for a minute. I grease with everything on the ground and tractor off. Safety sake. Really - if the pins are machined correctly it should make little difference. Up or down.

Down and off is for safety.

HOWEVER - FEL is up with tractor off for ease of getting at several zerks. I block the FEL with a short, heavy chunk of angle iron.

My electric DeWalt grease gun makes this go easier/quicker.

Still have not figured a way to do a complete grease job ( 32 zerks ) without greasing me - along the way.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

I've always greased with bucket on the ground. Only because that's how I leave it when I pull into garage to work on it. Does it really matter in terms of greasing properly?

 

[bigtiller]

The ground is to far away.
It's up in the air for me.