10 hours greasing help

[dfortier]

Hello all,
Well i finally got my 1870 last saturday, and ive been using (and loving) it every minute i can. So i hit 10 hours of use last night on the loader and im looking for the proper grease. However there is soooooo many differant ones, I figured id ask here and hope you all can point me in the right direction. Ideally i would like to purchase one brand/type that i can use on everything, that way there is no confusion later on. So i have the FEL, MMM and grass catcher, would the link below work on all of them? If possible i would rather have a synthetic since they work better, but this one doesnt say if it is.

Peak Extreme Pressure Moly Grease 14 oz. Cartridge | Product Details | Pep Boys

thanks for the help

 

[George the Beagle]

My short answer is that it really doesn't matter which type of grease you use as long as you use it.

 

[Boondox]

Agree with George. Grease is good. No grease is bad

 

[MikeInEburg]

I buy the middle-if-the-road grease from Tractor Supply and have been very happy. I also bought a pneumatic grease gun, which makes the job much easier.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

I agree with all of the above. If you have a compressor buy the air operated grease gun. If you don't own a compressor, buy one. They are cheap and one of my most valuable and used tool. I actually have three and always look when I see one on sale.
Tractor Supply and Farm World, etc will have like 10 tubes for $10 several times thru out the year. If your actually going to stay with your every 10 hour schedule then any grease will work.

 

[Turbys_1700]

I've been using grease that my dad bought years ago...
It is still good and serviceable...
For a loader and other what I consider low stress operations it works fine...
I even use it in my RFM with no ill affects...
I'm just about out now...
I guess that I've gone though a couple of cases that he had stored up over the last 4 ore 5 years...

 

[TripleR]

Pretty much in agreement with everyone else, I just go to the pace we get our diesel a farm bulk supplier and tell them to give me a case of grease and then I am set for a while.

 

[murphy1244]

To grease or not to grease, that is the question. grease

 

[dfortier]

Hi all,
Thanks for the quick replies. the local tractor supply is almost an hour away, that's why I was looking at pepboys. I do have a nice compress so ill grab a pneumatic gun and what ever EP synthetic grease they have in stock.

 

[wrooster]

Kubota's "Every 10 HR" greasing regiment is quite a burden. I hate getting up in the middle of the night to grease on the 10 HR mark. I've been splitting up the chore with my wife lately, so we alternate and it works out better.

Wrooster

 

[jeff9366]

Kubota recommends Extreme Pressure Molly Grease......the brand in not important.

Keep greasing regularly. The "new" grease pushes out some of the "old" grease maintaining your pivots in a low friction mode and your grease on the pivots soft and clean. Old grease will get hard and cease to spread to all areas of the pivots. Old, hard grease will not be a problem as long as you grease regularly.

 

[Danner]

Greasing regularly is one trillion times more important than which grease you use.

 

[dfortier]

Kubota's "Every 10 HR" greasing regiment is quite a burden. I hate getting up in the middle of the night to grease on the 10 HR mark. I've been splitting up the chore with my wife lately, so we alternate and it works out better.

Wrooster

That put a smile on my face

I ended up going with Valvoline.com > Products > Grease Gear Oil > Grease > SynPower® Synthetic Grease I figure it will do nicely and even though it is a good bit than the other stuff its still really cheap insurance.

 

[vrmnthntr]

I also use any type or color grease. Been doing it for 17 years on my little cub cadet mower. Haven't replaced any spindles or bearings.

Right now my color of choice is green.

 

[ryan08]

I like the new color/clear based grease better than the black stuff because it doesn't look such a mess around the pivot points.

 

[mjcountrybumpkin]

Why not just buy the best grease you can? It's super cheap compared to every other lube a tractor uses any way. If you buy the good stuff it tends to deal with moisture and heat (done a experiment in college with a hot plate and misting with water and the cheap stuff- old funny brown color grease-actually mixed with water while hot). We typically get tractor supply red grease. Don't remember exact name but it works
Great for us.

 

[crazyangel]

Lots of opinions on grease. I made my choice after searching a lot of threads here and ended up with Schaeffers 238 Ultra Supreme. Best grease I've ever come across. YMMV.

 

[dfortier]

Why not just buy the best grease you can? It's super cheap compared to every other lube a tractor uses any way. If you buy the good stuff it tends to deal with moisture and heat (done a experiment in college with a hot plate and misting with water and the cheap stuff- old funny brown color grease-actually mixed with water while hot). We typically get tractor supply red grease. Don't remember exact name but it works
Great for us.

That was my thinking, it was still only $8.00 for a tube, rated for extreme pressure, temperature and has the moly compound called for in the book. I intend to follow with the ever 10 hours or very close to it, so depending on how long a tube lasts I may change my tune though lol.

 

[AStanton]

A neighboring farmer turned me on to this red grease from Texas. Looks good with the orange Kubota paint.

 

[TripleR]

Why not just buy the best grease you can? It's super cheap compared to every other lube a tractor uses any way. If you buy the good stuff it tends to deal with moisture and heat (done a experiment in college with a hot plate and misting with water and the cheap stuff- old funny brown color grease-actually mixed with water while hot). We typically get tractor supply red grease. Don't remember exact name but it works
Great for us.

All the farmers in my area buy their grease where get mine, so maybe it is the best; people aren't going to use poor quality grease on their 100-200K equipment long.