Greasing tractors +/-

[Thomas]

Red and tackey also.

 

[anomad]

On a related note, where do ya'll buy 5 gallon buckets or small drums of grease to fill your old tubes? I'd like to start doing that if I could save a few bucks.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

https://knowhow.napaonline.com/greasy-situation-can-you-mix-grease/

Thank's for the article.

 

[paulsharvey]

I like to switch color of general purpose grease. Red, gray, blue, ect, and its easy to tell the old grease (last color) is all pushed out.

Now, if your a good boy, and always grease every time, less of an issue. If you might grease less often then you should, its nice to know you pushed the old out and have it filled with fresh clean grease.

Yes, im guilty of greasing less often then I should, but its not like I Dont grease.

 

[Yander]

I use this.. l learned about it on here from the late 5030. https://www.ruralking.com/mystik-jt...uf0mO6OJSmcmbPFtGFnHsDU5qqrVT_sgaAquREALw_wcB

 

[Alan W.]

Use it on my tractor, skid steer, trucks and implements.

 

[edgarrian]

On a related note, where do ya'll buy 5 gallon buckets or small drums of grease to fill your old tubes? I'd like to start doing that if I could save a few bucks.

buckets of grease does not sound like fun. IS there enough savings to justify doing that? I guess it would depend how much equipment you have. I work at large non union excavating company and they dont do that. Probably bc workers wouldn't save the tubes or fill them back up. It would be a messy job. I dont see much benefit in this to only save a 2 dollars

 

[RjCorazza]

buckets of grease does not sound like fun. IS there enough savings to justify doing that? I guess it would depend how much equipment you have. I work at large non union excavating company and they dont do that. Probably bc workers wouldn't save the tubes or fill them back up. It would be a messy job. I dont see much benefit in this to only save a 2 dollars

I agree, but as much as I HATE swapping grease cartridges, I would consider a large air greasing device that wheels around a 5 gallon bucket.

 

[edgarrian]

I agree, but as much as I HATE swapping grease cartridges, I would consider a large air greasing device that wheels around a 5 gallon bucket.

that makes sense

 

[BnRidge]

buckets of grease does not sound like fun. IS there enough savings to justify doing that? I guess it would depend how much equipment you have. I work at large non union excavating company and they dont do that. Probably bc workers wouldn't save the tubes or fill them back up. It would be a messy job. I dont see much benefit in this to only save a 2 dollars

60yrs ago we would get grease in a 5gal pail and fill the gun with that. That's all we had. Not sure if they had even invented cartridges yet. Something like this.

 

[masscity]

My Dad had a logging truck and it was my job to grease it and change the oil. He bought grease by the (5 gal?) pail, his grease pump would clamp on the top, from there was fairly long hose and a hand pump on the end.

In the summer we used regular grease guns for the tractor/equipment when farming.

 

[BravoXray]

I agree, but as much as I HATE swapping grease cartridges, I would consider a large air greasing device that wheels around a 5 gallon bucket.

I had one of those for years and fought with it losing prime quite often, not sure why. Still had half a bucket of grease in it when I set it out at the road with a free sign on it. It disappeared in a couple of hours. Don't miss it a bit.
Since I no longer have any trucks or trailers to grease, my trusty old Lincoln grease gun works just fine to grease the BX and JD. Probably only go through one cartridge a year now.

 

[edgarrian]

I had one of those for years and fought with it losing prime quite often, not sure why. Still had half a bucket of grease in it when I set it out at the road with a free sign on it. It disappeared in a couple of hours. Don't miss it a bit.
Since I no longer have any trucks or trailers to grease, my trusty old Lincoln grease gun works just fine to grease the BX and JD. Probably only go through one cartridge a year now.

I have a Lincoln as well. Ive had it for 10 years. Its been a good grease gun

Come to think of it we had pales of grease as well on the farm when i was a kid. They lost prime all the time. They were junk back then. Id assume they are better now days but I have not heard of anyone using them. I think battery operated grease gun and cartridges are just the preferred method

 

[BravoXray]

I have a Lincoln as well. Ive had it for 10 years. Its been a good grease gun

Come to think of it we had pales of grease as well on the farm when i was a kid. They lost prime all the time. They were junk back then. Id assume they are better now days but I have not heard of anyone using them. I think battery operated grease gun and cartridges are just the preferred method

I think I've had my Lincoln grease gun since at least the early 80s, still does the job.
When I worked in heavy construction, operating dozers and earthmovers, we greased them at the end of every day. The earth movers, with all their rollers, linkage and pivots, had over 50 zerks. It usually took a couple of tubes of grease to get everything lubed properly. An electric gun would have been nice, but we managed just fine with the manual ones. You could change grease cartridges in 30 seconds pretty easily.
The air operated one with the 5 gallon pail would always work when you were using it around the outside of a truck, but as soon as you crawled underneath to grease brakes and u-joints, it would lose prime.

 

[edgarrian]

I think I've had my Lincoln grease gun since at least the early 80s, still does the job.
When I worked in heavy construction, operating dozers and earthmovers, we greased them at the end of every day. The earth movers, with all their rollers, linkage and pivots, had over 50 zerks. It usually took a couple of tubes of grease to get everything lubed properly. An electric gun would have been nice, but we managed just fine with the manual ones. You could change grease cartridges in 30 seconds pretty easily.
The air operated one with the 5 gallon pail would always work when you were using it around the outside of a truck, but as soon as you crawled underneath to grease brakes and u-joints, it would lose prime.

I run a 336 or 349 on the pipe crew depending on how deep we are. But this company has always used dewalt grease guns with the lock n lube. Im not a fan of that b/c there are zerks that you can't get to b/c the lock n lube makes it a bit longer. So I always have my grease gun in the truck to get the one zerk on the quick attach greased.

 

[grsthegreat]

I used to over grease everything. After pulling everything apart and cleaning all the old grease out, i tend not to over grease any longer. Ive not noticed any damage when inspecting pins.

 

[ranger13256]

Total Synpro SHC #2 Synthetic High Temp Multipurpose Extreme Duty Grease 10 tube. It is a tan color so doesn't look so messy. Seems to work well.

 

[ranger13256]

My problem is not with the grease itself but with my Milwaukee battery powered grease gun. No matter what I do it seems to get air bound and not work. I gave up on it and went back to hand powered.

 

[colonel54]

I use the Red Tacky stuff and as my Dad used to say, you can never use to much

 

[boatmoter]

Just curious what type of grease in everyone using? From general to moly based... what's your choice?
BTW have tractor supply close and many big box auto-parts stores.
thanks

I use Full synthetic Grease, sometimes I use marine Grease