How do you clean your greasy loader pivots?

[bdhsfz6]

On the rare occasion I clean greased pivot points, I use a power washer with a Rotox nozzle. Not sure why but it doesn't splatter the grease as much as a standard nozzle. I still do it away from other equipment and wear old clothes though.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

As I said on GTT, I clean the excess grease off of my tractor by wearing my best shirt near it.

It is guaranteed to work every time.

I immediately started laughing when I read your response as I can't count the times that I have turned a nice shirt into a work shirt by just doing something as simple as loading a roll of hay for someone on the way out somewhere, only to realize that I had brushed up against some grease off of the tractor or loader.

 

[chim]

Every few years when there are big globs - I don nitrile gloves, grab a roll of paper towels and a wooden paint stir stick. The wooden stick scrapes the globs off without scratching the paint. It is also useful as a "ramrod" to push a wad of paper towels through tighter spaces. After the worst is off a spray of purple cleaner massaged with an old paint brush and a rinse.

 

[Hoobie]

As I said on GTT, I clean the excess grease off of my tractor by wearing my best shirt near it.

It is guaranteed to work every time.

Excellent thinking. I use my hair, ears and other body parts while working around my tractor. Then my wife cleans me up.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

Just for information, I had a hard time removing exhaust stains from my hood, but found that Turtle Wax liquid car wax removes it quickly.

I use that Dawn Platinum Power Wash shown above on the exhaust on the underside of my loader arm where it points when the bucket is flat on the ground, and I start it, it sends out a puff of black smoke, and soots it up!

Spray on, wait 30 seconds, wipe off with paper towel.

 

[grsthegreat]

I tend to clean mine, otherwise grease seems to get onto my windows while raising loader. I use pressure washer followed by simple green. Takes it right off.

 

[Molalla1]

Just wipe off the excess grease while you are at it and be done with it your greasing points love it (the grease) . . . from your pics it looks like you have rubbed off the plating of your cylinder rods a bit . . . j/k but it is coming off.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

That's just the painted ends of the cylinder ... Driving through my "Pasture" trying to reclaim it was tough on it ... With the brush/branches getting wedged in, ripped through ... Since I just bought this place, I had no Idea what was out there, found lots of "stuff" the bucket was a handy "feeler" ...

Lots of this rotten multi-flora roses to deal with ... But I gotten rid of most of them!

 

[RayIN]

Using loader as feeler;
Ya, Shawn I once high-centered my HF TO 30 on a tree stump when bush hogging, it's a good thing Ferguson makes the oil pan from cast iron. That was the last time that stump caused a problem. ¼ stick of dynamite removed it, all I had to do was pull it to the nearest sink-hole.