Oil & Fuel When I get rich like Jay Leno

[lennyzx11]

When I get rich like Jay Leno,
I am going to hire someone I really don’t like full time staff 24/7/365 and make them change the cartridges in my d—- grease guns.
What started out to be a quick grease of the quick attach pins this morning turned into a 2 hour ordeal involving two cordless grease guns, a manual one, 5000 paper towels, grease in my nose, and really coming close for the first time in throwing a tantrum for all to see!!!
Lenny

 

[mcfarmall]

Nothin' like watching someone having a good mantrum!

 

[WM75Guy]

I got tired of that in 2018. Bought an air operated pump with 20' hose that sits on top of a 5 gal bucket. Still on the original bucket. KTC Auto Tools sold it for $270 delivered. I see they don't sell it anymore.

 

[Doughknob]

U must not b too old OP, if u haven't run into this problem before.........

 

[ruffdog]

Hmmm...I always thought greasing was relaxing.

 

[Username Taken]

You should try ladling it in by hand. Like in the bad old days.

If I have a grease gun start to get cantankerous, I sh-can it and replace it. They don't rank high enough to have an attitude.

 

[JethroB]

We call‘em hissy-fits. Almost pitched one today trying to get barbed wire out of my flail mower. Waiting now on Amazon to bring me some better wire/bolt cutters.

 

[mred2]

If you haven't load grease by hand, you aren't old.

 

[dodge man]

I’ve been known to throw a thing or two. Most of the time it’s my fault but not always. Several years ago when I lived in town and rented a house it was two blocks from a co-worker. He walked over to my house one day and got there just in time to find me beating a wooden creeper over the top of a t post.

 

[Hay Dude]

Hmmm...I always thought greasing was relaxing.

Um, no. If you have hundreds and they’re in all sorts of nasty places, it’s the farthest thing from relaxing.

 

[oldnslo]

Figure if got rich like Jay I would be more interested in applying massage oil to the pretty ladies than working about greasing a machine ;-)

 

[Jchonline]

Um, no. If you have hundreds and they’re in all sorts of nasty places, it’s the farthest thing from relaxing.

You just need better music…

 

[Hay Dude]

You just need better music…

Ok, I’m all ears. What do you suggest for music while greasing?

 

[Alan W.]

 

[bigtiller]

Perfect song for the job.

Mandolin Jack....I never heard of him but he is good.

 

[k0ua]

Hmmm... I wouldn't exactly call greasing relaxing, but I never had much trouble loading cartridges in my grease guns. You are not doing something right if you are having that much trouble. Yes, it is true that the grease guns seem like they are always empty when I need to grease the tractor, and yes they will always run out half way through. Of course not every time, but it does seem that way sometimes.

 

[lennyzx11]

Hmmm... I wouldn't exactly call greasing relaxing, but I never had much trouble loading cartridges in my grease guns. You are not doing something right if you are having that much trouble. Yes, it is true that the grease guns seem like they are always empty when I need to grease the tractor, and yes they will always run out half way through. Of course not every time, but it does seem that way sometimes.

It was definitely me.
It was just one of those days. One was empty. Went to change it and the catch holding the plunger spring back slammed forward before it was threaded on so sending stuff everywhere. Then the 2nd didn’t want to let the plunger in the metal ring in and then wouldn’t bleed out and pick up so I ended up taking the head off it to get rid of the air pocket.

 

[JethroB]

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It was definitely me.
It was just one of those days. One was empty. Went to change it and the catch holding the plunger spring back slammed forward before it was threaded on so sending stuff everywhere. Then the 2nd didn’t want to let the plunger in the metal ring in and then wouldn’t bleed out and pick up so I ended up taking the head off it to get rid of the air pocket.

And when you’re through greasing, cleaned up, and go to put the manual gun away you notice the pump handle has sneakily worked it’s way open. That’s when the brain fart happens and you push it closed and launch a squirt across the shop.

Did it today. Again.

 

[3 Horse Ranch]

We call‘em hissy-fits. Almost pitched one today trying to get barbed wire out of my flail mower. Waiting now on Amazon to bring me some better wire/bolt cutters.

Been there, done that with barbed, high tensile, mesh and 5/8s wire rope. The wire rope turned out to be part of a 100' coil the previous owner had tossed on the ground and let self bury. I had to use an angle grinder to cut that out. I ended up pulling 15 or 20 coils of various sizes and lengths off the property, fortunately only was found by my flail.

 

[m1garand762]

What’s the big deal? I use 15-20 tubes per month and maybe twice a year have an issue. Don’t use cheap grease guns and you’ll never have a problem