GREASE... every 10 HOURS?

[Dargo]

you can't grease too often. We can tell when people don't. Even after 200-300 hours a loader thats never been greased starts having slop in the pins.

OMG, I can't believe how skimpy many here on greasing!! After working years on heavy equipment and having to replace pins, bushings rebuilding load tubes etc., I never go more than maybe 8 hours of loader use without a good greasing! I grease each zerk on my excavator and backhoe every time I get ready to use the machine. To not do so is just complete negligence as far as I'm concerned.

I'll give an example of what proper greasing does. I just hit 2000 hours on a Grasshopper mower this last fall. Nothing had been changed on it other than oil, filters and 1 battery. I went ahead and took one of the deck spindles apart to make sure I wasn't getting ready to have any trouble this next year. It didn't feel loose, but that's not always a good gauge. Once I took it apart and measured it, there was almost no measurable wear from new after two thousand hours of mowing!! The mower has never gone more than 8 hours without being greased. It will run almost 8 hours on a tank of fuel and, not even once, have I missed greasing it. My wife has her own matching mower and she won't use it until after she knows I've filled it and greased it.

Relatively speaking, grease is cheap as are paper towels to wipe off excess grease. I'd sure never want to buy a machine from any of these 'spare the grease' guys!!!

 

[some zilch]

greasing is so much easier than pounding or pressing out bad pins and bushings. done it too many times to count on large excavators. i'll gladly grease every 10 hours. grease is cheap; pins and bushings arent. neither is my aggravation

 

[garydc]

I grease whatever implement I'm using everyday of use sometimes 1 pump sometimes 10, till new grease starts to appear, find it's way easier than leaving and having to work to get zerk's to take grease or worse take apart and replace pin's bushings bearing's etc. Gary

p.s. I also don't pump till great gobs of grease are coming out that's just wasteful.

 

[Verticaltrx]

One little detail that deserves mentioning is this: an hour meter (at least on my B8200) is reading hours based on 2600 RPM engine speed. i.e., run the tractor for 10 hours at an average of 1300 RPM, and you'll see 5 hours on the meter. At least, that's what it seems to me. Am I wrong about this? I keep meaning to actually test it, but always forget.

How it logs hours depends on if its a mechanical or electronic hour meter. Generally speaking older tractors used mechanical hour meters that would base one hour on engine speed, i.e. at rated or PTO rpm. Newer tractors generally have electronic hours meters and are based on how long the ignition switch it on.

 

[kuboman]

You can never over grease a bushing and pin but you can NOT grease them enough.

 

[Dargo]

greasing is so much easier than pounding or pressing out bad pins and bushings. done it too many times to count on large excavators. i'll gladly grease every 10 hours. grease is cheap; pins and bushings arent. neither is my aggravation

Heck, I've made up new words doing such!

LOL, anymore if you hold still too long when I'm walking by, I'm liable to grease you!

 

[newbury]

I think you need to check that. I believe the hour meter starts running when the electric hits it and stops when the electric stops. I'm not betting money on it but I believe that's how it works. I bought a mower one time that had a few hours on it but it had never been used. I think they forgot and left it running when they were servicing it and maybe took a break.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...150221-b7610-hour-meter-tach-revolutions.html
depends on the ride.

 

[have_blue]

I don't remember ever hearing anyone say "Gee, I wish I had greased my loader less often".

 

[Skyco]

I been testing out the green synthenic stuff from TSC on the all of my bushings, bearings since I had the bota. Only time I don't use green grease is on the HST pedal pivot zerk. I use the lighter light duty tan stuff on that. I notice the tan stuff works better to clean out the bushing and prevent stickness. The green stuff just stays there and makes tredle stick and slower response.

I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice this! I've been considering finding some thinner #1 grease instead of the normal thicker #2 just for that dang pedal. Sometimes it returns so slow if I hop off the tractor quick the "no one on seat" switch kicks in killing the motor

 

[Marcussen]

How it logs hours depends on if its a mechanical or electronic hour meter. Generally speaking older tractors used mechanical hour meters that would base one hour on engine speed, i.e. at rated or PTO rpm. Newer tractors generally have electronic hours meters and are based on how long the ignition switch it on.

My L2800 the hour meter register one hour at 2300RPM. It is an RPM counter giving output in hours. Less RPM means tractor time accumulate slower than
real time. It is easy to check just compare clock time with tractor time next time you are on it. This is normal for tractors.