How often to grease?

[vabiker23518]

I'd think you'd be safe following the guidance in your manual. That said, I try to grease mine after each use, as it only gets used an average of once a month (it's at my county cabin) when I'm working on keeping trails open or working on food plots. I like to pump until I see movement of the old grease for the non-sealed points. Sealed points just get 2 pumps.

 

[ron45]

How about some names for the desirable tacking agents mentioned. I would be good to know what to look for on the tube. I have one that says sticky on it. That is not a claim I'd trust. It may be true but I'd rather have a name.... someone mentioned moly .... moly who? molybdenum? don't know the spelling.

Ron

 

[sixdogs]

There are two or three basis kinds of grease. The most common, and least expensive is lithium based. Good grease. Next is lithium with molybdenum (powdered metal) added to it. It's better, or best for many people and is more expensive than lithium. Then there is a third option that is gaining momentum. It's polyurea grease which is thicker and stickier. It is referred to by,Deere as a best grease and is the most expensive. I like it because it stays put on my loader bucker bucket and makes it less noisy. It's very popular with the industrial crowd I am told.

Equally important to the type of grease is the suitability rating it gets and that's printed on the tube.

Any of the grease is fine for most of us. Oh, the addition of "moly" to the middle grease makes it particularly nasty from a tracking and removal standpoint of clothes and hands. One little bit will ruin a couch or carpet and it is very difficult to remove from things. The grease may come out but the stain remains. My preferred grease is now Deere polyurea and there are threads around on this.



Here's a more complete description from Deere, except it's in reverse order with the "best" first. There are other specialty greases listed but ignore them for now.
John Deere Grease JohnDeere.com


Here are grease ratings but 99 percent of us will never need to know other than for conversational purpose.
http://lubromation.com/pdf/CONSISTENCYGRADES.pdf

 

[newbury]

There are two or three basis kinds of grease. <snip>

On this note are there "rules" against mixing different greases?

 

[sixdogs]

On this note are there "rules" against mixing different greases?

The only real concern appears to be the mixing of certain type of polyurea greases with others. Deere grease is not that kind. I am told the other common greases mix with no problem. I wondered about these questions myself and actually called a Deere engineer in Moline that knows grease and got the above answers .

There are other types of polyurea greases that will not mix so I just steer clear of them and keep it simple. I use Deere grease because it's easy and I know they will sell the best. I use polyurea on pins like loaders and lot of other things. It also doesn't track into the house as much as others. I use the lith-moly for many bearings and other things. The only exception is that I use "Red and Tacky", or whatever it's called for wheel bearings because it's easy to remember and I don't mix wheel bearing greases.

 

[nikerret]

My understanding is Kubota lists the Moly as better than the Polyurea. I got their poly, not knowing the difference, then, read the manual that said to use the moly. The poly that mixes friendly is the shear stable, which is what the Kubota poly is.

 

[sixdogs]

My understanding is Kubota lists the Moly as better than the Polyurea. I got their poly, not knowing the difference, then, read the manual that said to use the moly. The poly that mixes friendly is the shear stable, which is what the Kubota poly is.

Does the manual mention the poly at all? Widespread use of poly is fairly recent so maybe the manual is older?

 

[JMER817]

There are two or three basis kinds of grease. The most common, and least expensive is lithium based. Good grease. Next is lithium with molybdenum (powdered metal) added to it. It's better, or best for many people and is more expensive than lithium. Then there is a third option that is gaining momentum. It's polyurea grease which is thicker and stickier. It is referred to by,Deere as a best grease and is the most expensive. I like it because it stays put on my loader bucker bucket and makes it less noisy. It's very popular with the industrial crowd I am told. Equally important to the type of grease is the suitability rating it gets and that's printed on the tube. Any of the grease is fine for most of us. Oh, the addition of "moly" to the middle grease makes it particularly nasty from a tracking and removal standpoint of clothes and hands. One little bit will ruin a couch or carpet and it is very difficult to remove from things. The grease may come out but the stain remains. My preferred grease is now Deere polyurea and there are threads around on this. Here's a more complete description from Deere, except it's in reverse order with the "best" first. There are other specialty greases listed but ignore them for now. John Deere Grease JohnDeere.com Here are grease ratings but 99 percent of us will never need to know other than for conversational purpose. http://lubromation.com/pdf/CONSISTENCYGRADES.pdf

I started using this grease for everything including my vehicles