10 hour grease job question

[nybirdman]

Question posted by a newbie;(not me)...…. my manual states to grease my tractor every ten hours;is this really necessary ,I am getting tired of waking up at 2:00 a.m. to grease my tractor.

 

[MapleLeafFarmer]

Question posted by a newbie;(not me)...…. my manual states to grease my tractor every ten hours;is this really necessary ,I am getting tired of waking up at 2:00 a.m. to grease my tractor.

tired yes.... but at least cheaper than changing engine oil every 2 days (every 50 hours) and hydro oil 2x per month (at 400 hours) at this rate I will be broke by spring. (haha)

 

[5030]

I don't much care what 'vehicle' you use to apply grease with, your choice and mine probably differ. anyway.

On grease, anything but clay based grease because cheap clay based grease will harden in the Alemite (Zerk) fittings, rendering them inoperative after some use.

One thing to keep on mind with Kubota tractors (and I suspect others as well) is, Kubota uses steel to steel bushings and pins so a boundary layer of high pressure grease (EP) is always necessary. Reason being is... Kubota don't offer replacement bushings for the loaders, only replacement pins and those are expensive. If you don't keep the joints adequately lubricated and metal to metal wear takes place. The ONLY avenue of correction is to line bore the welded in steel bushings and machine weld in inserts to return the joint to tightness. Much better to keep them well lubricated, especially if you don't have the machine tools to line bore the loader weldments when ther get wallowed out and they will. I'm dealing with that right now on a used Kubota that the owner didn't grease regularly.

I think 10 hours is a good bench mark unless you don't use the loader very much but if you don't, you still risk the chance the pins will seize in the bores and that isn't good either.

 

[buck12]

I guess we all have found what works for us. My go to grease gun is a pistol grip with rigid pipe. A couple fittings such as one of the fittings on my lawn mower deck require the grease gun with a flexible hose which also happens to be a lever style. To me the rigid pipe and pistol grip making greasing both tractors a quick job.

 

[ovrszd]

I am with you on this one Richard, yes, pistol grip and flex hose for me. i still have enough grip strength to work the pistol grip gun. When I don't, I guess I will buy an electric one!.

I originally bought the electric gun for greasing the grader. Takes a minimum of one tube per time. Now I rarely use the manual guns. Yep, lazy....

I will say this, you will go thru considerable more grease with the electric gun.

 

[k0ua]

I gotcha I知 going to look into the Milwaukee, has anyone used the ryobi one I have a bunch a batteries for that just don稚 know anyone that used it yet?

I didn't know they had one. I need to look into that as I am kind of locked into Ryobi. For when I get "old" you understand. Still squeezing.. for now

 

[k0ua]

Well, Ryobi has one alright. Here is the home depot page. $119 bare tool.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-1...ickid=z3FUJ-xsfxyOU6xwUx0Mo3cmUkny2h1UKVEkSc0

 

[oldballs]

I'm still happy with my very old pistol grip model that has an 18" hose. The flexibility is necessary with getting into hard to reach zerks, especially on a MMM.. It ain't my favorite chore however. The FEL has to be raised to get at some of its zerks.
Cheers,
Mike

 

[bridge4]

I got the dewalt for $149


Used it a few hours ago, got the tractor and blower done in about 5 minutes. Really like it compared to a regular non-electric. This is one area I neglected in my brief ownership and you could see the difference putting all the grease in.

Will certainly keep up on it now.

 

[5030]

Said in my previous post I probably grease my units differently than most people (on here) and I do. I have an air greaser on a 150 foot high pressure grease hose coupled to a 150 pound open head drum of synthetic grease. I don't like changing grease tubes and I don't like fiddling with bulk fill guns plus, bulk grease is less expensive and I run about a year on a drum, greasing all the farm equipment and my pickup truck. No mess, no greasy hands and no tubes in the trash either.

No need for a battery powered grease gun or a lever or pistol grip gun. The hose is on a self retracting reel.