How may tubes of grease do you go through greasing at 50h intervals?

[RickB]

My tractor stickers and manual says to grease every 10 hours. I grease my machines every fill up which is approximately 10-12 hours. Easier to keep track that way. I buy grease in 5 gallon pails and use an air greaser. Cartridges suck IMHO, messy and wasteful.

You cant over grease - it just gets wasted and ends up on the ground. You can UNDER grease which will be detrimental to the life expectancy of your machine. 50 hour grease intervals does not sound reasonable.

Pins and bushings for the most part cannot be overgreased. Ball and roller bearings with seals surely can.

 

[mangler]

Pins and bushings for the most part cannot be overgreased. Ball and roller bearings with seals surely can.

Do the bearings on implements (flail mower, rotary cutter, tiller) usually have seals? Any sealed bearings on the CUTs themselves? Just trying to figured out what the pin/bearing greasing will be. If I have to do have the greasing with a manual gun anyway not to blow out the seals, then the pneumatic option seems less attractive.

 

[Peter 315]

Do the bearings on implements (flail mower, rotary cutter, tiller) usually have seals? Any sealed bearings on the CUTs themselves? Just trying to figured out what the pin/bearing greasing will be. If I have to do have the greasing with a manual gun anyway not to blow out the seals, then the pneumatic option seems less attractive.

On something with seals I just give it one pump every time I use it.....:2cents:................................ Most of the time....

 

[mangler]

For those interested lock 'n lube makes grease guns and also a mechasnical bulk foot-pump see this link: Grease Guns | LockNLube - LOCKNLUBE

I really like the foot pedal G. Gun, looks like a no mess bulk loaded lifetime grease apparatus. But the cost...249USD is a lot of coin for a manual gun. I would likely have to Jerry Rig something to make it electric, with a remote, for those pesky under the tractor fittings.

This looks interesting, although it seems you have to watch the bucket welds closely (one report of leaks!) https://www.amazon.com/Mophorn-Grease-Pump-Compressed-Lubrication/dp/B07FMD93QR/ref=sr_1_10?crid=15CH0UFLUMGH6&dchild=1&keywords=grease+pump&qid=1586100451&sprefix=grease+%2Caps%2C182&sr=8-10
Same principal, but pneumatic with a loooong hose. Also no mess if the off shore welds are done properly

 

[Peter 315]

I really like the foot pedal G. Gun, looks like a no mess bulk loaded lifetime grease apparatus. But the cost...249USD is a lot of coin for a manual gun. I would likely have to Jerry Rig something to make it electric, with a remote, for those pesky under the tractor fittings.

This looks interesting, although it seems you have to watch the bucket welds closely (one report of leaks!) https://www.amazon.com/Mophorn-Grease-Pump-Compressed-Lubrication/dp/B07FMD93QR/ref=sr_1_10?crid=15CH0UFLUMGH6&dchild=1&keywords=grease+pump&qid=1586100451&sprefix=grease+%2Caps%2C182&sr=8-10
Same principal, but pneumatic with a loooong hose. Also no mess if the off shore welds are done properly

WOW big project to grease one tractor I grease a tri axle dump and a Komatsu loader wa180 with a lever hand gun.......... The loader everyday 5 days a week.....

 

[Citydude]

I probably go through a tube and a half a year. One tube greasing the tractor the other 1/2 tube on my clothes.

 

[RickB]

WOW big project to grease one tractor I grease a tri axle dump and a Komatsu loader wa180 with a lever hand gun.......... The loader everyday 5 days a week.....

Exactly.

 

[mangler]

WOW big project to grease one tractor I grease a tri axle dump and a Komatsu loader wa180 with a lever hand gun.......... The loader everyday 5 days a week.....

Sometimes getting a cool new tool IS the project It seems with that much greasing you could save some time with a pneumatic or battery powered gun.

 

[Peter 315]

Sometimes getting a cool new tool IS the project It seems with that much greasing you could save some time with a pneumatic or battery powered gun.

I get paid by the hour.............. And we have 2 battery guns like I said before I'm old school

 

[LouNY]

Many decades ago my father got grease in the 35-50# pails, and we would fill grease guns from them.
Some times we had a pump to load the grease guns with, much of the time you cleaned the grease gun unscrewed the end and used the rod to pull the grease using suction into the grease gun.
what a filthy dirty gritty grimy mess that always ended up being.
Then especially when it was cold out the grease gun would only be 1/2 filled and air pockets in the balance, having to loosen the end and try and purge the grease out,
way to many years of that crap.
Much working equipment gets greased every day, and some fittings may even be gotten a few times a day if experience has shown the need to do so.
The farm gets tubes of grease by the case and sometimes multiple cases. The grease guns work better, the grease does not get contaminated, air pockets and purging are mostly a thing of the past. It is quick, easy and clean to change out a tube. There will be times whenwe may go thru a couple of tubes per day. Many times air is not available where we are greasing and prepping equipment for the day. As far as the foot operated ones to many fittings are positioned were having to get a foot onto that pedal would be a contortionist joy.

So you boys go with the big buckets and pails, I'm for the tubes even when I'm using my pneumatic grease gun.
I may get a battery gun sometime, I keep looking but that's a lot of money to save very little work or time.