10 hour grease job question

[bridge4]

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.

That's great. But not realistic for most of us.

Wheres the pics!

 

[ovrszd]

I'd have grease all over my hose in the first five minutes.

 

[JK22]

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.

That’s my dream setup... pictures required when bragging!

 

[5030]

That's great. But not realistic for most of us.

Wheres the pics!

Ads a rule I don't take pictures. None needed anyway.

 

[5030]

I'd have grease all over my hose in the first five minutes.

Why it's on a retractable reel. No greasy mess. I do wipe the hose off infrequently.

 

[ovrszd]

Why it's on a retractable reel. No greasy mess. I do wipe the hose off infrequently.

The retractable reel doesn't keep the hose off the implements or the ground.

 

[PILOON]

I was wanting an electric and watching sales when a friend offered me his for $25.00!
OK, not the most common model as it is a Lincoln but he had new battery and the charger which was included.

I did know the batteries were the problem part as they are rare and costly but I knew his was so new that I had only had but one charge cycle.
Besides I can always make up a replacement set as long as I have the case.
OK, NiCads and not lithium but I know to run them flat B4 charging and not at 1/2 charge as that develops a memory and the battery gets lazy.

 

[ramman666]

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.

Thank you I appreciate that, I was unaware of the steel to steel. Feedback like this does help me so thanks for taking the time.

 

[ramman666]

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

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

I seen that, that’s why I was asking between working 12-16 hours a day and then taking care of the little guy sometimes I don’t feel like doing 3 more hours of work. That’s pushing me to electric.

 

[jgedmond]

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.

I use a Lincoln pneumatic cartridge gun with 150 psi compressor and retracting hose reel. The Lincoln has much better seals than you typical manual lever gun, so very little mess. I go through about a dozen cartridges per year or about 10 lbs per year. Works great for me.