10 hours greasing help

[jeff9366]

Kubota recommends Extreme Pressure Molly Grease......the brand in not important.

Keep greasing regularly. The "new" grease pushes out some of the "old" grease maintaining your pivots in a low friction mode and your grease on the pivots soft and clean. Old grease will get hard and cease to spread to all areas of the pivots. Old, hard grease will not be a problem as long as you grease regularly.

 

[Danner]

Greasing regularly is one trillion times more important than which grease you use.

 

[dfortier]

Kubota's "Every 10 HR" greasing regiment is quite a burden. I hate getting up in the middle of the night to grease on the 10 HR mark. I've been splitting up the chore with my wife lately, so we alternate and it works out better.

Wrooster

That put a smile on my face

I ended up going with Valvoline.com > Products > Grease Gear Oil > Grease > SynPower® Synthetic Grease I figure it will do nicely and even though it is a good bit than the other stuff its still really cheap insurance.

 

[vrmnthntr]

I also use any type or color grease. Been doing it for 17 years on my little cub cadet mower. Haven't replaced any spindles or bearings.

Right now my color of choice is green.

 

[ryan08]

I like the new color/clear based grease better than the black stuff because it doesn't look such a mess around the pivot points.

 

[mjcountrybumpkin]

Why not just buy the best grease you can? It's super cheap compared to every other lube a tractor uses any way. If you buy the good stuff it tends to deal with moisture and heat (done a experiment in college with a hot plate and misting with water and the cheap stuff- old funny brown color grease-actually mixed with water while hot). We typically get tractor supply red grease. Don't remember exact name but it works
Great for us.

 

[crazyangel]

Lots of opinions on grease. I made my choice after searching a lot of threads here and ended up with Schaeffers 238 Ultra Supreme. Best grease I've ever come across. YMMV.

 

[dfortier]

Why not just buy the best grease you can? It's super cheap compared to every other lube a tractor uses any way. If you buy the good stuff it tends to deal with moisture and heat (done a experiment in college with a hot plate and misting with water and the cheap stuff- old funny brown color grease-actually mixed with water while hot). We typically get tractor supply red grease. Don't remember exact name but it works
Great for us.

That was my thinking, it was still only $8.00 for a tube, rated for extreme pressure, temperature and has the moly compound called for in the book. I intend to follow with the ever 10 hours or very close to it, so depending on how long a tube lasts I may change my tune though lol.

 

[AStanton]

A neighboring farmer turned me on to this red grease from Texas. Looks good with the orange Kubota paint.

 

[TripleR]

Why not just buy the best grease you can? It's super cheap compared to every other lube a tractor uses any way. If you buy the good stuff it tends to deal with moisture and heat (done a experiment in college with a hot plate and misting with water and the cheap stuff- old funny brown color grease-actually mixed with water while hot). We typically get tractor supply red grease. Don't remember exact name but it works
Great for us.

All the farmers in my area buy their grease where get mine, so maybe it is the best; people aren't going to use poor quality grease on their 100-200K equipment long.