Here's why you grease your loader faithfully.

[Fallon]

I generally grease at the end of the day, unless I've worked until dark.

As far as extra grease oozing at the pins, it stays there till I wash the tractor. I hit excess ooze with the power washer and clean it all off. I don't use any sort of degreaser, 3500PSI is plenty to spray it clean. If it is oozing out, there's enough grease back inside the pins to keep the water out, but I still follow up every wash with a complete greasing of everything. When I grease, I always pump it full until there is a little fresh ooze coming from the pin.

Same, except my 5 to pressure washer doesn't do a great job of washing off the nasty sticky black Molly grease I use. Gets most off, but smears a lot around. Think is around the same PSI. I really want to upgrade to a heated unit like a Hotsy one of these days. They are over a grand used vs $300 for a cheap decent homeowner gas powered unit.

I cleaned & washed my L3200 before selling it. Got most of the worst of the grease & dirt crust off. But a lot returned after promptly greasing it. Personally I'd rather see a greasy tractor than a clean one when buying used
It means the previous owner greased it well. You can tell how well they greased it long term by how sloppy the pins are generally.

 

[fried1765]

Same, except my 5 to pressure washer doesn't do a great job of washing off the nasty sticky black Molly grease I use. Gets most off, but smears a lot around. Think is around the same PSI. I really want to upgrade to a heated unit like a Hotsy one of these days. They are over a grand used vs $300 for a cheap decent homeowner gas powered unit.

I cleaned & washed my L3200 before selling it. Got most of the worst of the grease & dirt crust off. But a lot returned after promptly greasing it. Personally I'd rather see a greasy tractor than a clean one when buying used
It means the previous owner greased it well. You can tell how well they greased it long term by how sloppy the pins are generally.

I have a 40 year old electric Hotsy, with 1000 psi. pressure.

I also have a 3500 psi. cold water gas powered (13HP Honda) unit.

The 3500 psi. gas powered unit does a wonderful job of smearing old grease everywhere.

The 1000 psi. Hotsy (with soap) just gets greasy things CLEAN!!

 

[PILOON]

A grease story.
In my municipality they purchased a loader with a central grease system that probably added s0m3 $3000 to the purchase.
The smart intent was that the operator would push the button and do a complete grease job at the end of his work day.
Sounds good right?
Well the operators decided that this was not in their pay grade as they were 'operators' and not mechanics.
You guessed it.
All the central systems got mysteriously damaged and no longer operational, seems that greasing was not in the union negotiated pay scale.
The loaders were auctioned off at 'giveaway prices' all needing new pins and or bushings.