How often do you powerwash your equipment

[WilliamBos]

You can get synthetic grease that will be close to the same colour.

 

[Short Game]

I inherited a case and a half of AmsOil's bright red grease with my yellow Cub Cadet. Now I use it on my blue LS. The Fashion Police should show up any time now

 

[5030]

They can come down on both of us.......

I hate oil and grease threads with a passion but I will confess (as well) that I use Mobil Synthetic Fleet Grease and it's ORANGE, not red.

However, my disclaimer is, I'm not sure if it's availabe in less than drum quantity. I've never seen it in tubes. I buy mine in 150 pound drums. I believe you can get it in 50 pound plastic pails but again, not sure.

...yes, I use a lot of grease and yes, like everything else, grease is much cheaper in quantity.

 

[PapaPerk]

We have never used our pressure washer on any of our equipment. We use compressed air or leaf blower and then maybe a garden hose.

I never used a pressure washer on my motorcycles either, just soap and elbow grease.

I may not be doing it right, but we have some pretty old stuff still running fine.

I gave up working with cows many years ago, so that may be a different thing.

I agree. Not a fan of pressure washers for machines. Garden hose is as much as mine sees.. and then I'm careful to drive it off and use leaf blower on it.

The dirt is far less destructive than water getting pushed into the electrical connectors and bearings.

With that being said I do like to keep my equipment clean so I blow it off with a leaf blower and hand wash it occasionally. :laughing:

 

[PapaPerk]

Remember Fish, rust never sleeps and corrosion is rust's brother.

My air compressor will blow the socks off Obama.....

LOL! You guys can involve Obama in anything! LOL!

 

[PapaPerk]

I'm going to make a confession.

On my last tractor I used this dirty black looking grease with Moly because I researched and found it was good good stuff as far as grease goes. Man did it make the tractor look ugly.

I do like a pretty looking tractor. It does not have to be clean but that black stuff was bad looking! I think I'm going to try to find grease that matches my tractor Any ideas? Really I think that so long as I grease it often and grease it well it is unlikely to matter what I use so long as it is compatible. I think my dealer put some blue stuff when he greased up the mower.

All grease will get black once dirt and crude get into to. I'd just wipe it off occasionally...

 

[Willl]

Have never needed the pressure washer for the tractor, just the regular garden hose with a good nozzle.

And there aint no way it's getting parked in the shop with doo on it.

 

[Short Game]

I was **** about keeping my first bike (my beautiful orange, black, and lots of extra chrome, '64 BSA Lightning Rocket) clean. I was he same way with the only new car I ever had (a '68 Camaro). But I have gotten over it.

 

[20 20]

Power washing is a bad idea.




Power washing is a bad idea.
I just greased the BH on my BX23 and was suprised at the water that was pushed out of the fittings and all I had done was let the hoe stick out of the garage door and it rained lightly a couple of times .
After seeing this I decided no power washing for me.

I will completely disagree with your opinion and I'll explain why. Power washing is not "BAD" as some of you keep suggesting as long as it is done proper. I power wash, then do maintenance grease, oil, check bolts etc..... I will guarntee there is NOTHING wrong with ANY of my equipment, except maybe age. Once done it goes undercover until used again.

I'll take a used well taken care of machine any day before I'll buy one covered in muck possibly hiding some serious malfunction.

 

[20 20]

I have to laugh when I read some of the say "no" to power washing posts. I use a shovel on my dozer/excavator{and sometimes even tractor} to get the big chunks of muck out but, there is no way in h311 that a garden hose would even come close to getting the muck out of the tracks etc..... I sure would not want to leave the dirt{containing sand, rocks, and other abrasive materials} on the undercarage just eating away at the rollers etc...

With my opinion out here, I do understand why some are afraid of high pressure water. I quess it is kind of like owning a motorcycle/car/truck, you may understand it will go 100+mph but I'm sure most would not push the petal to the floor everytime they went for a ride. What I'm writng is, there are proper ways of doing things and there are just plain crazy ways of doing things. Power washers are not monsters people are:laughing: Or maybe I should have wrote, power washers do not kill equipment the person pulling the trigger does :laughing: