red grease an overkill for everydays greasong on heavy equipment

[spruce Deere]

I use power punch, chevron ultra duty, and tried some sort of amsoil red sythetic grease once. Right now I got some valvoline crimson in the 'gun I got for a good deal. All grease is of the NGLI no.2 grade.

Even threw my jobber, they are in the 4-5 bucks a tube range usually.

 

[Ken45101]

Any grease is better then no grease and the most expensive grease in the world won't make up for lack of proper maintenance.

Very true.

when I was in construction we used the cheapest we could find but we greased everything once or twice daily without exception. Never had a pin or bushing wear so much that it rattled or needed replacement.

That cheap grease is expensive if you have to take the time to grease everything twice a day. Like I said earlier, Deere recommends 50 hours for the skid steer with their $4 grease. While I wouldn't suggest going that long, when an extra couple of bucks per tube saves 10-15 minutes of work, that's an economical deal IMO.

Ken

 

[s219]

I got a 35 lb pail of the Kubota polyurea grease (blue-green color). I had been using JD moly grease, but it was too **** messy -- stained everything in sight. I figure if Kubota ships their equipment with the blue stuff, it must be good enough.

 

[Soundguy]

imho.. the cheap non ep grease just isn't very usefull unless you are greasing grey iron bearings and just pushing dirt out.. the minimum I'd ever buy is the mild ep... at work we are all on the red. at home I have a few different, depending on application... ( including that cheap amber for disc bearings. ) Otherwise I'm using mostly a brown/black moly.. though have a few applications where i'm using a nlgi 0/00 ep polyurea grease.. ie.. some steering boxes and small gearboxes setup for grease.. etc..

 

[sdkubota]

Very true.



That cheap grease is expensive if you have to take the time to grease everything twice a day. Like I said earlier, Deere recommends 50 hours for the skid steer with their $4 grease. While I wouldn't suggest going that long, when an extra couple of bucks per tube saves 10-15 minutes of work, that's an economical deal IMO.

Ken

Normally it was the operators job to grease everything while the equipment warmed up during the initial starting. Most equipment worked in pretty harse environments with lots of dirt blowing etc. I can tell you every pivot point looked disgusting and was covered in a grease coating. There is'nt any grease made that will hold on and protect a joint for 50 hours of continual usage in my opinion. In fact I still don't think daily is excessive.

 

[dschuffert]

I use Amsoil Synthetic Polymeric Off-Road grease - I have been very happy with it: AMSOIL Synthetic Polymeric Off-Road Grease - NLGI #2

 

[Soundguy]

Normally it was the operators job to grease everything while the equipment warmed up during the initial starting. Most equipment worked in pretty harse environments with lots of dirt blowing etc. I can tell you every pivot point looked disgusting and was covered in a grease coating. There is'nt any grease made that will hold on and protect a joint for 50 hours of continual usage in my opinion. In fact I still don't think daily is excessive.

sealed joints do pretty good...

 

[Foxtrot08]

Most construction/heavy duty equipment recommends an 8 to 12 hour grease period, unless you're working in wet conditions. Which, in case you change grease and also change your grease times.

Auto greasers are set differently - normally because they use a lighter weight grease - so they grease anywhere from every hour, to two hours.

'Sealed' joints, are just that - sealed until broken. I can see JD recommending 50 hours on some spots, like steering controls. But not 50 hours on the bucket pins.

 

[schmism]

Auto greasers are set differently - normally because they use a lighter weight grease - so they grease anywhere from every hour, to two hours.

Was asked to help trouble shoot the autolube system on the new CAT motor graders here at work just today! there is software portion that drives the system, in timming, you can set the duration of the greasing (usually 1-2 min) and how long an interval usually 2 hrs.

System uses standard CAT grease at a pressure of +-2600PSI. (we were having an issue of getting the system up to proper pressure spec, without such not all joints were receiving the same/right amount of grease.)

 

[spruce Deere]

Boy, every 50 hours...... sealed pivot and oscillation joints on a JD 648g-II skidder I operate on a daily basis call for every ten hours grease, regardless of use. other non-sealed pins, bushings on grapple and booms 8 hours. Everything gets greased at 8 hours on the skidder.

On my 790 and all implements I grease everything before doing work. Loader/bucket pins befor loader'n tiller bearing and u-joints befor till'n and such.

U-joints, tie rods and such on vehicles every oil change, 3000 miles.

Not knocking deere but Ya do know deere sells replacement parts, power for the 50 hour grease brag.

Grease is cheap insurance, but everything will eventually wear. Prolong it with regular grease maintenance.

Everyone knows pay little now or pay mountains later.

All the grease I use on ALL my equipment and vehicles is EP rated NGLI 2. Grease brand not as important as those two things to me