Bulk Grease gun?

[SamV]

Group,

I have been think about getting a bulk grease gun but not sure if it is worth it or not.? I have a small farm. about 100 acres and 4 tractors, hay equipment , skid steer , excavator. etc. I go thru a lot of grease. Would it be worth the expense of getting one? Also air driven or hand pump? Thanks for your imput.
Sam

 

[Ray,IN]

Air-driven for sure; a hand pump would be tedious to use IMO. I have my-now unused, 5G pail Aro brand grease gun W/ 5' hose, in the garage. It sure was convenient when greasing farm equipment. I'd sell it if interested. I'm located in S. Indiana.

 

[Duner Wi]

Here is my kind of bulk grease gun. I pump out of 5 gallon pail into grease gun. I marked in green the fitting. What I like is refilling when 75-90 % empty I don't have to bleed air to get grease moving. The manual gun I purchased at Ford tractor dealer over 50 years ago.

 

[rrlund]

Trouble is, you either have to take the implement to the greaser or haul the heavy thing around. Do what you want, but I've got a DeWalt cordless electric that uses tubes. It has quite a long hose on it. Pretty handy, more portable than air powered.

 

[moresmoke]

If buying by the pail is worth it, I would do as Duner suggested and get a setup to fill hand guns. Preferably a cordless.

 

[Fixingfarmer]

We had one at the truck shop I worked at that would pump drums it was a pain in the buns roll around on an appliance cart.

about all we would use it for was 5th wheel plates before the poly plates became popular I would not want to use it now in a pinch it would get used on some caterpillar equipment but they have a lot of remote grease banks or an auto luber so you usually only had to move it twice per machine it did make it handy filling the auto luber greasers that took a half pail bringing back memories.

For the amount you are talking I’d never consider it. I probably wouldn’t consider investing in a power greaser of any kind

 

[MarkB_MI]

No.

 

[Harold Hubbard]

My air operated grease gun sits in the back room with a bunch of other unused stuff. As others said, unhandy to roll around, especially outside, and the hose was always a little bit too short. I had the added problem that the follow plate in the barrel wasn’t the correct one, and the pump would start pulling air around it when the barrel was still partly full. I finally gave up and went back to a manual gun and cartridges. I have cut way back on machinery use, no haying, and the manual gun works just fine.

One more thing, if you still haven’t gotten a Lock-N-Lube or something similar, you don’t know what you’re missing.

 

[Destroked 450]

Air-driven for sure; a hand pump would be tedious to use IMO. I have my-now unused, 5G pail Aro brand grease gun W/ 5' hose, in the garage. It sure was convenient when greasing farm equipment. I'd sell it if interested. I'm located in S. Indiana.
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Where at in S Indiana and how much
I’ve got 4 55 gallon drums of bulk grease plus some smaller drums all given to me
I was looking to setup a bulk pump to refill my Dewalt battery powered grease gun
I’d like to use up this free grease instead of buying tubes

 

[showcrop]

Here is my kind of bulk grease gun. I pump out of 5 gallon pail into grease gun. I marked in green the fitting. What I like is refilling when 75-90 % empty I don't have to bleed air to get grease moving. The manual gun I purchased at Ford tractor dealer over 50 years ago.
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I wish I had known about that twenty years ago! I still have the Lincoln gun but not the truck. The cartridge would always run out just as I was greasing a U-joint between the two axles.

 

[Hobo,NC]

I always dreaded fighting a roll around drum of grease gun hose. I would go cordless with one of these.

https://www.milwaukeetool.com/products/details/m18-grease-gun-400g-clear-barrel/49-16-2646

 

[wh]

Hand held all the way now. Have a battery powered one in the shop and a handheld in the equipment shed and the barn. Don’t have to go far when I need a grease gun. Used the one below for many years. Decided to clean it up and put it on the shelve last winter. Also have one that sits on top of a 35 lb bucket of grease that you pull up on a T handle and can grease several fittings before needing to pull it back up. Going to redo it next for display.

 

[Ray,IN]

Where at in S Indiana and how much
I’ve got 4 55 gallon drums of bulk grease plus some smaller drums all given to me
I was looking to setup a bulk pump to refill my Dewalt battery powered grease gun
I’d like to use up this free grease instead of buying tubes

DM sent

 

[Mule Meat]

If going bulk. Go air.

Hand pumping takes two people for a lot of jobs. One to pump while the other is under or on a piece of equipment holding the hose on the fittings. Yes they make lock on fittings. But that lock on fitting will not tell you that the universal joint or king pin has enough grease until you blow out the seals and see grease dropping on the floor.

 

[Texasmark]

Group,

I have been think about getting a bulk grease gun but not sure if it is worth it or not.? I have a small farm. about 100 acres and 4 tractors, hay equipment , skid steer , excavator. etc. I go thru a lot of grease. Would it be worth the expense of getting one? Also air driven or hand pump? Thanks for your imput.
Sam

I bought a tub of grease and a pump with hose that fit the top of the container for what I thought would be big, grease consuming jobs......it's been sitting under a work bench for decades, after solving the original problem, unused.