Grease, talk

[Kondoge]

Well we all grease our old fords, I’m curious what kinda grease everybody uses for their fords various different grease spots and what kinda grease guns y’all use. I’ll start, I have an oil key red gun Vf2 and I use multipurpose grease for pretty much all the lil nips the tractor has. I do need to get some bearing grease for the front wheel bearings

 

[m16ty]

Get you a quality battery powered grease gun. The easier you can make it to grease stuff the more often you will do it.
I have a Milwaukee, mainly because my other tools are Milwaukee. I had a cheap Chinese one from TSC and the batteries gave out fairly quick and it didn’t pump all that well, I wouldn’t get one of those.

 

[OldBlue61]

I have a pistol-grip Carbyne grease gun I got from that jungle place a few years ago that's been great. Sturdy and well made. I usually use Lucas green X-Tra Heavy Duty grease in pretty much all my stuff.

 

[Mad Farmer]

I'm not too fussy about grease for zerks on the old tractors, more important to grease regularly. Not cheap crap but stock up on decent stuff when on sale.

The "good" grease is for the car/truck wheel bearings and such. The front ends use the same grease as the tractors, I grease them at least twice a year/oil change times.

I have two old guns, one a lever the other a pistol grip (not a firearm joke), with long flexible hoses.

 

[Jeff Hamilton]

I'll throw out a good review of the Lock and Lube device. Makes it really easy to get your grease gun on the zerk then back off.

 

[Kondoge]

Honestly I literally love greasing I just find it fun I guess

 

[G1000VISTA]

Milwuakee gun, red and tacky grease for everything from bearings to tie rods to equipment.

 

[soupkid]

Makita 18v greese gun.
Full synthetic low temp grease

 

[deere4040]

Have several pistol grip guns. 2 are JD. The other is the yellow Lock and Lube. No battery operated guns for me. Had one and went back to hand pump. Wasted to much grease. Pumped faster than I could count. When it was getting low on power was the only time I enjoyed it.

TRC 880 C&C is the only grease known on this farm for everything. Not sure how long but longer than I been alive My best guess 60 plus years years

 

[m16ty]

Honestly I literally love greasing I just find it fun I guess

You must be the only one. I seem to manage to get grease all over me before I’m done.

 

[m16ty]

I'll throw out a good review of the Lock and Lube device. Makes it really easy to get your grease gun on the zerk then back off.

I’ve thought about one of those. Only issue I see is getting it onto some of the fittings in tight spots.

 

[G1000VISTA]

I’ve thought about one of those. Only issue I see is getting it onto some of the fittings in tight spots.

That and sometimes they'll lock on and won't come off for nothing!

 

[Mad Farmer]

One other thought. Marine grease for things like tractor/trailer bearings.

 

[Dan]

On bearings I use the good red stuff as you don't/can't get to those regularly. Every thing else gets black molly - well, except the steering box which gets cornhead grease. Good grease is better, frequent greasing with any decent grease is best.

 

[showcrop]

I have to

Get you a quality battery powered grease gun. The easier you can make it to grease stuff the more often you will do it.
I have a Milwaukee, mainly because my other tools are Milwaukee. I had a cheap Chinese one from TSC and the batteries gave out fairly quick and it didn’t pump all that well, I wouldn’t get one of those.

I have to agree. I bought a Lincoln in 2005, mainly to be able to hold the gun trigger in one hand and the hose end in the other. It has held up very well. It survived getting run over by my truck, and being in the tractor bucket when scooping up a bucket of gravel.

 

[504]

Red and tacky grease and a Hercules gun from harbor freight. I only wish I had bought one twenty years ago.

 

[m16ty]

Have several pistol grip guns. 2 are JD. The other is the yellow Lock and Lube. No battery operated guns for me. Had one and went back to hand pump. Wasted to much grease. Pumped faster than I could count. When it was getting low on power was the only time I enjoyed it.

TRC 880 C&C is the only grease known on this farm for everything. Not sure how long but longer than I been alive My best guess 60 plus years years

The Milwaukee battery gun has a high and low setting. It also has a thing where you can set the number of pumps per application of the trigger.
I always just run it on high and don’t use the pump limit setting. I don’t worry about wasting grease too much, I’d rather use too much than not enough. I usually hold the trigger until I see it squeezing out of the joint.

 

[m16ty]

On bearings I use the good red stuff as you don't/can't get to those regularly. Every thing else gets black molly - well, except the steering box which gets cornhead grease. Good grease is better, frequent greasing with any decent grease is best.

I had one of the wing gearboxes on my 15’ Woods cutter that started to leak around the stump jumper. I filled it with JD corn head grease to try to stop the leak. I was worried the corn head grease wouldn’t work well, but after running it and checking the gearbox with a temp gun everything was fine. The gearbox with corn head grease actually runs cooler than the gearbox on the other wing that still has gear oil in it.

 

[deere4040]

The Milwaukee battery gun has a high and low setting. It also has a thing where you can set the number of pumps per application of the trigger.
I always just run it on high and don’t use the pump limit setting. I don’t worry about wasting grease too much, I’d rather use too much than not enough. I usually hold the trigger until I see it squeezing out of the joint.

Depends on what I'm greasing. If knotters I only want one pump per fitting. Excess grease in that area might get on twine. PTO universals I want to hear them pop a couple times. With battery I would be 2-3 pumps past which then threw the excess grease around. To each their own I just found it was easier to go back to multiple grease guns then dealing with batteries.

 

[m16ty]

Depends on what I'm greasing. If knotters I only want one pump per fitting. Excess grease in that area might get on twine. PTO universals I want to hear them pop a couple times. With battery I would be 2-3 pumps past which then threw the excess grease around. To each their own I just found it was easier to go back to multiple grease guns then dealing with batteries.

Yeah, knotters don’t take much, I still like to see a little grease squeeze out though.