Combines Combine Grease

[GreaTOne_65]

The choice of grease, is a tough one. I can tell you why I buy the high priced spread.lOl! I have a White plow with the automatic resets. Every year when we got ready to use it the pivots on the shanks would not take grease, the only way to lossen them was to run the nuts off, and drive the pins out until they would take grease then put them back together again. On a 10 bottom plow, it was quite time consuming, when 4-5 would have to be serviced. One day after going through them, my son suggested using a better grease. Sometimes it's hard for Dad to admit the kid was right, but he was right, the frozen zerks have all but disapeared. No more cheap grease around here! Just my .05's worth DCW SCMI.

 

[Tom_Russell]

What brand grease has worked well for youIJ What type is itIJ Thanks for your input.

 

[R_O_M]

As an ad says," oils ain't oils". Different applications,different greases. For a period, we used a molybdenum based grease in everything and had constant bearing failures. Moly grease is for pins and bushes in constant use and will set hard if not used regularly. A no,no in ball _ roller bearings as it coats the balls_rollers,takes up clearances, runs hot and fails. Implement wheel bearings now have a very flowable grease, almost an oil. No further wheel bearing problems. A local manufacturer of heavy duty rotary disc mowers had constant bearing failures on the vertical shafts; did a lot of field tests, and found a grease that cured the high speed bearing problem. We now use that brand and specification and are quite happy with it. It ain't cheap for the grease but its very cheap for the pocket and very good for the blood pressure.

 

[cornchopper]

On the advice of an old time local machinist, I switched to lubriplate No. 1200-2 multi-purpose grease. I tried it and I like it. Went from greasing the sicklehead on my MacDon every 5 hours to twenty hours. It is a white grease that seems to hold up very well. I got my neighbor to try it on his square balers and he says that he uses about a third as much grease as he used to. Cost is about $2.70 a tube. As a bonus it doesn't stain your clothes if you accidently get some on you.

 

[R_O_M]

Our chain lube was in plain tins, marked WEAR PRUF GRAPHITED CHAIN lUBE. The best chain lube we ever found out of a not very good lot. Smelt like honey! Maybe it was! No longer available. Wheel bearing use; flowable grease _ very thick oil; BP. FG-OOP. I think it is a cable grease but it sure works for implement wheel bearings. General use; Wynns Ultra Supreme, lithium based soap plus IJ! About as good as we have found so far but there are probably better ones out there. We are looking for opinions.

 

[Burbert]

Thanks guys for your opinions. They vary to say the least, but I guess whatever works for you, use it! Plse check the tips site. I am making an addition there, combine cleanup, which may save all some time and effort in future.