[AT] Grease

[Skip Cleveland]

This is an interesting subject. The cows would lick all the grease from our 
tractors if left out in the barnyard. They really seemed to like the stuff 
and kept the machinery clean too.
Skip
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Grease


> Bear, your comment about your son tasting the grease reminded me of a dog 
> I
> had when I was a boy.  No... I'm not calling your son a dog.  LOL.  But I
> had a dog that liked grease and oil.  I had to be very careful what I left
> around.  The first time I noticed it I had drained the motor oil out of 
> the
> tractor into a bucket.  He was lapping it up like water and he liked it. 
> So
> I started being careful to put used oil away as soon as I finished 
> draining
> it.  Then I caught him licking wheel bearing grease out of the can while I
> was working on some bearings.  I don't know how much of the stuff he 
> licked
> up and drank when I wasn't looking.  Didn't seem to hurt him.
>
> charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill "Bear" Hood" <mmman at netscape.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 5:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Grease
>
>
>>
>> In '68 I bought a new 15' batwing mower (I wish I could remember the
>> brand, but I can't remember what I had for lunch) and it called for 240 
>> wt
>> gear lube in the 3 gearboxes.  I had to get my Conoco consignee to 
>> special
>> order it and then we only could get it in gallon cans.  I used it in a
>> couple of gearboxes on brush hogs that were leaking on the bottom seals.
>> I also used it in a combine as quick fix and in a JD/Hancock elevating
>> scraper built on the Industrial version of the 820.  I think I still have
>> 3/4 of a gallon in the "stuff" in the barn.  My son  who is now 39, once
>> took him a swig of the foul smelling stuff (sulphur base) and spit it
>> out--he wa about 3 or 4.
>>
>> That batwing was destroyed in a lightning caused fire in a 40 X 100' hay
>> barn--along with a 4020.  The JD was insured, but the mower was not.
>>
>> Bear
>>
>> --- Edchainsaw at aol.com wrote:
>>
>> From: Edchainsaw at aol.com
>> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Grease
>> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:31:20 EDT
>>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 8/12/2008 12:06:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> at-request at lists.antique-tractor.com writes:
>>
>> [AT]  Grease
>> I think  today  the grease is  stiffer  and wouldn't be  as good in
>> gearboxes...   they make  what is called  CORN  PICKER grease  they want
>> us to use now
>> in  the  picker  gearboxes... they say its less tacky  and almost 
>> flows...
>> when warm
>>
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