[AT] Grease

[charlie hill]

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" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
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:
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> 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
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> In a message dated 8/12/2008 12:06:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> at-request at lists.antique-tractor.com writes:
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> [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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