[AT] Grease

[CEE VILL]

Skip,

Do you think licking bearing grease raised the butter fat in the milk??  (grin)

Charlie V.

> From: skipcleveland at bellsouth.net
> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:24:08 -0400
> Subject: Re: [AT] Grease
> 
> 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" 
> > <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:
> >>
> >> 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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