[AT] Grease

Skip Cleveland skipcleveland at bellsouth.net
Tue Aug 19 19:25:09 PDT 2008


You bet. They were Guernsey cows, Golden Guernsey milk.
Well, there was an Airshire or two mixned in there but, they didn't give 
much milk, just trouble, as I can remember.
DEXTA er, Skip



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "CEE VILL" <cvee60 at hotmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Grease


>
> 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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