[AT] [Spam] Re:Bush hog gear grease

[Herb Metz]

Just found it; but still would appreciate opinions on my intended use.
Herb

-----Original Message----- 
From: Cecil R Bearden
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 7:59 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] [Spam] Re:Bush hog gear grease

Charlie:
I use Mystic central lube grease in gearboxes.   Sometimes called 00
grease.  It is also packaged in quart bottles with a nozzle.   It is
flowable, yet does not just run out of a bad seal.  The supplier I get
it from supplies oil and grease to my county.  He used to sell them
about 5 barrels of gear oil each summer for bush hogs.   He suggested
they try the central lube, and the grease sales slowed down to one
barrel of central lube a year.   They change the grease in their
gearboxes each year.

I also use it in my truck transmissions that have a PTO gearbox on
them.   They are notorious for leaking.   It also quiets down noisy old
truck transmissions.

Cecil in OKla


On 5/18/2012 6:27 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Larry, most of the time when you get into the wire, string, rope or even 
> old
> rugs you know it from that tell tail staccato beat coming from under the
> mower deck.
> When it happens on a bush hog and you don't fix it right away you 
> generally
> get to pull the gear box down and replace the seal.  Or you can take the
> approach
> I'm currently using and fill the gear box with gun grease.  LOL.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Goss
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:38 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] [Spam] Re: Cub Cadet LT-1050 broken drive belt
>
> That's almost as bad as the heavy-duty string trimmer cord I found on a
> riding mower this afternoon.  It's hard to tell how long it had been 
> there.
> Some of the spindle parts were polished like a mirror.  When I took the
> repaired mower back to it's owner, I asked who owned the string trimmer? 
> As
> I suspected, he didn't realize he had wound about 15 feet of it very 
> tightly
> into the bearing.
>
> Larry
>