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Allan in NE

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That's why I have a special spot on the shelf for those deformed, mashed grease tubes that won't fit in the gun. Works good, just squeeze em out like toothpaste, put on an old glove and have at it. BW
 
I've been to 13 county fairs and 7 wagon greasings,but I ain't never seen nothing like that.
 
When I retired the oilers (Lubrication department) gave me a grease barrel about half full of (contaminated) grease for my plow. For my 2 bottom that will last about 100 years!
 
Yeah and how many hundreds of acres are on those points? They look practically new still.

The ground around here burns the points down to the frog in about 35 acres with a 5-bottom plow.
 
I just use cheap spray paint rather than grease on the moldboards, slides, and points. Heck of a lot less messy and you don't waste the grease. Don't use the moldboards much but when I do, they get painted before they're shoved back in the back of the shed.
 

I go to the rattle can paint shelf and grab the can or two that have the least in them. It seems that they are good for no more than five jobs anyway.
 
When I had to grease a plow like that, I had 2 grease guns. one with a flexible hose and one with an 8" rigid pipe. Boss wanted it greased every morning. Used the rigid pipe with the 2 hand grease gun and got every fitting I could with that then changed to the 1 hand with the flex hose and got all the rest . Changed the points/shares usually once a week. I learned to take the worn nuts that held the old shares and put them on after the new nut and bolt to cover the threads sticking out. Made it easy to change shares/points..
Unless you mean to keep the moldboards from rusting, then nothing was done but the plow was stored inside.
 
Here in my neck of the woods greasing lasts for awhile if the plow is stored outside, but if it's going to sit out for more than six months paint is better. When I used to store my 'big' plow (5x18's) inside even engine oil didn't last long enough if it wasn't used every year. Too much condensation. Jim
 
I don't oil or grease mine since I keep it sheltered in my mini barn. When my dad was living I kept it in his basement that was damp and I greased it. I've put used engine oil on it too. I've plowed a lot gardens with it. The plow came with a walk behind garden tractor. Cost was $15.00 in 1960. Hal
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We use to put asphalt in old gallon can with gasoline and it would melt. We put it on with a brush once the aspalt melted and it would dry on plow.Its good for years and if want to take it off get a gas soaked rag and it will wipe off.
 
Same here. I'm only doing 3 bottoms and used to grease but after a year sitting outside they would rust anyway. Now I grab what ever partial can of spray paint I have and it works great. I'll never grease plows of any size again.
 
Funny with the soils around here, my farmer friend never did that to the 5-18 IH plow he used, I never asked him, but I am sure he was aware about un-scoured plows. The soil has enough abrasives in it, it'll clean right off in a few feet. Some of the soils I encounter here, you would not want to try a rusty plow for the obvious reasons of it loading up and pulling harder. In the small time operator...... 1 & 2 bottom club here LOL !, I just use rustoleum white, after cleaning the dirt off, and out of any crevices, so if it does rust, I'll see it easily. Tube grease eventually wears off, it did on my 2 bottom so I used it then painted the moldboards, and even the landsides, 2 years since and not a spot of rust.
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Yep, did a 3-18 710 IH back in May. My father and grandfather use to do it so I must pass on the plow greasing tradition!
 
I haven't used grease in 30 years. Whatever color of spray paint the wife has bought and doesn't like anymore works better, lasts for 3-4 years minimum and doesn't come off on me when I walk too close. If I run out of one color I just grab the next one. Makes the plow look like a rainbow!
 
My dad always had me grease the plow when we were done for the
year. Some of it would wash off during the winter months, but it was
still in a lot better shape than it would have been if left untreated.
2 x 14 JD trailer plow, so not too bad of a job.
 
Greasin' it was the easy part. It was the two hours spent hunched down with a knob wire attachment on an angle grinder to get the rust off to start with that was brutal.

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I had good luck with TSC plow coating. I put it on in the fall. Next year I hooked on to the plow and went to the field. It came off in a short distance. If it wasn't put on thick enough it would get some rust.
 
Went to a plow day event a couple of years ago, when we were done and my plow (2x16 trailer plow) was loaded on my trailer, I cleaned all the dirt from the coulters, beams etc. and started greasing the moldboards. The fellow we plowed for asked me if I thought it would rain before I got home. "No", I replied "But my Dad is up there in Heaven watching me, and if I don't grease this plow right away, he'll be waiting for me with a willow switch when I get there!"
 
My plows are so far back in the weeds hope there is still grease on them. Need to have my own plow day. 3-14's for WD (To much plow). 4-14's for D-19, 3-14's for 450 Farmall, and can borrow my brothers 5-16's for my 986.
 
I paint my plows with graphite paint. It protects them and keeps them from rusting. It will stick to a rusty moldboard and it will scour in the stickiest gumbo. No more sanding or grinding. Learned this on the forums.
 
My dad would wash the grease off with gasoline before he went plowing with it. He greased it every night when he came in from plowing if the plow had to sit outside overnight.
 
Yeap. Plow and one-ways. Likely will never forget the 6 inch paint brush whose bristles went ever which way with the 5 gallon bucket of old gun grease mixed with used 140 weight gear oil.
 

Anymore, I wipe a good coat of old engine oil on then give it a good coat of Enamel spray paint (cheaper the better)..lasts but wears right off..

Ron.
 
Dad had an old grease drum about the size of a 30 gallon drum attached to a cart. I think I was 8 years old the first time I helped him grease a plow. After that is was my job after plowing .I knew what to do when he handed me a greasy pair of gloves and a small bundle of old shake shingles. You would smear it on at least a quarter inch thick . Then in the spring you took a shingle and scraped it off . Then I would follow him to the field with a brick trowel . You would scrape the dirt off every time he'd pull it out of the ground until it would scour. This was my job every spring .
JJ.
 
I clean them up with a scotch brite pad after plowing and wipe off any dirt. I then spray them down with WD-40 and put them in the shed.
 
I try to scrape off anything that's still on the plow then use spray paint. Last year it froze in 1 night, and I was hopeful we'd have a few more warm days the next week so I could finish plowing but it never happened, so the plow is rusty again. I've got some sod to plow under this year and with it getting dry now it just might scour easier than normal.

Of course this would be a good year to sub soil if it stays dry...

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
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