Ever own a machine you could not stay clean around it

O

old

Well-known Member

Location

Camdenton Missouri

• Aug 27, 2017

• #1

So this new to me IH584 is a machine that if I didn't know better you can get dirty just by walking by it. I sear it throws grease and oil at a person just by getting with in 10 feet of it.

 

T

Traditional Farmer

Well-known Member

Location

Virginia

• Aug 27, 2017

• #1

All of mine are like that(LOL) Wife says I could go to church and come home dirty as a grease monkey.

 

J

jacksun65

Well-known Member

• Aug 27, 2017

• #1

every machine I own does that and even before I was old enough to own anything. Thus my nickname the Grease magnet .

 

R

Richard G.

Well-known Member

• Aug 27, 2017

• #1

Old, good to you posting. Does this mean you have your computer system working faster?
Richard

 

JoeM(GA)

Well-known Member

• Aug 27, 2017

• #1

yep, I can sit in the seat of my backhoe and touch nothing and I will have grease on something

 

S

Steve@Advance

Well-known Member

• Aug 27, 2017

• #1

Yep, they all seem to do it to me!

But I've known a few (very few) people that can work all day in a white shirt, go home without spot! Still a mystery how they do it!

 

J

JF in MI

Well-known Member

• Aug 27, 2017

• #1

Ditto

 

C

centash

Well-known Member

• Aug 27, 2017

• #1

790 New Holland forage harvester......good machine, but grease it before you greases you.... Ben

 

OP

OP

O

old

Well-known Member

Location

Camdenton Missouri

• Aug 27, 2017

• #1

What I have now is super slow but I can get by for a bit till I find an older computer with EP or some such system in it. Windrows 10 eats data so it is super slow

 

C

Cmore

Member

• Aug 27, 2017

• #1

My Grandfather could overhaul an M Diesel and not get a spot of anything on him!!!!!

 

5

504

Well-known Member

• Aug 27, 2017

• #1

Dad owned a garage in town,Mom said I could not even walk into the front office without getting dirty.I was about 11 when he sold out.

 

P

Philip d

Well-known Member

• Aug 27, 2017

• #1

I've heard my Dad talking about mechanics like that. Some would even show up in a white button up shirt!

 

C

CCer

Member

• Aug 27, 2017

• #1

I worked with a guy, who came in clean, and went home clean. I saw his method. If he was assigned a dirty job, he'd look it over, and call out,"How do ya do this?' Someone nearby would go over, and grab onto the thing and say "well ya just do this, and this ,and this, soon the other guy had it done, and the first guy didn't even get dirty!

 

P

Philip d

Well-known Member

• Aug 27, 2017

• #1

Haha yup I can attest to that

 

P

Philip d

Well-known Member

• Aug 27, 2017

• #1

Probably just about any loader tractor used to look after cattle. If your not loading manure your driving through mud after a bale lol.

 

M

midTNDEERE

Member

• Aug 27, 2017

• #1

Yep...everything I work on. I can get filthy doing absolutely nothing. I work with a guy who's like the fellows several of you have mentioned that never gets dirty. ( in this guy's case its mostly because he does very little) I told him that one day I'm going to roll him in the floor so he goes home at least one day dirty.

 

Janicholson

Well-known Member

• Aug 27, 2017

• #1

SP125 IH combine 123 fittings and open chains and chaff soaked with thrown oil. Major grease every 2 days and daily chain and straw walker lube. I itch thinking about it. Jim

 

Hoenes

Member

• Aug 27, 2017

• #1

A guy I used to work with, said he couldn't talk about roofing tar over the phone, without getting some on him.

 

K

KEB in GCMS

Member

• Aug 28, 2017

• #1

Yep, got a JD 310C backhoe that all you got to do is look in the direction it is sitting and you will get grease on you.

 

Destroked 450

Well-known Member

Location

Harned, Ky

• Aug 28, 2017

• #1

If I get out of the shower and start thinking about working some piece of equipment I have to turn around and wash the grease off of my hands.

 

D

Dave O'Brien

Member

• Aug 28, 2017

• #1

All of them. And Heaven forbid that I even look in the general direction of a can of Never-seize.

 

J

JML755

Well-known Member

• Aug 28, 2017

• #1

Just bought a New Holland TC45 with FEL. Was well-maintained. Used it some for the first time this weekend. Every time I got on it, I'd grab the loader support to get up. Yup, left hand got greased good every time I got on it. You'd think I'd wisen up but nope, every time. It got to the point that I was looking over the thing to figure out what kind of cap I could put over the area.