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37chief

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How many out there fill there own grease guns? I can think of a lot of reasons not to. I fill mine. It's a bit of a mess but I think it's a little less money, and I don't have to go to town if I come up empty. I don't use that much, maybe one time a week, I need to stop and fill the gun. Stan
 
What kind of grease gun do you have? Any I've ever used you put a tube in like a tube of caulk and just pull the top off and put the gun back together.
 
I've used the grease tubes nearly 50 years. Its much quicker and easier that way. I still have the grease pump that fits onto a grease bucket and with a special attachment it fills the gun. My dad used that method.
 
Dad used to use the pails because it was cheaper and it was indeed cheaper. I got tired of getting air in the gun during the filling process and cleaning out the last of the grease in the bottom of the pail and having to keep the grease pail in the house beside the stove in the later fall months and, and, well I just didn't like it. So when I started farming on my own it was tubes only.
 
Kind of like hand milking- you can do it, but we're all glad we don't have to anymore. I've used tubes ever since I learned of them, and I'll never fill another one by hand again.
 
We always had a 55 gallon drum of grease growing up and you can get pretty good at it but it?s still a mess and it?s probably not enough cheaper anymore to mess with. I have equipment scattered around the country and a bucket or barrel of grease just isn?t handy to use
 
I've used the tubes for years now and about 8-9 years ago went and got a battery powered grease gun.

Rick
 
My father in law used to get grease in what was similar to a 5 gallon pail but lower. He had a cast iron plate that just fit inside the pail. The plate had a neck in the center that was threaded to take the gun tube. Screw the tube in and push down while pulling the rod and it would draw the grease right in. Very neat but I haven't seen it for many years. I'm still cleaning up stuff so I may find it although I doubt I'll find those pails anywhere.
 
The same gun can be filled from a bucket.

I think you have to turn the seal over.

Then screw the head off, stick the barrel down in the grease bucket, pull the T handle back and lock it. Start cussing.

That is supposed to draw grease into the barrel. Cuss some more.

Screw the head back on, cuss and wipe, cuss...

Take the hose off, purge the air, put the hose back on, purge some more air, cuss some more, wipe some more, clean grease off floor, shoes, arms, shirt, pants, face, whatever you're working on or around...

Or stick a cartridge in, purge once, back in business!

Done both, I'll never use bulk again!
 
About 30 years ago I started a new job at a macaroni factory, sounds glorious don't it!

About a week into the job I was introduced to an empty grease gun and was told it needed to be filled.

"OK, where's the grease?"

"In the side room."

So I go exploring the side room, a hoarders nightmare, found no grease.

"It's right there!"

There was a 5 gallon bucket, looked like it was left over from WW1!

Absolutely nasty! Full of dirt, rat droppings, pools of oil where it was separating and cracking on top.

But being new, I did what I was told, scraped some of the top off down to some cleaner grease, loaded the gun. Had it working in a couple hours...

Shortly after, the bucket accidentally got dropped in the dumpster.
 
I am still filling mine the old way but that is only because I still have the pail my dad bought many years ago because it was what he was used to and it was cheaper. When it gets empty I ll use the cartridges like I do at work.
 
I used to fill grease guns for my dad when I was a kid that way. The pail and pump are still in the shed. I only use the cartridges myself. Not worth the mess.
 

I used to buy catridges by the carton. Since I switched over from a sickle bar mower conditioner to a disc mower conditioner I pick up just two at a time.
 
I still have the setup for filling them, but I haven't used it in 40 years. The grease in the bucket is getting hard and I smear it on the plow moldboards.

Those tubes are just too convenient, but twice lately I have hurriedly stuffed a new tube in my gun and forgotten to pull the aluminum tab off of the head end. They don't work very good without that tab removed.

I swear - the older I get and the hurrier I go, the stupider I become.
 
I use cartridges all the time,drawing grease out of a bucket ain't worth the little bit of money saved plus when the grease gets low in the bucket its a real pain then.
 
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"Cuss some more"

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Words you never see included in the instructions, but often included in the process.
 
can't add any more than what was is posted except just mentioning GREASE and my clothes have grease on them.
 
When I was young, (1960) dad always bought pour grease, maybe it was like the corn head grease some of you speak of. In warm weather it would pour into gun, and we didn't use much grease in cold weather. The JD crawler had a gun of it's own with a special head, and that used a heavy oil for the rollers and track tensioner.
 

I have a heavy Lincoln grease gun inherited from my dad. He told me that it was able to use cartridges, filling from a can of grease and has a zerk on the end that you can fill from another grease gun. It has to be at least 60 years old or maybe more and still works great. I have never used a cartridge in it because I prefer filling from a bucket of grease.
Elmo
 
I grew up using bulk grease from the 15 gallon cans. Or about 120 pounds. I still buy it that way for dads gun. I use tubes also . Like SV said with equipment scattered all over tubes transport more conveniently. The cost is a wash the last time I priced it. Of course just after I had got a new can. WE pump it into the gune with a fitting on the top of the gun from the fitting on the pump. Not messy at all. I rather like it better than messing with the tubes and getting the air out that does not come out through that stupid air bleeder on the top of the gun.
 
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