I just finished greasing my AC66 combine as I have a bit of wheat to cut. Seems like a million grease fittings on it, same for my 1-PR corn picker. Some of the fittings are hard to reach, need one to lay on the ground underneath to reach, lay on top and reach down between stuff to reach and some have to have a pully in the right position to get to. I was wonder how todays machinery are set up for lubrication. Do they have the same pain to get to fittings or use more sealed bearings to reduce greasing. I've never greased anything newer than the early 60's.
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danofarming
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Newer stuff has Sealed Bearings, Nylon non greaseable bushings. Grease pollutes the groundwater when it drips to the ground. They call it Non-Point Source Pollution. That is why our tax dollars have paid for all of those watershed signs along the Highways. Hogwash is my opinion.
Tony in SD
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2 things have happened since the 60s. 1.) Greaseless/sealed bearings. Many bearings are sealed and require no additional grease. 2.) Some equipment has 1 location greasing. In other words there is a panel with the grease zerks in location. So the short answer is, no.
fastfarmall
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That was a little before grease banks, where they run a steel tube to the point of the bearing,where the grease is needed,New Idea corn pickers used them, a nice improvement!
MJ in the UK
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About 15 years ago one of my customers bought a sugarbeet harvester at a farm sale and brought it to my workshop for me to check it over and grease it. It Was a Whitsed 101 model and when my customer came to pick it up I said to him I know know why it was named a 101 as that was the amount of greasers it had on it. MJ.
Richard G.
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My uncle use to grease the old 66 on the farm with a 5 gallon pump grease gun.
He said there were 45 grease fittings on it.
Richard in NW SC
He said there were 45 grease fittings on it.
Richard in NW SC
Russ from MN
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The machine that I took care of for my last 15 years working had central lubrication points, one zerk on a little valve block, and up to 6 lines going out to different bearings and bushings. They would meter the grease out to the bearings in a predetermined amount. They worked very well, I only remember replacing one in 15 years, and we didn't have bearing failures because of them.
Paul from MI
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I greased my old Allis 60 combine for many years. Good old combine, but nothought to lubing it ever crossed an AC mind.
Traditional Farmer
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- Virginia
AC Roto Baler would take most of a tube of grease to get it ready to go.
fixerupper
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Dad said the 2 row Minneapolis Moline corn picker he used had 103 zerks. How could a 2 row picker have that many bearings?
The old dinosaur 635 Deere corn head I used to run had two pump lubers that lubed 24 stalk roll bearings through little 1/8 inch plastic lines, same as the plastic line going to an oil pressure gauge. Once in awhile a cornstalk would rip a line away from a lower bearing and it didn t take long till the needle bearing was gone. I finally threw away the lubers and tubes and screwed zerks into the lower twelve bearings. The upper twelve bearings were not accessable so i ran a grease gun hose extension out from the bearing to a zerk I could shoot standing behind the head. I got under the head and rolled around in the corn stalls greasing the lower bearings twice a day but by golly there was no more bearing replacement needed.
This post was edited by fixerupper on 06/28/2022 at 07:19 pm.
The old dinosaur 635 Deere corn head I used to run had two pump lubers that lubed 24 stalk roll bearings through little 1/8 inch plastic lines, same as the plastic line going to an oil pressure gauge. Once in awhile a cornstalk would rip a line away from a lower bearing and it didn t take long till the needle bearing was gone. I finally threw away the lubers and tubes and screwed zerks into the lower twelve bearings. The upper twelve bearings were not accessable so i ran a grease gun hose extension out from the bearing to a zerk I could shoot standing behind the head. I got under the head and rolled around in the corn stalls greasing the lower bearings twice a day but by golly there was no more bearing replacement needed.
This post was edited by fixerupper on 06/28/2022 at 07:19 pm.
Rich'sToys
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- Southern MN
I have an old New Idea one row picker and also a Wood Bros one row. Both of them have close to 100 zerks on them. Any place where two moving parts come in contact with each other there is a zerk. Or where a moving part comes in contact with a non-moving part.
Railroads were some of the first to use automatic lubricators ( the real McCoy for example ) and to plumb grease points into banks in easy to access locations. Their labor costs and down time costs were comparatively high. Up until the 1960s very few farmers were willing to spend even an extra $25 for those features when they could easily grease their machines themselves.
Deere offered optional Multi-Lube on some harvesting equipment in the early 1960s maybe earlier, corn pickers were some of the first I saw.
Deere offered optional Multi-Lube on some harvesting equipment in the early 1960s maybe earlier, corn pickers were some of the first I saw.
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