Grease guns

magnum220 · Jun 29, 2021

Now then, I know there has been grease going n threads on here before but…….. quite often when I pick up a grease gun here it’s empty, so my question is how come they seem to be empty on the last nipple for other people but me? And does this strange phenomenon only occur here

box · Jun 29, 2021

My one only runs out when I've climbed under or crawled into a machine to grease the last nipple.

milkloss · Jun 29, 2021

magnum220 said:
Now then, I know there has been grease going n threads on here before but…….. quite often when I pick up a grease gun here it’s empty, so my question is how come they seem to be empty on the last nipple for other people but me? And does this strange phenomenon only occur here

the trick used to be to have 2 grease guns on the go.... usually a lever gun and a pistol grip. Problem I now have is that when I've nearly finished and the first runs out then the second is usually empty too.

Lincsman · Jun 29, 2021

They empty themselves while you are sleeping.

Pan mixer · Jun 29, 2021

I use a bucket pump to fill the grease gun before I start on a machine and since no-one round here, except me, uses a grease gun I usually have just enough to do all but the last most awkward nipple.

Lincsman · Jun 29, 2021

Pan mixer said:
I use a bucket pump to fill the grease gun before I start on a machine and since no-one round here, except me, uses a grease gun I usually have just enough to do all but the last most awkward nipple.

So you dont bother with that one?... must remember to do it next time... or is that just me?

milkloss · Jun 29, 2021

Lincsman said:
So you dont bother with that one?... must remember to do it next time... or is that just me?

gave it an extra pump last time…… be fine.

magnum220 · Jun 29, 2021

Usually run out on the last nipple with me too, crawl out from under the machine put a new cartridge in and crawl under again to do the last one and leave the gun 99% full for someone else

nick... · Jun 30, 2021

Got 4 here.one with straight pipe,one with 90 degrees reel pipe,one with long flexing hose and one with short fkexi hose with locking fitting on end.allways take 2 when crawling about under machines.and the alemite is the best by miles.
nick...

Agri Spec Solicitor · Jun 30, 2021

I too had a bad grease gun day yesterday.
When I was at school man was on the moon so why hasn’t anyone invented a see through plastic tube for the cartridge and the grease gun tube ? There is no high pressure in there surely? At least we could see it was about to run out.

Suffolksucklers · Jun 30, 2021

Agri Spec Solicitor said:
I too had a bad grease gun day yesterday.
When I was at school man was on the moon so why hasn’t anyone invented a see through plastic tube for the cartridge and the grease gun tube ? There is no high pressure in there surely? At least we could see it was about to run out.

We've got a speedy grease gun and you can see how much is left as the cartridge is exposed. Best grease gun we have had

ACEngineering · Jun 30, 2021

Agri Spec Solicitor said:
I too had a bad grease gun day yesterday.
When I was at school man was on the moon so why hasn’t anyone invented a see through plastic tube for the cartridge and the grease gun tube ? There is no high pressure in there surely? At least we could see it was about to run out.

You can actually buy see through barrels for grease guns! Useless if your using a cartridge though.

Pistonbroke · Jun 30, 2021

One way I have found for getting.rid if an annoying grease gun is to leave it on the mudguard of the tractor while putting the pickup wheels on the baler,bale the field of straw, remember the grease gun which has now disappeared and spend all winter waiting to find it in a round bale. Then watch as the bale chopper finds it and throws it straight through the cladding of a shed at 150million mph.

MrNoo · Jun 30, 2021

Agri Spec Solicitor said:
I too had a bad grease gun day yesterday.
When I was at school man was on the moon so why hasn’t anyone invented a see through plastic tube for the cartridge and the grease gun tube ? There is no high pressure in there surely? At least we could see it was about to run out.

Can normally tell close enough by how heavy they are!! But then I only use the one gun and no-one else works here

Spencer · Jun 30, 2021

Suffolksucklers said:
We've got a speedy grease gun and you can see how much is left as the cartridge is exposed. Best grease gun we have had

milkloss · Jun 30, 2021

Suffolksucklers said:
We've got a speedy grease gun and you can see how much is left as the cartridge is exposed. Best grease gun we have had

Ah, possibly the most annoyingly pointless grease gun I ever bought!

each to their own though.

traineefarmer · Jun 30, 2021

Just pull the fill handle back till it hits the piston to see what's left.

As for the empty gun phenomenon, we have several guns around the farm, but for some reason people find it easier to walk from one end of the yard to the other to get another gun rather than fill the one up they're using. :scratchhead:

feilding · Jun 30, 2021

The Fuchs Reiner system guns so easy to change cartridge and no mess, an empty gun is no problem, just screw a fresh one in, been using system for the last 17 yrs, never a problem. and with a g-coupler end on the flex pipe even better.

bravheart · Jun 30, 2021

Why would you go round filling them up? They're supposed to be empty are they not.

Right-arm fast · Jun 30, 2021

All they need to do is make the cartridges twice as big, there will be a bit left after the last nipple then!

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