grease guns for a dairy farmer

[Bald Rick]

About time manufacturers realised that livestock farmers are not familiar with grease as a concept so should design greaseless bearings, pivot points and especially PTO UV joints
I would even pay a small premium for such a machine. After all, if my nipples don’t need grease, neither should theirs

 

[multi power]

on the odd occasion things get greased or atleast try to get them greased im thoroughly pee'd off with pathetic guns that dont work. whats everyone else using please no one suggest that bag of sh!t speedy greaser. if you like them then there is about to be 2 in the hedge which your welcome to retrive!

I've never seen a grease gun that doesn't work

 

[davidroberts30]

on the odd occasion things get greased or atleast try to get them greased im thoroughly pee'd off with pathetic guns that dont work. whats everyone else using please no one suggest that bag of sh!t speedy greaser. if you like them then there is about to be 2 in the hedge which your welcome to retrive!

what did you find wrong with them?

 

[Boysground]

What make ?

Milwaukee. Its great ?

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[Headless chicken]

I've never seen a grease gun that doesn't work

Quite happy to believe that it’s poor operator

what did you find wrong with them?

I just seem to get air. I’ve two both do the same.

 

[GeorgeK]

About time manufacturers realised that livestock farmers are not familiar with grease as a concept so should design greaseless bearings, pivot points and especially PTO UV joints
I would even pay a small premium for such a machine. After all, if my nipples don’t need grease, neither should theirs

Almost there, if different manufacturers would agree on what needs grease and what doesn't! Our JD front axle UJ's need grease, nothing else does. But everything else needs grease on the king pins, the JD doesn't. Similar story on rear linkages. Just combine all the bits that don't need grease and work fine, job done

 

[Andrew]

on the odd occasion things get greased or atleast try to get them greased im thoroughly pee'd off with pathetic guns that dont work. whats everyone else using please no one suggest that bag of sh!t speedy greaser. if you like them then there is about to be 2 in the hedge which your welcome to retrive!

If I pay postage could you send them to us please? We have 6 now and use about 150 cartridges per year for the last 5-6 years and not had a single issue yet, love them.

 

[Phil P]

Another +1 for the Milwaukee, it makes greasing a pleasure. Only trouble now is my old man wants one as well ?

 

[multi power]

Why is it that you change cartridge and it gets air locked .
Even with the bleed thing never works straight away .I usually have to leave it a while then starts to work !After threatening to chuck it over the hedge!

Not exactly a difficult job to let the air out is it

 

[pappuller]

About time manufacturers realised that livestock farmers are not familiar with grease as a concept so should design greaseless bearings, pivot points and especially PTO UV joints
I would even pay a small premium for such a machine. After all, if my nipples don’t need grease, neither should theirs

If you start flashing your titties towards the north sea with cold westerly blowing in you may appreciate a little salve to ease the chapping

 

[Tarw Coch]

Not exactly a difficult job to let the air out is it

I find the little bleed nipples next to useless, only thing that seems to work is slackening the barrel off, a touch too far and you’ve got a spring powered grease cartridge flying out and as often as not landing in something it shouldn’t.

 

[traineefarmer]

http://www.stephenslube.co.uk/grease_guns.asp

Give these guys a call. They seem to understand that farmers have a very different requirement when it comes to greasing compared to industrial users. Their connectors are top quality and dirt cheap compared to ag dealers and their budget guns are basically the same as Claas and JCB without the branding and price tag.

Their budget stuff is so good, I imagine the top line stuff would make greasing a pleasure, even for a dairy farmer.

 

[davidroberts30]

Quite happy to believe that it’s poor operator

I just seem to get air. I’ve two both do the same.

Mine needs about 8mm of grease out the cartridge before you screw it on
Chance time a cartridge will airlock for no reason about half way through, just unscrew it,press the follower inside against 1 of the handles and screw back on,literally seconds

 

[multi power]

I find the little bleed nipples next to useless, only thing that seems to work is slackening the barrel off, a touch too far and you’ve got a spring powered grease cartridge flying out and as often as not landing in something it shouldn’t.

I never touch the bleed screw, I never tighten the barrel all the way until I've got a couple of pumps of grease out

 

[buffalo_soldier]

My chap uses one of them pistol grip type I think.

Not my department really, I just catch him at it now and again.

 

[bitwrx]

Most of our pigs live in old dairy buildings, so I feel part qualified to help.

I use one of these: https://www.kiowa.co.uk/73-P00014699/Macnaught-K32-Flexigun-Grease-Gun-(400-gms)

It works well and is a pleasure to use. The best thing about it, apart from its general solidness, is the fact the piston rod can be used to push airlocks out. Simply pull out, turn 90 Deg to lock the rod into the piston, and push the rod in while using the fill nipple to bleed air.

Bush bash bosh. Mine is a 2006 model. 80 quid well spent. (Ok it didn't get much use from 2010 to 2019, but it's still a good bit of gear.)

 

[Ducati899]

I just use the John Deere ones,not sure who even makes them for deere but they seem to work just fine and aren’t overly expensive at all,current ones is 10ish years old

 

[Sharpy]

Alemite pistol grip, also has a nifty feature that doubles the pressure. Haven't had to f**k about bleeding them either, they just work so well. Blooming expensive but worth it.

 

[Suckndiesel]

The trouble with a battery grease gun that I can foresee is that in addition to the tired old excuse for not greasing of “the cartridge needs changing” will be “the battery needs charging”.

The milwaukee cordless gun is very easy on batteries so even if the battery is near flat you can still get a bit of greasing done, don’t know what the other makes are like.

 

[milkloss]

I just use the John Deere ones,not sure who even makes them for deere but they seem to work just fine and aren’t overly expensive at all,current ones is 10ish years old

for what they are JD ones are expensive but only because they have a JD stamp on them. After I bought mine I found cheaper versions are available and that the JD ones aren't that great. The threads where the pipe goes needed tapping on mine as it was cross threaded.