Greasing schedule for vocational trucks

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  1. Sep 6, 2011 #11
    Floyd

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    Thanks again to all. Your input is greatly appreciated.
    I think I may extend my grease intervals to somewhere in the region of 100 hours or slightly more.
    I wonder if using the mobil 1 syn. grease may help me to extend even more?
    Maybe I can research this further.
    To bad to pay the extra money if there isnt any gain.
     
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  3. Sep 6, 2011 #12
    Gambi80

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    I do about the same work...frequent stop 'n go, off-road in the dust, mud and other crap. I grease every two weeks at least...if in the rain a lot and/or mud, I do it sooner. I don't have an hour meter, but it works out to around 2,000 miles between and with a 1/4 frame dump trailer I use about 2 1/2 tubes of grease...which might sound a little excessive but there's a LOT of pivot points.
     
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  4. Sep 7, 2011 #13
    kwforage

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    I grease mine between every crop, which equals about 75 to 100 hrs.
     
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  5. Sep 7, 2011 #14
    Floyd

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    Thanks guys.
    Looks like my application is just the same as yours kw forage.
    Do you have a dairy, or do you do custom forage harvest work?
     
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  7. Sep 7, 2011 #15
    kwforage

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    Both. We have a small family farm, and also run two JD choppers doing custom harvesting.
     
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  8. Sep 7, 2011 #16
    Floyd

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    Cool.
    We milk 1000 cows and do all of our own harvesting.
    We have a J.D. 6850 forage harvester which is kept busy by several trucks, most of which have H&S bodies.
    A New Holland 9684 on the pile.
     
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  9. Sep 7, 2011 #17
    kwforage

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    Sounds like you have a big operation there. 1000 head is pretty big around here. A few years ago we chopped for a 3000 cow dairy with a 76 cow rotary. That was pretty cool to watch. If you were alittle closer I would tell you to sell that 6850 and we'll take care of you. :biggrin_25525: We've got a 7450 and a spanking new 7750 that we just traded our 7400 in on. Have only done a few hundred acres of corn with the new 77 but that thing is a beast. It handles the 8 row head nicley. We run 2 crews. Each chopper runs with 2-3 trucks, packing tractor (12ft bagger on some jobs), and a Oxbo 330 merger in hay. Most farmers haul with a couple wagons or trucks of there own also.
     
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  10. Sep 8, 2011 #18
    Floyd

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    Very cool. We have a double 20 rapid exit. Another farmer here in central Maine has a larger dairy and I believe they have a 100 cow rotary! I have yet to see it work, but i've heard it's pretty wild.
    We bought our 6850 new in '99 so it's getting up there, it still does a good job, but it takes a lot of maintenance as they all do.....
    Ther is a local guy who does custom work here for several farms that we work with a little. I couldn't bear to hand over the job of crop work, I enjoy it to much. I don't do much around the barns(never cared for cows). I am either in the shop, the field or on the road.
     
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