You all have read newspaper accounts of mass shootings, where some person kills a whole pile of people in a fit of rage and frustration. Pundits suggest that it's stress, workplace harassment, racism, and drugs that are setting people off.
It's all BS. I know the reason why people lose their minds.
They all had to grease a backhoe for the first time. I must have the patience of Job not to have borrowed my neighbor's Barrett light 50, and shot my backhoe.
Things I've figured out.
1. People hate grease guns because they are a pain to get working. What seems like it should take 10 seconds to load takes hours. When you can't get them working, you've going to end up covered in grease, using up a case of paper towels, and wasting a tube of very expensive, moly grease that you had to import from a Tibetan monastery where they make it from yak grease and rare incense. Something that seems simple - loading a tube of grease, demands a gaggle of Catholic priests to bless the event, grease physiologists to put you through 6 months of intensive training at the US Olympic center, and a Buddhist monk to teach you to meditate so you can properly focus.
2. The reason why people go looking for electric guns, or bulk greasers is that backhoe joints don't just take two shots of grease. I've been pumping 20 - 40 shots before I see grease oozing out of the joint. Maybe the chimps who used my hoe were too stoned on bananas to properly grease, but mine seem to take forever to fill. I worked on my hoe for two hours, and have only gotten half of them done. The gun is pumping grease. so I know grease is entering the joint.
3. When a ZERK won't pass grease, you'll discover that the banana-stoned chimps decided to ignore a fitting when it plugged up instead of actually fixing it. I scraped out mud and dirt from the outrigger Zerk holes, and am still soaking them in penetrating fluid to see if I can get grease in the holes. I have a feeling that I'm going to have to have those rusty pins removed by Deere service to get grease into those joints.
I know that this is a learning exercise, and eventually, it will become second nature, but I never expected it to be this much of a challenge.
I have new-found respect for the mechanics and operators who do things right, and take pride in their work.
This Bud's for you guys.
It's all BS. I know the reason why people lose their minds.
They all had to grease a backhoe for the first time. I must have the patience of Job not to have borrowed my neighbor's Barrett light 50, and shot my backhoe.
Things I've figured out.
1. People hate grease guns because they are a pain to get working. What seems like it should take 10 seconds to load takes hours. When you can't get them working, you've going to end up covered in grease, using up a case of paper towels, and wasting a tube of very expensive, moly grease that you had to import from a Tibetan monastery where they make it from yak grease and rare incense. Something that seems simple - loading a tube of grease, demands a gaggle of Catholic priests to bless the event, grease physiologists to put you through 6 months of intensive training at the US Olympic center, and a Buddhist monk to teach you to meditate so you can properly focus.
2. The reason why people go looking for electric guns, or bulk greasers is that backhoe joints don't just take two shots of grease. I've been pumping 20 - 40 shots before I see grease oozing out of the joint. Maybe the chimps who used my hoe were too stoned on bananas to properly grease, but mine seem to take forever to fill. I worked on my hoe for two hours, and have only gotten half of them done. The gun is pumping grease. so I know grease is entering the joint.
3. When a ZERK won't pass grease, you'll discover that the banana-stoned chimps decided to ignore a fitting when it plugged up instead of actually fixing it. I scraped out mud and dirt from the outrigger Zerk holes, and am still soaking them in penetrating fluid to see if I can get grease in the holes. I have a feeling that I'm going to have to have those rusty pins removed by Deere service to get grease into those joints.
I know that this is a learning exercise, and eventually, it will become second nature, but I never expected it to be this much of a challenge.
I have new-found respect for the mechanics and operators who do things right, and take pride in their work.
This Bud's for you guys.
