JHESL
Well-Known Member
I am currently using the Valvoline with moly and we've tried other brands, like the Texaco moly and Top 5. They all seem to be a decent grease, but it seems to pound out of the pins of my excavator (Deere 800) quite easily. We're digging blasted shot rock in 30+ feet of salt water with a heavy tool package (8' stick extension and a 60", 5 cy bucket) so we needed something that could stand up to those conditions. Of course we grease the machine every day, but it doesn't take long for a machine with that weight and power to squish the grease right out of the bushings.
I recently tried some Green Dot High Impact grease from Chemtron and it is pretty impressive. It is for high impact applications and is highly water resistant, which is what we need. It is visibly thicker, and strands like chewing gum. We used a couple of tubes in the bucket pins, and after a day of hard digging, hardly any of it had pounded out of the bushings. It's quite expensive, but when you consider the importance of lubrication, especially in heavy underwater digging, its worth it IMV. I have now ordered 4 buckets of the stuff and will report back soon on the results.
Here's a link to the spec sheet:
http://www.chemtron.com/uploads/products/tech/CT-705-GREEN-DOT-SUPER-IMPACT-GREASE--TDS.pdf
I recently tried some Green Dot High Impact grease from Chemtron and it is pretty impressive. It is for high impact applications and is highly water resistant, which is what we need. It is visibly thicker, and strands like chewing gum. We used a couple of tubes in the bucket pins, and after a day of hard digging, hardly any of it had pounded out of the bushings. It's quite expensive, but when you consider the importance of lubrication, especially in heavy underwater digging, its worth it IMV. I have now ordered 4 buckets of the stuff and will report back soon on the results.
Here's a link to the spec sheet:
http://www.chemtron.com/uploads/products/tech/CT-705-GREEN-DOT-SUPER-IMPACT-GREASE--TDS.pdf
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