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South Georgia | For the last few years, since our local Deere dealer started handling spindle grease in bulk, I've had my grease barrel on the service trailer with the pump mounted to the barrel. Works fine, except for having to drag the whole trailer to town to fill one dinky barrel. This year I found another supplier, and bought a one ton tote of grease. I have no intentions of carrying the tote to the field as that's not necessary, the barrel on the trailer suffices for that part of the operation. It's out of the way and less messy than the way a lot of folks do this. Now the problem is filling the barrel from the tote.
Of course, the first idea I had was to just put a hydraulic coupler on the bottom of the tote, and operate the standard Deere grease pump backwards to fill the barrel. Problem is, that requires a source of hydraulic power which may or may not be available during a combined peanut and cotton harvesting schedule. Likewise, that would require the tote to be located at the shop, which is not ideal. I sat it on the porch of an old one-room schoolhouse that we use for storage, as that will be out of the way the eleven months a year we're not using it, and it's sheltered. Of course, there's no electricity there.
So,... My power sources are limited to 12VDC and pneumatic. Best idea I currently have is to use the (too slow) electric fuel transfer pump off the fuel trailer to pump the grease out of the tote, and buy a better fuel pump for the service trailer. Does anybody know if a reg'lar ol' 12V FillRite fuel pump will pump spindle grease without too much trouble? Will only be pumping a couple hundred gallons a year total, and will only pump a maximum of 55 gallons at any one time.
Or, I welcome better suggestions.
Thanks,
Adrian
Edited by Adrian 9/5/2010 15:57
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Pumping spindle grease... Yeah, cotton picker questions are taking over!
