Grease guns

It's the loading of the grease tubes and priming of the gun that has me liking the small pistol grip guns over the big lever arm guns. With the little gun it's a simple matter of loading and greasing. With the big ones, it's almost always a messy drama.

Other wise, give me a lever type over a pistol grip any day. I ussually don't have problems holding the coupler on the zerk and pumping and I really could do without the hand workout the pistol girps give. We've got 1 on the farm but I never use it unless it's the onyl one I can find.

Donovan from Wisconsin

I like the pistol grip with a hose as well... the lever type can be irreplaceable when you have a tough zerk that requires lots of pressure, though. The lever type always seems to be against my leg while I hold the hose on the zerk, so I like them with a longer hose.

I personally prefer Mobil 1 synthetic grease, but it's too expensive for the amount we go through on the farm - about a tube every other day while in the field. We stick with the CaseIH grease on the farm.

Speaking of, the boss used to get some green grease from wherever that would stay there for 15 hours. He stopped getting it and weve been through four different types pink blue clear and another green from tsc napa and auto parts places that all disappear within 3 hours use or if it rains. What do you all use and/or recommend?

• Hobby farm

I have both and use the pistol grip one most of the time.

I have one pistol grip and two lever actions. My pistol grip has a flexible hose on it just like the lever actions do, but it's much more convenient since I can hold the end on the zerk while I'm pumping. Definitely prefer the pistol grip.

Tom in TN