Quote Originally Posted by ranald View Post
That is the way I (my dad showed me) have always done it. Even when contract parks mowing with my sealed tractor mower bearings, I would remove one seal or sometimes both and work in the palm as the first "ubeaut" sealed ones lasted no time without proper grease insertion. Eventually, soon after, I would remove the top bearing seal alltogether, and not replace, so that i could still grease in the usual manner after about 5 hrs continuous work (ie: twice daily): I left/replaced the bottom one as another line of defence (the Kubota hubs have a pretty good bottom seal) against bailing twine, used by council for cheap tree tieing (reusable tree tie was stolen), and fishing line used for kites and fishing.

I told my son I thought those gloves were not great for the largest body organ and the response was better than grease: I mentioned old mechanics with reply like the grease is different now=point taken: somewhat like "oils aint oils".
I use an orange/citrus product to clean hands of most grease/oil etc. It is excellent and the hands feel fresh as well.
The guy whos truck and trailers I do all of the work on dropped his 2001 Mack off last week for some much needed TLC. and a few other thing he wanted done. I replaced the shocks on the steer axle the shocks under the sleeper the belt tensioner tightened up a few things the will just need tightening after a few 100,000 miles.
I noticed the main supply hose between the power steering pump and the reservoir was leaking at the pump looked like it had been doing this for quite some time. tried tightening the clamp but it was already tight so thought it could be the o ring in the fitting that was doing the leaking. the pump shares the engine oil to a lessor extent, so you know what color that oil gets I removed the hose and the fitting to drain it then replaced the o ring and decided to rotate the fitting slightly to allow me to cut off about 2 inches of the hose to have a fresh clamping surface. My hands had that black engine/ PS oil ground in deep but when I reached for a qt of Mercon and poured it over them then scrubbed like I was getting to go into surgery my wife thought I had lost my mind She said you have a 2 gallon dispenser of that Fast Orange gritty hand cleaner why didn't you use that. I said I will but first I want to get my hands a little cleaner. She just shook her hear and said you and your old Indian tricks and walked of muttering using transmission fluid to clean off oil craziest thing I ever heard of, crazy old man would probably take a bath in the stuff in if he--- but by then she was far enough away that I couldn't hear what she said next.