That time an old timer told me to grease the cutterhead bearings every shift

I thought he was just being paranoid, figured once a week would be fine. After 3 months, I burned one out on a sandy job near Baton Rouge and lost half a day swapping it. Anybody else learn that lesson the hard way?

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king.wyatt13d ago

Oh man, that's rough. I had almost the exact same thing happen on a job down in Texas. I was running a big dozer in some nasty caliche dust and figured I'd just hit the zerks every other day. Three weeks in I heard that lovely squeal and by the time I got the old bearing out it had welded itself to the shaft. Total nightmare. Now I keep a grease gun in my truck and just do it first thing every morning before the engine even warms up. Takes two minutes and I've never had another bearing fail on me since.