I just bought my first tractor!

nerwin

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Don't get too hung up on grease. You're not using the machine 8-10 hrs a day of continue use. If you grease your loader every 10 hours (of loader use) with just about any grease available today you will be able to give the loader/tractor to your grand kids and it still working.
That's what I figured. I keep seeing people saying...oh no you MUST use moly grease on the loader pins otherwise you'll destroy it! But you can't use that stuff for the wheel bearings and such.
 

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That's what I figured. I keep seeing people saying...oh no you MUST use moly grease on the loader pins otherwise you'll destroy it! But you can't use that stuff for the wheel bearings and such.
If you're not into the "one grease to rule them all" approach you can use two types of grease and follow Kubota's owner's manual and use moly-lithium (dark grey) on the loader and polyurea (green) on the tractor. This is my approach and it works for me.

As @D2Cat says, regular greasing is important regardless of whether you use polyurea or moly-lithium on the loader.
 
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nerwin

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If you're not into the "one grease to rule them all" approach you can use two types of grease and follow Kubota's owner's manual and use moly-lithium (dark grey) on the loader and polyurea (green) on the tractor. This is my approach and it works for me.

As @D2Cat says, regular greasing is important regardless of whether you use polyurea or moly-lithium on the loader.
Well I have a little grease gun I use for my mower. I can just use that for the non loader stuff. I'll just buy a bigger grease gun with the better stuff for the loader and just do it manually for now.