Attention: TDR Forum Junkies You know, I really do enjoy farming. I have a regular job that I work at 40 hrs a week and then I get to go home and cut, rake or bale hay. I really do enjoy it. I know that sounds strange but I really do enjoy the work. I like working on machinery and driving my tractors. But a **** grease gun will spoil my day every time I use it. I swear I will swear every time I pick one up. On the rare occasion that the stupid thing aint out of grease then the zerk won't take the grease and it just pukes out the end of the gun and makes a mess. So I push harder and wiggle it around and pump the handle. More mess. I want it greased ****it! So I wiggle it around, bust a knuckle, cuss, pump the handle and there it is again. A big glob of grease hanging there like a dingle berry. By this time I have sweat rolling around inside the headband of my hat and it comes flooding down into my eyes. I wipe it out with a rag that is in my hand and now I have the crap I wanted in the tractor in my eyes and on my face. 
Sometimes when the zerk takes the grease but is hard to make it go in I pump the handle with all my strength, I know its going in, I can see the stuff oozing out where it should. Ok. Good, it's greased. Now I can't get the dang hose off the zerk. It's stuck on the zerk. Like it has a super lip lock on a nipple. I wiggle it back and forth. I pull like hell and one of two things will happen. The zerk will break off, I cuss, or the thing will come off like it just decided to release the lip lock it had and I bang my knuckles and cuss. Grease guns will always make me mad. Most every time I use one it is either out of grease or it will run out when I get the thing on the zerk with a contorted twist of my arm that aint natural and hurts. So what do I do? You guessed it, I feel the pumping action go soft and cuss. About two weeks ago I was putting a new tube of grease into the barrell of the gun. I had already pulled both ends off the tube of grease and was about to slide it into the gun when a wasp flew by my face. What do I do? I swat at it with the tube of grease. I know that was a dumba$$ thing to do but it was a reaction. Slung the whole mess of grease out of the tube and into the shop fan. Yep! It was on. Still cussing and cleaning up grease. Last night I was doing the very same thing. Putting a new tube of grease in the barrell. I had already slid it into the barrell when the spring loaded rod that you pull out and lock in the cocked position came un-cocked. Shot that damn marter of grease in a gracefull arc across the shop and landed just outside the rollup door in the dirt. I think by now you know what I did. I will have to admit one thing though. I do get great pleasure watching a grease gun go sailing through the air that I have just slung with all my might in a mad fit. I have learned that you need to pick where you through it though. Do NOT just throw it. A grease gun WILL BREAK GLASS! Tractor cab windows aint cheap either. And you also need to watch where it lands too cause in about 15 minutes you will be looking around in knee deep grass looking for it cause you need to grease something. I HATE GREASE GUNS!
Sometimes when the zerk takes the grease but is hard to make it go in I pump the handle with all my strength, I know its going in, I can see the stuff oozing out where it should. Ok. Good, it's greased. Now I can't get the dang hose off the zerk. It's stuck on the zerk. Like it has a super lip lock on a nipple. I wiggle it back and forth. I pull like hell and one of two things will happen. The zerk will break off, I cuss, or the thing will come off like it just decided to release the lip lock it had and I bang my knuckles and cuss. Grease guns will always make me mad. Most every time I use one it is either out of grease or it will run out when I get the thing on the zerk with a contorted twist of my arm that aint natural and hurts. So what do I do? You guessed it, I feel the pumping action go soft and cuss. About two weeks ago I was putting a new tube of grease into the barrell of the gun. I had already pulled both ends off the tube of grease and was about to slide it into the gun when a wasp flew by my face. What do I do? I swat at it with the tube of grease. I know that was a dumba$$ thing to do but it was a reaction. Slung the whole mess of grease out of the tube and into the shop fan. Yep! It was on. Still cussing and cleaning up grease. Last night I was doing the very same thing. Putting a new tube of grease in the barrell. I had already slid it into the barrell when the spring loaded rod that you pull out and lock in the cocked position came un-cocked. Shot that damn marter of grease in a gracefull arc across the shop and landed just outside the rollup door in the dirt. I think by now you know what I did. I will have to admit one thing though. I do get great pleasure watching a grease gun go sailing through the air that I have just slung with all my might in a mad fit. I have learned that you need to pick where you through it though. Do NOT just throw it. A grease gun WILL BREAK GLASS! Tractor cab windows aint cheap either. And you also need to watch where it lands too cause in about 15 minutes you will be looking around in knee deep grass looking for it cause you need to grease something. I HATE GREASE GUNS!
Or, since the battery is attached only by 2 small ears and it falls out onto the ground. .
