Spindle Grease: How often?

[Glenn J]

As a homeowner who mows maybe one or twice a week, how often should I be greasing the blade spindles?

[toddnks]

I have a 30+ year old tractor and deck that I greese every other mowing session. My spindles take 4 pumps.

[Tvov]

Not a lot. Most equipment dealers will tell you that people routinely over-grease their blade spindles, and they mean commercial mowing companies. If you are using a commercial walkbehind once or twice a week, you may only want to grease the blade spindles once a year. Check your owner's manual, and ask your dealer for advice.

[Glenn J]

Very interesting, thanks guys. I just put new spindles on the mower and I've greased them twice. ;)

I don't have an owners manual; my machine is older and I bought it used.

[rbeitz]

My Scag manual says every 40 hours/weekly. As a homeowner, that's more hours than I put on in an entire season. So, I just hit them every 3 months or so when I sharpen my blades. By my calculations that comes out close to every 10 hours.

What brand walk behind do you have? If it is a Scag you can download the manual for free from the Scag website.

[bigz1001]

My Dixie Chopper advises greasing the spindles every 100 hours or annually, whichever comes first.

[Glenn J]

My Scag manual says every 40 hours/weekly. As a homeowner, that's more hours than I put on in an entire season. So, I just hit them every 3 months or so when I sharpen my blades. By my calculations that comes out close to every 10 hours.

What brand walk behind do you have? If it is a Scag you can download the manual for free from the Scag website.


It's an older Bunton...I'd say from the mid 1980's.

[Runner]

I would say about every 20 hours, use just a LITTLE bit.

[BarnOwl]

I emailed Toro about this exact question. Looking at the comments here it depends on the model.

The advice they gave me: Every 25 hours 4-5 greasepumps a spindle. And definitely DO NOT fill the entire spindlehousing with grease!