-- Tom, get a drain valve for the sump on the JCB. Preferably one with a hose fitting so you can neatly drain the oil into your fancy whatsit down in the pit. Also, Form-A-Funnel exists. Get some of them too. -- Get an air powered bulk grease gun. Quick coupler on the end of the grease line so you can change fittings (e.g. right angle for tight spaces). Default should be a lock on coupler of some description. FWIW I mainly use a LockNLube lock on grease coupler, but I do have others for certain fittings. -- Related tip: once you have a bulk grease gun, remove the bleeder screws on your normal grease guns and replace them with grease nipples. When you find the little grease gun is getting low (we still use them for greasing out in the field), just take it into the workshop, connect up to the bulk greaser and pull the trigger. A couple of minutes later, your grease gun is full again without making a mess! -- While you're getting a bulk grease gun, get some air powered drum pumps for your oils. With flow meters so you know how much oil you've added. Again: easier, cleaner and cheaper. Just wheel out whichever oil drum you need for a given machine, connect the air line, pull the trigger, stop when the appropriate quantity has been added, check on dipstick, wheel the drum away. -- Wet and dry shop vac for cleaning the pit. Get one with a long hose (5m+) and a long piece of pipe on the end (whatever length suits you) so you can vacuum out the pit while standing on the shop floor next to it. If I think of anything else, I'll come back and add it!
I can remember when I was younger and crawling under cars to work on them using just axle stands....When I started work and they had a pit life was so much better and no aches and pains from my spine or ribs. very good thing to have is access to a pit. Thanks Tom....
A brilliant space Tom , you can see everything, and reach everything effortlessly. That's a great idea with the light box to get lights from dazzling other road users. 👍👍
Whenever the cat shows up, I'm happy. Paint the floor light gray. None of those stupid speckles they like to add for some reason. You'll never find what you drop.
Pit is awesome. Light colour for the floor. White, cream or grey. I am also starting to suspect some heavy industry maintenance experience lurking in the backgroud... P.S. careful blowing stuff INTO air filter media... dirty filters actually have a higher particle arrest efficiency, albeit at expense of some power loss. Depth or surface loading filters designed for pulse cleaning have special construction and the air is blown from inside out.
Great to see the pit getting dirty. It's what it was meant to do, surely. Nice to see you've got a beam setter. Should make it better for you when on the road and safer for others too.
Nice work again Tom,why don’t you get the air type grease gun that fits on the top of a 20 litre tub of grease you have already got the compressed air to drive it and it’s probably a lot cheaper than a battery grease gun
@@Tomlamb980 That's what we use in the workshop. Much cheaper than tubes of grease, much cleaner and easier than filling normal grease guns from the big tub. Another tip: once you have a bulk grease gun, remove the bleeder screws on your normal grease guns and replace them with grease nipples. When you find the little grease gun is getting low (still use them for greasing out in the field), just take it into the workshop, connect up to the bulk greaser and pull the trigger. A couple of minutes later, your grease gun is full again without making a mess!
Many maintenance shops invest in a 40 litre pneumatic air operated pump / grease bucket, they usually come with a long hose with a gun on the end. You already have shop air, so it may be an ideal investment for you. The tubes of grease that you are probably using (400 grams) cost a fortune compared when buying grease in 40 litre buckets. As a bonus the grease bucket saves a lot of time when greasing as many grease-zerks as you have on your agricultural machines.
The pit makes servicing a lot quicker and cleaner plus you can get a good look around while you’re there. I’m sure you will make good use of the pit Tom. Looking forward to more pitcam.
Def painted floor ! Battleship grey 👌 would recommend a company called “clover chemicals” they do two products which are really good. One is “diamond extra” which is a mop on polish has a wet look but very “grippy” and the other is “viro-sol” it’s a degreaser and it works wonders ! Even cleans alloy wheels, absolutely melts off !
Cool channel. I watched the pit build yesterday and thought You may get water in there even though its inside just because its a low spot and inevitable but it looks nice and dry! You do a top job of everything to be fare!
Floor colour, light grey, reflect some of that light back up under whatever you're working on. Also, a decent, 50 mm hose, wet and dry shop vac for keeping the pit and surrounding areas clean. I used to run engine test cells and learned to wet mop to keep the test cell clean. The process was to use a lot of water (with a decent commercial cleaner in it), mop it around, vac up the majority and then go back over the floor with a rung out mop (this works best with a flat mop and a squeezing bucket), rinsing and squeezing as the mop picked up the residual water. A light coloured floor make it easy to see the dirt and keep on top of it. I used to clean the test cell every time I swapped an engine out (sometimes three times a day) and could clean an area the size of your pit in around 15-20 minutes, normally while the engine was warming up.
@@johnwarwick4105 that's as maybe but a workshop works better if you can keep the shit to a minimum. It's more pleasant and productive to work in and easier to find that bit you drop it the place isn't grotty. Keeping on top of dirt by having the right tools (shop vac and a mop) is not that time consuming. In the case of the engine testbeds I was responsible for it was more productive to make a mess and then clean up after then to fanny about trying to catch minor spillages while you were doing the job. I was testing a pre-production engine family for one of the major motor manufacturers and, as such, engine on test was what we got paid for. I could change an engine over, including fitting and connecting the instrumentation, in one hour fifty five minutes from pressing the stop button to starting the next engine. Mess gets made but discipline keeps the place in order. The other thing to bare in mind is what sort of image do you want to present to the world; we had the client on site and likely to visit the testbed at any time, Tom sticks his videos on RUclips for the world to see: it's all about presentation and how you want to be perceived.
Throw some used pit belt on the floor. Nice & grippy, easy to clean, has a bit of give for when you drop your tools & things, easy to see the odd nut or something when you drop it.
One of the things you could do is to gloss the pit walls so dirt doesn't stick to them as easily ? White emulsion is good but its porous and absorbs anything that touches it.
Working under trains, we also come accross a similar issue, if you make a metal box on wheels that can go between the rails with a drain valve connected to a flexible pipe for conection to your waste oil drain container..
If You had one of the old jcb's with the Perkins 6 cyl in, easy job re oil 😂 electric grease guns are bad news as you have no feedback. Also good to put a bit of oil in filter before you put it on as it allows the elements to moisten up as otherwise when you first start you may have low pressure briefly
ch u. im so sorry. this is a tom video. ooooooo keep up the great work. NO I won't say anything about Colin 1 vid a year or weather of leafs on the line. great work tom. help a friend. made me eat
You need a Milwaukee m18 grease gun mate. The best gun I’ve ever had. Lasts 3 months on one 5ah battery. Hardly ever airlocks and easy to bleed. Get a g coupler on the end of it and you’ll wonder why you never had one sooner 👍🏻
If it helps I have no idea on the floor coating. Literally none, because it packs in with dirt and oil until it makes no difference. If I was going mad I would line it with steel trays levelled up with that fibre glass waffle board. Tug them once a year, shovel out the worst, jet wash the trays in the yard and throw it all back in. That seems excessive though :D
-- Tom, get a drain valve for the sump on the JCB. Preferably one with a hose fitting so you can neatly drain the oil into your fancy whatsit down in the pit. Also, Form-A-Funnel exists. Get some of them too.
-- Get an air powered bulk grease gun. Quick coupler on the end of the grease line so you can change fittings (e.g. right angle for tight spaces). Default should be a lock on coupler of some description. FWIW I mainly use a LockNLube lock on grease coupler, but I do have others for certain fittings.
-- Related tip: once you have a bulk grease gun, remove the bleeder screws on your normal grease guns and replace them with grease nipples. When you find the little grease gun is getting low (we still use them for greasing out in the field), just take it into the workshop, connect up to the bulk greaser and pull the trigger. A couple of minutes later, your grease gun is full again without making a mess!
-- While you're getting a bulk grease gun, get some air powered drum pumps for your oils. With flow meters so you know how much oil you've added. Again: easier, cleaner and cheaper. Just wheel out whichever oil drum you need for a given machine, connect the air line, pull the trigger, stop when the appropriate quantity has been added, check on dipstick, wheel the drum away.
-- Wet and dry shop vac for cleaning the pit. Get one with a long hose (5m+) and a long piece of pipe on the end (whatever length suits you) so you can vacuum out the pit while standing on the shop floor next to it.
If I think of anything else, I'll come back and add it!
Thank for all that I’ve taken it on
Literally just watched all of the 4 pit vids & then the servicing of the baler - then to my surprise you upload another! Brilliant
They will keep coming
is it me or just good to see a farmer show invest in a business and try to fix them costs etc support from this helping him. WOW from others.
Great video Tom it’s definitely easier with the pit rather than rolling around on the floor 👏👏👍👍
I can remember when I was younger and crawling under cars to work on them using just axle stands....When I started work and they had a pit life was so much better and no aches and pains from my spine or ribs. very good thing to have is access to a pit. Thanks Tom....
A brilliant space Tom , you can see everything, and reach everything effortlessly. That's a great idea with the light box to get lights from dazzling other road users. 👍👍
Whenever the cat shows up, I'm happy. Paint the floor light gray. None of those stupid speckles they like to add for some reason. You'll never find what you drop.
Pit is awesome. Light colour for the floor. White, cream or grey. I am also starting to suspect some heavy industry maintenance experience lurking in the backgroud...
P.S. careful blowing stuff INTO air filter media... dirty filters actually have a higher particle arrest efficiency, albeit at expense of some power loss. Depth or surface loading filters designed for pulse cleaning have special construction and the air is blown from inside out.
Hi Tom I'm not a Farmer however i find your videos really interesting to watch thank you for sharing kev .
Great to see the pit getting dirty. It's what it was meant to do, surely. Nice to see you've got a beam setter. Should make it better for you when on the road and safer for others too.
Nice work again Tom,why don’t you get the air type grease gun that fits on the top of a 20 litre tub of grease you have already got the compressed air to drive it and it’s probably a lot cheaper than a battery grease gun
That’s a good idea
@@Tomlamb980 That's what we use in the workshop. Much cheaper than tubes of grease, much cleaner and easier than filling normal grease guns from the big tub.
Another tip: once you have a bulk grease gun, remove the bleeder screws on your normal grease guns and replace them with grease nipples. When you find the little grease gun is getting low (still use them for greasing out in the field), just take it into the workshop, connect up to the bulk greaser and pull the trigger. A couple of minutes later, your grease gun is full again without making a mess!
@@dfross87Great tip!
Many maintenance shops invest in a 40 litre pneumatic air operated pump / grease bucket, they usually come with a long hose with a gun on the end. You already have shop air, so it may be an ideal investment for you. The tubes of grease that you are probably using (400 grams) cost a fortune compared when buying grease in 40 litre buckets. As a bonus the grease bucket saves a lot of time when greasing as many grease-zerks as you have on your agricultural machines.
Thanks
I would say light grey for the floor. Enjoy your videos, keep them coming.
The pit makes servicing a lot quicker and cleaner plus you can get a good look around while you’re there. I’m sure you will make good use of the pit Tom. Looking forward to more pitcam.
Def painted floor ! Battleship grey 👌 would recommend a company called “clover chemicals” they do two products which are really good. One is “diamond extra” which is a mop on polish has a wet look but very “grippy” and the other is “viro-sol” it’s a degreaser and it works wonders ! Even cleans alloy wheels, absolutely melts off !
Loving the hands free camera setup!
It’s on my head 😂
Milwaukee m18 is a good grease gun
Cool channel. I watched the pit build yesterday and thought You may get water in there even though its inside just because its a low spot and inevitable but it looks nice and dry! You do a top job of everything to be fare!
Floor colour, light grey, reflect some of that light back up under whatever you're working on. Also, a decent, 50 mm hose, wet and dry shop vac for keeping the pit and surrounding areas clean. I used to run engine test cells and learned to wet mop to keep the test cell clean. The process was to use a lot of water (with a decent commercial cleaner in it), mop it around, vac up the majority and then go back over the floor with a rung out mop (this works best with a flat mop and a squeezing bucket), rinsing and squeezing as the mop picked up the residual water. A light coloured floor make it easy to see the dirt and keep on top of it. I used to clean the test cell every time I swapped an engine out (sometimes three times a day) and could clean an area the size of your pit in around 15-20 minutes, normally while the engine was warming up.
Thanks for that
😂😂it’s a farm not an operating theatre
@@johnwarwick4105 that's as maybe but a workshop works better if you can keep the shit to a minimum. It's more pleasant and productive to work in and easier to find that bit you drop it the place isn't grotty. Keeping on top of dirt by having the right tools (shop vac and a mop) is not that time consuming. In the case of the engine testbeds I was responsible for it was more productive to make a mess and then clean up after then to fanny about trying to catch minor spillages while you were doing the job. I was testing a pre-production engine family for one of the major motor manufacturers and, as such, engine on test was what we got paid for. I could change an engine over, including fitting and connecting the instrumentation, in one hour fifty five minutes from pressing the stop button to starting the next engine. Mess gets made but discipline keeps the place in order.
The other thing to bare in mind is what sort of image do you want to present to the world; we had the client on site and likely to visit the testbed at any time, Tom sticks his videos on RUclips for the world to see: it's all about presentation and how you want to be perceived.
Awesome video, thanks for the update! Service seems to be way too easy now 😋 Fun to watch service on a big machine also, Thanks! ❤
beam setter and a nice little service 👌🍻
Yeah, the cat is back! :D Also Tom, you could get a head-mounted go-pro for filming, so you have both your hands free to do stuff!
I’ve got one
Throw some used pit belt on the floor.
Nice & grippy, easy to clean, has a bit of give for when you drop your tools & things, easy to see the odd nut or something when you drop it.
Well done. I see you're putting the pit to use. Get an air greaser Tom, at least a 5 gallon bucket of grease will last longer lol ❤
Milwaukee 18v grease guns complete with Lumatic lock on couplers is what you want Tom.
One of the things you could do is to gloss the pit walls so dirt doesn't stick to them as easily ? White emulsion is good but its porous and absorbs anything that touches it.
The lazy guy in me suggested painting the floor the same color as the dirt. But a nice, reflective grey or white.
What happens in the pit, stays in the pit😇
Working under trains, we also come accross a similar issue, if you make a metal box on wheels that can go between the rails with a drain valve connected to a flexible pipe for conection to your waste oil drain container..
Good idea
What about a Black floor ? Can we see you serving a Reliant Robin over the pit next ? 😊
If You had one of the old jcb's with the Perkins 6 cyl in, easy job re oil 😂 electric grease guns are bad news as you have no feedback. Also good to put a bit of oil in filter before you put it on as it allows the elements to moisten up as otherwise when you first start you may have low pressure briefly
That cat will end up being the channel mascot if you aren't careful
It’s a different cat
get yourself a drain valve. makes it much easier
Nice job mucka . Milwaukee do a great grease gun . Save ya arms lol
Light grey epoxy paint Tom, with grit. Gives traction even when oil is spilt.
11:09 great content again
Your needing a G coupler for your grease gun Tom 👌👍
painted floor might get a bit slippy
ch u. im so sorry. this is a tom video. ooooooo keep up the great work. NO I won't say anything about Colin 1 vid a year or weather of leafs on the line. great work tom. help a friend. made me eat
Paint the floor red ♥️
You need a Milwaukee m18 grease gun mate. The best gun I’ve ever had. Lasts 3 months on one 5ah battery. Hardly ever airlocks and easy to bleed. Get a g coupler on the end of it and you’ll wonder why you never had one sooner 👍🏻
Makita electric gun 😂 needed 😂😂😂
I wish you could do a collab with the guys from Deboss Garage Heavy Duty channel.
If you have time do a yellow and white chevron for the floor
Cover it with plastic, it would be a shame to dirty it up now nice and white.
Eventually I want to learn how to service this kind of equipment, will have to transition from commercial heavy duty trucks.
Massey red and grey for the floor. Red boarder round the out side. Or a grey floor with the Massey badge in the middle.
Floor light grey (non-slip type) :)
Great video Tom! Thanks 👌🏻
If it helps I have no idea on the floor coating. Literally none, because it packs in with dirt and oil until it makes no difference. If I was going mad I would line it with steel trays levelled up with that fibre glass waffle board. Tug them once a year, shovel out the worst, jet wash the trays in the yard and throw it all back in. That seems excessive though :D
Para limpiar los filtros de aire, mejor usar agua.......
Sorry...., my English is bad.....
Your clean filters and another suscicion for air, the best sistem Is the water
Still not happy with the cat after the concrete incident 🤣
Nope
Air powered grease gun just for the pit
Great stuff, Tom! The cat was decidedly lol-worthy! Is the moggy yours, or was it looking for a cameo? 🤣
It was another cat
thing i cant figure out, farming takes about 18 to 20 hours a day. how do y'all find time to do all this extra?
im just impressed.
We just do everything
Go with light grey
Milwaukee m18 grease gun 💪
You can get an air powered grease gun
Tom lamb he’s a farmer you know
Do the floor pink
Paint the floor Green like the steelwork.
Get a 18v milwaki grease gun verry good tool
Hi tom do you still have your delorean car you got of wheeler dealers. Dream car.
It’s kicking about
Looks much easier to use the pit than on the floor!
Do you feature in Mr Furze's video this Thursday?
I haven’t asked him I will be in one soon as I’m digging it out again
No transmission filter? Come on Mr Lamb
It’s on back order
Massey red floor
nice algae growth in the diesel, get some conditioner in your tank, and if you bulk store, get some in it as well, the joys of bio-diesel in the mix
what about rubbere floor for grip and health and safty
That will be even slippy if oil gets spilt onto it
then i say pain it yellow and give it a texture for safty@@Tomlamb980
With all the accolades and encouragement I feel compelled to lie.
You're doing it all wrong!