Testimonials

Gordon Mcrae

Consolidated Farms, Quirading Western Australia

16th March 2001

To whom it may concern,

It was by chance that we became associated with David Ashwell from Agrilube when he visited our farm in Quarading in the Summer of 1981. Most travelers who called at the Farm I would listen to their jargon, then say I'll think about it and get on with my work. David was different. He had something that appealed to me. A range of products that would save on down time, save on oil changes at critical times, and at the same time preserve the machines. Simply, this meant adding an oil additive to a 205ltr drum of oil and missing some oil changes, adding a filter and adding some fluid to the distillate tanks, and as well to the cooling systems.

Our main tractors would do between 500 to 700hrs a season or seeding, which would mean that we would be changing the engine oil two or three times a season. Working them 24 hours a day meant that every thing would have to come to a standstill every so often, bit of a nuisance, to have everyone stopped while the servicing took place. If we could save on down time without loosing our tractors efficiency was very appealing. Our first try was to go out to 400hrs, that is, we would miss an oil change and then change on the second one, as the book 100hrs, we were at first quite nervious.

We had an oil test done, flushed using his flushing concentrate, and drained the oil and filled up with new oil and went the 400hrs, and took another test to see if all was well. The oil that we drained out was better than the previous test.

We monitored the tractors over the years using the additives in the engines and had no problems completing a complete season on the same oil and drain it at the end of the program, changing the oil and having them ready for the next year. We also used the additives in the gearboxes and final drives, taking an oil test at the end of every 12 months then every second year. The recommendation was for every 1000hrs, but ours would go longer than that, sometimes 1400 to 1500hrs without any detrimental effect to the mechanism, and our oil tests were pretty static.

When one of our tractors gearbox had done over 7000hrs, I asked the official service man when should these gearboxes be checked, to which he replied, “every 5000hrs”.  We had it repaired/overhauled as a precautionary measure, it's bearings and seals were replaced, but the report was that it could have gone on, and done as many hours again as it was still in very good order.

We also use a fuel additive in our fuel. Again a saving on unnecessary downtime during busy periods. This also proved to be good insurance. After using the fuel additive, repairs to fuel pumps and injectors were a thing of the past.  One of our tractors was sold after doing over 8600hrs and we hadn't touched the fuel pump or the injectors. The sump covers hadn't been off and the drop boxes and diffs were still original, being checked as in the above paragraph.

Because we had the additives in the oil, radiators and the fuel, it meant that all our Tractors, Trucks, Utes, and small engines were using the same oil, and all benefited by very little fuel system breakdown. The tractors that I have been talking about are:-

4wd 325hp Waltana, 8600hrs,

4wd 325hp Steiger, 13000hrs

4wd 310hp Muller 6500hrs

I hope you find this of interest, as I believe our maintenance bills would have been greater without these additives in our oils fuels and cooling systems, over the 20 years we have been using them. I have also enjoyed the interesting discussions that we have had about maintenance as well as the friendship of an interesting person.

Regards

Gordon Mcrae

Consolidated Farms.

Quirading Western Australia

NOTE:

Gordon has been using our products now since 1981 when I first visited him in that year, and since, he has had 23 years of trouble free farming.

David Ashwell

Rod Blyth, West Australia                                                       7th February 1986

To Dave Ashwell, Agrilube

I have a Toyota Hilux Diesel ute, 1981 model LN40.  Around the farm it tows augers, trailers, Harvester front, Fuel trailer, anything that needs towing.  I only have 1600 hectares crop now, but up until year 2000, we cropped 3500 HA, so the “ute” is used every day.

We don’t have a motorbike so all the sheep work is done with the “ute”. My three Kids learned to drive in it, and the farm workers use it when necessary to go to town etc. I use BP 15W – 40 oil in the engine and BP Gear Oil 90W- 140 In the Gearbox and Diff. All our oil is routinely treated with Agrilube Oil Additives at the recommended rate. The “ute” has travelled 346,285 KM and so far the Diff and Gearbox have never been opened.  Engine oil is changed every10,000 KM, and the rest every 15,000 KM. The motor was nearly cooked when a fanbelt broke at 236000 KM. 

From then it started to use oil, so with a new set of rings it was up and away again.  The little “ute” is still going Strong.  I’ve heard it said that you can’t get more than 50,000 KM out of a Hilux motor, on a farm. Whether mine is a good one or bad, or whether the additives are ding the work, not I don’t know, but I continue to use Agrilube Products regardless.   

As for the cooling system, we use the flush and the conditioner on a regular basis with this being changed every 12 months. We have never had a radiator or cooling system problem since we have been sing it.

This is only an example of one vehicle on the farm. Everything on the farm that has oil in it has the same oil treated with Agrilube Products., and has dome since we began on them in 1980. I have Oil Samples tested at every oil change and now run all tractors, harvester, trucks and utes on treble the time for oil changes as per the book.

We have been using Agrilube Products on the farm for over 25 years now and expect to continue to use them in the future.

Regards,  

Rod Blyth

RMB 11 Bodallin

6424 West Australia

Big Blue Grease                                                  February 2008

I used the big blue grease on two flexi-coil bars pre seeding and then 1500 hours later I was able to squeeze more grease into every nipple. Using my old brand of very tacky grease we would struggle to get grease into a third of the nipples if I left the grease up that long.

The walking axles work in very harsh conditions and often get tight but they were still very free in movement. From the results of using the grease throughout the machines at seeding I can't wait to see it extend the life of the bearings on the header when it comes time to take the crop off.

Andrew James

Karlgarin

Big Blue Grease                                                    August 2005

I have been using Agrilube big blue grease now for over 6 years on our farm equipment and have seen my bearings last many times as long as they have in the past.

The main area is the header where we inject the bearings with this grease once a year only as we have been told by Agrilube. The results are that we have never replaced a bearing on the machine in that time.

As far as the other machinery is concerned, our flexi coil bar has stopped giving us greif since we have been using this grease. I would highly recommend it to all machinery users on all types of machines.

M Grey

Dalwallinue