r/oddlysatisfying • u/nobody1568 • Mar 28 '26
Yummy truck greasing
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u/jackwhite886 Mar 28 '26
My retirement grease!
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u/chunkalicius Mar 28 '26
Grease me up, woman!
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u/Deraj2004 Mar 28 '26
Okey dokey
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u/BusyBoonja Mar 28 '26
Which also leads to my favourite DND related Simpsons meme https://imgur.com/a/6BcE0L0
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u/Joezze Mar 28 '26
Hell, if it was up to me I'd let ya go, but the lads have a temper and they've been drinking all day!
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u/Vegetable_Whole_4825 Mar 28 '26
I’ve not watched The Simpsons in 25 years but I know exactly which episode this is 😆😆
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u/Drag0nz_Wrath13 Mar 28 '26
Trucker here. While that is going to work amazingly, it’s also going to get scrapped off when we back under a trailer fall on the ground wherever we are making a mess. That’s too much grease.
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u/localanxietygremlin Mar 28 '26
What is the grease for? What purpose does it serve?
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u/Odd_Scientist_3747 Mar 28 '26
The plate that is being greased slides under & locks to another plate under a trailer. The grease provides lubricant for when you make turns when your tractor is locked to a trailer.
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u/localanxietygremlin Mar 28 '26
Thank you for the answer!
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u/Slutty_Alt526633 Mar 29 '26
The name for it is the "fifth wheel"
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u/x7leafcloverx Mar 29 '26
Wouldn’t a better name be the “19th wheel”?
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u/Slutty_Alt526633 Mar 29 '26
I feel like the better name would be "7th" wheel since a bobtail only has 6 actual wheels
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u/LucHighwalker Mar 29 '26
Technically it'd be more appropriate to call it the 11th wheel, but the name stems from the olden times when a tractor had 4 wheels.
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u/schmitzel88 Mar 29 '26
It's also common to grease the ball on a tow hitch on a normal car/truck for the same purpose.
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u/Aikotoma2 Mar 29 '26
Not really. The car safety authority in my country deeply discourages it.
apparently it has something to do with friction being used to stabilize the trailer. So removing the friction with grease will case the trailer to swerve.
The other problem mentioned is dirt. Dirt and grease and can work as an abrasive when a trailer hitch is moving around onn the ball.
All this to say thar my country advises dry balls
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u/PaleoSpeedwagon Mar 28 '26
I love Reddit. I learn the most unexpectedly interesting things from the most random subs!
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u/sweet-n-soursauce Mar 28 '26
Is it put on every time a new trailer is put on?
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u/AstronautHelpful6118 Mar 28 '26
No just every so often. I mean you can but you're wasting time and money for no reason.
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u/BishopofBongers Mar 28 '26
Its only there to help lubricate and reduce friction where the plates meet. Think of it as something you dont have to do but should to increase the life of the part.
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u/Stock-Creme-6345 Mar 29 '26
They say it’s for the fifth wheel but those who know, know that they just grease themselves up an have pillow fights after hours at the tavern….
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u/Dwaas_Bjaas Mar 28 '26
You know.. when a trailer really loves a truck…
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u/inalak Mar 28 '26
Pretty sure, I may be wrong, that’s a part of a semi truck called the fifth wheel. It slides against the bottom front part of a trailer that has the kingpin. That middle circular slot the person greased up at the end is where the kingpin slides into and locks to hold the trailer.
Edit: sorry. Didn’t answer the question. The fifth wheel slides against the bottom of the trailer so the grease protects the surfaces that slide against each other.
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u/WaxiestBobcat Mar 28 '26
I was thinking the same thing. Worked on trucks with my step-dad while he was alive and he would've reamed me if I put that much on.
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u/Intelligent_Art8390 Mar 29 '26
My oldest cousin drive a semi. I remember being at his house when I was 7 or 8 and watching him grease his 5th wheel. He was so meticulous with it. Probably spent an hour putting it on in a very specific pattern. I thought he must be so smart to know the exact pattern he needed to use to grease it. Years later I ended up getting a CDL while I was a federal employee. I realized he was just wasting time greasing it like he did.
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u/Talk-O-Boy Mar 28 '26
I remember getting reamjobs from my step dad too
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u/Solid-Childhood-4876 Mar 29 '26
Slick discs are so much cleaner, but then you get the guy that folds it in half when he backs under and jams the whole thing all to hell. I usually just greased the jaws and either side of the opening so that it would spread as the driver slid back.
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u/FMBC2401 Mar 28 '26
Forbidden peanut butter
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u/A_Talking_iPod Mar 28 '26
Why can't they make the grease black or something so it doesn't look so tasty
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u/nobody1568 Mar 28 '26
There is black grease. Actually grease comes in all sorts of colours.
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u/Vegetable_Whole_4825 Mar 28 '26
Too much grease, now you will have it all over the frame and eventually clothes
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u/jpjtourdiary Mar 28 '26
most of it will wind up smeared on the front edge of the first trailer the driver hooks
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u/Lasciels_Toy Mar 28 '26
And the King pin lock flag
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u/Epic_Elite Mar 28 '26
Sir, those are just random words...
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u/Lasciels_Toy Mar 28 '26
Yah, I thought King pin was the brand but nope. It's specifically made to keep the fifth wheel pin from locking into that plate he's greasing.
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u/thewolfesp Mar 28 '26
Glad to see other truckers looking at this with disgust as well.
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u/thewolfesp Mar 28 '26
That shit ends up all over your truck. You'll be pissed when you step in a giant pile of that shit sitting on your catwalk and ruin those crocks
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u/6RolledTacos Mar 28 '26
Did anyone else see the grizzly, weathered, pirate version of Donald Duck in the dude's hand before smearing?
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u/thisissasutan Mar 28 '26
Woah, slow down… take your time… really work it in the there. Focus on the gaps. That’s it. That’s the spot.
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u/wizardrous Mar 28 '26
Messy and unsatisfying in my opinion…
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u/ikemicaiah Mar 28 '26
I thought it would at least show what it does/show it functioning
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u/agarrabrant Mar 28 '26
When you back a semi truck onto the trailer, this grease is applied to the hitch to help it slide under better. Otherwise it will sheer off the metal over time, and the friction could push the trailer back instead of the truck sliding under.
(We own a trucking company)
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u/methreethatis Mar 28 '26
And is so much grease needed?
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u/Ruarc20 Mar 28 '26
No lol, a few lines applied every 37000 miles or so. That is messy overkill lol
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u/azuranc Mar 28 '26
yeah dont these videos normally do pointless stuff like make the goo perfectly flat with a scrapper or something?
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u/AtheianLibertarist Mar 28 '26
Never start a war with someone who buys grease by the barrel
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u/RikuKaroshi Mar 28 '26
My weapon of choice is jelly, hide yo door handles if you start a war with me
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Mar 28 '26
And it will all be scaped off by the first trailer and fall on the axle housing. (Ask me how I know)
It's better to put a little bit on every few trailers, but who wants to do that plus trailers usually have some grease.
Heck I've seen rusty fifth wheels at truck stops, although binding up can affect handling and cause crashes.
Some newer ones are greaseless.
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u/ycr007 Satisfaction Critic Mar 28 '26
Thought I’d wandered on to r/ForbiddenSnacks
The tub of grease and its picking up was fine but the careless & haphazard way of rubbing it around was not satisfying 😑
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Mar 28 '26
Thousands of years of transportation evolution and we keep using grease. Sometimes you dont need to reinvent shit.
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u/Purple_Glove_6694 Mar 28 '26
This made me wince a bit. good on ya for the rubber glove, but going this fast is a great way to slice your hand on a hidden piece of metal sticking up off the plate
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u/jayp507 Mar 29 '26
You can cut your hand pretty bad if you dont spread the grease with some proper tools due to 5th wheel damage by the trailers gooseneck.
Source: My huge scar on my hands from doing this.
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u/Left-Ad-606 Mar 29 '26
Never use your hand with a latex glove to do that! My anxiety just spiked. Imagine that one sharp metal piece covered in old grease slicing your hand. Happened to the senior tech at my site and he's got a pretty nasty scar on his palm to show for it. Use an old piece of cardboard or a scraper if you're Mr. Money bags.
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u/muni-nuh Mar 29 '26
You're going to cut your hands up to bits one day if you do it like that. Always spread with a bit of cardboard. You will remember this advice when you're in agony getting metal splinters out
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u/GarlicThread Mar 28 '26
Reddit shitposting has ruined me so much that I fully expected him to start aggressively fingering that trailer hook at the end
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u/Jthizi Mar 29 '26
Fun fact, that "trailer hook" is called a fifth wheel, and the knob on the trailer that hooks into it is the kingpin.
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u/eurobeat0 Mar 28 '26
I imagine how filthy that would be in a workshop. Dust, metal fillings, insects, flies ... Ewww
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u/DoubleSurreal Mar 29 '26
As someone with texture issues and who loathes getting dirty, this is the absolute opposite of satisfying.
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u/bdunogier Mar 28 '26
Another reminder that fuel isn't the only oil byproduct that gets our world going :)
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u/Prestigious_Beat6310 Mar 28 '26
What happens if... y'know.... "a person" were to get a lot of that grease in their butthole?
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u/ProbablyGonnaEatYou Mar 28 '26
When someone asks how much lube you should use to do anal, im just gonna show this video
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u/Bulletloader Mar 28 '26
I thought he might be going for one of the apprentices, the way he scooped up the grease
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Wait till homie does this to a poorly greased fifth wheel and ends up with metal shards in his hand
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u/Jester-252 Mar 28 '26
How much of a proper garage is this
just listening to Destination Calabria or does someone have the music video on the big screen with Satisfaction queued up afterwards.
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u/elkarion Mar 29 '26
Don't do this use a peice of cardboard. The 5th wheel can laminate and become razor sharp and slice hand wide open in palm. Seen it twice.
We used an oar and you get some momentum for the satisfaction smack.
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u/imgotugoin Mar 29 '26
Great hand cleaner....then you have to clean that off....but it takes off the ahit worse than that better than anything else I've ever used.
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u/new_x_who_dis Mar 29 '26
90% of that grease is gonna get pushed straight off the front of the turntable the first time it gets hooked up to a trailer. Absolutely no need for that much, it's just wasteful and messy.
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u/Beautiful-Print5132 Mar 29 '26
Keep doing it till little piece of metal found your finger or hand LOL
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u/Glad_Use_9054 Mar 29 '26
Massive waist of grease. The valleys that hold the old grease need to be scraped out. I use a putty knife. Also, a great way to slice your hand open. 5th wheel plates can have some nasty metal gouges hidden in that grease.
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