Old drag disk wooden bearings?

[Graveyard1984]

I brought an old drag disk and it has what appears to be wooden looking bearings. Is that possible that it could have wooden bearings? Is that really a thing? Were would a person find those at? Would you replace them or just hook to the disk and use it without replacing the bearings and not worry about it?
Thanks for any information it just seems odd to have wooden bearings.
Thanks again

 

[Muir hill 101]

Lots of wood bearings on old machines . Is there a way to oil them ?

 

[504]

I have a set of used wooden bearings in the JD box the new ones came in. Just a guess,wood block,drilled and cut with a band saw would make a new one.

 

[Graveyard1984]

It does have grease fittings

 

[rustred]

normal situation. i leaned to disc with the john deere disc. over 50 years ago. you had to grease them boxings every couple hrs. notice boxings not brgs. how do u think the old wooden horse wagons worked,.. no grease fittings on them wheels. you had to pull the wheel off and grease the axle.it was a heavy axle grease. even my old scoop a second grain auger has no wheel brgs. just a pipe on the axle with a grease fitting. i pulled it 60 miles and stopped every ten miles to grease the axles. grease a wonderful thing.

 

[Tony in SD]

X2

 

[Muir hill 101]

If it has zerks grease it . Heres a source for wood bearings or boxings
Wood boxings

 

[BonaparteSouth]

had an old oliver disk 7' tandem, it had wood boxings made from HARD MAPLE. use lots of GREASE!!

 

[Charlie M]

I've got a 8' cultipacker that has wooden bearings. I have a wood lath so I just made my own from maple.

 

[Mike(NEOhio)]

Father-in-law had JD and IH disks and Dunham cultipacker. There's still one or two new wood bearing on the wall in the shed but I don't know which they are for. Round bore and octagonal outsides.

 

[cleddy]

I have a small IHC single Disk and it came with some new wood bearings. I have had it 20 years and never greased it. Maybe I will replace the bearings and start greasing more often?? Cleddy

 

[David from Kansas]

JD S series single disk has wood bearings. Dad always made sure I greased them frequently. I have a few old wood boxings/bearings in the shop that I know do not fit the JD but don't know what they are for. I will take a picture and post it if I can find them.

 

[J.Wondergem]

When I was kid we had a grease gun on each tractor. We had to grease the disk every couple of hours and every hour on sandy ground.

 

[Graveyard1984]

Ok sounds good

 

[BonaparteSouth]

older winpower/kewanee rotary hoes had wood boxings also with NO grease zerks

 

[Graveyard1984]

Here's some pictures of the bearing housing

 

[Graveyard1984]

Here's the disk no clue what brand

 

[Leroy]

Wood was normal. used on everything. You can if you have the correct tools make your own. Hard maple was normal for factory made boxings. And the hard maple was the choice of every company as it would soak in oil that other hard woods like oak will not do. Some say use oak because it is hard but the grease will only wet the surface, not penetrate the pores of the wood. If you either find new old stalk or make your own soak them in a bucket of thin oil for at least a month for the oil to soak in. And then grease every few hours, More often in sandy soil to push out the sand soaked grease for fresh grease to keep the sand from grinding up the wood of the boxings. Some have said do not grease the boxings because of that but they did not want to grease things as often as should have been or would not pump enough grease in to flush out the dirt-sand that was grinding up the wood. I have made them. You will also find the wood used on older combines and corn pickers.

 

[Graveyard1984]

If I didn't fix the bearings would it still work?
I've got a small area in the yard were dogs have dug up and maybe less than 1/2 an arce where horses have walked just want to disk there hoof prints so I can sow grass seed

I've only got to small areas I need to work up then I'll probably scrap it as I only gave $150 for it.

 

[hd6gtom]

Dad made them out of maple. There was a grease zerk in the metal bearing holder. He drilled a hole in every one so he could grease them.