Straw Walker Wood Bearings ?
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Topic: Straw Walker Wood Bearings ?
Posted By: JimWenigOH
Subject: Straw Walker Wood Bearings ?
Date Posted: 26 May 2012 at 11:12am
| I'm installing new wood bearings on the straw walker cranks. Should I put a dab of grease on each one before assembly, or just install as is? Thanks. |
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Posted By: WIDB
Date Posted: 26 May 2012 at 11:57am
| Hey Jim, I don't think the Crop Alls had any zerk fittings on the straw walker blocks but I do have a New Idea Combine 717 that has zerks on the wood blocks. I don't think the grease will hurt the wood fibers probably not stay there too long. |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 26 May 2012 at 12:19pm
| Grease will get into the wood fibers and lubricate...swing arm style weren't so bad but the rotory motion in Gleaner straw walker should have grease. |
Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 27 May 2012 at 7:23am
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A neighbor and good friend once told me that maple makes the best wood bearings. Dusty ------------- 917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express" |
Posted By: MBWisc
Date Posted: 27 May 2012 at 7:27am
| As I remmeber most of the wood block bearings long ago were soaked in oil. |
Posted By: Clay
Date Posted: 27 May 2012 at 8:34am
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I have always used maple for straw walker bearings. Soak them in linseed oil. A dab of grease is a good idea during assembly.
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Posted By: DanD
Date Posted: 27 May 2012 at 10:49am
My dad has an old AC rotary hoe with wood block bearings. One time many years ago we set up to make a bunch of the bearings out of maple and hung them on some wire and threw then in some used oil containers down in the shed. There are still a few in there yet today. Those blocks that soaked in the oil for a few years especially have lasted a long time in use and still look great. The rotary hoe also has grease zerks for the wood bearings. |
MBWisc wrote:Posted By: B26240
Date Posted: 27 May 2012 at 6:35pm
| yep grease em up-- oil would be good also. |
Posted By: MACK
Date Posted: 27 May 2012 at 10:06pm
| Older Gleaner combines up to mid 60s had greese zerts. We replaced wood blocks all time. Then they quit puttong grease zerts in and the blocks would run almost for ever. MACK |
Posted By: 7060
Date Posted: 27 May 2012 at 11:01pm
| John Deere 9500 combines were still using wood bearings in the 90's. Ours had grease holes in them. |
Posted By: nella(Pa)
Date Posted: 28 May 2012 at 6:53am
| Had an AC disk in the 1955 and it had wood bearings with grease plugs on the axles. Also had a case baler then and it had oil impregnated maple blocks on the bottom of the plunger and no grease plugs on them. |
Posted By: Rawleigh
Date Posted: 29 May 2012 at 10:51am
| I made Delrin bearings for mine. |