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Straw Walker Wood Bearings ?
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    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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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.
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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.
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A neighbor and good friend once told me that maple makes the best wood bearings.

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As I remmeber most of the wood block bearings long ago were soaked in oil.
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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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Originally posted by MBWisc MBWisc wrote:

As I remmeber most of the wood block bearings long ago were soaked in oil.

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.
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yep grease em up-- oil would be good also.
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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
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John Deere 9500 combines were still using wood bearings in the 90's. Ours had grease holes in them.
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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.
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I made Delrin bearings for mine.
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