Help with brand of disc

petersjt · Aug 22, 2015

Good evening
Just acquired a disc I am new to this game and i have no idea what the brand is. I am in need of a bearing and I need to order the correct one.
thank you in advance

DeltaRed · Aug 22, 2015

Looks like a 'Dearborn'(Ford).Does it have 'real' bearings,or wood or cast boxings.

petersjt · Aug 22, 2015

It has the wooden bearings. Seems that woodex is the place to start for bearings. Would that be correct or is there somewhere else?

Farmallb · Aug 22, 2015

The JD wing disc that my dad had had wood boxings, and boxings are what they are/were called. I saw him change them out when I was little in grade school. 60yrs ago.

petersjt · Aug 22, 2015

All of them are in good shape except one. I had never seen them before. This is going to be a food plot disc. Not a lot of heavy use so hopefully they will do ok for my purposes.

petersjt · Aug 22, 2015

thank you for the correct term. Makes it easier to speak the correct language!

DeltaRed · Aug 22, 2015

I would think it would be best to turn them on a lathe. Use a hard wood

Billy NY · Aug 23, 2015

That is a Love Tractor Inc. Eau Claire, MI disc harrow. Its broke in the usual places, note the angle iron welded to the pipe frame on yours. They make a nice seed bed adjustable like a Massey Ferguson #25 and the similar preceding Ferguson disc harrow, that also has oil impregnated wood bearings. I listed a link to Woodex, its the only site on the web I have seen that offers wood bearings for old farm equipment. One could have these made by a wood shop on a lathe, not sure of the best species of wood, or the oil soaking process, nor about the best care for these, some say not to grease them, as it will have abrasives get into the bearings, other opinions contrast that, not sure whats best for these. I have one of them, but the next size down. It was inventory stock at our Ford tractor dealership.
Love Tractor

Love 3Pt Hitch

YT Thread

Standard Catalog of Farm Tractors

Encyclopedia of American Farm Implements

Ebay

Woodex

petersjt · Aug 23, 2015

Thanks Billy, appreciate the information and the links. Have a good day!

Leroy · Aug 23, 2015

Hard maple is what was used at the factory for all makes as it will soak in the oil and that soaked in oil is what will make a boxing last. Some say use oak as it is also a hard wood but it will not absorb the oil like maple and the only lube you will have is surface lube. And if the factory did not expect you to grease them and you push the dirt out when you grease then they would not have put zerks in there. If you can make them and have the time put them in a bucket of motor oil and let set for a year, the factorys when they were popular may have had a system to presurise the container they were in to increase the absorbsion rate.

Leroy · Aug 24, 2015

Disks, cultipackers, cultimulchers, rotary hoes all used them. And then other machinery including combines used a variante of them.

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