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Anyone ever seen one of these before? Im not having much luck. It works great but needs new bearings on the axles.

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Cannot tell you the make but it was a horse drawn disk and at that time they all had as far as I know wood boxings for bearings. You will need to take it apart and clean up all parts and then take a bearing holder and cap along with the best of the spools between the blades that the bearing rides on to a good full service wood working shop. They will be able to by measurement make new ones and use hard maple as it will soak in oil or grease but before you assemble it soak the new wood pierces in a bucket of used motor oil for at least a month, longer is better. Oak that some would say to use will not absorb any of that oil, it will just stay on surface, the maple will absorb the oil. The weight pans look like on a Moline tractor disk.
 
Good advice on how to repair your disk,
Question, is this a family heirloom disk that you are wanting to repair,

If not, I bet this repair job is going to cost you big time to have these wood bearings made

If I just used it in a garden or truck patch, I might buy some cheap grease tubes, fill each bearing full of grease each time I used the disk, will last a life time

My small 6 ft pickup disk has metal to metal bearings no wood or seal bearings
I just grease them good and often, have used it for many years,
 
Can you change the blade angle?It'snot going to maove much soil facing straight ahead like that.
 
There are a couple good bearings left. They look to be a metal bearing. Two of the broken ones have an inner and outer race. I will go ahead and pull a good one apart.
 

You can make the wood bearings out of any decent hardwood with not much more than a drill and table/radial arm saw. It's not rocket science.
 
Most people do not have the ability to use a 2-2.5" drill bit that is why the wood shop. Drill the center hole and then split the piece for top and bottom of bearing some will be a hex shape, others round with a hole drilled for a prong inside bearing housing to fit in to keep it from turning, then you also have to locate and drill a grease hole.
 
I had bearings made at the shop where I worked as a mechanic. They were made for my 3 section roller packer. They were around 4insq. I drilled a hole in the center with a smaller bit, and then had a friend drill them out on a lathe. That was 30yrs ago. I then drilled out the holes for the bolts that mounted to the pieces coming down to meat the boxing, which is what they were called, and I drilled a hole for grease. I would fill the hole with grease from a grease gun, then take a peg, and tap it into the hole forcing the grease into the center of the boxing. I would also pour old motor oil all around the boxing before use. There still on there, although one has cracked. it still held in place by the holding bolts.
My IHC tractor wing disc bearings are metal on metal, and that disc has to be 70yrs old.
 

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