wooden busings for cultipacker?

Sorry I meant bushings. Never could spell to good.

I bet it looks like mine. It came to Texas with my uncle 42 years ago from Illinois. It don't have a name tag either.

Why not look up a Wood Turner in your area? Easy to make out of hard maple on wood lathe.

Hard maple, hickory, and to some extent oak makes decent bearings. Lignum Vitae makes great bearings but is very expensive. Wood bearings benefit by being dried in a 180 degree oven until they tinkle, and are then submerged in oil which they will absorb in quantity. I've also used parafin wax as the lubricant with a long life.

The lack of bearings didn't seem to bother my use of that cultipacker, I just dragged it behind the drill and it did its thing without grumbling. I don't know who made it.

A woodworker with a lathe would be the most expedient way to get the bearings.

Gerald J.

Gerald has it down, hedge(osage orange) and black locust work better than most anything except lignum vitae.  If you use oak, only use white oak, not red oak.  Some take a propane torch and burn the journals lightly before using swearing that it makes them last longer?  I haven't had any problems with my bearings without doing it on my horse drawn disc or cultipacker. 

Balsters has wood bearings, out of scotch grove IA.

Phone number is 319-465-4141 or 3838.  Be patient with him and try to find some numbers off of the castings or some where to help him identify it.  or even better take measurements. 

My understanding that some of the early hydro electric plants vertical shaft generators sit on lignum vitae bearings and some have never been replaced.  Pretty good bearing to last for 80+ years.

I went into an IH dealership parts area and they had a box of wood bearings setting at the end of one of the shelf rows. The old IH disks used wood bearings. I remember as a kid watching my grand father change them one spring. If you kept them greased they would run many miles before needing changed.  His got greased every morning and at noon when it was being used. If he went out after chores it was greased again.