Roller bearings

[Dman2]

After our roller frame disintegrated last week, looking at making a new frame.
what are the best type of bearings to use, wooden or roller
If wooden what type of wood?

Cheers

 

[tinman]

to save a lot of work, walter watson sell metal housed nylon bearings for their rollers, i put in a pair years ago and i dont expect to be putting any more in her as long as their kept greased.
im not sure about the size of the shaft in mine but its somewhere to start looking.
Altho its going to be hard to get anyone open these times so maybe wood it is.

 

[Pistonbroke]

I cut two blocks from the Heartwood of an oak tree and spent hours cutting them to shape and holesawing. Lasted two years .

 

[bumkin]

I cut two blocks from the Heartwood of an oak tree and spent hours cutting them to shape and holesawing. Lasted two years ☹.

i am not sure but i have an inkling it should be ash

 

[Dman2]

I actually made some wooden ones @ 10 year back and only just starting to fall apart
No idea what type of wood it was though

 

[milkloss]

I cut two blocks from the Heartwood of an oak tree and spent hours cutting them to shape and holesawing. Lasted two years ☹.

they want boiling/soaking in some sort of grease before use really.

 

[farmideas]

I replaced the Grays wooden ones with a nice piece of hawthorn and drilled the hole with a Practool Super Drill. I also fitted a grease nipple to the underside plate and drilled a 1/8 hole through wood to the shaft. The Grays idea with the greaser on top was fine if you realised the frame needed lifting before applying grease gun. That took me 12 years or more, which didn't help the wood. The hawthorn worked well and the grease got to the bearing.

 

[tancoman]

Got two wooden one's made at a small joinery shop a few years back. Hardwood, possibly teak. Good job,

 

[Bullock82]

We made a pair from a railway sleeper, still going strong at least 10 years later!

 

[ED.D]

Had mine fitted with roller bearings but they are a bit oversize, if I remember correctly each housing and bearing weigh approx 30kg each.
Run smooth when going down the road and have done a couple of thousand acres now also with no problems.

 

[HolzKopf]

They're cheap enough online in wood?
But has anyone made them out of 'engineering plastic' e.g. nylatron, oilon? Make a 'top hat' plastic bush and screw into housing?