Old antique stalk chopper

[sghoghunter]

I’ve been running ideas through my head for a while now of ways I could get rid of overgrown briars,dog fennels and other brush that’s grown up in the thinned pine rows at our hunting club. I had an idea of building a smaller version of a chopper that’s pulled with a dozer until I started seeing these stalk choppers on marketplace. I bought one today that had been converted over years ago to a three point hookup instead of being drug around. I’ve googled all afternoon trying to see if it has bearings that can be changed or if it just runs in a channel sort of thing packed full of grease

 

[Canuck5]

My guess is that it does have bearings, one at each end, but what type might be a question mark, until you open it up. Some very old equipment used wooden bearings made from ash or oak.

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[Canuck5]

 

[sghoghunter]

That’s the one I got but it’s been updated to a 3 point hook up