[Steam-engine] wood bearings

[HISTMACHRY at aol.com]

Do any of you know of machinery, lineshafts, countershafts, where wood is 
used as the bearing? Or as a variation on a theme, where babbitt is poured 
directly on the wood. I'm looking for info, examples, photos of such bearing 
arragements primarily in the metal and wood working fields, particularly on custom 
made machines. As an example there is a cut off saw at the Agrirama's sawmill in 
Tifton GA, the bearings on this swing saw look as if the steel pulley shaft 
runs on wood. No one at the site could tell me. 


Robert Yuill