JWR
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Short answer is NO. I have done pretty extensive searching and cannot find any wheels with actual bearings. In my case I was looking for replacement wheels for the 60" deck on the BX2200 Kubota. I did find a pkg of 4 of them at reasonable pricing (my daughter also had a BX2200 and some of hers needed replacement too.) My order was for K5371-42110 4 Deck Wheel Kit & Hardware for Kubota Toro Exmark 103-3168 103-4051 and cost $36 for the set. You can buy sets of two for around $22 also on Amazon. The bushings are fairly thick material and the bushings inside the wheels turn on the bolts (not polyurethane on metal.) So not really bearings but should last quite a long time.
JWR
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Deere wheels probably would have jerks...
...you mean zerks. Just kidding !! The replacement wheels I bought (post #2 above) unfortunately do not have zerks and really no good way to lubricate them at all. There are primarily 2 types of mid-mount mower decks -- the suspension ones like my BX2200 and many others AND the ground following type that are intended to ride on the ground all the time while mowing. My B2150 older Kubotas have the ground following type. In my experience the suspension type does a good quality mowing job but NOT as good as the ground following type which is more consistent, less undulation in the clip height, and just a higher quality result. A little bit of a tangent here, but I do not think you will find any professional heavy duty grass maintenance machines that use floating decks -- they're all ground followers.
p.s.: I forgot to mention: Suspension decks, in theory, should only be using the anti-scalp wheels, as zzvy said, "for occasional use, not full time." However, the reality is that the anti scalp wheels on a suspension deck are rotating about 90% or more of the time for most of us. This reality happens for a bunch of reasons -- partly because most of us run the decks closer the ground than might be ideal (we ignore the faction that advocates and believes 'mow high' is the best. We like to see it shorter. We just cannot bring ourselves to run the decks at a tractor controlled setting high enough to avoid the wheels contacting the ground most of the time. I'm as guilty as anyone and all this contributes to the fact that ground following decks do a better job.
OBTW, around 10-12 years ago there was a talkative guy on TBN whose handle was "Mow High." Wonder if he is still around?
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I replaced the wheels on my Kubota mower deck. They are just bushings, but the grease zerk is in the end of the axle. I feel it makes for a more positive distribution of grease to the bushing. I had a problem with the zerks pulling out of the original wheels. The wheels I got, I know I sourced from this site, but I cannot remember where.
Doug in SW IA
Doug in SW IA
RjCorazza
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I get about 400 hours on the front scalp wheels before they are worn on the outside beyond use. Sometimes the replacements have grease fittings, sometimes not... but they always wear out before there's a problem with the bushing.