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Unload Hay Bales with Compact Tractor

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What happens here

The presenter introduces his compact tractor, a TYM TX254, which is a 24.8 horsepower (or 25 horsepower) YANMAR-powered machine. He explains the decision to use this smaller tractor, highlighting its low ground pressure and ability to operate on wet ground without causing significant rutting or soil damage. He demonstrates using the tractor's front loader equipped with bale spears to carefully pick up hay bales from a trailer and place them onto the ground, ready for distribution by the ATV and bale roller in another area. This method allows for efficient handling of large quantities of hay while minimizing impact on the pasture's soil structure.

Goal: This step focuses on using a compact TYM TX254 tractor with a front loader and bale spears to unload heavy hay bales from a trailer, ensuring careful handling and minimal soil impact.

Tools and materials

  • Front Loader with Bale Spears
  • Hay Bales

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little tractor before we unload all right so here's the little guy this is the little guy the little tym 254 tractor a lot of folks have been asking about this tractor i'm going to do a comprehensive walk around and review but i'm going to give you just a few tidbits right now this is a 24.8 or 25 horsepower yanmar powered little tym tractor these tractors are made in south korea i challenge you right now to find me a tractor that's made 100 percent in the usa from the headlights to the exhaust to the to the valve train to everything is made in the usa i challenge you your personal challenge right now a lot of folks have given me flack about looking at these little korean tractors but there's nothing wrong with that and again i challenge you there is not an american made 100 percent american-made tractor there isn't we looked i looked and when it comes to dollars and cents it made sense for me to look at the tym lineup so the tym 254 tractor the lift capacity on the loader is somewhere between 600 650 pounds don't quote me on that i'm not a factory tractor guy i'm just out here working with it we decided to get the tractor with the backhoe attachment with the small backhoe attachment we're going to be doing a lot of trenching across the farm here because we're going to be running water systems next year so i hope you guys will subscribe the channel and check out all the building that we're going to be doing we're going to put in frost free waters throughout the farm here we've got a bunch of land that we've just newly fenced but we don't have a water source so i can't move the cows over there just yet because it's still winter time i have no way of keeping water from being frozen over that on the other side of the farm so we're going to take this little 24.8 or 25 horsepower tractor and we're going to unload these gigantic round bales this thing is a hoss of a little machine i hope you guys enjoy the drone footage of the cattle out here doing their thing eating you'll kind of get to see all of the hay bales that we've rolled out and i've rolled out somewhere in the neighborhood of 35 hay bales out here and i'm to roll out another 30 bales before we move these cows that's going to put a ton of carbon on the land and you're going to see in the spring this is going to absolutely explode with growth because it's covered with manure it's going to be super cool guys so i hope you enjoy some of this footage here at the end we're going to unload this hey we got to…

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