Assess Current Bale Spear and Identify Issues

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It just Keep breaking! This tractor attachment is junk!

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The presenter introduces his TYM T254 tractor equipped with an existing bale spear. He describes the current bale spear as "a piece of junk" due to its low quality and tendency to bend. He demonstrates how the smaller support spears have bent and mentions repeatedly having to straighten them with a maul. He also points out how the weld on the quick attach plate has busted loose, and the overall flimsy construction. The presenter emphasizes the importance of a strong bale spear with three points of contact (one large spear and two smaller ones) to prevent hay bales from spinning. He contrasts the poor quality of the current spear, which was also purchased at a budget price, with the expectation of a higher quality replacement.

Goal: This step introduces the existing bale spear, highlighting its poor quality and bent components, and explains the functional problems encountered, setting the stage for the replacement.

Tools and materials

Maul — Used previously to straighten bent spears
TYM T254 Tractor TYM — The garden tractor equipped with the bale spear

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baby guys welcome back to the Stony Ridge Farm this is a piece of junk and we're going to replace it today come along we're going to talk about it not the tractor but the baale spear we've got a new baale spear that I picked up on Amazon we're going to show you guys what a cheap bail spear does and what a good bail spear does and a cheap one [Music] bends guys welcome back to the Stony Ridge Farm this is your first time or your 50 millionth time here please hit that like button subscribe to the channel this is tool Tuesday and every tool Tuesday we like to show you something cool something useful here on the farm this is the tym t2 54 tractor and this is a bail Spear and this is a Maul and that's what I've been straightening these things out with so the bail spear has three times we're just going to get down and dirty with this real quick three times on the baale spear one big Spear and two little Spears what that does is it gives it three points of contact in the bail to keep it from spinning on the bail sphere that's cool that's important this is an extreme budget item I'm going to take you around it and show you how bent up it is and I don't recommend buying one of these because it is cheap it's junk and it's Fallen apart and it hasn't been used that much good D go get that groundhog get that groundhog get that groundhog good Farm dogs so this is a budget model Bale spear you can see it's rusting up a little bit that's normal surface rust not a big deal this has a spear that's bolted in right here just very much like the one that we're getting ready to unbox and this does not unbolt and it's very important that these are super super tough and you can see that this has bent over and over and over again and so has that one and I've had to straighten it out with that M right there now as we look over here you can see this is straight this is a skid steer quick attach but this one is not straight it's busted loose the well busted loose right here and it's just bent tore all to pieces guys this is a budget unit and it's not good but it costs the same as that Critter right there so why would we buy junk when we can get the same thing for the same price that's better that's the question

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