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Diagnosing a Baler Malfunction (Shear Pin)

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POW!!!! Here's what went wrong

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What happens here

While baling, the baler suddenly stops picking up hay, indicating a problem. The presenter deduces that a shear pin has broken, a common safety mechanism designed to protect the baler's internal components from damage due to blockages. He identifies the location of the sheared pin near the baler's intake mechanism, covered by a protective plate.

Goal: Identify the cause of the baler stopping operation

Tools and materials

  • John Deere 385 Round Baler John Deere — The equipment experiencing a malfunction

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the baler and what happens is something gets bound up in there and causes that shear pin to snap in other words breaks this bolt right here we're gonna open this up I'll take you over and I'll show you what I'm talking about this panel right here is a shear pin and this is what's left of the shear pin it goes in right here and we're rotated all the way around 180 degrees now this is a simple rotational fix basically we just rotate this guy back to the place where it needs to be we save our old shear pin don't put that on the ground and then we'll put our new shear pin in through this hole and right in there it's kind of hard to do and all the camera gotta find that sweet spot there it goes so I'll put the nut on the end of that and that is a replaced shear pin now the bigger question is what's wrong in here so this will be the second shear pin I broke one just a minute ago and really my bail indicator is good so when it gets to the red you start worrying about a shear pin breaking my bail indicators good everything's good so I don't know I opened up the panels on the side of the machine I inspected it all the way

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