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Replace Shear Pin and Clear Blockage

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POW!!!! Here's what went wrong

What happens here

To fix the baler, first, locate the sheared pin. This involves removing a safety plate on the baler to access the chain and sprocket assembly. Once the old, broken shear pin is removed, a new shear pin is inserted into the shaft, followed by a new cotter pin to secure it. If hay is jammed, use a large adjustable wrench to manually rotate the shaft and clear any remaining blockage. This restores the baler's functionality.

Goal: Repair the baler and restore functionality

Tools and materials

  • Adjustable Wrench — Manually rotating the shaft to clear blockages
  • Cotter Pin — Securing the new shear pin
  • John Deere 385 Round Baler John Deere — The machine being repaired
  • Shear Pin — Replacing the broken safety pin
  • Small Punch or Awl — Pushing out the old cotter pin or aligning the new one

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machine I inspected it all the way around I can't seem to find what's causing that shear pin to break so the next step here is to release the bail and then engage the PTO and hopefully kick out the bail now this bail will not be tied so I pulled up here close to my neighbor's house we did a little swap and neighbor lifts through the woods right here there's a little road you can't see it but my neighbor lives right through the woods there he'd love to have a bale of hay so we just won't tie this one we'll bring it over there for his goats and for his garden so let's open this thing up and hopefully keep your fingers crossed that it kicks to bail out like it's supposed to you'll know if this is successful if you start seeing those belts turning on that machine if it's not successful you'll probably hear something go and that will be the shear pin breaking and that's my last shear pin that I have over here in the field I'm not sure I may not have anymore at the house that may put me at a work stoppage which will be SuperDuper cool because I want to spend nine days bailing this hey this has been such a letdown this year trying to bale hay with the weather with the weather being crazy so I don't know I don't know why it's breaking let's start the tractor up see if we can engage that PTO and kick this bale out it kicked the bail out but something's making a god-awful noise in here I don't know what it is it's uh this is real-life farming so you want it you got it like that in the place that keeps my lift from coming down on my head here man just picked up a rock or something found the problem here's the problem this chain has jumped off the sprocket up here probably can't see it the sun's kind of in a weird place button so the chain isn't broken but this chain has jumped the sprocket right here and this is the tensioner right here so we need to get it back around the tensioner back up and around right here probably the reason behind this is the chain has gotten loose and not holding tension on they're embracing daylight here I don't want to mess around with this tomorrow I want to be done with it today I'm glad the shear pin broke before it broke the chain though kind of dusty kind of yucky in here this kind of thing really only happens when you tensioner spring out so this kind of thing really only happens when you're in a hurry pretty much the gist of it you see my chain is really loose right here spring is pulling as far back as it can I really need to take…

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