Posted by redforlife on February 27, 2023 at 03:20:54 from (68.234.121.189):
In Reply to: Weak Bale spear? posted by rusty6 on February 26, 2023 at 22:44:19:
Many of these are made out of high tensil strength metal, or hardened steel. That's why people don't have much luck welding these things. And because of thier characteristics, they don't have much bend to them. They don't bend. They'll break before they do much bending.
Just lifting the bale (especially a bale that don't exceed its weight limit), is not what breaks these things. It's what the bale does while lifted and in transport. Driving across rough ground (through ruts and pot holes). The bale may then rock and put forces on the spear greater than what the bale weighs. And at points not suitable. Such as in the middle, or at the far end away from its base. Then you got leverage also working in its favor of just snapping off.
Just because you got a bale stabbed and raised, doesn't mean that the bulk of that weight is right there at the base of the spear. Often times the bulk of the weight is still midway way out on the spear. Or sometimes out on the far end of the spear. And this puts great strain on the spear at its base.
Anybody that handles many bales, has the same problems your having. It's kind of the norm. You say you don't handle many, but when you add that up over a 15 year period, it's still probably quite a few.
Some people are just incredibly rough with a bale spear (not saying you are). Some people could just break one off no matter how strong it is just from being a bad operator. Just because a spear can lift a bale, doesn't mean it's unbreakable. But some people seem to think that. I've seen people run them into the ground while driving, and try to stand a bale up with the forks still jabbed into the bale. Anyways, this such stuff is abusive, and should be avoided.
Sounds like you are snowed in. If it were me, I'd put the one on that you welded. Try to get by with it until you can get someplace. But I wouldn't bet on that one lasting long. Nothing against you. But I just know that welding these things back together, is not ussually a fix that lasts very long.
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