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The ability to make quick repairs and perform routine maintenance on your hay equipment is crucial to an efficient and productive hay season. The following is a list of parts, supplies, and tools that every hay producer should have on hand--some in the equipment shed and some in the tool box to carry out to the field. You likely already have several of these items on your small farm. If you need to purchase any, however, most can be found at your local equipment dealership, at an ag box store, …

Many of the implements we sell here at Tractor Tools Direct require one or more shear bolts, either on the PTO shaft or on the machine itself. These bolts are carefully designed to break (shear) before the power applied by the tractor exceeds the design limitations of the implement. Because we sell implements that are designed for lower-horsepower tractors, these shear bolts are particularly important. You can use most of our implements with higher horsepower tractors, as long as the correct sh …