TSC Liftarms are to soft.

641Dave · Jan 20, 2013

I wore the socket end out of one of my 601's liftarms a couple weeks ago. So I spent a little over $50 for a replacement at TSC that was made in India.

I'm using the scoop bucket to dig clay out of my pond and moving it up to the top of the pond dam to spread out later. First load I get with the tractor running on the ponds incline and the new replacement arm being on the downhill side, it bends right where the keeper chain is hooked up to it. So, I took it back and ask for an exchange and got it. First load and the same thing. Bent arm.

If I dig and circle the pond I have to make sure the original lift arm is on the downhill side. I can see the arm flexing and taking a strain, but it's obviously tempered higher than the India made arm and retains it's shape.

I think I'll be better of cutting the end off the India made one and welding it to my original Ford arm.

TSC ought to rethink scrimping on quality for parts like these. :/

55deere70 · Jan 20, 2013

*sigh* seems you can't buy anything good these days...

samn40 · Jan 20, 2013

Makes you wonder how they get any farming done in India...and it
is a large country with plenty of tractors....Do they keep the better
stuff at home?
They certainly are not afraid to 'overload!'
Sam

Stephen Newell · Jan 20, 2013

If you haven't noticed Tractor Supply is more interested in selling clothing and junk than supplies for tractors. It's understandable their parts are junky.

MarkB_MI · Jan 20, 2013

You spent fifty bucks on a complete arm and are surprised it's junk? I don't know if they're still available from New Holland, but if they are they probably cost at least ten times as much. And I wouldn't be surprised if the OEM parts are now made in India as well.

showcrop · Jan 20, 2013

I would call my local (four hours away) salvage yard and have them send me a real one.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 20, 2013

Sadly, the draft arms TSC sells are the same as just about everyone sells (as far as aftermarket)

I'd shop around the salvage yards too. Old OEM arms are MUCH higher quality.

55deere70 · Jan 20, 2013

You ought to be supporting this site which sells them for $91 made of 5160 steel...

"5160 is a carbon-chromium spring steel. It exhibits excellent toughness and high ductility, with a high tensile-yield ratio."

Traditional Farmer · Jan 20, 2013

TSC is just like everyone else they have some good stuff and some not so good stuff,I'd go to a junkyard and get a set of arms off a tractor with twice the HP and they'll last forever.

Karl in MD · Jan 20, 2013

One of my best friends is from Pakistan. His family farms there, and he said that the quality of imported items there (from China and India)is worse than what we get here, especially tools and parts. Apparently, it's common knowledge there that the other countries keep the better stuff at home.

Hobo,NC · Jan 20, 2013

Sparex offers HD arms

http://v2.us.sparex.com/ItemDetails/ItemDetails.aspx?ItemNumber=61696

Trac1 · Jan 20, 2013

It's the old adage, "you get what you pay for".

Rick Kaufmann · Jan 20, 2013

(quoted from post at 08:34:12 01/20/13) Makes you wonder how they get any farming done in India...and it
is a large country with plenty of tractors....Do they keep the better
stuff at home?
They certainly are not afraid to 'overload!'
Sam

Yeah, that's some load there! At least he's got a pile of front end weights on there hangin in them bags. lol.
Rick

Rick Kr · Jan 20, 2013

If you are backing in to load the scoop I can see you bending it quite easy. In compression those arms will bow and bend without trying. Pulling going forward in tension you should never bend it, unless you are hooking stumps and rip the ball out the end.

Rick

paul · Jan 20, 2013

Rick, my 960 busted an arm, and wanting to get the hay cut quickly, I got one of those TSC arms.

It bowed out just with simply lifting a 501 mower. It is very weak.

I will need to get my old arm repaired with a weld on end, dad did that couple decades ago, suppose if I keep the tractor another 50 years I'll need to do the same with the other 2 ends someday too.

Paul

641Dave · Jan 21, 2013

(quoted from post at 22:02:56 01/20/13) If you are backing in to load the scoop I can see you bending it quite easy. In compression those arms will bow and bend without trying. Pulling going forward in tension you should never bend it, unless you are hooking stumps and rip the ball out the end.

Rick

Nope! Pulling the box and getting a load of sandy clay. All it takes to bend it is to drive on the slope with the loaded box. The weight of the loaded box with the TSC arm on the down hill side will bend the arm where the chain is hooked to it.

It's that weak.

Paul, that was my next question. I want to cut the end off the weak TSC arm and weld it onto my original arm. In doing so, I'm wondering if my weld will anneal the temper of my original arm and weaken it to much?

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