Tractor Supply doesn't have plow bolts

[5030]

My last comment is... If TSC did have DHPB's they would most likely be of Chinese manufacture and of questionable quality anyway. With plow bolts, always better to by a non-Chinese bolt.

 

[Ledgemere Farm]

They don't come up in a search on their web site and the folks working there say they have NEVER heard of a plow bolt.

Wish I had a Agri Supply nearby. Nearest is an hour away.

My local ACE hardware sells them . I was surprised

 

[5030]

Agri Supply is strictly mail order for me, so is Shoup and I purchase from both, often. Bought some fairly large implements from Agir-Supply as well. Have a TE on file with them. Shoup as well.

 

[sixdogs]

I rarely go in a TSC but I have found plow bolts when the staff said they didn't have them. There were bins of bolts in the area where they sold PTO shafts and such. You would think they would be with bolts or similar but they weren't. I haven't been in for a year so things may have changed but they were always hard to find. I don't bother asking questions.

They had a nice selection, were USA made and coated in oil. Surprisingly, you can also special order tillage shovels and such, including odd sizes, from them and I've done it. It seemed much higher in price so I've learned to like standard sized things sold by Shoup, Sloan Express, Agri Supply or Rural King. If you're going to buy enough cultivator shovels or whatever, you can sometimes buy direct from the manufacturer. There's a couple in he midwest that seem to make almost all of the domestic supply.

 

[5030]

Yep. Shoup is the least expensive for USA made disc bine knives I use. I run the serrated style as a rule and they are double sided so First cut is with the edge that did 3rd the previous year and then I flip them and check the oil in the cutter bar and clean the trash from under the heads. Reminds me, this year the skid shoes have to come off and get hard rodded.

 

[hornett22]

What on earth would lead you to believe that a place called Tractor Supply would carry tractor stuff?

 

[ArlyA]

What on earth would lead you to believe that a place called Tractor Supply would carry tractor stuff?

Ya well, I recall TSC from about 50 years ago when it really was farm supplies. Today its more yard, garden and pet supplies and I hardly ever go to ours. Its like the harbor freight for pets.

 

[sixdogs]

Yep. Shoup is the least expensive for USA made disc bine knives I use. I run the serrated style as a rule and they are double sided so First cut is with the edge that did 3rd the previous year and then I flip them and check the oil in the cutter bar and clean the trash from under the heads. Reminds me, this year the skid shoes have to come off and get hard rodded.

Shoup is more for the working farm types and will do what it takes to get you up and going again. I once snapped a disk harrow axle and it was a problem because it wasn't round or square but hexagonal and I needed another right now. Now what?

I lived very remote and the dealer wanted something like $700 ? for an OEM part and a week or two to get it to me by UPS. Pay upfront, please. I called Shoup to see if they had the stock shaft blank I needed, which they did and they made an axle for me ASAP, got it out overnight to me and by 10:00 am the next day I had my part and a bill for around $100.

 

[hornett22]

Ya well, I recall TSC from about 50 years ago when it really was farm supplies. Today its more yard, garden and pet supplies and I hardly ever go to ours. Its like the harbor freight for pets.

Yeah, it's A LOT different than it was when I was a kid. I go in there but leave disappointed often. It convenient but it's not.

 

[K5lwq]

Our TSC has gone down some as well. But they are faced with the same issues as other business. Good help is hard to find. Ever increasing expenses and lack of revenue drives them to look for a bigger market. So they do lawn and garden stuff which works as my wife loves to go there get some of that crap all the time.

She used to pick on me about going to TSC all the time and called it my favorite store. Now she is the one that goes all the time and I hardly ever go. Lol