parting out good tractors

[bj2]

in the last 2 to 3 week i hvae seen about 4 to 5 good running tractor unstyled on ebay and yt adds parting out good running tractor for parts i just think how many good tractor do we all part out and never see again in a year time

 

[Ray]

I've seen a lot on ebay that needed to be parted out,no shortage of junk tractors.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Would you rather buy parts off of a running tractor that you know are good, or parts off of a junk tractor that are shot and need rebuilding? By parting one runner you can save several non runners. They dont make these parts anymore and you have to buy them somewhere.

 

[IowaJohn]

I"m working on a 37 short frame, it was stuck when I got it. The cylinder walls were pitted pretty bad. I will get it running and it"ll look sharp but I"m going to have more invested in it than it"s worth. I only paid $550 and it was complete, it has the heisler head so I"ve got something a little more special than most. But parting it out maybe brought me more money.

 

[tractor butcher]

Because some people are in it not for the love of the tractor, but the love of money. Some people work in a factory, some in the office, some in a slaughterhouse. There's more money in it to part one out, then when you've got all the valuable parts off of it, off to the scrapyard with it.

Kind of ironic that you take a running tractor and essentially slaughter it, take the fillet mignon, and scrap the rest.

Used to be the jockeys would buy a tractor so they could resell it. That's one thing. Now they buy them so they can part them out.

Some of these guys would sell their mothers if they could, its all about money, no responsibility for preserving history. Repro parts are being made all the time, but NOBODY is going to make main cases, axles, steering pedestals, the stuff that gets scrapped. If the butchers cared about the tractor, not the money, they wouldn't scrap once they stripped the bones.

 

[Jake Winn]

I agree completely. I part out about 5-6 tractors a year, so not to many. All of them are dead, or way beyond repair. I have a 46 BN that runs that i am going to part out. But only because the head is broke, tin is shot, drawbar all welded up, along with seat, dash, and rear axle housing. It would take way more cash to fix it than what it would ever be worth.

I hate to see tractors parted that are anywhere near complete. Especially nice original ones. Thats almost as bad as painting an original tractor. You can find tractors to restore all the time, but they will only be original once.

 

[wilamayb]

Would the best parts tractor not be a brand new one? Every part would be useable.

 

[Kurt_JDB]

IowaJohn,

What is a Heisler head?

Thanks,

Kurt

 

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Most of the chop shops are in it for the money. They typically scrap out the steel after selling off what they can. Though I do not have numbers, it is these people that make the values of the running tractors go high. Example, there were 300,000 John Deere model B tractors built. Of those lets say 8,000 were left to rust in a fence row to rust over 60 years, 100 per year are scrapped by the owners just to scrap yards to clear out the barn yard, 1,000 per year are disassembled and sold as parts. And there is a huge unknown if these numbers are close (maybe high, maybe low), but it shows the fleet of running tractors is no where close to its original 300,000. Keep what you can afford, they may just be worth alot more than parts alone. Thats my point.

 

[IowaJohn]

Kurt, Heisler heads were an aftermarket part that boosted the horsepower. They are in demand by pullers. The head itself is not straight across on the block side. The head is built with bosses That have the valves thru them protruding into the cylinders to increase the compression ratio.I also have the cold gas intake to go with it. Send me an email to my address and I can send you a photo or 2 back. I still have the head off.

 

[CHinNY]

I part small crawlers and i make grown men cry but you can't get any good parts off a worn out hedge row machine. They are full of water and just not good parts machines. I also must say i Love these lil crawlers but like others have said one may fix 3,4,5 other machines. The guys that think they all should be saved are out of touch if none were parted soon they all would be hedge row machines as there would be no parts to keep them going. I also never scrap a good housing but maybe if i had 50 of one and never sold one in 10 years i may just to free up the space. I have suffered personally saving these parts and pieces as most people that are not into tractors see no beauty in all this and i have been fined thousands , paid lawyers thousands and have even gone to jail to keep this stuff around,if it were up to the aveage person you wouldn't have any parts machines they would all be scraped.