Posted by AG in IN on May 22, 2011 at 07:26:20 from (67.236.114.46):
In Reply to: parting out tractors posted by J.D.HEICHEL on May 21, 2011 at 16:41:41:
The guy on ebay has been doing this for years. Bring it in, piece it out, posesses little or no knowledge of what he's selling, he gets crummy, blurry pictures from bad angles, and puts it up for sale on ebay. When people quit bidding, it becomes unprofitable, or he can't find anymore tractors, he'll quit dismantling them.
Aside from ebay, but still somewhat on topic, many salvage yards learned a long time ago that paying more for a half-way decent tractor and selling it piece by piece makes more money than paying for junk with few usable parts. Parts off of an abused, worn out, salvage tractor that may or may not have been sitting in a woods for 50 years with or without pieces missing and open to the elements usually don't carry the value that parts from a running, drivable version of the same tractor would have. Tractors that are all beat to heck on the outside are usually just as abused on the inside, or at least suffered from a lack of maintenance.
I've seen people fight for the $3-500 Farmall H's and M's that have been drug out of fencrows at auctions, and the salvage yard buys the $800-$1200 one with fairly straight metal and usable tires that probably could have went right to work. The people were so happy with their $500 purchase (the "Look at the good deal I got!" crowd), and then were mad when they find out that they need $2500+ worth of parts and labor ("But, that's more than I've got in the whole tractor! I could have bought the good one for $1000.") to make it usable again. Salvage yards would rather you buy the one with the loose wheels, smashed sheet metal and hole in the block, and come to them and buy good parts off of a tractor that wasn't all that bad in the first place.
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