[AT] Parting out tractors - what are your thoughts?

[Landen Schooler]

Ok, this is what I'm looking for.......
Parts to fit a 1954 Oliver BDH....

Left & right engine side sheilds
2 battery box covers
AG PTO assy
Primary & secondary fuel filter housings

Landen Schooler
Palmyra, Iowa

CRAWLER HEAVEN/ED CHRISTOPHERSON wrote:
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> Well let me start by saying "you can't get good parts from junk machines"
> Machines that have set for years outside, abused ,and millions of hours
> don't have many good parts left in them. In my business i part out
> small(under 5 ton) crawler tractors and even running workin machines when
> you take them apart have very few sellable parts, you'd be surprized how
> many have worn and brokin gears but are still moving and working. I look for
> nice machines if i can buy them reasonable especialy model machines that are
> in demand. If i did not buy good machines i bet my used parts business would
> be one half of what it is and many people would have to pay more for many
> parts. I hear alot: you arn't going to cut that crawler up are you?? And the
> answer is in a heart beat.. Also many machines i have offered in the past to
> people and  for what they want to pay for them makes me want to part them
> all the more. So if any grown men want to cry look on my web site in my
> gallery and you will see some very nice workin and runnin machaces that are
> going to or have been cut up.  http://www.crawlerheaven.com/index.htm
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