H farmall that went thur a barn fire value

I am looking at an h farmall that was
involved in a barn fire.
What's it worth?
What parts are usable?
Heat damages alot of parts so I know
that some parts of the tractor want be
able to be used.

The tires are plumb melted off



Thanks
 
Haul it to the scrap yard and take whatever they will give you. Whatever you put into it would be a waste of money. Running Hs are all over the place at low prices.
 
it's scrap iron. so much a pound.Depnding on how hot it got,the cast pieces,gears and some engine parts may be slvageable.'H's are plentiful,lots of parts are out there. So demand for your 'burnt' parts may not be much.
 
Hard to say what is usable without seeing it. Regardless I would offer scrap price assuming there are enough tangible pieces that can be reused. You are rolling the dice for sure here and probably would not see an economical return as far as reconditioning it goes.
 
If the grease is cooked out of the rear end buy it by the pound/ton as scrap. If you need parts I bet you can find much better ones with locked up engines to part out. The tires probably didn?t melt; they likely burned.
 
I paid $200 for a burned B a while back. I had about $2000 in it when I was done. All new seals & anything aluminum had to be replaced except the pistons. All new oil & tires, steering wheel etc. It all adds up quick.
 
Th wheel weights could be reused.

If the tractor got hot enough to burn off all the rubber and then slowly cooled in a pile of hot embers, I would be concerned that some hardened steel parts may have annealed enough to loose some of their temper/hardness ie: ball bearings, roller bearings, gears, springs, crankshaft journals, camshaft lobes, valves, piston sleeves, axles, etc. Any surviving sheet metal will be badly rusted and may be warped. Radiator will need work.

$80/ton scrap price x 2 tons = $160, less hauling costs.
 
(quoted from post at 12:08:07 01/09/18)
If the tires are burned off, it got way too hot. That H is scrap.

Agreed. The state of the tires is everything when it comes to a burned tractor, and not from a cost of replacement standpoint. It's all about how hot the tractor got, and tires burn HOT!
 
I would look elsewhere for a parts H tractor. They are too common and do not command a lot of money when non-running.
 
(quoted from post at 13:54:46 01/09/18) I would look elsewhere for a parts H tractor. They are too common and do not command a lot of money when non-running.

Buy it for scrap price. Take it apart and see if any of it is useable. If it is all scrap, you're out some time, nothing more.
 
(quoted from post at 14:14:53 01/09/18) He wanted $300 for it
I offered him $150
He says best he can do is $250

Sounds high to me

It might weight that much, but loading it on the trailer is worth something.

2 tons x $125/ton = $250

If it has wheel weights they would still be useable. Pull them off and it's a $50-75 value.
 
You know something funny, you're all here yelling,

"SCRAP IT! THERE'S TONS OF THEM OUT THERE!"

...but if Graveyard1984 posted a picture of the same tractor being loaded for scrap, you'd all be crying,

"WHAT A SHAME! SOMEONE SHOULD SAVE THAT TRACTOR!"
 
True, but most guys have no trouble drawing the line on a tractor that got hot enough to burn off all four tires.
 
Going by the OP's description I don't think that anybody would argue with scrapping it. Now the H I saw at the scrap yard two weeks ago obviously did not burn in a fire and that is a shame.
 

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