OEM Tractor Parts out of business

biggerred · Sep 14, 2014

I haven"t been on here for a while so if this
has been covered already I apologize. I found
out today that OEM Tractor Parts locked up and
shut down. They canceled current orders and
auctioned off everything to the walls. I"d
heard the owner got killed. Was there no one
to carry on? Those guys had great I parts.
I"ll miss them.

CNKS · Sep 14, 2014

His wife was running the business -- I suppose she couldn't make it. It was closed several weeks ago. And yes they made parts that no one else has. Places such as Steiner got a lot of parts from OEM.

gene bender · Sep 15, 2014

Dale died several yrs ago loading a garden tractor mower on a trailer.

mkirsch · Sep 15, 2014

Yeah, no offense but that's old news. As stated the owner Dale was killed in a tractor accident a few years ago, and his wife was trying to run the business.

Auction wasn't that long ago. AFAIK most of the tooling went to scrap.

If there was good money to be made in the business, someone would have picked it up and kept it going.

Part of the problem was once again, caviar product in a baloney butt market. The market was primarily old farmers for whom it is second nature to look for less expensive solutions. Why pay $200 for a new replacement hood when you can find one in the junkyard for $50? There just weren't enough "spare no expense" types to make the business wildly profitable.

OEM Tractor Parts out of business

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