Found a barn full of tractor parts

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A whole bunch of old tractor parts. Freshly ground crankshafts in sealed plastic bags, gears, pulleys, parts I have no idea what they are. Pistons, sleves, valves, cams, ect. The owner wants to clean out the barn, sell all the stuff she can't use. Does anyone have any idea how to go about selling this stuff??? There are serial numbers, but no way to tell what kind of tractor they belong to other than those numbers. Barn is in central West Virginia.
 
Google is your friend. Just start typing in the part numbers and you will get some hits. Most likely Ebay if someone has one for sale. That is where you would have the best luck selling them. You will need to know the journal diameters to sell them for example. To get any money out of this stuff you will have to put some time in, it won't sell itself.

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Our tractor club came upon a hoard of parts like that once but we knew they were IH and AC parts. Chances
are good in your case maybe that the parts would be specific to one brand of tractor. That is a guess but I
would think there would be a good chance that would be the case. Good luck with your search. Also a
possibility is that certain areas of your state or county were more prone to have tractors of certain makes
(more so than other brands). Think of how tough this would be without the internet. Keep us posted here at
YT on how you make out.
 
Maybe you could have a few YT members in your area come by and have a look. They probably could identify a lot of the parts, at least by brand, Keep it kind of quiet for now to avoid theft. Post your general location and see if any would like to help.
 
The crankshafts will have a casting # on them. Federal Mogul bearing books (Shop Specification Manual) have them listed in the back by alpha-numeric list and what they fit. I have a 1989 book. Post the casting #'s please or take them to a machine shop that grinds cranks ect.
 
(quoted from post at 08:47:29 03/05/18) A whole bunch of old tractor parts. Freshly ground crankshafts in sealed plastic bags, gears, pulleys, parts I have no idea what they are. Pistons, sleves, valves, cams, ect. The owner wants to clean out the barn, sell all the stuff she can't use. Does anyone have any idea how to go about selling this stuff??? There are serial numbers, but no way to tell what kind of tractor they belong to other than those numbers. Barn is in central West Virginia.

Nice! I found a truckload of NOS Allis parts posted on here back in '05. Everyone was wanting this and that, I made an offer for everything and brought them home. I was like a kid at Xmas...held two auctions on Ebay that paid for them....still have most of the parts.
 
The various makes have casting numbers with certain patterns of letters and numbers that will help identify them- find some casting numbers and post them on here, you'll probably at least find what brand(s) you are dealing with.
 
Thanks folks. Some really great responses here. The owner of the property will be back next week. I will try and get over to that barn, take some pictures, look up the numbers I find, and try and figure out what's what. I might even learn how to post pictures.
 
Make sure you're not doing all the work just to me a nice neighbor. You'll either end up over promising what you'll be able to do, or else working a full time job sorting and selling it all. There is a reason folks get "amazing deals" on buying mass amounts of stuff and can make it back selling a few on ebay. IMO if you're not interested in buying the lots and selling yourself, you should consider looking for a few choice pieces for her to get some money and then encouraging her to sell the rest to the highest bidder and then dusting off your hands of it. I know if I were to pass away today my family wouldn't have a clue what all my parts are and I would hope they would just pick out a project car or two someone in the family wants and then find someone in the hobby to enjoy the treasure hunt with the rest. I haven't had enough time to have a huge tractor parts collection yet, just one shelf worth really.
 
Seems most of the stuff was brought in from the Midwest. Mostly Massey, maybe a few Heston parts. That is what the owner told me. Haven't learned how to post pictures yet, but will eventually.







uote="Frantz"](quoted from post at 06:15:07 03/07/18) Make sure you're not doing all the work just to me a nice neighbor. You'll either end up over promising what you'll be able to do, or else working a full time job sorting and selling it all. There is a reason folks get "amazing deals" on buying mass amounts of stuff and can make it back selling a few on ebay. IMO if you're not interested in buying the lots and selling yourself, you should consider looking for a few choice pieces for her to get some money and then encouraging her to sell the rest to the highest bidder and then dusting off your hands of it. I know if I were to pass away today my family wouldn't have a clue what all my parts are and I would hope they would just pick out a project car or two someone in the family wants and then find someone in the hobby to enjoy the treasure hunt with the rest. I haven't had enough time to have a huge tractor parts collection yet, just one shelf worth really.[/quote]
 
Tried to find how to contact a couple of members that are not too far away----can't find your email's or phone numbers. Have some pictures, but cannot seem to up load them. Crankshafts are for Contentinal and Perkins. All kinds of gears. A shelf full of starters. Found radiators, front grills, ect. Mostly Massey stuff. You guys are great at helping me get started to empty this barn. Thank you.
 

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