What do you do with the leftovers?

At some point here I know I'm going to drag home an old rusty hulk that is beyond hope, and I'm going to have to part it out.

When you part out any tractor, there are a few "hot" parts that get used/sold quickly, some that will get used/sold eventually, a few that might prove useful someday, and a LOT of pieces that are never going to get used or sold.

Major castings like transmission and differential housings, frame rails, front bolsters, rear wheel centers... Most of that stuff doesn't break very often and takes up a lot of space.

I can't have piles of old tractor parts stacked around the edge of my property.

Let's say I've already offered what's left up to you guys and there are no takers, even at $0. What do I do with these near-useless parts?

If I scrap them, no doubt a group of you will form an angry mob, and show up on my front porch with torches and a rope... I can't keep them, I can't give them away, and I can't scrap them.

I've hauled in several loads in the last month.
Nobody has shot me yet. (but I have heard some
bullets whining overhead)

Put them on ebay or simular, starting bid $1. Someone will buy them. What doesn't sell, scrap-em.

That is too bad that we don't live closer! We could work something out.

No one wants to see one scrapped, but there is a practical limit to what a person can do.

Guys place I visited last week had about fifty "parts tractors" parked in 2 rows Minny's, Harris's, Cockshutts, Olivers etc etc. every thing other than those other green ones. Really didn't take up that much room. Not saying this is what you should do but I was almost like a kid in a candy store looking. Said he'd been restoring for quite a while and this was the result. Also had about 10 to 15 up by his shop that were either in progress or future projects. All quite neat and orginized. Again Not saying this is for you just commenting on this guy's set up. Hope you find a solution to your delema. Rocko.

i've got about 1/3 of a ford tractor , parted in my shed.

some big parts like a tranny and diffy casting and an axle trumpet are stacked on a pallate.

then other parts are hanging.

if I have broken casting.. I'd scrap it for cash.. but stuff that is not broken.. i just can't see getting rid of.

soundguy

If there's no market for it, then there's no market
for it.

Scrap it, pocket the money and move on.

Of course, it's been some time since I've given a
rat's rump what anybody else thinks I should do
with my stuff anyway...

I'm zoned residential, and my neighbors would most certainly blow the whistle on me if I had more than one or two derelict machines out back at any given time.

Luckily the property is 525' deep and I can hide a few sins over the hill in the back, but I certainly can't turn the place into a salvage yard.

Lawn Art, let your neighbors be jealous.

My self I use them as simple extra heavy fence for my horse pasture. The horses will not try to get around them and the weeds grow up and around them so as to give wild life cover and they do not go to China that way

I don't know what township you are in but I have heard of townships (in WNY) using air or satellite checks to see if property owners are within the bounds of local ordinances and sending out summons and/ or fines to those not in compliance. I expect this to get more common place as most municipalities are revenue hungry nowadays. Some people have put buildings up to store their "junk" in as this appears to be a legal remedy in a fair number of areas.

The local and corrupt inspector tried that here once, about my K10 chevy without license plates and registration, it is a snow plow truck and I have plowed the town road I live in with it in the absence of their truck showing up, its not a long road and a mile from their garage. The truck shows up on time relative to storms now, but in the past I had to walk in from the state road, get the truck, open it up and get my vehicle in. They can't get the job done, I do it myself then the inspector sends a letter about the truck, which went nowhere, its still here and a few other vehicles, and not to flaunt that or brag, they start telling you what you can and can't have.... they might have a problem on their hands.

In good faith and knowing the satellite imagery they will use to their advantage, I have made an effort to clean up the yard and get rid of things, including 2 idle vehicles, on my terms not theirs, thats the thing that gets me, still don't want a problem with them so I try not to feed the fire, hopefully there is no issue, 2 pieces I have weigh 16+ tons, both my D7's, one cleared the rock cut that was drifted in and road in a blizzard when I was real young, as their town equipment was buried, so was the state, shut down, I have a receipt and or a bill to that effect, funny how they run to a farm for help, but will also come in and try and stick it to you just the same.

I've been parting out some tractors over the past two years and I
have found that there is very little that won't sell eventually. I
just sold a Farmall H rearend housing a couple of weeks ago, I
still have 2 and I have scrapped 2 that were damaged. Rear hubs
I have sold 8, scrapped 1 and have 1 left, and so on. I just sold
two differentials and three belt pulley drives in the past couple of
months that I had just about decided to scrap. I'd say just do
what seems best to you, I scrapped some good Case VAC
castings on one occasion since they sat too long and no one even
expressed an interest in them. I have never sold a brake or gas
pedal from an H and I think I will scrap most of them in the
spring because they are piling up.
Zach

Around here in Ranson WV they would pay there employees {Trash Collectors}a little extra to turn people in for building without a permit.I had 3 squares of old shingles laying on the ground during the weekend and Monday mourning it was 250. a day for each day they laid there,I left work to move them,and A friend of mine was laid off and he repaneled my dining room,they turned me in for no permit and sent him home.You need a permit to breath here

jimmy

Maybe the Grandkids could use them for some "schoolin" ?