Antique-Tractor (ATIS) Community
General Discussion Forums => ATIS General Tractor Discussion => Topic started by: jahaze on August 03, 2009, 10:52:58 AM
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I am thinking about cleaning out a few projects I will never get to. I have about 15 tractors that could go, some need alot of work, some not too much. I was thinking about organizing a parts tractor auction, I wonder if anyone would come? I'd like to get several other people together to thin out their collections at the same time (get 100+ parts tractors). Maybe a better idea would be a parts tractor swap, like they do with hockey equipment, but on a larger, heavier scale. I have been disappointed by most "swap meets" where most of the stuff is flea market crap. Do you think the idea would catch on?
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If you have a lot of parts tractors at an auction, the primary buyers will be the scrap metal dealers.:D
Part of the problem with parts tractors is that there are fewer buyers. You have to find someone that needs some of the parts and in most cases it is a parts tractor because the most needed parts are usually already gone.
could possibly work if it was for one brand of tractor. Give you a better chance of having people buy parts tractors that they don't have an immediate need for but can see some future possible need.
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I suppose you're right. Maybe it's best if I just hang onto them. Most are actually complete and would make good projects, every now and then I see someone advertise that they are looking for something that I have and one goes to a new home. I just need to free up some space so I can find something else to fill it :)
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I would try an ad in Antique Power. You just might move a few of them with winter coming on (more shop time for most folks).
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I this month's Green Magazine talks about a collector who sold his lot of tractors to Mcgrew Tractor.
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Try posting an ad on Smokestak. That site gets a lot of traffic.
Dave