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GrassFarmer4

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i am searching for some of my grandpas tractors please contact me if you have them and please share them to other folks. the majority of them are John Deere, any help would be much appreciated.

JD 3020 S/N 131647
JD 4020 S/N 237122
JD 520 S/N 5202726
JD 2510 S/N T711p006916R
AC D17 S/N 40251
 
(quoted from post at 19:22:20 04/20/22) What part of the world?
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they were sold in the Centralia Mo 65240 area
originally bought new at Sydenstricker implement in mexico MO

This post was edited by GrassFarmer4 on 04/20/2022 at 07:35 pm.
 
I wish you lots of luck.

Truthfully, I'm just venturing a guess
that you'll be grasping at straws, and
be lucky to find any of them by only
knowing the serial numbers.

Serial numbers are an excellent way to
verify that you indeed found it.
Unfortunately, not much of a tool in
actually locating them.

Best bet, would be to go back in time,
to where they were last known to be
owned. And find out where they went,
and who owned them next. And then
next. And so on, untill you find out
who owns them now. You may very well,
never be able to trace the chain of
ownership up to present day. Leaving
you at a dead end. But, that is your
best bet, and about all you got to go
on.

Otherwise, your really going to be
only grasping at straws, by only
knowing the serial numbers.

To make matters worse. No serial
numbers are logged for tractors that
are parted out, and scrapped. So, if
they fell victim to that, you'd never
know. And be able to scratch them off
of your list, by knowing that. You'd
be in search of something no longer in
existence.

My two cents.
 
I agree that the odds are against you finding any of them with serial numbers alone, but stranger things have happened. You could have them turning up like bad pennies.

The only tractor that ever left our farm has turned up on me TWICE now. It was traded off in the mid 1990's, turned up on Craigslist about 10 years ago, then showed up again on a road that I travel frequently here last year. I know where it is but nobody is ever around to stop and talk.
 

Don't give up hope of finding them. There was some guy looking for his Grand fathers tractor for a long time. A friend of mine ran across the number, looked at his 4020 and sure enough. The guy wound up with the tractor.
 
As you look at some very close, but not exactly the same tractors, consider buying one of the close tractors to enjoy until you find that actual one. Options, front ends, wheels, aftermarket cabs, weights, hitches, fenders, etc. are very easy to swap between tractors making it easy to build a tractor just like your grandfather had.

In the event you do find one of your grandfather's actual tractors years or decades later (if ever), you have a little better bargaining power if you can swap an almost identical tractor for it rather than paying through the nose because the seller knows he has the only tractor that you are looking for.
 
A short trail will help you a lot. Were they sold locally just last year or were they sold sixty years ago in another region of the country?
 
two of them i know were bought locally in mexico MO and then sold the next town over when he had a retirement auction as far as the others im not sure what happened to them
 
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