stevenf
Platinum Member
Found the mother lode of new parts for old JD\'s
I went to pickup my new disk and some seed this morning its raining so the disk is still on the trailer. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif I have to tell anyone looking for old John Deere parts for tractors or implements that I found the place. It is a tractor and implement dealer turned general store in 1960 prior to that they were a John Deere dealer for 80 years. They just moved the tractor stuff back in the corner of their store and started selling hardware. It is amazing they have it all for sale lots of it is still marked with old prices which they will sell it for. They had a lot of stuff that I have no idea what its for like some type of wooden rollers with shafts and much much more. There are hundreds of labeled bins with parts and hundreds of boxes all containing parts in original JD boxes, theres even what appears to be a complete transmission sitting there. I've never run across anything like it before but I'm sure some of you rebuilder and collector buffs would have a field day. I was talking to the Mr. Ingenhueett the owner of the store who is the son of the original owners it has been in his family for 125 years and he was no spring chicken frankly he was a grumpy old coot but he was willing to share a great deal about their store and growing up there with all the changes that have taken place what with TV's, phones and electricity he still uses an old mechanical register but I could see a calculator under his counter just in case. The name of the store is Ingenhuett Store, PO Box 67, or 830-834 High Street, Comfort, Texas, 78013 and his phone number is 830-995-2149. It is a cool place with lots of old stuff and a little bit of new. I'll warn you don't buy any food as its also a grocery store, I think a lot of his food was there when his parents passed it down to him 50 or so years ago. Hmm! antique food well if theres any grape juice it'd be a pretty fine wine by now right. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Anyway he has no idea what he has in inventory nor does he care so I don't think I'd bother calling but if anyone is in the neighborhood you might want to go check it out. He did say that some folks around the US had discovered him over the years and he'd shipped stuff to Ohio and Maine and other places but believe me if your looking for a particular part you best come look because there are parts everywhere and under everything. I was so excited to share this find with ya'll that when I got back to the ranch the first thing I did was write this because after reading all sorts of post about people looking for old parts this place has got to be a gold mine. He does have an guy working with him named Chris, I think that he might know a little about what he's got but looking at their parts storage methods I can't believe anyone would know where anything was or even what it was if it wasn't in one of the labeled bins and there was a lot that wasn't.
Steve
I went to pickup my new disk and some seed this morning its raining so the disk is still on the trailer. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif I have to tell anyone looking for old John Deere parts for tractors or implements that I found the place. It is a tractor and implement dealer turned general store in 1960 prior to that they were a John Deere dealer for 80 years. They just moved the tractor stuff back in the corner of their store and started selling hardware. It is amazing they have it all for sale lots of it is still marked with old prices which they will sell it for. They had a lot of stuff that I have no idea what its for like some type of wooden rollers with shafts and much much more. There are hundreds of labeled bins with parts and hundreds of boxes all containing parts in original JD boxes, theres even what appears to be a complete transmission sitting there. I've never run across anything like it before but I'm sure some of you rebuilder and collector buffs would have a field day. I was talking to the Mr. Ingenhueett the owner of the store who is the son of the original owners it has been in his family for 125 years and he was no spring chicken frankly he was a grumpy old coot but he was willing to share a great deal about their store and growing up there with all the changes that have taken place what with TV's, phones and electricity he still uses an old mechanical register but I could see a calculator under his counter just in case. The name of the store is Ingenhuett Store, PO Box 67, or 830-834 High Street, Comfort, Texas, 78013 and his phone number is 830-995-2149. It is a cool place with lots of old stuff and a little bit of new. I'll warn you don't buy any food as its also a grocery store, I think a lot of his food was there when his parents passed it down to him 50 or so years ago. Hmm! antique food well if theres any grape juice it'd be a pretty fine wine by now right. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Anyway he has no idea what he has in inventory nor does he care so I don't think I'd bother calling but if anyone is in the neighborhood you might want to go check it out. He did say that some folks around the US had discovered him over the years and he'd shipped stuff to Ohio and Maine and other places but believe me if your looking for a particular part you best come look because there are parts everywhere and under everything. I was so excited to share this find with ya'll that when I got back to the ranch the first thing I did was write this because after reading all sorts of post about people looking for old parts this place has got to be a gold mine. He does have an guy working with him named Chris, I think that he might know a little about what he's got but looking at their parts storage methods I can't believe anyone would know where anything was or even what it was if it wasn't in one of the labeled bins and there was a lot that wasn't.
Steve
