Owner: Myron Duskin
Location: Osceola, Mo.
History: Duskin’s Truck and Tractor Parts started many years ago as an auto salvage, but owner Myron soon discovered parts for tractors and farming equipment was a better line for the business, which is located on his family’s farm near Osceola, Mo.
“The people who drive cars can be aggravating,” Myron said. “They don’t have any idea what they want, but if a guy comes after tractor parts, they want a tractor part. I like the tractors and farm stuff better anyway.”
Products and Services: Parts available at Duskin’s Truck and Tractor Parts are taken from salvage tractors. Myron said he caters to people looking for parts for older makes and models, such as Ford, Allis-Chalmers, Case and others.
“I just can’t get the new stuff,” he said. “I can’t compete with the bigger places.”
Myron will buy tractors and equipment at auctions and from individuals to get parts. He will either make repairs to get the tractors operational or part them out.
Parts available include anything in stock on a piece of equipment, as well as tires and wheels. Duskin’s also has a few mowing machine parts.
If a motor is seized on a tractor, it doesn’t automatically goes to the salvage yard.
“Most of the time, you can dump diesel fuel down the stack and let it set for a month or two, and it will break loose,” Myron said. “Some won’t break loose; it just depends on how bad it is.”
Those he does bring back to life are used on his 200-acre farm, which is a cow/calf operation. He will, however, sell them from time to time.
Myron doesn’t have a “favorite” make or model tractor but is proud of the antique Mini Mite tractor he restored.
“It was made in the 1940s,” he said. “I don’t use it anymore because I have a newer diesel tractor that is easier to ride.”
Myron also boasts a few classic cars, including a 1947 Buick, and a 1942 Buick that was never sold to the public or titled.
“It’s got a straight-eight and dual carburetor,” Myron said. “I think it was a moonshiner’s car.”
Myron attributes his mechanical prowess to growing up on a farm and to his father.
“He was a machinist,” Myron recalled. “He could mold a piston. I had a Falcon 50 motorcycle and couldn’t find rings for it. He got a piece of cast iron pipe and cut me out piston rings.”
