A 19-year-old girl spent $2,000 on fifty broken tractors everyone else considered scrap.
Then Charlsie Ivester noticed something hidden in the rows of dead machines that nobody at the auction had seen.

Thirty-three of the tractors belonged to the same W-Series.

That meant engines, transmissions, axles, gears, and dozens of smaller components could be matched across machines.

Instead of trying to restore every tractor, Charlsie begins dismantling them carefully, cataloging usable parts, and supplying farmers who can no longer find what they need through regular dealers.

At first, people laugh at the teenager surrounded by rusting equipment.

Then repair shops start calling.

One tractor becomes parts for several others. One customer leads to another. What looked like a $2,000 junkyard slowly becomes Ivester Rebuilt.

By 2014, the business is generating more than $1 million a year.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Fifty Broken Tractors
21:00 Spending $2,000 on the Tractor Graveyard
42:00 The Secret Hidden in 33 W-Series Machines
1:03:30 Farmers and Repair Shops Start Calling
1:24:30 From Scrap Tractors to a $1 Million Business

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