Junkyard auction

[paul]

Saw an auction listing for yesterday, had several older Fords on it with a lot of other stuff.

Went to it. Wasn't quite what I thought, was an old farm scrapper fella, couple acres of stuff, and a couple good items.

Wrote down the prices of the tractors.

They sold a few lines of good stuff, a line of snow blowers, a line of loaders, and then started selling by the pile. Was kinda sad when they started going by the pile, I understand you can't sell that many pieces and a lot was scrap iron, but there were 5-10 good items in every pile, really tough to see that stuff gonna all be scrapped.

It was a muddy mess, and you have to have everything removed in 7 days. So we are almost in a winter storm advisory for Monday. So all this iron is still in some snowbanks, there is mud everywhere, if it freezes then the stuff is frozen down.... Just wasn't a good looking situation.

I'll put mt crib notes at the end. the tractors were kinda sold from better looking to worse looking.

I was bid number 470. There were over 2 miles of pickups and trailers lining the roads around. Nuts! I couldn't even get good pics of the tractors, only dry spot along the driveway never cleared enough to get tractor pics.

Paul


Auction

7700 ford no cab Painted. 10,400

JD 430. 3900

JD 1010. 2800

Ford 4000 diesel. 2300

Farmall 460 FH. 1900

460 Farmall with farmhand loader. 2500

A Farmall painted. 1700

Ford 601 painted. 2000

Ford 800 painted. 3600

Ford 4000 newer gas. 2600

Ford 600. 1900

901 diesel SOS 1700

Rusty super mta. 2750

C didnt run Farmall rusty. 800

H Farmall not running paint faded orange. 500

Major diesel not running with loader. 600

Not running 801 diesel. 1500

Case 1830 skid loader working. 3650

Mustang 345 skid, running. 3100

Manure spreader horse drawn all there, well well kept. 1500

Hiniker snow blower. 200

727 ford loader 200

 

[Rick Kr]

Yup that"s always a bummer because you know in each and everyone of those piles is one or two parts that some guy somewhere has been looking for.

Rick

 

[806Jr]

I was there to. I wasn't to happy about them selling the stuff in group lots, but was able to buy a couple of things from the scrappers after they bought the big bunches. A guy I know bought the Ford 901 sos, it runs like a top but the transmission slips when it warms up. He's going to use it for parts for his other 2- 901's.

 

[paul]

The old wooden spreader was neat to see.

Haven't seen a factory Ford 7700 without cab before either.

The smell of the landfill waiting over every now and then made me appreciate the smells of a real farm much more! Wow was that a landfill mounds, is that in a old gravel pit? Seems odd to be located in what looks like wetlands area.

I was gonna pull over and park at the end of the line there, nearly by the landfill; kept driving and never saw that many vehicles for a farm auction. Wow.

Paul