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Finally my turn for Auction Good Luck!

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Lynn Patrick

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Went to an auction yesterday & ended up w/a '55 960 w/3 point cordwood saw for $1000. Been shedded & not used for maybe 30 years (that was what I was told. Not sure if they knew?), not stuck, tin straight, gauges, lights, tires all look like maybe original! Has the factory stabilizer bars! Then they went to sell out of the sheds & garages where I found a full set of front weights w/box & cover mixed in w/a bunch of other old iron. I threw in a first bid - very low - & nobody else bid! I don't think anyone else recognized what they were!
I've read about many of you running across this sort of thing, but this is a FIRST for me!
So what am I bid for a full weight set????
 
Congratulations on the good deals!
Where are you located? Shipping would be a killer on weights.
If you're close to me I would be interested though.
 
Royse, eastern Iowa, right on I80. Haven't had time to look at my "new" tractor yet, but one of the first things will be a carb cleaning - unless I find more that I can handle, then you'll get an email!
 
Hi Lynn! . Good thing I didn't know about this sale Lynn ,or you probably would had some competition. I live 40 miles west of Iowa City. Lynn lives 20 miles east of Iowa City. When is it my turn for a bargain?? lol
 
I'd be happy to trade a carb rebuild for those weights.
I'd even come get them! :lol:
Do you have any pictures of them yet?
 
That's a pretty high priced carb rebuild Royse, even considering your fine work! Debating whether to clean, prime & paint them!
Wayne, that's why I didn't tell you about it until after the sale;)
 
"That's a pretty high priced carb rebuild Royse"

Ya, I was pretty sure I wouldn't get away with that one.
Might have to bring a few Franklins with me. ;)
 
Good for you!
The next best thing to getting a good deal
yourself is seeing a friend get one.
And I do consider the folks here my friends.
Except...
If I had been there I wouldn't have been so
friendly when the bidding started.
Wink
 
Thanks UD! The sale was weird in that nobody knew anything about any of the vehicles or equipment. It was an old, very small well drilling company owner estate. No family, only an old friend as estate executor. There was so much household stuff that I had plenty of time to wander thru the sheds where they had drug out everything they thought might have value. That's where I found the second stabilizer bar (they let me put it with the tractor when I told them what it was.) The weights were not obvious among all the old well parts, pumps, scrap iron, etc, & were half buried w/dirt & leaves under an old gas barrel on a stand. I didn't recognize them until I noticed what looked like a top cover. They announced, "If you see something you want sold separately drag it outside." At 73 I was not about to crawl around in the crowd & drag several hundred pounds out!
 
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