Auctions

Fergienewbee · May 13, 2012

I'll never understand people at auctions, myself included. I'm usually too cautious, mostly because of lack of knowledge. The Cyclone seeder yesterday a case in point. I look at it like the casino; don't gamble more than you can afford to lose. But on the other hand, I bought about a half-roll of new 2 x 4 mesh fence for $4.00 and the next item was a roll of used fence the same mesh that sold for $45.00 rust and all. No guarantee there was 100 feet on the roll. New sells for $70.00. A 25-gallon sprayer with a diaphram pump sold for over $70.00. If the pump is shot, that's a lot for a tank.

An 8N in not particularly good shape sold for 1700 and a Farmall M that ran great brought 1400. An IH #10 grain drill, clean as a whistle but without a grass or fert box, sold for $150 without the cylinder. I would have bid but I don't have hydraulics to work the lift. Please don't tell me it didn't need one.

Either way they are still fun. And there are enough of them often enough eventually what youre looking for will come up.

Larry

1349 · May 13, 2012

Yes like Where I went to buy an average/below average 66 IH 1700 loadstar and it brought 6300....I didnt even get a bid in. And a week later at another auction, bought a 1958 IH A-170 that is in much better shape and runs like a top, grain bed and double hoist 2 stage cylinders, not a leak one....500 bucks (needs some brake work and a door glass). Auctions sure can be fun and funny.

rrlund · May 13, 2012

Yea,I went to a consignment auction last month in need of a chopper. Way at the end of the sale,there was a John Deere 3970 with a kernel processor,3 row corn head and 7 foot hay head. Right next to it was a CaseIH 881,two row,5 fot head,no processor. Both had electric controls that went with them. I was more interested in the red one because I'd just hauled my 781 to the crusher and kept the head,spout,controls and some other assorted parts. The Deere brought $450. I thought,shoot,at that rate I'll get the red one for 200. Well,I started it out at 200. Ended up giving $1600. I told the crowd,so much for the green ones being worth more money!

old · May 13, 2012

Yep when I do the auction thing I know what something is selling for new or I do not even think about it unless of course it is going super cheap. Like the last auction I went to I got a almost new center link for $11 new they are around $25. I also got a snap on compression gauge for $4. So yep I buy cheap or I do not buy but it is funny to see people pay 2 or 3 times more for something then what you can buy it for new. A few years back I was bidding on a set of nest boxes metal ones. New at the time they where around $50 but at this auction they sold for $120 or so. Asked the woman who got them what she was going to do with them and she said use them to hold towel in my bath room. I then told her the new price for them at the time and she got mad at me

Don-Wi · May 13, 2012

You could always use one of those manual cranks that goes in place of a cylinder. With a grain drill, just go round & round till you're done then crank it back up. If you've got one of those, it would've been a steal.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Fergienewbee · May 14, 2012

Don;

That's what I mean about "lack of knowledge." I didn't know there was a crank you could use to raise and lower the drill. Rats!!!

Larry

mkirsch · May 14, 2012

Well, don't feel so bad. Those things are $90 and up...

Time you got done bidding I bet you wouldn't have gotten that drill for anywhere near $150 anyway... The winning better almost always isn't done. Sometimes he is, but usually he is willing to pay a LOT more, sometimes just to "win."

The only predictable thing about an auction is it's unpredictable. You go to an auction on a miserable day because you figure nobody will be there, only to find out that everyone else had the same thought. You stay home on a sunny day because you figure everyone else will be there, and find out that nobody showed up, and the thing you wanted went CHEAP.

kyplowboy · May 14, 2012

See if you can find you one of them contraptions. (Forget the "real" name) If you have the auction bug they are more handy than a chain and boomer when it comes to get'n stuff home. I have one and it has brought home many good deals. Any small equipment with out the cylinder will always go way cheap because no one wants to put it on a trailer and then have to get it off. It's on the list of stuff I will not got to a sale with out along with chains, boomers, ratchet straps, magnetic trailer lights, air caddy, handy man jack, a few chunks of hard wood, pull pins, 3 diffrent sized trailer balls, and enough tools to change any tires on any thing that might need to be dragged home.

Even if you don't have a tractor with hydrolics, that 8' pull type disk with rotten tires, no cylinder, but good blades and bearings might only bring $100. Run to the nearest service station after the sale with the wheels and get $30 worth of used tires on her, put $100 worth of cylinder and hoses on her when you get home, and boom she's worth $600 on craigslist.

Dave

kyplowboy · May 14, 2012

Seen two women a few years ago run plain ol' run of the mill garden tools (hoes, shovels, rakes, ect) up past $40 average. I figured they were two grandaughters who were fight'n over grandpa's stuff but some of the family told me they had no idea who they were, they just really wanted to do some yard work.

Dave

kyplowboy · May 14, 2012

Another thing Old is never tell some one they are got the screws put to them at an auction when you see something like that. Always do your best to ask her if she needs another and try to find the contending bidder. Last year I watched two guys run a 4' spike tooth harrow to $225. I climed over three tobacco wagons to get to the contender when it was over. Gave him my number and sold him one just like it the next day at the cut rate of $175

Dave

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