Farm Auctions

rusty6 · Dec 19, 2019

I've been going to farm auctions for 48 years. Surprising there are many farms left considering how many I have watched being sold over those years. This video is
some vhs tape I recorded in April of 2000. Lots of memories in that yard. I worked there for close to 30 years and finally helped get some of the stuff ready for
the sale.

farm auction video

oliverkid · Dec 19, 2019

Looks like you took that picture from the platform of a White 5542 combine. Unless it was old enough to be a Cockshutt 542.

rusty6 · Dec 19, 2019

(quoted from post at 19:49:11 12/19/19) Looks like you took that picture from the platform of a White 5542 combine. Unless it was old enough to be a Cockshutt 542.

You are right that it was a 542. About a 1967 model that originally had no cab. Had the flathead Chrysler six engine.

Bruce from Can. · Dec 20, 2019

Farm auctions have changed dramatically over the past 50 years. I can remember going to farm auctions as a kid with my folks, and many times the seller was a older person/couple, selling everything and moving to town, or a estate sale. And every thing the folks had would be sold, from farm equipment to house hold furniture and blankets and tea cups. And every item had a buyer, those days are gone. No one wants used furniture and used appliances anymore. Also remember no bidding numbers, auctioneers just took your name, and they seemed to know everyone within 50 miles. Nowadays I have heard small retiring farmers say that no auctioneer would take their sale, cause they didn?t have either big enough , or new enough equipment to bother with. Time have changed, and I am glad to have been able to see how things used to be.

SHALER · Dec 20, 2019

We have an auction company locally that commands an incredible share of the market. If you you have a smaller farm or smaller estate they will conduct the auction On-Line. I beleive they will still do a traditional auction for the little guy, the commission will just be a little higher. Now some may not like the idea of paying 9, 10, 11% or whatever. I get that. However a couple years ago I attended an auction of a small farm conducted by a lesser known auctioneer in the area. I attended because it was just a mile down the road from me. what a disaster for the seller. The farm did not sell. Many of the chattels were practically given away or not sold because there were like 25 bidders in attendance. The seller severed the mineral rights from the land and the auctioneer ended up buying the mineral rights "to help out" the seller as he told me later when i asked him what was going to happen to the farm since it did not sell. That did not seem very ethical to me.

ztrmowers · Dec 20, 2019

the online fad has really changed the auction world

rusty6 · Dec 20, 2019

(quoted from post at 04:19:13 12/20/19) Farm auctions have changed dramatically over the past 50 years. Time have changed, and I am glad to have been able to see how things used to be.

I agree with everything you said Bruce. Lucky to have seen the best years of auctions and farming and general. Kind of sad to see it all changing.

paul · Dec 20, 2019

Was overwhelming the auctions in the 1980s.

Was a little bump in the early 2000s.

Practically none in the early 2010s.

Now some auctions again, mostly online and buyers fees. Not like it was.

We have a lot of online and live auctions, so still a pretty good event but they still aren?t what they were.

Paul

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Leroy · Dec 20, 2019

On line auction will keep many a buyer away, They may not be the high dollar buyer away but without them smaller items will not get sold or just dumped in a lot and left for the junk man. I would never deal with an auctioneere that has on line auctions. Now like many a year ago YT had an on line auction section I did buy several things from there but it was only one item up for auction. Perhaps just a manual or a smaller item.

rusty6 · Dec 20, 2019

My back does not do well standing around for hours at a farm sale now. So I do watch a few online but have not bought anything. Seems to me there is an extra charge to the buyer in an online auction. Also the weather is a factor. I've froze up pretty bad after a few hours out in the cold of a Sask spring or fall auction.

jdr1943 · Dec 20, 2019

Started going to Godleys Auction in Charlotte,NC in the late 70s it was the fourth Fri.of the month a lot of good equipment was sold there if you bought anything much it would be after dark when you got loaded the Fri.after thanksgiving was the biggie it was midnight one year when we left sadly to say things went downhill in the last twenty years they had the final sale this past Aug.pretty sure i attended all of them until this year.

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