Have you ever taken part in an auction and bought something you really didn't need? I have. More than once.
Here's your opportunity of a lifetime. Three pallets of valuable merchandise. In Kansas City, MO. Bidding ends on Oct. 26. Current bid is $50 for all three pallets and contents.
Well, darn! Need to enlarge the photo somehow.
Each pallet is holding approximately 150 pitchforks. They look more like silage forks to me, though. Obviously, used in some manner for construction purposes as this is a construction equipment only auction. BTW, bid has jumped up to $60. Get'em while they're hot.
If you were closer. I am always in need of a good pitch fork. Its my defense when the wife is mad at me. Lol. Just kidding. But I do use one when feeding cows and a bail bust etc. just toss it in the feeder wagon and off to the field.
If I was selling hay I might pick those up and include a free pitch fork with every load.
That's a good deal, these days there's got to be someone looking to equip an angry mob...
Even if a riot is an ugly thing.
My office at the highway department was just around the corner from the State's surplus warehouse. Spent many lunch hours prowling through all the stuff that was auctioned quarterly. I once bought a pallet of ball point pens (over 10,000) that proudly said "State of Oklahoma" on each one. It was a minimum bid of ten bucks. The pens were so old only about half of them worked. Took me a loooonnng time to get rid of them...
I wish I had been high bidder on that '53 ton and a half brush pumper from Stark, KS a few years ago. I researched that one. The pump engine in the bed was a 4-cyl. Wisconsin gas engine. The core value on those was about $1500 at the time which ruled my bid cap. Someone else nabbed it...which probably kept my marriage intact. 😉
Up until about 5:30 this afternoon I was the high bidder on a 10-ton all-terrain forklift. It weighed somewhere upwards of 43,000 lbs. Probably won't raise the bid again. The forks were six feet long and could be moved in and out from the seat up to eight feet wide.
The difference between men and boys is the size of their toys.
Could either pay $1000 to get moved here or spend a week driving it back.
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I was the proud winner in an online auction last week of a tanning bed for a dollar. My sister is a dermatologist and appropriately calls them "cancer coffins". I think she plans on putting it in her office with a Halloween skeleton in it. A dollar has gotten me some great surprises at auctions. I also won a gravity wagon that had a busted tie rod and the previous owners left it sit for years full of feed. It was a stinking mess shoveling that rotten beer smelling gunk out of there but the wagon was solid. Nothing a little welding didn't fix.
About an hour ago I became co-owner of this little jewel. One heck of a bargain. 101 uses.
Purchased a Gleaner L2 combine at auction a couple of years ago that had a bin full of soybeans that had been there for a year or two. The combine broke down during the last day of harvest so they just parked it and forgot it. Sale bill said combine did not run. My buddy checked it out ahead of the sale and decided he thought he could get it running. Bought it for about a third of what it would bring if running. Sold the header off immediately to the backup bidder. Buddy got it going and drove it home the next day. The seller was totally amazed. Have robbed a few good parts for use on another combine that have saved far more than the purchase price.
I think i will send you a list and some funds. And you can be my buyer when i need more equipment lol. I just lack the knowledge on a bunch of stuff to know what is and what is not a good deal.
Here's a jewel at a reasonable cost. But, bidding goes through November 6, so it may go up. About an hour west of St. Louis to auction site.
https://www.schneiderauctioneers.com/auctions/30316/lot/10421-wild-heerbrugg-t3-precision-theodolite
Now that is nice. I was still operating one of those between 2000 and 2005. Deployed with one in 2003 and 2004. Used one for a week in 2004 doing stadia topo when a total station but the dust in the heat of Africa. If you win that. Leave it to me i. Your will. Lol.
Hey have you just viewed this online or been able to kick the tires around this auction. Like physically been able to go look at things. Just wondering as i see a few things I would like to have. If the picture online is not misrepresenting or revealing anything I can’t see. If you see a good set. Of JD 71 flex planters with depth bands that not totally beat down I am wanting to build a 4 row set for planting sweet corn and peas and a few other plants for the market stand. On this auction a good stock trailer goose neck would be nice.
Auctions are fun but sometimes very frustrating. The bidding doesn't really get serious until the final day. The official closing time is set for each item, but, if someone raises the bid in the last few minutes, the auction extends for five minutes or three minutes, for example. Then anyone can raise the bid within that time frame and a new set of five minutes or three minutes begins. One item I was watching earlier this week went on for about two hours beyond the official end time because there were two bidders fighting it out $100 at a time. In the morning the high bid was around $2600. It finally sold for $6800 at mid-afternoon. I was in early at $905. No bargain, no sale.
All of the items listed should be at the auction site already for inspection. The site is a hard five hours from me so I probably won't look at anything before bidding. Other auction companies have all of their items still at the seller's location, wherever that may be. They supply information on how to contact the seller directly for any questions. The big purchase this week was an hour northwesterly from KCMO. A couple of months ago I purchased some items located about eight miles from me. I probably bid on a dozen items and end up with one. Learning to let things go is crucial.
Yeah. I have bid a few times. I was on a bid for a set of planters two years ago. The site was 8 hours south. A fellow mentor on the farming side. He called me and said he was going down to look some items over and asked if i had bid on the planters. I said yes sir early low bid . He called and told me not to raise my price as the photo showed very good looking set all the toolbar and hoppers had been freshly painted but was a lot of rust I couldn’t see in the picture. So i got lucky. The problem now days is all that old stuff that would work perfectly for me and my size tractor and such has gone through the roof with food plot planter folks. I will keep being patient and cautious. Although I might be needing a excavator or something soon. Going to look at some raw land tomorrow that will need some clearing for a home site and such. It’s about 3 years of regrowth I am guessing by imagery will know more tomorrow. If I buy before it hits the market i am good on price. If i wait until he advertises it i would not be able to touch it with land prices around here. I will probably buy no matter what once i walk it. Lease it to some deer hunters and sit on it for long term investment but the wife is ready for a little bigger house. So we have met with a builder already and have a few starter example of the plans i have built them and we are rearranging a few things to send back next week. Like bedroom sizes doing away with a formal dining room. We are fairly basic folks just want functionality and practical. Not all the bells and whistles. The builder said we have never had something so easy. The little farm house we have now is 800 sq ft. 1 bath. We want 1500 3 beds two bathrooms and a little office space no attached garage. I will build a pole barn shop and put me a little office in it. But keep me in mind if you trip over a 71 flex set up. I have a 9 year old who wants a farm stand and she loves sweet corn and. Has already drawn up some pictures of how she will decorate her farm stand. 😂.
