X 2 one year old Ken Wotton 14t trailers - £4000 each I think, sold 20 years later for £4500 each
Glad u brought the sfp fiasco up6 foot topper for £250 15 years ago. Only needed one new blade since then.
At farm sales best deals are boxes but you need to look into the bottom of them to see the good bits which will go for £2. Got lots of tools that way.
When SFP was first delayed by the computer issues stuff was cheap but we had no spare cash that spring. Saw a 10 ton 3 year old silage trailer go for £3500. Paint was barely scratched.
Both big balers i have owned came from auctionFarm sale £5.00 maiden bid for a wooden desk, which is in my office right now. It looks like Government issue and was in a barn but it wasn't damp.
OH buys most of his machinery from farm sales. I remember a big baler that he spent most of the winter rebuilding but even after all that it was a big saving on what the dealer wanted when it was in his yard - if you don't count the hours, but I suppose it was a winter project.
You bought a wheelie bin ...Following on from @glasshouse ’s post:
What’s the best bargain you’ve achieved at an auction? I’ll start with two that I’ve had on here before:
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£20 - I only bid to help the auctioneer out as it was clear there was no reserve and no interest.
One of these - https://www.watkinshire.co.uk/heating-boilers/mbr-3-55
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£5 - and would pay many more pounds to replace if needed - gives me a hot tap in my lambing shed every year since. Highly recommended.
That must have been my old one!!!Just remembering my brother buying a VW caddy for spares 20 or so yrs ago . Paid £85 . Couple of months later found an envelope stuffed behind the seat with £800 in it . The M1 caddy became a collectors item and sold the same pickup for spares for £450 .
Whats for dinner tonight?Dad bought approx 1000 tins of goodness knows what for £1 from this place about 1964.
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They were in the cellar and undamaged by the fire, but the water had removed most of the labels, Soups, Fruit, Baked Beans and such. Sold them off as mystery objects cheap, wouldn't be able to get away with it nowadays what with elf and safety and sell by dates, once they'd figured out the codes on the tins by opening one folks would rummage through the pile looking for the same codes.
Only did it really to move the auction on to what he was really after.
You bought a wheelie bin ...
Whats that worth?Following on from @glasshouse ’s post:
What’s the best bargain you’ve achieved at an auction? I’ll start with two that I’ve had on here before:
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£20 - I only bid to help the auctioneer out as it was clear there was no reserve and no interest.
One of these - https://www.watkinshire.co.uk/heating-boilers/mbr-3-55
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£5 - and would pay many more pounds to replace if needed - gives me a hot tap in my lambing shed every year since. Highly recommended.