Auction bargains - things you didn’t expect to get as cheap as you did.

[glasshouse]

There was once a farm sale of an old brother and sister, the brother had died suddenly so the sister sold up, at the sale was several aluminum old milk churns, and an old boy was sitting on one not a bad place to sit right height and flat top with rounded sides, anyway he sat there all day and would not move off the churn even when they were sold, the auctioneer even passed comment about him sitting on one, he bought them and were knocked down to him, he told the son to go pay for them and bring the pickup so they can load them up, all alone he would not move off that churnonce the son came back with the pickup, he got off the churn and put it on the back seat, the rest in the back of pickup,
Turns out that the dead farmer had hens and sold eggs, and kept the money away from the sister by keeping it in the old milk churn, after getting home and counting all the money a total of £13.5k was in the churn, he had sat on the churn for so long he was bursting for a pee and nearly peed himself, but said it was worth it

Is that not bordering on theft?

 

[glasshouse]

About 30 years ago my dad bought a traction engine team living wagon, the type contractor teams towed from job to job. In totally original condition but needing a fair bit of work. Paid £200 at a farm sale somewhere. He said no one else really wanted it.

It has sat at the back of a shed ever since, getting in the way, he always planned to make it into a holiday let on the farm, but we never got round to it.

I have always resented it, until Cheffins valued it at £20-25,000 last year, quite like it now! Apparently they are the rare accessory that every discerning traction engine restorer wants...

Hope you apologised to dad?

 

[glasshouse]

There was s sale up north about oban many yrs ago , a forestry company gone bust.

there was three or four ford tw35 tractors, all nearly new.
The reciever wanted £500 cash deposit per lot before you got a bid number.
Nobody had the cash rxcept one dealer, who bought the lot for a song

 

[Fendt516profi]

Is that not bordering on theft?

No he bought churns and contents bet there were some polystyrene cups and bits of paper towel from bacon butties in others that he also owned at end of day

 

[glasshouse]

No he bought churns and contents bet there were some polystyrene cups and bits of paper towel from bacon butties in others that he also owned at end of day

You often see an older fellow sitting on a box or chest at a farm sale.
Next time i will throw them off

 

[Henarar]

A bout 10 yrs ago I bought a Woodburning stove from a guy who was going to enter it for a collective sale. It went from the back of his motor to mine and £100 changed hands, still going to this day

Would hope so at that sort of money, paid 20 quid for mine

 

[HAM135]

I remember being at a sale around the borders,think it was a case dealer closing down,stores were sold by the shelf with contents,there was a brand new Trimble screen on one shelf but some chancer shifted it onto another shelf and hid it below some other items,caused quite an upset when shelves were sold and the guy made it fairly obvious he had moved it, couldn't believe anyone as hard necked as that although some of what I am reading on here I can believe it!

 

[Wombat]

I remember being at a sale around the borders,think it was a case dealer closing down,stores were sold by the shelf with contents,there was a brand new Trimble screen on one shelf but some chancer shifted it onto another shelf and hid it below some other items,caused quite an upset when shelves were sold and the guy made it fairly obvious he had moved it, couldn't believe anyone as hard necked as that although some of what I am reading on here I can believe it!

Theft and should be treated as such

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

More dual wheels and tyres than I can remember for 2quid a time. Plenty with stocks clamps. Normally with the next 3 lots of dual wheels chucked in.....

 

[steveR]

There was s sale up north about oban many yrs ago , a forestry company gone bust.

there was three or four ford tw35 tractors, all nearly new.
The reciever wanted £500 cash deposit per lot before you got a bid number.
Nobody had the cash rxcept one dealer, who bought the lot for a song

Fix.....

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

Furrow press £15
Also hydraulic release press arm, £5

 

[Frodo]

Is that not bordering on theft?

Quite a lot of these stories would make a main dealer blush.

 

[JWL]

Only if the colour of a particular breed of tractor was being reflected off their face

 

[glasshouse]

I bought a sluury tanker last yr at auction, one of a pair
Went in and paid, came out to see them both on a dealers lorry

He got it off sharpish

 

[Beetlejuice]

I used to have a saying when I did the farm sales
" everything finds a victim"
We once bought a fraser silage cart for £1000 for my father in law,
When it came to pay we noticed the invoice was for £100,
I said fudge all and first thing Monday morning I went in to credit controller and paid everything we bought by card and asked him to sign off everything paid in full.
It was the Friday when I was called into office and told that there was a mistake made with invoice
Now this was obviously impossible to believe as this same office never made mistakes I was led to believe,
Anyway when told that the cart should have been 1000 not 100 I said well thats your problem as your credit controller, who took great delight in phoning buyers and chasing up payments within days of purchase, has written paid in full and signed my invoice.
To which the office got the clerk and auctioneers sale rolls and found the auctoneers said 100 the clerks said 1000 and in case of dispute they always go by clerks, though I bet that is subject to change when it suits them
I'm the end I did pay, though had I not been employed by them I wouldnt have and told them to ram it.
So I was close to a £100 bargain

You knew it was £1000 and you tried to take advantage of someone’s mistake so that makes you a C U Next Tuesday in my eyes I thought the AG community were a honest bunch

 

[Mr Mackay]

I havent gone through the whole thread but a few years ago there was a sale at Forton Shrewsbury ,and tale has it that one of the tractors sold (the place was full of vintage Internationals and Fords /Nuffields ) and one tractor that was sold had a locked tool box .
The purchasers had got in touch with the auctioneers and told them there was money in it ,but were told they had bought it and they didnt want to know !
Not sure how much but it wasnt pennies

 

[glasshouse]

I havent gone through the whole thread but a few years ago there was a sale at Forton Shrewsbury ,and tale has it that one of the tractors sold (the place was full of vintage Internationals and Fords /Nuffields ) and one tractor that was sold had a locked tool box .
The purchasers had got in touch with the auctioneers and told them there was money in it ,but were told they had bought it and they didnt want to know !
Not sure how much but it wasnt pennies

Thats a bit poor

 

[Mr Mackay]

Thats a bit poor

Not really . I believe he was an only one and after he died ,he had no family as such!!
The auctioneers just said ,you bought the tractor so whatevers in the toolbox is yours -I persume !!

 

[Sid]

You knew it was £1000 and you tried to take advantage of someone’s mistake so that makes you a C U Next Tuesday in my eyes I thought the AG community were a honest bunch

Have you not seen how dealers and auctioneers behave at farm sales?

The Auctioneers, working for the farmer, turn a blind eye to it!

 

[Sid]

I havent gone through the whole thread but a few years ago there was a sale at Forton Shrewsbury ,and tale has it that one of the tractors sold (the place was full of vintage Internationals and Fords /Nuffields ) and one tractor that was sold had a locked tool box .
The purchasers had got in touch with the auctioneers and told them there was money in it ,but were told they had bought it and they didnt want to know !
Not sure how much but it wasnt pennies

I bought a box of books at a house clearance once. Buried at the bottom was their family bible.
It was returned, a bottle was later delivered for its return.