Auctioneer Chant

[teslacoils]

With the rapid demise of physical auctions, I wondered if there were still any good "singing" auctioneers?

My us family in Nebraska often send videos of the cattle auctions, and auctioneering is actually competitive. Maybe ten years ago was my last trip to the brown & co / p&b auction at Brigg and there was an auctioneer there who had a nice chant.

Anywhere in the UK worth a visit ( post Corona) where it's worth the trip just to hear the auctioneer?

 

[idgni]

With the rapid demise of physical auctions, I wondered if there were still any good "singing" auctioneers?

My us family in Nebraska often send videos of the cattle auctions, and auctioneering is actually competitive. Maybe ten years ago was my last trip to the brown & co / p&b auction at Brigg and there was an auctioneer there who had a nice chant.

Anywhere in the UK worth a visit ( post Corona) where it's worth the trip just to hear the auctioneer?

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[Yale]

Dick at Dolgellau is a star and worth seeing in action.

He regularly singles people out and takes the pee.

 

[Big_D]

I did this in a young farmers concert years ago (ps that's not me in the vid!)

 

[thorpe]

With the rapid demise of physical auctions, I wondered if there were still any good "singing" auctioneers?

My us family in Nebraska often send videos of the cattle auctions, and auctioneering is actually competitive. Maybe ten years ago was my last trip to the brown & co / p&b auction at Brigg and there was an auctioneer there who had a nice chant.

Anywhere in the UK worth a visit ( post Corona) where it's worth the trip just to hear the auctioneer?

graham watkins and mark elliot will be singing at leek tomorrow , i wish they would take their time , i cant keep up im getting old!

 

[goodevans]

I did this in a young farmers concert years ago (ps that's not me in the vid!)

Its says shae price on the clip,he works for mccartneys, did he post it originally or is it him

 

[Sid]

These guys are fast!

 

[hagar]

These guys are fast!

Personally I think they're wasting a lot o air gibbering like that!!
John Thompson at Thornhill mkt years ago said bid couple o times like he was talking to you. Clear, precise and was known to pause for a mouthful o tea from cup, then start again with "now where were we" no rush and a one off.
Never seen another auctioneer like him, but when you were buying used to think just chap them doon before somebody else decides to bid again

 

[pellow]

 

[Stewartry hill]

Personally I think they're wasting a lot o air gibbering like that!!
John Thompson at Thornhill mkt years ago said bid couple o times like he was talking to you. Clear, precise and was known to pause for a mouthful o tea from cup, then start again with "now where were we" no rush and a one off.
Never seen another auctioneer like him, but when you were buying used to think just chap them doon before somebody else decides to bid again

He was two or three bids higher when he started again

 

[Bald Rick]

Tobacco auctioneers are the business though ....

BTW ... offensive language at the start. Sign of the times then

 

[Big_D]

Its says shae price on the clip,he works for mccartneys, did he post it originally or is it him

sorry don't know, I just searched and picked what I thought was a good version

 

[chaffcutter]

On holiday in the Lakes some years ago, the ladies wanted to go shopping so a pal an I went to have a look at the sheep sale on in Penrith.
I thought I had been around a few auctions over the years but I couldn’t catch up with this chap, I m no sheep man but they were selling bunches of ewe labs I decided, but for how much... good job I wasn’t a buyer !

 

[yellowbelly]

Maybe ten years ago was my last trip to the brown & co / p&b auction at Brigg and there was an auctioneer there who had a nice chant.

That'd be Ken Pritchard. He's not with them anymore. Not sure where he went.

 

[welger]

graham watkins and mark elliot will be singing at leek tomorrow , i wish they would take their time , i cant keep up im getting old!

Mark’s one of the best.

 

[jamesy]

I did this in a young farmers concert years ago (ps that's not me in the vid!)

Its says shae price on the clip,he works for mccartneys, did he post it originally or is it him

The guy in the YouTube video is our local auctioneer here from Orkney Auction Mart. We are lucky in probably having two of the best auctioneers around for our mart.

 

[thorpe]

good auctioneer equals seller getting monies worth for thier commision.

 

[mac]

I did this in a young farmers concert years ago (ps that's not me in the vid!)

That lad is the auctioneer in Orkney as @jamesy and a very good one he is as well. In that video is also (not singing) is another young able auctioneer who sells in Dingwall great lads.

 

[hagar]

He was two or three bids higher when he started again

Think, in fact I know the swallows were bidding at times.
Remember getting yow lambs chapped down to me at £2 above my last bid, when I went to office to pay he was behind counter and before I got to clerk he came forward and took me behind counter. As I started to say, he just said the price o my last bid and he'd sort it!!!
Mind you on the other hand he possibly did same with my lambs at times and I'd gain a bid or two

 

[ridger]

There are 2 great auctioneers that I listen to on a Wednesday in enniscorthy. The one that sells the older stock kinda sings along, and the one that sells the calves sounds a bit older I could listen to him all day. Onw week he sold a calf for 5 euro and when the buyer asked him about a luckspenny he gave him some run lol