Insulted by auctioneer

[Mc115reed]

Sounds like you'd be better off sending some deadweight.

Rather stick pins in my eyes

 

[Mc115reed]

No wonder more and more seem to be coming north!

Iv nothing against them grading them to sell them how they see fit I think it’s a better way of doing it … aslong as the lads grading them actually want too be there and do the job right

 

[lloyd]

Rather stick pins in my eyes

Some auction yards seem to run a system of reserved pens for their favourite vendors.
Nothing is as straightforward as it seems.

 

[d williams]

That ridiculous.

This probably makes me sound like a clever dick, but I’d be wary of taking a mixed batch of lambs anywhere without sorting them myself or at least putting a mark on the lean ones to sell as stores.

No it’s called providing what the market wants

 

[Henarar]

It takes the pee, half the unloading bays they won’t let you use, then there’s pens inside for thousands of lambs all sat empty and then every f**ker sat outside with trailers full of lambs .. I really like Tom and his no bulls**t approach but the system they have in place for sorting lambs just does not work and until they change it too a system that can handle the volume of sheep they’re dealing with I won’t be going back

most of the shareholders won't use the place

 

[serf]

They need to use all 20 unloading bays. I end up unloading miles from weigh bridge in the three bays that don’t have lorries parked on

They got room Indoors to just put all the lambs into holding pens and put the licence on the gate of each pen and have two teams one weighing and one unloading /sending them round to weight like Melton does

 

[Mc115reed]

They got room Indoors to just put all the lambs into holding pens and put the licence on the gate of each pen and have two teams one weighing and one unloading /sending them round to weight like Melton does

Exactly drives you f**king mad sat there too unload looking at pen space for thousands of lambs just sat empty and then the carnage it causes if youv got a few cull ewes mixed in too really just ain’t worth going for… apart from the 1 bad day though every time Iv went Iv always done £5-10 a head more than I expected

 

[Henarar]

Exactly drives you f**king mad sat there too unload looking at pen space for thousands of lambs just sat empty and then the carnage it causes if youv got a few cull ewes mixed in too really just ain’t worth going for… apart from the 1 bad day though every time Iv went Iv always done £5-10 a head more than I expected

All because of the bloke you said you really like

 

[Mc115reed]

All because of the bloke you said you really like

Wasn’t a problem when I used too get there at 3-4am but I’m slowing down in my old age now none this weighing lambs at midnight and taking them straight too market anymore

 

[Henarar]

They need to sort the lambs further from the weighbridge so it keeps moving, if you ever watch it's standing empty half the time. A cynic told me it's because they want lambs empty when weighed.

So he can get the SQQ up, its all fake

 

[som farmer]

So he can get the SQQ up, its all fake

the only figures that tell a story, in the auctioneers report, are the ones that give a min price, max price and the average price, for each class, or breed of stock, not to many marts do that, mores the pity.

experts at printing the top prices though ! Which tells you bugger all about the trade.

others conveniently forget about the lower end, just print top/av for best, and next best.

damn certain nobody is making top prices every week, and the auctioneer gets to place cattle/sheep prices, in whatever 'class' he wants to.

Southern County Auctioneers, put every thing in the report, even the cheap rubbish, cattle are all in each breed, and age group.

its misleading, pure and simple, and deliberate, to try and give a false impression.

 

[serf]

Wasn’t a problem when I used too get there at 3-4am but I’m slowing down in my old age now none this weighing lambs at midnight and taking them straight too market anymore

That's what I did when I used to go there , first at the gate at 5am before they even opened fuk that now ...

Is the new market getting built yet?

 

[Guiggs]

They got room Indoors to just put all the lambs into holding pens and put the licence on the gate of each pen and have two teams one weighing and one unloading /sending them round to weight like Melton does

I took a trailer full of short keep stores a couple of years back that included 8 or 10 long keeps to get them gone.
Told the bloke penning them i wanted to pull them out and pen separately, he insisted on doing it and as i wasn't staying i left him to it.
Needles to say he didn't bother and they brought the price down.
Phoned and spoke to the auctioneer after and he waved the commission.
Judging by his reaction it wasn't the first time the guy had done it.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Your marts sound a nightmare.

 

[Nantwich lad]

Back to the thread title, AS didn't sell the stores in Bakewell today and for a 1st Meg sold them and did an excellent job

 

[Mc115reed]

That's what I did when I used to go there , first at the gate at 5am before they even opened fuk that now ...

Is the new market getting built yet?

I soon realised if you went too the far gate it wasn’t locked and could empty lambs out at any time

Your marts sound a nightmare.

Northern Markets are certainly more accommodating and grateful of your business that’s for sure

 

[bobk]

Back to the thread title, AS didn't sell the stores in Bakewell today and for a 1st Meg sold them and did an excellent job

She's bloody good , wasted at Bagshaws

 

[kps]

Back to the thread title, AS didn't sell the stores in Bakewell today and for a 1st Meg sold them and did an excellent job

Was he there? Maybe he's read this thread!

 

[Devil's advocate]

I remember Alistar when Bagshaws had Penistone, I liked him it would be 40 to 30 years ago.

That Elliot chap did a farm dispersal a couple of miles from here just after Corna. Could not beieve how he told his customers off & talked to them like small children, mind you he was right. Meg was very good.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

I soon realised if you went too the far gate it wasn’t locked and could empty lambs out at any time

Northern Markets are certainly more accommodating and grateful of your business that’s for sure

Maybe because there’s more competition. Use it or lose it