First spring auction tomorrow - NY in the snow

I saw a couple of pieces I'd wanted to leave bids on - but Jim Macfadden wouldn't take any absentee bids - which kind of surprised me. There's a JD300 with hoe on it I'd buy if cheap, also a one-row potato planter, an IH 500 dozer, and also the little Avery in one the photos. A lot of old Cases, IHs, Cats, Fordsons, etc.

It's a pretty neat place even without the big auction. Acres and acres of woods filled with antique tractors. Largest antique tractor salvage yard I've ever been to.

I was at his place, last time in '04, looked like they were fooling with several D8K's, having spent a lot of time on those I took a look at one in his yard and there were a pair further down the road, all looked to have new undercarriages, and in good shape, maybe gov't surplus painted yellow, who knows, and you're right there is a lot of tractors and equipment there, I know someone who grabbed a 3020 a few years ago, no nothing of JMAC's business ethics, do remember a lot about being in that business though. There sure is some nice hay ground over that way, I came in from east berne ended up on 20 somewhere, liked what I saw on the back roads over there, kind what it used to be like here.

Last year's auction I went over because there was a 32 hoe off the back of a Case 580CK that I needed (I still do). I asked Jim if I could leave an absentee bid and he said no. I left and didn't come back to bid on it. The next week I drove back over to get some parts out of his salvage yard. I came across a guy loading the Case hoe onto his trailer. He had gone to the auction, only two people bid on the hoe, and he bought it for $500.