Farm Auction.......

There's a LARGE farm sale three miles from me tomorrow. A big operator had most of the land he rented sold out from under him so he decided to retire.

Now, after all the snow melting, the frost coming out of the ground, and a week of steady rain with more forecast during the auction, I don't know where anyone is going to park. It's on a blacktop road, but the shoulders are still soft from being widened a couple of years ago, if you drove a pickup onto a field it would sink and you'd never see it again, I doubt you could even park on gravel a half mile away and walk back.

A cousin of mine has a construction company across the road with most of a large area rocked, but he's made his feelings plain by parking double engined earth movers across both of his driveways and I can't say as I blame him. He doesn't need to have his area destroyed over his neighbor's auction.

They always say if you postpone an auction you never get the same crowd as if you'd gone ahead the first time regardless, but they might have to do that. Last I heard, they hadn't decided.

There's really only one thing on the auction I'm interested in, a 7 foot 3pt shredder. I may go up there today, take a look at it, and leave a bid with the auctioneer if they have the auction.

If I did that, I wouldn't even have to go.

Not to sound sarcastic, but it WOULD help to let us know WHERE the auction is!!

Two miles east and two south of Seward, Nebraska.

Around here, you get a huge crowd no matter when it is- I can't imagine anyone would be so irritated that they wouldn't come for the rescheduled date, esp. if they advertised it was cancelled on account of no place to park- most guys can understand that, and would appreciate not driving into a quagmire.

Reminds me of an auction my family"s auction company had a few years back. Same sort of situation, with the weather and frost, but all kinds of people insisted they would just park in the field to save from walking an extra few hundred feet. Out of probably 75 vehicles in the field only one made it out. ANY GUESSES WHAT IT WAS????? Dodge Neon. I"ve never seen so many people stuck in one place in all my days. Everyone ended up getting pulled out with a Ford Jubilee. Needless to say day two had a bunch of people on the road.

I"d say the auction will probably go on as scheduled and you"ll have a similar situation or one lane of traffic on the road.

Grew up in Waco, relatives now in Seward and Lincoln.

I went to Seward High School. Lived in Seward twice after I was married. Once for eight years and again for thirteen years. Now living on the family farm halfway between Seward and Milford.

BTW, I looked at the shredder today. It's a super heavy duty Big Ox, probably a bit much for my D19. Didn't see anything else more attractive than working in my warm shop so I'll skip the auction. There's a HUGE annual consignment auction at Saline Center next weekend with a lot of interesting stuff on it.

The problem with that auction is it's so big they run five or six rings and if there are several diverse things you're interested in, you run your legs off trying to keep track of what's selling.

What part of SC are you in? I was discharged from the Marine Corps at MCAS Beaufort.