Posted by Goose on July 15, 2012 at 11:24:48 from (174.254.245.35):
Coupla weeks ago, I mentioned a D17 propane burner that was coming up on an auction and wondered if it would sell for more or less than a gasoline burner.
The auction was yesterday. The D17 was clean, always shedded, and ready to go to work. Engine recently rebuilt, and balanced and blueprinted in the process. (Truth be told, the fellow who owned it drove a stock car for me for a number of years, so he was tuned in to balanced engines.)
Also a WD with a trip loader, also clean, good paint, always shedded.
The WD brought $2800 and the D17 $2700.
The auction itself was the proverbial Chinese fire drill. There were 9 racks loaded with stuff, the whole yard full of other stuff besides the machinery, and the auctioneers started like gangbusters with two rings running.
Then, for some reason, the auctioneers shut down one ring and ran only one ring for an hour. Then one auctioneer started up again, ran maybe 20 minutes, and quit again. By then over half the crowd had left. Then the boss auctioneer got upset and in no uncertain terms ordered the other auctioneer to start up again. Only his clerk had disappeared and he couldn't find a clerk. And so it went.
On a clean pickup box trailer, I thought I had the high bid with the ring man for $275 and the auctioneer calling the bids sold it to someone else for $250.
Then there were two wagons side by side. One a barge box and the other a galvenized flair box, Neither had hoists. Nobody uses them for grain anymore, but I figured if I could get one cheap enough it would do to pitch firewood into. The auctioneer started by offering choice of the two. When the bid went over $200, I dropped out and thought I'd see what the other brought. The guy bidding took the barge.
Then the auctioneer looked at someone in the crowd and asked him if he wanted the flair for $75. The guy nodded, and it was sold. I thought, "WTF, he didn't even take any bids!"
It looked like the auctioneers were looking out for their buddies, at least on those items, so I said to heck with it and went home. It was some auction company from outside the area. I'd never heard of them before.
Funniest part was, when they were selling stuff off of a rack, the ring man held up a box of tools, and I swore I saw a ratchet of mine in the box. I hadn't seen it in years and often wondered what had become of it. Must have gotten intermixed while we were still racing. No way I could have proved it was mine, so I just laughed it off.
Anyway, kind of a wasted day, but the temp was about 100 degrees, so I might not have done much of anything else anyway.
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