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This place is well off the beaten path on a road that sees very little traffic, when I was in the area I would drive by and stop on the gravel road that split the property and look in wonder at all the stuff, there were visible steam engines, I do not know what happened to them.
Another story about this guy, auction selling a 1800's dentist chair. a tattoo artist wanted it for his shop. This guy outbid him, like $1500.
later I asked the tattoo guy if he wanted to know what this guy was going to do with the chair, he said yes, I told him that he was going to take it to one of his properties, unload it by the backing up, slam on the brakes method then pile junk on top of it
In 10-20 years from now we're all gonna be wondering how we could lat all this stuff go to the scrapper, and that we were all out of our minds for thinking it was a waste.
These yards of stuff are disappearing and there's a reason why even crappy, previously undesirable cars are somewhat valuable today. Someday we're gonna wish we still had this stuff laying around.
Stuff went really cheap, most for less than scrap price, they have barely scratched the surface, that quonset building is full and does not leak, the panel truck went for $120
missed out on a gas pump I would have liked. went beyond my max bid pretty cheap. Not disappointed in that I suspect the condition was very poor
Was it this one, or one of the visibles? The visibles went for pretty fair money. ($700 and $1000) This one, at $185, was still plenty for what was left of it. I drooled on it for about 5 seconds until I looked at the pics enough to know it was half gone. Glad it was half way across the country from me.
Stuff went really cheap, most for less than scrap price, they have barely scratched the surface, that quonset building is full and does not leak, the panel truck went for $120
so tou think the same auctioneer will handle future events? Id probly go if i hadmore notice
thanks!
Do you think the same auctioneer will handle fure events? Id probly go if i had more advance notice. Thanks ishort!
Did you happen to notice if the panel truck, had factory seats? If it did and they were in usable shape, meaning not that they could be bolted into a truck and used, I mean were they good enough to have reupholstered? Also, I doubt it, but were the back doors any good? If either the truck was well worth the $110 final bid. I would think there had to be a few usable parts and scrap would be maybe $100+ for it.
I hope the winner of the firetruck bought it for the wheels at least. For $150 it was a steal if the rims were any good. Those are not WMs. Sure there is at least $150 in scrap value for that heavy piece of equipment. I would have got the wheels off, if any good, and hauled the carcass to the scrap yard.
Did you happen to notice if the panel truck, had factory seats? If it did and they were in usable shape, meaning not that they could be bolted into a truck and used, I mean were they good enough to have reupholstered? Also, I doubt it, but were the back doors any good? If either the truck was well worth the $110 final bid. I would think there had to be a few usable parts and scrap would be maybe $100+ for it.
I thought about that but I thought that dealing with a very rusty truck that will not roll would be way more work than I wanted to do and I did not want to add to my collection of vehicles that do not run, the way to do it would be to strip off the usable parts and scrap the rest but in Illinois scrapping vehicles that are not titled in your name is against the law, you would have to cut it up in pieces to sell it which I have done several times
yeah I bid on the rectangular pump up to 180 on line. Was helping a friend rehab a house so wasn't able to be on line at time of auction. On site buyer got it for 185. If I got it I was going to put it aside for a "rainy day project" ..like I don't have plenty already!
I thought about that but I thought that dealing with a very rusty truck that will not roll would be way more work than I wanted to do and I did not want to add to my collection of vehicles that do not run, the way to do it would be to strip off the usable parts and scrap the rest but in Illinois scrapping vehicles that are not titled in your name is against the law, you would have to cut it up in pieces to sell it which I have done several times
The technique I I use that I described above would have been the way I would have gone. If the winner would have been a scrapper I would have offered him a decent percentage of his winning bid and grabbed my battery tools and a couple of big hammers and got what I wanted. The scrapper then could get rid of the rest. I'd bet the rear doors were in as of shape as the rest of the truck. If it had stock seat they could have been in OK shape. Seats alone would have been worth $200+
The windows are all intact so I bet the seats were not totally rusted away.
That would be a good sign but many times times the stock seats were swapped out for modern, more comfortable seats. That is the main reason you don't see them very often. That along with the fact that many new trucks were ordered with only the driver's seat, for a work truck the passenger seat took up usable real estate.
