Maybe I Should Stop Going to Auctions....
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Topic: Maybe I Should Stop Going to Auctions....
Posted By: Protrucker
Subject: Maybe I Should Stop Going to Auctions....
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2012 at 5:03am
I went to an auction yesterday, because I found out that a B that I tried to buy this spring was being re-sold. That's all that I was after. Well..... when I got there & wandered around, checking things out, of course I found other things that I "needed" so I ended up bidding on them. I let a pto driven potato digger go to another bidder that seemed like he was going to take it home no matter what it cost him, but Here's what I loaded up & brought home:
 There's the B of course (the engine is set up), a set of 2-way plows, a complete belly mount cultivator setup, a mounted sickle bar mower, rear wheel weights, & a swinging drawbar.
When we were ready to go check out, I sent my wife to the car to get money. While she was gone, I almost bought another tractor of a different color, just because it sold cheap & was a runner. I think that I would have been sleeping with the dogs last night if I had though!
Anyway..... do you think $550 + tax was too much to pay for what I did bring home?  ------------- "ALLIS EXPRESS" Allis Chalmers  1944 B, 1949 B,  D14, WC
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Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2012 at 5:07am
| my wife won't leave my side at an auction or a gun store...lol, nice looking b, what did ya meen the engine is set up? |
Posted By: Jordan(OH)
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2012 at 6:34am
| Yes, should have been no tax. |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2012 at 7:33am
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Looks like you could at least scrap it all and get your money back. Nice buys ! Love going to auctions,(as long as it is not one of those gigantic consignment auctions that take all day and then some),even to just look at stuff, have to keep the other bidders honest. ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: ctbowles58
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2012 at 1:44pm
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There is no tax on farm eqpt. in MO.eaither. but even with tax looks like you did good. ------------- 190XT 2WD45 WF D15 D14 CA BIG10 302 & 303 bailers 77G rake 80R mower 6 plows and alot more |
Posted By: GlenninPA
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2012 at 4:38pm
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Wow! Was that really one of Howard's sales??? You did fantastic, I wouldn't have gone to that sale, just because I figured that there is no point bidding against the house. Keep up the good work Al, you are gonna have a big collection before you know it! ------------- Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. From listening comes wisdom and from speaking comes repentance. Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. |
Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2012 at 5:06pm
| I'd say ya did just fine -- never know what turns up at auctions that "you need" - LOL. |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2012 at 6:46pm
When they say 'set up' or having 'taken a set', that's the same as 'stuck'. I think it may have been either Ireland or Scotland, where a man told me the machine had been idle for years, and the engine was fixed... fixed, like... it wouldn't move... ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
dt1050 wrote:Posted By: bigfish_Oh
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2012 at 8:05pm
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I just got me a C a couple weeks ago that is "set-up" also, I guess we'll both have fun, when we park 2 wheels ! I wish someone would come to Ohio and tell me it's "fixed" !! ------------- 1941 WC sat for 29 years,started & dynoed 27 h.p. 1957 WD45 Grandpa bought new,factory p.s.,added wfe 1951 WD, factory p.s. 1960 D14 HnMk IV BkHoe 4 sale 2014 HD Tri Glide 2009 GMC CC SLT Dually |
Posted By: Murph-NC
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2012 at 9:02pm
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I'd say you did just fine. ------------- '41 C w/Woods L503 mower, #3 mower, 2-way plows for C |
Posted By: Protrucker
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2012 at 9:08pm
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Sorry I haven't replied earlier. I just got home from work a little while ago.
Set-up is another way of saying that it is siezed up. It's such a shame that so many tractors end up this way simply because no one bothered to do anything to prevent rain water from getting into the engine.
I don't actually own a farm, so I can't get the tax exemption.
Yes, that's Howard's place. I go there, but am very cautious with my bidding. This was at least the fourth time that this tractor was sold there without ever being picked up. I guess Howard figured that he had made enough off it.
Hehe.....It kinda gets adicting. I've already been talking with a guy that I work with, that was given a WD45. He doesn't have any interest in it because he is a green & yellow guy. I don't expect to get it for free because he made the statement that, "it is at least good trading stock," but I might get it for a good price.
Glenn, one of these days we're going to have to make a point of meeting up even if it's just for a cup of coffee.
Larry, I haven't had much time for the "two wheeler" since I got home from the trip out there. Keep us updated on your progress with your "new" C. ------------- "ALLIS EXPRESS" Allis Chalmers 1944 B, 1949 B, D14, WC
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Posted By: Leesok
Date Posted: 02 Sep 2012 at 9:33pm
| Why???? With that kind of luck you should go more often!!! lol Especially if you got the left hand plow, not a everyday find around here. |
Posted By: dt1050
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2012 at 5:03am
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Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2012 at 9:59am
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Yes, and if you're in the right place in the world, you can lift your lorry's bonnet and check for positive earth... (that would get you slapped here...) And you could finish a nice dinner and exclaim that you're 'stuffed'... (that'd be very embarrassing in the wrong company) Or you could tell the hotel concierge that you'd like to be knocked-up in the morning... Or you could be sitting amidst a group of hippie kids and tell them that your 'threads are all knackered'... (they'd have absolutely no clue, but they'd start repeating it anyway)... Or look to breakers for springs for your featherbed... ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
Posted By: Bill Long
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2012 at 11:41am
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GREAT BUY!!! Thanks for saving another of my favorites. Sounds like you got a lot of EXCELLENT implements. Let us know how it goes. Good Luck! Bill Long |
Posted By: CAdon
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2012 at 10:19pm
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so hard to find here i would take either side of that load (set up/siezed/fixed/non-op B or the implements) and walk away smiling. glad you saved the $ for a "correct color" later purchase tho... ------------- 52 CA, 41 B and a little B1 oh, yeah... and an 8N ford snuck in there, too. |