[Steam-engine] Roen Sale

Beth 24port at accesstoledo.com
Thu Sep 9 18:03:22 PDT 2004


This is a note from Peter Love (he is the editor of Tractor & Machinery) in
England.  This is his report on the sale and Rollag to a small extent.

For those of you who attended, what did you think?

Thanks
Beth




The Danny Roen sale was very good on Tues, but very wet underfoot - but
all the engines need major boiler work!

 25hp Gaar Scott grade 7 $27,500  - 16hp Huber 4 - very complete $9,500
- 25hp Gaar Scott (flue return) very original 7 $12,000 - Northwest (not
complete) 1 $2,900 - 76hp Sawyer Massey (bits with three boilers) 1
$8,000 - 30hp Buffalo Pitts 7 (firebox good) $9,000 - 35hp Nichols &
Shepard (clutch parts missing) tubeplate 3mm in places 8 $57,000! 8 -
80hp Case with spare boiler (good firebox) 4 $10,000 - 28hp American
Abel 11 $57,000.

Grade 7 is original - 1 is poor - 8 is OK but needs work the Abel was at
Rollag and in steam - on Friday and Sat it rained on Sun wet - Mon wet
underfoot - we were at the show Fri/Sat - the rain started 4.10pm Sat!
Yours PL






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