[AT] Bridgeport Nebraska auction

charlie hill chill8 at suddenlink.net
Fri Feb 15 07:26:16 PST 2008


Will,  apparently the owner had contracted with a different auction company 
and then violated their contract and sold the entire mess to the folks that 
are holding this sale.  That is in court too.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <william.neff.powell at comcast.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Bridgeport Nebraska auction


> Yes, many will probably go for scrap.
>
> How many people will want to spend the time to go to NE, buy a tractor, 
> and then pay to have it transported...? Hopefully they will advertise it 
> well.
>
> We have a local large auction in PA, Beilers? I think I missed it this 
> year, but at that auction there are many scrap dealers bidding.... I 
> remember on large  rough Oliver dozer that went for about $250 to a scrap 
> guy, the auctioneer said its going to the right place, and I agreed with 
> him, it really was junk.
>
> Maybe the auctioneer will get smart and list some of them on-line or on 
> ebay at the same time to save some of them from the melting pot.
>
> Will in PA
>
>
>
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
>> I just can't imagine how much money and time a guy would need to have a
>> collection that big even if he bought the stuff dirt cheap or had it 
>> given
>> to him.  Just the cost of storing all of it and keeping the place cleaned 
>> up
>> would break most folks.  I'd like to know the guys story.
>>
>> Here is what worries me about the sale.   How many folks are their that 
>> will
>> go to Nebraska to bid on one of the 1500 JD's?  There are so many of them
>> that are the same models.  With the high price of scrap I'm afraid that 
>> they
>> will run out of legitimate collector buyers and the scrap guys will be 
>> there
>> drooling and buying them to cut them up.
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Steve Barr" <stevebarr at ameritech.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 6:56 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Bridgeport Nebraska auction
>>
>>
>> > There has been a good discussion on Smokstak about this in two of the
>> > forums
>> >
>> > http://www.smokstak.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44876
>> >
>> > http://www.smokstak.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42903
>> >
>> > I knew of this sale back in September 2007 when Aumann Auctions put it 
>> > on
>> > their web site(This was just prior to the George Schaff auction). 
>> > Since
>> > then, there was a change of heart when the "big money" came in...I 
>> > guess
>> > the entire operation was purchased by Kruse and now they are selling
>> > it...Others have noticed it as well, but several tractors that were 
>> > shown
>> > there are not listed on Kruse's auction.  I wonder where they went to 
>> > ???
>> >
>> > Steve
>> > --- Paul Waugh <pwaugh at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> A Gary Phillips .. looks like he was like another "Dennis Polk"  .. 
>> >> just
>> >>
>> >> take a pocket full of money and spend the week.  if it cost $10 to get
>> >> in, I
>> >> wonder how much a hamburger and bottle of water will bring :))
>> >>
>> >> Paul Waugh
>> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> >> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
>> >> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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>> >> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:25 PM
>> >> Subject: [AT] Bridgeport Nebraska auction
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >I got a flyer...no...catalog in the mail today from Kruse Auction for
>> >> this
>> >> > sale in Bridgeport NE. Unless I missed it they didn't say who's 
>> >> > stuff
>> >> this
>> >> > is. Can someone fill me in? Man I thought I was a pack rat!
>> >> > 20,000 items 1500 JD tractors. Who owns this stuff and how did they
>> >> > acquire
>> >> > it?
>> >> >
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