[AT] Bridgeport Nebraska auction

charlie hill chill8 at suddenlink.net
Sat Feb 16 10:29:57 PST 2008


I hope you are right Gordon.  I have no interest in anything on the sale.  I 
just don't want to buy some of it back as a brake rotor made in China next 
year.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gordon Hart" <grnacres at pgtc.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Bridgeport Nebraska auction


>I think you will be supprised about the price of the cheapest tractor. 
>There
> are a lot of used parts guys that will far out spend the scrap people.
>
> Gordon
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
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>>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"
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>> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 6:56 AM
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>>
>>> 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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