Thomas
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Nice..I'd say Christmas came early,happy puttering. 
Ya gotta love an auction
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Iplayfarmer
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I always love the horse trading that goes on after the auction. Especially at farm auctions it's sometimes a treasure hunt to find which pile of stuff had the handle for the jack I bought or who has the cap to the gas tank. Then there's the wrangling to figure out how to get everything home. Anyone who buys a loader tractor or a trailer is pretty popular after the bidding is over. I've hauled stuff home for people I'm barely acquainted with on more than one occasion, and I'm always asking for help loading heavy stuff. I think it's an unwritten rule that anyone who buys a loader tractor has to stay until everyone is loaded.
I once stopped at a plumbing shop to get some parts. The owner, who is a friend of the family, offered to trade me the parts for some drill bits I had picked up at an auction a week before. I didn't even know he was there, but apparently he had bought the drill, and I got the bits in with a box of wrenches I had bought.
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They sold a clean fork lift at the auction but before bidding started they explained that a condition of buying it was that it was going to be used for loading auction items and couldn't be picked up until Fri. (72hrs)
tnhomestead
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Chicago boy went there for college, back to Chi, then service chi again and then carbondale/makanda for about 20 years? Put myself thru college on a local trash route so sold tons of stuff at Garys, nice guy. Down in tn now, Ill was getting too big city and got tired of dealing with the folks on the wildlife refuge, my last place I walked off onto the refuge. Need to swing thru and see some friends over at McBrides and a few other local hotspots ie PK's!
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I have some land near Goreville that I plan on building on in a few years. I wish I was down there for that auction. Where is Gary's? I'll probably frequent his place when I get set up down there. My wife's brother lives near Makanda. He's within spittin distance of the Devil's Kitchen water tower. Where are the rest of you southern IL guys from?
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Gary's Metals is just north of Carterville. Carterville lies 1/2 way between Carbondale and Marion and is just north of Crab Orchard Lake and Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge. I work down in Johnson County and with a lot of people from Goreville.....beautiful country down there!!
tnhomestead
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Hey Pops I used to live in that little subdivision at the Devils Kitchen Water tower! Was there for 10 plus years! Pretty country around Goreville, I just got tired of the taxes bs and rules in Illinois!
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Man, I'm on a roll. Wife is showing signs of stress because an old addiction has resurfaced! I told her not to worry about Christmas presents or any more auctions anytime soon....I'm out of room in the shop!
Went to an estate auction that listed some interesting things in the flier but appeared like there wasn't going to be very much sold. They listed several mills and lathes, bandsaws, welder, press, some hand and power tools, 2 big compressors, generators, an immaculate Ford 1720, assorted metal, etc. Sounded interesting enough to get me there but I assumed from the flier that most of what was going to be sold was listed and it would be a short day.......man was I wrong. There was some junk like any estate sale but the guy was obviously a retired machinist. I assumed any tooling would sell w/ the mills and lathe since nothing was mentioned in the flier but he literally had a minimum of 5-10 duplicates of EVERY conceivable tool/accessory needed to run a machine shop, welding and mechanics business....several buildings full of equipment, three 25' trailers and an entire back yard packed with boxes or flats of almost anything you could imagine. Mill/lathe tools and accessories sold generically in 10-20# flats. Once again, I only dropped about $230 and came home well over 100 pieces of of top quality lathe and mill tooling...most of it still in unopened tube/box or still in wax, 4 full cases of professional quality drill bits, fair amount of clean metal including some 3'x3' sheets of 3/8" and two 16"x 20'(!) sheets of 1/4"...(that was fun dragging to my trailer), fair amount of various drop cuts again, multiple 3' lengths of square bar stock ranging from 1"-3"( that made for several tongue-wagging trips to the trailer too), several bottle jacks, 100 amp battery charger, a 20# box of assorted Snap On wrenches, Snap On tap & die set, over 100# of assorted electrical supplies, NIB set of tire chains for the tractor, 20 bimetal hole saws w/arbors and bits, 4 large pipe clamps, several heavy pry bars, portable shop lights, an excellent old tool cabinet and tool box, assorted hand tools and lots of misc. items.
I guess a combination of the first weekend of deer season and an embarrassingly skimpy flier, a lot of professionals/ serious hobbyist that would normally show up for an auction of this size and variety weren't there. The mills and lathes, generators and a some other things sold for truly obscene prices but almost everything else sold very reasonabley. At retail, just 4-5 of the end mills, reamers, lath bits, etc I got would have cost more than I spent for everything. As I said before, I quit going to auctions for years because it seemed like everything sold for new price but these last two have been the best I've ever seen and definitely renewed my enthusiasm for a bargain.
Went to an estate auction that listed some interesting things in the flier but appeared like there wasn't going to be very much sold. They listed several mills and lathes, bandsaws, welder, press, some hand and power tools, 2 big compressors, generators, an immaculate Ford 1720, assorted metal, etc. Sounded interesting enough to get me there but I assumed from the flier that most of what was going to be sold was listed and it would be a short day.......man was I wrong. There was some junk like any estate sale but the guy was obviously a retired machinist. I assumed any tooling would sell w/ the mills and lathe since nothing was mentioned in the flier but he literally had a minimum of 5-10 duplicates of EVERY conceivable tool/accessory needed to run a machine shop, welding and mechanics business....several buildings full of equipment, three 25' trailers and an entire back yard packed with boxes or flats of almost anything you could imagine. Mill/lathe tools and accessories sold generically in 10-20# flats. Once again, I only dropped about $230 and came home well over 100 pieces of of top quality lathe and mill tooling...most of it still in unopened tube/box or still in wax, 4 full cases of professional quality drill bits, fair amount of clean metal including some 3'x3' sheets of 3/8" and two 16"x 20'(!) sheets of 1/4"...(that was fun dragging to my trailer), fair amount of various drop cuts again, multiple 3' lengths of square bar stock ranging from 1"-3"( that made for several tongue-wagging trips to the trailer too), several bottle jacks, 100 amp battery charger, a 20# box of assorted Snap On wrenches, Snap On tap & die set, over 100# of assorted electrical supplies, NIB set of tire chains for the tractor, 20 bimetal hole saws w/arbors and bits, 4 large pipe clamps, several heavy pry bars, portable shop lights, an excellent old tool cabinet and tool box, assorted hand tools and lots of misc. items.
I guess a combination of the first weekend of deer season and an embarrassingly skimpy flier, a lot of professionals/ serious hobbyist that would normally show up for an auction of this size and variety weren't there. The mills and lathes, generators and a some other things sold for truly obscene prices but almost everything else sold very reasonabley. At retail, just 4-5 of the end mills, reamers, lath bits, etc I got would have cost more than I spent for everything. As I said before, I quit going to auctions for years because it seemed like everything sold for new price but these last two have been the best I've ever seen and definitely renewed my enthusiasm for a bargain.
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