The Main Attraction
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The Main Attraction
Image: © Michael Trolove Taken: 10 Sep 2008
For anyone not familiar with a farm machinery dispersal sale, the goodies or the big equipment are sold last. The sale starts with probably a heap of scrap that makes silly money then tools sundry equipment, wheels, tyres, small implements. By this time the sale crowd has settled down. Next comes the modern stuff. Usually a two way bidding war with the auctioneer squeezing the last £50 out of a bid, and finally the tractors and usually a combine. For the record the Yellow JCB fastrac made £25,000, the next one along a Claas 45 tractor reached £30,000, and the other Claas tractor model 55 achieved £45,000. To see what the Claas combine made see Image
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