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The retirement dispersal on behalf of Mr John Glover of Hollies Farm, Marston Montgomery, Nr Ashbourne attracted a massive crowd from throughout the UK together with bidders from Ireland and the North of Scotland and with just over 500 vehicles in the car park the crowd swarmed round the lots, and the bidding was heated.

With around 30 vintage and classic tractors together with two excavators a telehandler and Honda Quad Bike lotted bidding was fierce right from the start.

In the Smaller Lots:

• Stack Sheets                                                                        £82 each
• Cast Manhole Covers                                                       £50 each
• Small Pallet of Staffordshire Blue Tiles                       £190
• Dog Box                                                                                  £280
• In Situ 8ft Dog Kennel c/w Galvanised Front Cage  £600
• Galvanised Gates                                                               £80 each
• There was a wide range of collectables including horse plough at £155
• Bamford Belt Driven Pulper                                         £200
• Anvil                                                                                      £340
• Gun Cabinets                                                                     £265 each

John Glover and his late wife Barbara had been well known in the area having undertaken hedgecutting and drainage work together with a superb collection of Marshall and Field Marshall tractors and an excellent run of 7 Classic Deutz’s from the 1970’s and 80’s.

In the Tractor Sundries Lots:

• Set of 7 Deutz Weights                                                  £280
• Set of 4 International Weights                                    £85
• Set of 10 John Deere Front Slab Weights                £420

Many of the items in the main machinery section had undertaken little work and this section commenced with a range of compact tractor implements as follows:

• Kilworth Mounted Flail Mower                                  £1280
• Small Mini Roller                                                              £500
• Kilworth Single Furrow Reversible Ploughs            £610
• Twose Straight Leg Mini Cultivator                            £820

In the main Machinery and Trailers section:

• Michael Moore Single Leg Mounted Mole Plough              £2,000
• Overum 4 Furrow Reversible Plough                                        £2,450
• Howard 80” Rotorvator                                                                 £1,300

• Moore Trailed Uni Drill                                                                                   £6,700
• Krone Easy Cut 2A00CV Trailed Mower Conditioner                          £3,500
• Krone Swadro 46 Single Rotor Mounted Rake                                      £5,000
• Reco Sulky DX20 Mounted Twin Disc Fertiliser Spreader                 £1,550
• McConnel PA 55 70 Mounted Flail Hedgecutter (Right Side)          £10,600
• Tyrone 12 Ton Twin Axle Agri-Spec Low Loader c/w Manual Ramps (Virtually Unused) £8,200
• Ifor Williams Twin Axle Plant Trailer with Ring Hitch                          £2,980

The main pull of the day was obviously the vintage and classic tractors as the Glover family had amassed a superb collection with everything starting and running on both the day before the sale and sale day itself. The classic Marshalls commenced with a model M on number 1178 believed to be from 1941 which achieved £12,500 to a Cheshire collector.

At the start of the run of the Field Marshalls was a Series I Contractor on No. 1302 which achieved a superb £13,500.

The Series II Field Marshalls topped at £8,900 for a Contractor with Winch on No.4193 with others at £7,100.

Obviously, some of the major stars had to be the Series III Field Marshalls with the orange livery Series IIIA on No.16300 achieving an excellent price of £19,300 purchased by a local farmer/contractor with another Derbyshire potential purchaser unhappily leaving the field having been finally outbid.

Within the other Classic Tractors:

• Fordson E27N-L4 Cylinder Perkins                             £7,300
• McCormick 276 2WD c/w Roll Bar                             £5,050
• International 444 c/w Cab                                            £5,100

Then came a range of Modern Classics including:

• Ford TW25 4WD C Reg                                                   £15,200
• Zetor 10540 4WD P Reg                                                 £11,800
• Kubota L3540 c/w Loader 64 Plate-250 Hours      £16,250

The catalogue revealed that the Glover family had been avid uses of Deutz tractors with 6 of them in the sale including the late Barbara Glover’s favourite DX6.05 4WD on which she used to do many hours of hedgecutting. This famous local tractor with over 9,000 hours on the clock on a G Plate achieved a resounding £16,600.

With support from Ireland, Scotland and locally the Deutz’s sold as follows:

• 2WD D6206 (W Reg)                                                                                       £6,900
• 2WD D7206 (W Reg)                                                                                       £5,100
• Snoopy Nose Deutz AgroXtra 6.07 4WD 4,800 hours (N Reg)         £19,000
• DX6.30 4WD (B Reg)                                                                                       £9,100  
• The Deutz DX140 Optitrac Powermatic 4WD was a real blast from the late 1970’s sold on a T Plate with 8,320 hours on the clock she achieved a superb £14,000

The farms Matbro had been extremely well kept and received paint approximately 8 years ago and flew away to £10,300. With the more modern John Deeres being a 6420 S 4WD (03’) 7,520 hours at £23,600 and the 6320 4WD (03’) on 6,700 hours at £18,600.

Several local vendors included items as follows:

• International 955 2WD                                                                                          £7,200
• Leyland 702 c/w Loader                                                                                        £3,100
• Fordson 27N Petrol                                                                                                 £1,260
• Ford 5000 4WD Ploughmaster c/w Fritzmier Cab                                        £10,500
• Ford 5000 No Cab or Rollbar                                                                                £5,800
• Ford 3000 Roll Bar and Standard Gearbox                                                     £3,000
• Ferguson TEF 20 Petrol TVO                                                                                 £13,000
• Also included was a modern Yanmar FH160D 4WD                                    £2,000
• Ford Ranger Pickup                                                                                                 £10,000
• John Deere Petrol Driven Ride on Mower                                                      £1,420
• Smart New Holland 575 Conventional Baler (Used this season)            £3,900

Thanks, must be given to all the setting up team and to Mr Glover and his friends as a superb day was had by all and both the ice cream man and the caterers had to send out for further provisions to keep everyone sustained prior to the end of selling.

Further sales booked in the area with the Grindley Collective sale forms out now and entries invited.