“Great Support at Mobberley Dispersal”
Mark Elliott
The dispersal sale on behalf of Mr Philip Brocklehurst at Oak Farm, Mobberley saw a wide range of tractors, sundries and effects and the Bagshaws team out with over 400 lots.
In the Smaller Lots:
- Box of Water Fittings £40
- Husqvarna Chain Saw £160
- Cobra 50L Small Compresor £105
- Hand Post Knocker £30
- Four JFC Calf Coats Up to £35 per Lot
- Rutland Mains Electric Fencers To £65 each
- Ag Maxi Pedestrian Saw Dust Dispenser £260
- Mobile Single Phase Milker Unit £560
- Brit Clean Single Phase Hot Water Washer £600
In the Field:
- Galvanised Gates To £65 each
- Millward and Keeling Bunker Feeders To £100 each
There was a small range of well kept machinery with a Browns Single Leg Subsoiler £380; Twose Heavy Flat Roll £560 and Galvanised Pasture Slitter £1,040.
There had been a lot of pre-sale interest in the 13 cubic metre King Feeder which eventually made £5,200 to a Staffordshire purchaser.
The Yamaha Big Bear 400 Quad Bike was unregistered for the road and achieved £1,600 with the farms’ Ford 4000 c/w with Detached Loader at £3,530.
In the larger machinery and tractors, the Valtra A82 2WD (09 Plate – 4,200 hours) achieved £16,200 with the McCormick X4-60 4WD c/w with Trima Loader (65 Plate – 4900 hours) at £20,100.
The included items on behalf of the Fitton Estate saw good local interest with the McCormick CX105 Extra Shift c/w with Loader (53 Plate – 3,500 hours) at £14,800.
There had been wide pre-sale interest in the Sleepers off the farm with the early lots of Sleepers sold in lots of 450 per Lot up to £3,200 and small Lots up to £2,700 per Lot.
A surprise of the day was the Single Phase Froment PTO Generator which achieved an excellent £2,020 after spirited bidding from both Cheshire and Staffordshire.
More good local sales already booked. Please check website for further details.
“Massive Crowd at Lichfield Dispersal”
Mark Elliott
With instructions from the Hollinshead Family at Curborough, the Bagshaws onsite team had an Easter weekend visit to Lichfield and the bright Spring weather drew a massive crowd for the Vintage and Classic Tractors, Landrover 110 and full range of equipment. Various local vendors had included major items including trailers, tankers and arable equipment and there was support from a very wide area.
In the Smaller Lots:
- Small Steel Tool Safe £40
- Four Draw Cabinets £55
- Ebco Old Fashioned Workshop Crane £160
- Two Landrover 90 Rear Fold Up Seats £130
- Chrome Front A Bar With Lights £30
- Pallet of Wooden Window Frames £70
There was a diverse range of Field Items and Livestock Equipment:
- Massey Ferguson 35 Bonnet £55
- Massey Ferguson 600 Series Pick-Up Hitch £150
- Massey Ferguson Round Frame Loader Boom £30
There were two entries of Livestock Equipment from both the Hollinshead Family and the Baskerville Family with Cattle Race Slide Gates up to £240 each; Three Reel End Fence Reels c/w Wire £210 per pair; Heavy Duty Square Frame Yard Gates up to £180 each.
In the Machinery:
- Kuhn GA Series Mounted Tedder £2,700
- Claas Liner 2700 Twin Rotor Trailed Rake £9,600
- Accu-Spread AS55 Trailed Lime Spreader £13,100
- Cherry 12 Tonne Grain Trailer (No Auto Door) £4,350 & £3,900
- Marshall BC26 Twin Axle Steel Body Bale Trailer £6,000
The Non-VAT Vintage Items and Classic Tractors attracted wide interest:
- Non-Running Marshall Tandem Road Roller £1,320
- Allis Chalmers Model B (Runner) £2,300
- Minneapolis Moline Trike (Runner) £2,500
- Fordson Major E27N (Perkins P6 Engine) £8,000
- Nuffield 460 2WD (No Roll Bar – Good Runner) £4,350
A surprise of the day was the Vehicle and 4WD Trade:
- Vauxhall Combi Diesel Van £3,500
- Isuzu Utah 4WD Pick-Up (Auto 2016) £14,400
- Kia Sportage CRDI 6 Speed, Manual £8,000
- Landrover Discovery (Off Road Version T Plate) £2,000
The star of the show was undoubtedly the Landrover 110 High Capacity (2010 Model – Bought new onto the holding – 51,000 miles) at a massive £22,900.
A special entry from a Penkridge Vendor saw Three Cylinder Massey Ferguson 35’s at £4,650
- 1968 Massey Ferguson 135 £2,650
- Massey Ferguson 244 three cylinder dropped crawler £2,950
One of the few Massey Ferguson 1200 Articulated Tractors to be sold this season was a runner with original paintwork but some modifications and achieved £12,000.
In the Larger Items Later in the Sale:-
- Matbro TS270 Handler R Reg £11,800
- Twose Flat Roll £ 1,000
- McCormick CX105 4WD (56 Plate) £14,000
- Case IX 1255 XL 4WD (D Reg)£10,600
- Richard Western D12 Rear Discharge Spreader £ 8,400
- Browns Heavy Duty Bale Grab c/w Manitu Brackets £ 1,050
- Kanga Petrol Driven TK216 Mini Loader £ 3,600
- Ifor Williams HB505R Twin Axle Horse Trailer £ 2,180
- Ifor Williams 14ft Flat Trailer c/w Sides & Spare Wheel £ 2,320
- Cousins 12m Hydraulic Folding Ring Rolls £ 6,000
A very large sale with over 700 Lots sold and excellent support from all quarters.
DAIRIES (44) ;
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
44 DAIRIES TOP AT £2000
A mixed quality and a mixed trade leaves you wondering whether the 5 pence plus milk price drops are starting to impact.
Topping the day at £2000 was second calver from Bradbury & Brookes of Field with heifers peaking at £1900 from Andrew Mills.
Look out for the sale of the Procross Milking Herd from David Dashwood of Brackley, Northants at the end of the month. These are a really good herd of cows that are well worthy of inspection.
“National Support for Staffordshire Dispersal on behalf of the Ridley Family”
Mark Elliott
The dispersal sale on behalf of Eric and Paul Ridley attracted wide support from North Wales,
Lincolnshire, Shropshire, Yorkshire and all surrounding counties and in spite of the poor weather
conditions everyone worked together to see a very successful sale.
In the Smaller Lots:
- Culvert Pipes £40 each
- Roll of Black Flexi Drainage Pipe £45
- Barrel Pumps Up to £40 each
- Scatterbird Mk III Gas Bird Scarer £110
- Galvanised 3 Wheeled Original Corn Barrow £55
- PTO Shafts Up to £50 each
There was a small array of livestock related lots with Low Level Hopper Feeders up to £13 each and
High Level Feeders to £27 each with 15ft Galvanised Gates up to £88 each.
In the Workshop Sundries:
- Belle Single Phase Concrete Mixer £340
- SIP Single Phase Compressor c/w Airline Pipe £380
- SIP Air Tool Kit £30
- Britclean Polo 100 Single Phase Pressure Washer £150
- ¾ Drive Socket Set £55
There was very good interest in the grain related items with:
- A Single Phase Kongskilde Blower Unit with Pipes at £1,050
- Protimeter Battery Driven Moisture Meter £75
- 3 Phase Trolley Auger £260
- Steel Grade Pedestals Up to £80
- Martin Lishman 3 Phase Pedestal Fan £200
In the Machinery:
- Single Leg Mole Plough £530
- Major GDX Mounted Topper (9ft Model) £900
- Spaldings 3 Leg Flat Lift c/w Heavy Rear Packer and Stands £4,950
- Set of Twose 21ft Batwing Hydraulic Folding Ring Rolls £4,800
The Ridley family had kept their trailers and main tractors and machinery in very good order and
everything had been barn stored.
- Griffiths 8 Ton Twin Axle Grain Trailer £3,600
- Richard Western 10 Ton Twin Axle Grain Trailer £6,500
- Marshall QM11 Twin Axle Grain Trailer £7,550
- Abbey 2000 Gallon Single Axle Vacuum Tanker £3,000
- Sanderson 347 TS Telehandler £3,050
- Sanderson Bucket £840
- Case 580G 4WD Digger Loader (B Reg-Unused for 6 Years) £3,300
- Claas Dominator 96 Combine c/w Header and Header Trailer (C Reg) £5,400
- Kubota B7100D Compact Diesel Tractor £1,480
- International 784 2WD c/w Loader (X Reg) £3,400
The stars of the show were undoubtedly the very well-kept Massey Ferguson Prime move tractors
with results as follows;
- Massey Ferguson 5465 Dyna 4 (59 Plate-5,045 hours) £24,600
- Massey Ferguson 6415 Dyna 6 (15 Plate-1,075 hours) £46,200
The Land Rover and Ifor Williams Trailers saw keen bidding with the Ifor Williams Flat Trailer c/w
Ramps £2,720 and the Ifor Williams 12ft Livestock Trailer c/w Demount Body £2,700 and the 2009
Land Rover 90 with 53,000 miles on the clock at £14,200.
Within the Collectables:
- Straight Cast Iron Pig Troughs £125 each
- Round Cast Iron Pig Troughs c/w Hoops £105
- Old Wooden Feed Tub Trolleys Up to £165 each
- Old Garden Roller £30
A large number of sales currently being catalogued with Darley Moor scheduled for Friday 28th April 2023.
DAIRIES (32) ;
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)
A small entry this week after the pedigree week with 20 milks and 12 younger cattle. The best newly calved heifers remain over £2000 with the best today from regular vendor Andrew Mills, Ratcliffe on Wreake who topped at £2280 for a 2 year old fresh calved sort that was giving 27kg to Ed Clowes, Kingsley. Others from the same home at £2180 and £1950.
Best of the youngstock was 4 Friesian x Ayrshire bulling heifers that sold in two pairs at £710 and £690 from G W Hallam, Warslow.
Well, what a fantastic day! Probably one of the largest sales to take place on farm this year so
far and the largest ever undertaken by Bagshaws with 516 head, nearly all adults sold in 7
hours.
The Cookson family are held in the highest respect in the Cheshire area and this was certainly
reflected in the massive crowd in attendance that held to the very end of the sale. In all 59
active purchasers with many others going home empty handed.
Trade was strong from the start with a massive 93 passing the £2000 mark.
Topping the day at £2650 was one of the very many stylish milking heifers in the sale. By
Matcrest Dewey, she was giving 33kg and was clinched by E T Hanson of Bradford who were
one of the bulk buyers at the sale.
Hot in pursuit at £2520 was another milking heifer, freshly calved with many others in the
£2300-£2500 bracket.
In-calf heifers were a particularly strong trade topping at £2450 to Messrs Brassington of
Endon with numerous others in excess of £2000.
The youngstock also sold exceptionally well with bulling heifers to £1150. Every life averaging
a superb £1565!
