Machinery Dispersal – Danesmoor Farm

“MASSIVE CROWD AT STRETTON DISPERSAL”

Mark Elliott

The sale on behalf of the Patton Family at Stretton attracted a very large crowd with a diverse number of lots and over 650 Lots sold.

In the smaller items; Quantity of Alloy £80, Quantity of Lead £170, Various Copper fittings £175.

Twin Leg Lifting Chain £58, 9 Hole Drawbar £24, Top Links to £51 each, Pair of old Massey Ferguson Arms £80, Heiniger Electric Cattle Clippers £170, Western Mobile Mini Fuel Store £150.

Long RSJs to £300 each, 4 Acro Props £65, Hunt Roller Mill £220.

A wide array of livestock equipment with 2 Small Corn Troughs at £50, Galvanised Corn Trough £45, Diagonal Gate Barrier £85, Calf Pen Front with 2 hurdles up to to £65 per set, Ring feeders up to £170, Portequip Cattle Crush £880.

In the machinery, Grays Heavy Flat Roller £700, Mounted Manual Folding Chain Harrows £400, Krone AMT2832 Trailed Mower Conditioner £2400, Welger RP220 Round baler £5950, Hillam Barrel Spreader £1020.

The JCB 3D Digger Loader was sold to a local purchaser for £2220, with the Case MX110 4WD Tractor (X reg – 8000 hours) £15000.

One of the star attractions of the day was a Range Rover Diesel conversion (1970’s M) which attracted a lot of interest from far and wide, and even though a non-runner with no seats achieved £1280.

The special entry on behalf of the Mear Family from Matlock saw their Ford 4600 2WD tractor achieve £4720 with their Ferguson Grader Blade at £330 and Ferguson Cultivators up to £145 each.

In the included items Nesco Roller 275 Tedders up to £600, Zetor 6211 (F Reg 2WD) £4000, Small Galvanised Calf Crush £180, John Deere 2650 £5900, Ken Wooton 8T Mono Body Tipping trailers to £3580, and Bamford Wuffler to £145.

There was a large range of non-vat items sold in the yard for the family, to include a Stainless Milk Bucket £150, Childs Petrol Go Cart £130, Wooden Garden Loungers £70, Glazed Milk Pansions to £220 per set, and a pair of Washing Baskets at £45.

An extremely good sale with excellent attendance and something for everyone.

Check the website for further sales as a large run of sales to start after mid-July.

              

Machinery Dispersal – Crossgate Farm

“Spirited Bidding at blue sky day sale, North of Glossop”

Mark Elliott

    

In the Smaller Lots:

  • Small Poultry Shed    £35
  • Three Stone Wall Top Stones £30
  • Stone Roller Body £80
  • Small Troughs  To £128

There was a small range of livestock equipment with:

  • Six Calf Coats   £32
  • Sheep Hurdles    To £9 each
  • Painted 15ft Cattle Barriers  To £130 each
  • Galvanised 15ft Cattle Barriers   To £190 each
  • Bateman Galvanised Calf Crusher   £440

In the Smaller Tractor Sundries:

  • 2ft Front Tractor Fenders   £155

Within the Machinery Section:

  • Dowdswell 90 Mounted Rotavator  £1,480
  • Claas 450 Liner Mounted Rake  £3,020
  • SimTech 2.4 metre Mounted Grass Seeder Unit  £9,900
  • Hillam   Barrel Spreader £1,660

There were three McCormick and Massey Ferguson Tractors with the Massey Ferguson 6480 4WD (56 plate 4,300 hours) topping the day at £22,000.

Late in the sale:

  • International B47 Conventional Baler  £420

In the NON VAT Items:

  • Set of Four Deck Chairs  £32
  • Beswick Friesian Bull c/w Cow and Calf   £105
  • Beswick Hereford Bull c/w Cow      £95

Sales already catalogued for mid-June. Please see the website for further details.

              

Leek Market Report

DAIRIES (66) ;
Selling time – 11:30am
Auctioneers – Meg Elliott (07967 007049) & Mark Elliott (07973 673092)

A funny trade for milkers at the May pedigree sale, no doubt not helped by the good silaging weather.

Top call for black & white’s was £2320 for a Batman daughter from the Shepherd family of Bakewell, giving 32kg she went to Andrew Neville of Matlock. Another Batman daughter from the same home reached £2280 to Messrs Howell of Yarlet.

Andrew Stone, Onecote saw his Bidlea Isaac daughter reach £2240 to Messrs Sellors of Grangemill.

Cows peaked at £2180 for a second calver from the Needham family of Rushton.

In-calf heifer from Richard Lomas of Calow reached £1620 with calves topping at £290.

The special entry of Shorthorns were very well received with a heifer from Messrs Hole of Ashover topping at £2300 to Messrs Malkin of Stone. Cows topped at £1820 for a third calver from Richard Harper. Several commercial shorthorn heifers from the Hollinworth family of Ashover topped at £1110.

Youngstock from the Bailey family of Oswestry sold particularly well with a September born heifer by Tanat Valleyrun making £640 with others to £620 and £600.