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Five Acres Tractor Pull and Tractor Run Charity Event Collective Auction

The first collective auction at Five Acres at Wardlow as part of the weekend charity event held by the
Charles’ family and other like-minded helpers saw an excellent crowd and just under 300 lots sold.
There were nearly 40 vendors for the collective auction items with bidding topping at £17,800 for a
4WD McCormick MTX 140 on a 02’ Plate c/w Quicke Q60 Loader.

In the Small Lots;
• Large Glazed Sinks Up to £42 each
• Flower Sellers Hand Cart £100
• Part Rolls of Barbed Wire Up to £23 each
• Wall Mounted Hay Racks £30 each
• Anvils £320
• Small Stone Troughs Up to £260 each
• Garden Tractor Trailers £100

A special entry from a local family (non-vat) saw a drawbar converted tip cart at £350 and Massey
Ferguson 1970’s Finger Mower at £155.

In the Larger Items;
• Jones Conventional Baler £1,000
• Six-Massey Ferguson Weights £230
• Two Furrow Trailed Plough £305
• David Brown Two Furrow Plough £450
• Original Ferguson Rectangular Body Fertilizer Spreader £250

In the Livestock Sundries;
• Showman Sheep Clipping Preparation Stand £305
• Mesh Bottom Galvanised Yard Gates £115 each
• Galvanised Cattle Handling Hurdles c/w Side Slide Gates and Front Yoke Gate £2,350

Again, in the Machinery;
• Massey Ferguson Three Furrow Reversible Plough £620
• Kverneland 300 Series Haybob £810
• Drop Deck Low Loader Trailer £4,200
• Marshall 4 Ton Tipping Trailer £2,450
• Small Single Axle Vacuum Tanker £2,300

In the Vehicles, Quads and Tractors;
• Honda Quad with Drive Fault £1,060
• Kawasaki KLF 300 Quad (Unregistered) £1,960
• Grey Ferguson Petrol 4 Cylinder £1,520
• Ferguson 24 Cylinder Diesel c/w Side Button Start Switch £3,500
• David Brown 990 £2,100
• Allis Chalmers D272 Petrol £2,400

In the Modern Tractors and Handlers;
• Kramer 312 LT 4WS Loading Shovel £6,800
• Ford 5610 2WD (1980’s) Series II £6,000
• McCormick MTX 140 4WD c/w Quicke Q60 Power Loader (2002 Plate) £17,800

A run of sales booked for August/September and October, please check the website for further
details.

Massive Crowd and Excellent Trade at High Quality Dispersal Near Tamworth

Mark Elliott

The dispersal sale on behalf of Mr Steve Webb attracted a very large crowd and the quality of the
items and their careful maintenance led to an excellent trade in all sectors.
The star of the show was undoubtedly the John Deere 6820 4WD c/w Loader and 50K Gearbox which
showed 4,456 hours on sale day and registered on a 56 Plate achieved a massive £45,400 and was
purchased to go into Yorkshire.
The principal items in the sale all related to Mr Webb’s forestry and arboricultural business. With
major items as follows;
• Schliesing 550 ZX Heavy Duty PTO Chipper Unit £8,960
• Uniforest 85H-2M Mounted PTO Driven Winch £4,400
• JAPA 385 Expert 8.0 T Wood Processing Unit £5,750
• Posch Auto Split Kindling Stick Splitting Machine £6,000
• Jensen A530 Fastow Self-Propelled Chipper Unit c/w Ball Hitch £5,550

Within the general agricultural machinery section bidding was very spirited as follows;
• Major CDX 9ft Mounted Topper £1,780
• Ifor Williams Twin Axle Mini Digger Trailer £1,080
• Ifor Williams Twin Axle Transport Trailer c/w Front Mount Crane £4,850
• Marshall QM 14-14 Ton Mono Bodied Grain Trailer £9,100

There was a wide array of building equipment and general tools with prices as follows;
• Long RSJ’s £230 each
• Galvanised Drop Post £25 each
• Log Lifting Tines £80 (lightweight) and £155 (Heavy Duty)
• Pallet Pump Trucks Up to £120 each
• Heavy Duty Impact Sockets (Virtually Unused) £120
Another feature of the sale was the inclusion of an excellent 10ft Twin Door Shipping Container which
achieved £2,050 and a 2 Ton Yale Diesel Forklift at £3,000.
The best of the seasoned logs sold in tote bags achieved well over £60 per bag with other lots between
£50 and £60 per bag.

All the classic tractors and compact kit was sold free of vat with prices as follows;
• Kubota B7100 4WD £3,200
• Agritrader Compact Flail Mower £760
• Sovema 100S Mounted Rotorvator £780
• Single Furrow Reversible Compact Plough £400
• Twose 3 Leg Mounted Scuffle £350
• Agri 38 Mounted Rotary Topper £510
The rare Massey Ferguson 35 X Multi Power Tractor which has received paint several years ago and
was sold with a roll bar attracted wide interest from Norfolk, Shropshire as well as all surrounding
counties and was eventually purchased after spirited bidding by a collector from Lancashire at £8,500.
The John Deere 2130 2WD c/w Duncan Cab on a P Plate sold well at £7,550 and was purchased by a
local farmer.
In the included section an excellently maintained Vaderstad AS 400 Trailed Drill sold at £25,000 and
from the same farm a set of, He-Va 820 Trailed Ring Rolls went on to make £12,100.
Trailers were again, good to sell with a 14 Ton Ken Wootton Grain Trailer c/w Sprung Drawbar at
£8,000 and an old Ifor Williams Twin Axle Plant Trailer (GD106G) at £1,200.