My day at the auction

[Michael W. Smith]

Many of you may remember my post a while back about the animal food score I got.

The local feed store had sold to another person, who ended up being a bad business person and the bank took over. The bank didn't do anything with it, and a local tractor dealer ended up buying the property and EVERYTHING in the store. (For some reason the bank didn't mess with anything inside the store.)

I had talked to him after he bought it and asked if he was interested in selling any animal feed. I got 50# bags of dogfood, horse feed, alfalfa pellets, alfalfa cubes and some other things for $10.00 / bag.

I knew the auction was coming up and thought I might possibly get some more feed then (but I heard he ended up selling all the rest of the feed to a local farmer anyway).

I went to the auction today, and my one and only purchase was a big blue plastic tub with lid. It has all kinds of burlap in it (I'll use it to put in my bee smoker) and the tub can be used for storage all at the big cost of $5.00.

The auction had started at 10:00 and at 12:00 they sold some tractors and generators and then sold the things back in the warehouse. (Pallets of fertilizer, pallets of baler twine, pallets of pelletized lime, pallets of chicken grit . . . . . . . . . . .)

I ended up leaving at that point because even if I could have used some of the things, a whole pallet of something would be way too much - and after they were done in the warehouse, they had to get back to the main store to finish selling the stuff in there. (They MIGHT have sold half of the stuff in the main store before starting to sell the equipment and pallets of things - and I wasn't going to stick around that long.)

When I went into town later to visit my Father-In-Law at the nursing home, the sale was still going on at 4:30!!!!!!!

Oh yeah, by the way - the place was PACKED! You couldn't hardly move because of the people in there. Apparently everyone was in the mood for an auction and hoped to get a good deal and luckily the majority of the auction was held INSIDE on this cold day today.

I got the animal feed before - and it was a good deal! And I'm happy with my plastic tub of burlap for $5.00.