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With a good crowd of local farmers and some over spill from our Cambridge Machinery Sale the previous day they soon snapped up the early lots with approximately 36 grain wall sections hitting the high note of £680 and a Kongskilde sucker/blower was ever popular and made £750. A useful trailed Atlas Copco compressor with a breaker gun made £360 and 4 English Fordson front weights made £160 a pair. With the smaller lots complete it was onto the machinery and implements with the highlights being a straight Kverneland LD85 6furrow plough at £3,700, a 1994 Simba Double Press hit £5,200 and a 1997 Stocks Flow-Lift 3leg subsoiler knocked down at £2,100. Good trade continued with a sharp Vaderstad Rapid 400P 4m drill making £6,300, a 1992 Gem 2.5 Steer – Trak 20m trailed sprayer at £3,200 and a 1996 Valducci irrigation reel at £2,500.
Up first in the tractor section was a 2006 McCormick XTX 200 Xtra, which was hotly contested and finally knocked down for a deserved £21,700. Next up was a 1996 Massey Ferguson 8110 Dynashift and made £7,600, a 1993 Case 5140 hit £5,300 and a nice straight Ford 5000 on farm from new and drove away at £3,000. To conclude the lots for Joseph Smith Farms Partnership was a very presentable 1993 Claas Mega 218 combine and made a resounding £26,300.
The sale was very well supported by local farmers and individuals who bolstered the sale with some quality lots. The combine trade continued well with a 1981 Claas Dominator 86 combine fetching a topping £6,900 and is off to Poland. There were two sharp tractors up next from the same stable a 1983 International 1056XL at £5,250 and a c.1984 Renault 145.14 made £5,700. Other lots of note include a 1999 Simba Cultipress made £13,800 sold after the sale, Cousins V-Form 4.5m subsioler at £7,000, Hardi mounted 12m sprayer at £2,200 and an immaculate 2002 Maschio Reco Tiller DM3000 hit a pleasing £4,175. The quality continued with a Kawasaki Mule 3010 at £4,400, a straight 1981 Ford 7700 hit £3,300 and finally a 2006 Land Rover Defender 130 double cab made £10,900.
In all a very successful sale and some unexpected high prices so late in the season, proving there is still very strong demand for quality second hand farm machinery. Should you wish to discuss arranging an on-site machinery sale then please to not hesitate to contact us on 01223 213 777 for initial no obligation advice.
No hard field in Bardfield
Cheffins rounded off its busy on-site farm sale campaign of 2009 with a cracker at Park Hall Farm, Great Bardfield for Joseph Smith Farms Partnership, due to a change in their farming policy.With a good crowd of local farmers and some over spill from our Cambridge Machinery Sale the previous day they soon snapped up the early lots with approximately 36 grain wall sections hitting the high note of £680 and a Kongskilde sucker/blower was ever popular and made £750. A useful trailed Atlas Copco compressor with a breaker gun made £360 and 4 English Fordson front weights made £160 a pair. With the smaller lots complete it was onto the machinery and implements with the highlights being a straight Kverneland LD85 6furrow plough at £3,700, a 1994 Simba Double Press hit £5,200 and a 1997 Stocks Flow-Lift 3leg subsoiler knocked down at £2,100. Good trade continued with a sharp Vaderstad Rapid 400P 4m drill making £6,300, a 1992 Gem 2.5 Steer – Trak 20m trailed sprayer at £3,200 and a 1996 Valducci irrigation reel at £2,500.
Up first in the tractor section was a 2006 McCormick XTX 200 Xtra, which was hotly contested and finally knocked down for a deserved £21,700. Next up was a 1996 Massey Ferguson 8110 Dynashift and made £7,600, a 1993 Case 5140 hit £5,300 and a nice straight Ford 5000 on farm from new and drove away at £3,000. To conclude the lots for Joseph Smith Farms Partnership was a very presentable 1993 Claas Mega 218 combine and made a resounding £26,300.
The sale was very well supported by local farmers and individuals who bolstered the sale with some quality lots. The combine trade continued well with a 1981 Claas Dominator 86 combine fetching a topping £6,900 and is off to Poland. There were two sharp tractors up next from the same stable a 1983 International 1056XL at £5,250 and a c.1984 Renault 145.14 made £5,700. Other lots of note include a 1999 Simba Cultipress made £13,800 sold after the sale, Cousins V-Form 4.5m subsioler at £7,000, Hardi mounted 12m sprayer at £2,200 and an immaculate 2002 Maschio Reco Tiller DM3000 hit a pleasing £4,175. The quality continued with a Kawasaki Mule 3010 at £4,400, a straight 1981 Ford 7700 hit £3,300 and finally a 2006 Land Rover Defender 130 double cab made £10,900.
In all a very successful sale and some unexpected high prices so late in the season, proving there is still very strong demand for quality second hand farm machinery. Should you wish to discuss arranging an on-site machinery sale then please to not hesitate to contact us on 01223 213 777 for initial no obligation advice.
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