farm sales

[cowman]

Went to a large farm sale yesterday and was sort of amazed at the prices. The big ticket items never sold all that well but the little stuff was pretty high. Ride on lawnmowers, quads, other assorted toys. The antique stuff(we used to call it junk!) sold very high. I can't believe some people would even pack this stuff home! Guess I just don't get it anymore.

[dalek]

You need to live closer to Toronto cowman. We have a fellow who owns a "summer home" next to us (uses it maybe 4 weekends a year) and owns an antique store in Toronto. Every year he used to bring out all the broken stuff and have an auction here, advertise it in Toronto and people would drive 2 hours to buy some broken old piece of unidentifiable wreckage, they were fighting over it.

[cowman]

Some years ago I met the uncle of a friend who did something similar to this. He had a three ton truck and he hit all the sales in Saskatchewan. He hauled all this junk back to Vancouver and sold it through antique shops on a consignment basis. This guy made a very good living doing this...he had a real mansion in Richmond! He also had a house demolition business and he made a fortune selling the old woodwork, fixtures etc.! He was quite an entrepreneur and I was always impressed by his money making ideas!
I remember he had a bunch of old horse collars that he bought for a couple of bucks each and he was selling them for $100!

[cakadu]

I'm glad to hear that the old "one man's junk is another's treasure" is alive and well.