Waverly, IA sale

[gwpoky]

Did anyone else go to the Waverly equipment sale?  Good mowers where selling for 3 00 to 500 dollars and Pioneer carts with breaks where 300 to 400?  I wish I would have had some extra cash and brought a trailer, anyone know why things went so low?  Of course I was just looking for a Pioneer bench seat and those where bring almost new money….go figure.:-)    Still love a good live auction, the trip down there with my good friend Tim was worth it all by itself.     Spring is trying to sneak in, time to get things going.

[Paulk]

I had considered going but it is over six hours away and figured it would be a wasted trip.  If pioneer carts were selling that cheap it would have been worth it, as I can’t find any in my area and have it on my list of things to build but haven’t made it that far.

Similar thing happened with a mule sale in my area.  I went in january with $1000 cash thinking I could buy a good work mule.  Out of 40-50 head there was only two I could even bid on.  Coming 1 & 2 yr olds matched pairs were bringing 5-$7000. So I bought the ugliest poorest looking mule there.  Went to the same sale two months later and nothing brought over $1000.  I could have bought two 15yr old mule teams one a percheron cross the other a Belgium cross for $600 per team.  Unfortunatly I don’t have enough land for more than a couple with all my goats otherwise I would have had a trailer load to bring home.  Sometimes it makes no sense why some auctions things go high some they don’t.

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