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zooeyhall

03-30-2008 06:39:17

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Opened my Sunday paper this morning, and saw that there is going to be a HUGE tractor auction in Bridgeport Nebraska April 1-7. 3000 tractors, including 2500 "antique" ones.

Here's the link in the article:

www.kruse.com/auctions/index.asp

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DSMIa

03-30-2008 09:40:54

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Re: Huge tractor auction Bridgeport Nebraska in reply to zooeyhall, 03-30-2008 06:39:17

Seems a bit ironic that we're all supposed to take a week out of our life to attend an auction for an estate that has spent the last several decades outbidding all of us at nearly every machinery sale in the midwest. As I am not attending, a 7 day rain would not upset me too much.

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gene bender

03-30-2008 07:10:04

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Re: Huge tractor auction Bridgeport Nebraska in reply to zooeyhall, 03-30-2008 06:39:17

You didnt tell about the bidding fee sales tax buyers premuim loading fees and lots more there wont be any bargains then ya gots to get it home. There has been lots of talk about this auction that apparently is run by a shady outfit.

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Allan In NE

03-30-2008 07:16:21

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Re: Huge tractor auction Bridgeport Nebraska in reply to gene bender, 03-30-2008 07:10:04

Yeah,

But the good news is that they will be starting at the top of the pile and working their way down.

Heap has already been stirred with a big stick. :>)

Allan

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Nebraska Cowman

03-30-2008 08:19:29

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Re: Huge tractor auction Bridgeport Nebraska in reply to Allan In NE, 03-30-2008 07:16:21

I saw a catalog. The first 75 pages are nothing but salvage iron. And then they are selling the salvage tractors the day before the "collector" tractors so a guy would be saving room on his trailer in case he bought better ones. Yeah, I'm glad I'm not going. It would be fun to see once but you can only see so much at a time anyway. It might be like the fist time I saw the Ocean when I was a kid. I had seen Lake Erie and kinda expected the Ocean to look a little bigger.

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03-30-2008 09:14:04

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Re: Huge tractor auction Bridgeport Nebraska in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 03-30-2008 08:19:29

You must not have seen RFD-TV last Sunday, Dean Kruse was on there in place of classic tractors bragging about how he was making things easy for people to buy, bragging about all the complete tractors out there, bragging about all the high end and celebrity cars he has sold, Bragging they are going to be in a building selling via vidoes so you wont get wet if it rains, he has a loading area that will hold 5 big trucks at a time, (whoopie), bragging he has equipment to help load at no additional charge, he has letters of credit in the millions from over seas buyers, bla, bla, bla, he sounds like a big bag of hot air. Bragging about about how Mrs. Phillips contacted him to do this auction,I know he bought that spot with Max Armstrong, but it made me sick seeing Max suck up to this wind bag!
Jim

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Allan In NE

03-30-2008 08:27:01

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Re: Huge tractor auction Bridgeport Nebraska in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 03-30-2008 08:19:29

Bet by the way that they've "hyped" this thing that ya wouldn't be able to get within 10 miles of that scrap yard.

Can ya imagine the nightmare that is gonna be as far as traffic goes? The big city of Bridgeport would probably like to just "skip" next week altogether. :>)

Allan

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RustyFarmall

03-30-2008 06:48:19

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Re: Huge tractor auction Bridgeport Nebraska in reply to zooeyhall, 03-30-2008 06:39:17

You need to do some homework on that one. The tractors being sold are all in a salvage yard. I doubt very much if there is even one complete tractor in the whole bunch. Also, the manner in which Kruse acquired that auction is very shady indeed.

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zooeyhall

03-30-2008 06:53:20

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very possible in reply to RustyFarmall, 03-30-2008 06:48:19

Thanks for the info. I was just checking out the website, and like you say it seems to be more parts and pieces then complete items.

Also--if you have lived in Nebraska (like I have my entire life)--one of the things you have to get used to is that there is very much a "good old boy" system out here.

I was surprised that the Omaha Sunday World-Herald headlined this in their Business Section today. Kruse is probably buddies with the eds.

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Allan In NE

03-30-2008 06:58:23

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Re: very possible in reply to zooeyhall, 03-30-2008 06:53:20

Just for reference. (Before they were drug out of the sand on the end of a chain.)

Allan

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zooeyhall

03-30-2008 07:23:56

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Re: very possible in reply to Allan In NE, 03-30-2008 06:58:23

It is really disappointing when a newspaper becomes a flak for for something like this article does. The article makes it sound like "the sale of the century".

I wonder if the author of the article even knows very much about antique tractors.

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Allan In NE

03-30-2008 07:45:00

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Re: very possible in reply to zooeyhall, 03-30-2008 07:23:56

Next time I get ready to clean my corals and haul manure, I'm gonna advertise it as the "sale of the century" and charge people to haul it off.

At least my "shut" is worth something from a fertilizer standpoint. :>)

Allan

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