Clearing Farm Auction Sales

Posted by Michael Soldan on December 02, 2004 at 07:11:08 from (66.203.172.221):

I was reading Allan from NE's post this morning and this brought to mind some of my experience. I don't like farm sales and I don't go to a lot of them. I have bought things at farm sales and got good buys. A farm sale is a man's life laid out before you on wagons, loads of his tools and accessories, what he has taken a lifetime to collect, some his father's or his grandfather's, his machinery may also reflect the generation that bought it and used it. His life time is compressed into a four hour scrum of bidders. His memories of all that he worked for are there to the highest bidder. And there stands that man watching his precious belongings being sold, sometimes a way too cheap and sometimes not and the people start picking up their purchases off the wagons and make their way off the property to their pick up trucks and the day ends.. the farm is bare of its chattels, the shed doors remain open, the corral gate is left open and suddenly that farm is a very lonely and desolate place, everything that made it a farm is gone and so is a good piece of that farmer..I watched my neighbour of 40 years stand and watch his things being auctioned off and there was no joy in his face, no happiness at a good price , it was something painfull that had to be done like putting down an old dog or getting a tooth pulled. I experienced 3 sales like this in my immediate neighbourhood, two of those old farmers are gone the other lives in a small near-by town, their lives were never the same after "the sale"..so thats why I don't enjoy sales much and only go if there is something I absolutely want..I'm not going to have a sale..I will give my son-in-law my old farmalls and hay equipment. My son can have all the tools, accessories, trucks and snowmobiles, the farm willed to my three children, the cattle sold by my cattle broker..I'll know where everything is untill I can no longer know, but I won't have to watch my lifetime disappear in one afternoon...I'm a complicated old bugger aint I! Mike in Exeter Ontario

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