COLLECTORS of old wooden tools, firewood enthusiasts, farmers, gardeners, just about anyone…
If you didn’t turn out at a genuinely good (great) clearing sale opportunity at 407 Wares Road Inverloch last Friday, October 31, you really missed it!
There were some fantastic pieces on offer to interest the handyman, gardener, collector and farmer, most of it in excellent order with the vendor Grahame Clarke looking to moving back to NSW after running a quiet grazing operation at the location for 40 years.
Originally from the exclusive Southern Highlands area, around Bowral, Grahame is moving back to Bargo, handily located 100km south-west of Sydney between Campbeltown and Bowral, and everything had to go.
And go it did, often at bargain rates, pleasing the 50-60 people who go the memo and answered it.
But sandwiched in between some rainy days last week, some fine weather over the weekend, and more wet weather predicted during this week, local farmers were madly engaged doing silage and expected numbers were down.
Brendan Fletcher and Noel Owen took the opportunity to buy some collectable old tools at bargain basement prices, an as-new Millers’ 30-tonne hydraulic log splitter (worth $2500) was well bought at $850, an Ozark 4-wheel motorbike attracted spirited bidding before being driven away for $1900 and a handy branch chipper, in good working order, went for just $200.
Not that Nutrien auctioneer James Roberts didn’t give all lots a good build up. He did.
“Here’s a good old hot water service with plenty of copper, what am I bid?” he asked, knocking it down for just $10.
“Two old eskies, the pair $10, cement mixer does go ($10), and a generous spool of fencing wire also for $10.”
There was lots of great stuff including a 5500 watt all-purpose generator for $50, a set of shovels, crowbars and other useful implements for $15 and a wooden step ladder with five heritage handsaws, bought by local identity Noel Owen for just $2… bargain of the day.
They were still going when the Sentinel-Times left with a fine-looking John Deere 5280 tractor that looked like it hadn’t done much hard work, and a Massey Ferguson multi-power 165 tractor in good order still to be sold.
Those in the market for a good clearing sale would do well to watch the pages of the Sentinel-Times or the Nutrien website when these opportunities knock.
