Large auction of timber and tools.

[Peri]

https://www.easyliveauction.com/cat...g-machinery-tools-workshop-engineering-tools/
1098 lots including timber, hand and power tools.

I'm sure someone would like this

 

[Cabinetman]

Yes but Peri if I had a book like that I could start a thread on planing – – oh yes, bit late for that now ha ha

 

[Cabinetman]

Something for everyone there, all trades, if you don’t want planks of wood I should start at the back. Some good old stuff mixed in, in tool chests. Ian

 

[gog64]

I used to go to these nearly every time as the auction house is a couple of miles away from me. You used to be able to pick up some good deals. It’s got SO popular now that everything fetches top money and people bid online from all over the country. A chap I chatted with last time had made a 270 mile trip to collect his winnings! I can’t remember what it was, but his attitude was that it was a bit of fun bidding and then a nice day out in the country with the Mrs. You can’t argue with that, good for them!

 

[sneggysteve]

I used to go to these nearly every time as the auction house is a couple of miles away from me. You used to be able to pick up some good deals. It’s got SO popular now that everything fetches top money and people bid online from all over the country. A chap I chatted with last time had made a 270 mile trip to collect his winnings! I can’t remember what it was, but his attitude was that it was a bit of fun bidding and then a nice day out in the country with the Mrs. You can’t argue with that, good for them!

Agree - timber lots were not online and plenty of bargains about. Online has really pushed up timber prices

 

[Peri]

I had to stop myself looking at the timber - I practically have to take stuff out of my workshop before I can get into it as it is!

Sorely tempted by the handplanes though, I saw a no8, no50, no78, and a Preston1344 amongst others - I was only looking for a tablesaw.

 

[Jameshow]

I had to stop myself looking at the timber - I practically have to take stuff out of my workshop before I can get into it as it is!

Sorely tempted by the handplanes though, I saw a no8, no50, no78, and a Preston1344 amongst others - I was only looking for a tablesaw.

Did you find a table saw anything decent?!

 

[Peri]

Nothing I really wanted

 

[Stigmorgan]

Some beautiful Yew and Laburnam logs in the first couple of pages, had to stop looking, as previously mentioned there's no chance of getting a decent price anymore.

 

[Fitzroy]

469miles. 7hrs 37mins. Each way. Darn, some nice stuff.

 

[Jameshow]

Another auction here ....

https://www.bpiauctions.com/auctions/#!/auctionDetails/3727?page=0

 

[Cabinetman]

My relatively small experience of auctions of this type is that they should be avoided at all costs, I’ve seen old tat go for twice it’s new cost because people get carried away (which they ought to be) much better in my opinion to check the small ads locally, you won’t get it tomorrow or the month after but eventually it will appear then you get in quick, like my Startrite 352, tatty but never used in anger, only ever used on 2”x1” for silk screen printing hence covered in paint, £80 always worth checking the charity shops as well if you’re after old handtools, they often haven’t got the faintest idea what they’re worth. Ian

 

[dickm]

469miles. 7hrs 37mins. Each way. Darn, some nice stuff.

Even if we shared the driving, it's still a bit too far. And having reached the stage in life where I know for definite I have stuff around my workshop that there isn't time left to use, should be selling, not buying!

 

[Essex Barn Workshop]

Not exactly a highlight of this auction:
https://www.easyliveauction.com/cat...hinery-tools-workshop-engineering-t-lot-1159/

 

[Peri]

In the auction Jameshow put up, they are obviously auctioning off the entire contents of a small business - including

"X5 Bag Wood Shavings"



https://www.bpiauctions.com/auctions/#!/itemDetails/3727/372055