Start off with a pict of my poor ol' 2500 before heading out to get the booty.
Didn't want to haul the trailer for (4) hours, and the tires are ~10 years old. Should have changed the tires and taken it.
I may have mis-calculated the allowable payload.
These came up early. Got lucky.
Interestingly they are a shop engineered system. There are two nice sump pump in the buckets underneath and the gray box is a
solid state timer wired with GFCI outlets.
Also scored two 5-gal buckets of pellet media. Wish I could have loaded up more.
There was an employee of the defunct company present and he gave us a three ring binder with all the information on the setup, nice.
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After clean up...
Next up were the large surface plates and they went for less than the prices I've seen the past several months.
Then came three lots (#36, #37, #38) of 18x24 plates, and this is where I messed up. (Note: don't answer your phone when bidding on-line...)
#36 and #37 were decent. #38 had (3) oddballs.
So the auctioneer changed up the way they normally 'group' lots. For these three it was bid on the group and then take your pick.
I won the bid, a window popped up for me to select and I only wanted #37, well the checkbox on #36 was already selected and I didn't de-select it.
(still on the phone trying to help a buddy with his computer woes...)
I won #36 and #37. #36 actually had (3) plates in the lot. You could barely see the third on the tall orange stand.
Note the gray drawers in the gray stand...
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Having scored what I came for I sat back to track prices and watch.
And then #94 came up. Bidding stalled and I thought 'what the hell...' submitted a bid and next thing I know I won the bloody set.
(3) 4x24x36 on one heck of fabricated stand.
The following day it was just a timed on-line auction.
I picked up two 'well loved' lots on the cheap.
Mitu 24" height gage, with Mitu .001 DI. Pretty well used, but I scored it for $40.
Ever see a sorrier set of gage blocks? $40 also.
I have a partial set of Webbers that
@Wdnich had passed on to me years ago, and I figure to fill it out.
But the lot included a beat up cardboard box that wasn't shown in the picture and that I didn't go through until I got home.
And it had these in it.
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And the (4) gray drawer set mentioned above had some gems in it.
(3) of the drawers are mostly hardware and misc. but in the fourth was this puppy.
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A dis-assembled 3-jaw Zweifel Wetzikon(?) precision chuck w/ the 5C adapter. Hopefully I can re-assemble it.
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Loading up this past Tuesday.
The 'helper' crew that Asset-Sales had there was excellent. They had hired two former employees for the auction.
There were a
lot of CNC machines and other heavy equipment in the facility and there were three rigging companies around.
One gave me a bid of $250.00 for loading and I don't think that included removing the plates from their stands as I wanted.
The site supervisor let the crew help me load up and there was a fork truck to use.
Saved my arse or else I'd still be down there loading up.
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Should have brought the trailer...
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This puppy almost got left behind.
The guys had gathered all the plates and brought them over to where we were loading up and had left it in the other building.
I did a walk through just before we left and saw it. Honey and I had to load it up and it is not light.
Leaving the facility. I do believe that 'Sylvia' is sitting a tad low. She had dropped 6" after load up.
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Unloading - finally, yesterday after spending a couple of days getting the skidsteer running.
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Site Supervisor:
He kept jumping in the bed every chance he got.
Helps to have a lovely operator at the controls...
He loves climbing into the back of the truck.
All we managed to unload yesterday. Still have the three Starrett pinks to do.
Guess what I'm doing for Father's Day?
