I went to a clearing sale today on a farm. Quite a few machine tools were advertised; a No 1.5 Cincinotti universal mill and an Arborcia pedestal drill were among them. Parking was a problem with muddy access. It appears that a couple of truck loads of a local soft, dusty limestone type of "gravel" had been dumped over the muddy driveway just prior to 15mm of rain a couple of days ago. I chose to park out on the road and walk in. There was no way I could have got in with my Crummydore ute.
The above description also extended into the condition of all the sale lots. Absolutely appalling. As I walked in the was a steady stream of people leaving; 1/2hr before the auction start. The agent had obviously noticed this and had changed his tune from the glowing ad in the paper; and was now spruking the items were now being auctioned as scrap condition. Oddly I didn't notice any of the local scrappies there and no sign of there vehicles.
The machines were housed in a farm shed mostly open to the north. The machines and floor were covered in a deep layer(hard to tell that the floor was actually concrete due to the depth of crap in most places) of dirt and dust. The old horizontal only 'Cinci' was possibly of WW2 vintage and appeared frozen up. There was a board attached to it with pegs holding probably 40 milling cutters. These were just lumps of rust. The pedestal drill was an Arboga as I had suspected. It was a dirty oily rather messy unit of recent manufacture and looked very unloved as well. It was huge; a good 2 metres high with a round 'leg' of about 150mm and I would guess somewhere around 1 tonne. The other machinery was probably in worse condition.
I was walking back out of the gate also before the auction start time.
How can people treat their equipment like this? Why do they do it? I just had another swig of port to try and take the bad taste out of my mouth:wink:. I think I will need quite a few more.
A disgusted Ken.
The above description also extended into the condition of all the sale lots. Absolutely appalling. As I walked in the was a steady stream of people leaving; 1/2hr before the auction start. The agent had obviously noticed this and had changed his tune from the glowing ad in the paper; and was now spruking the items were now being auctioned as scrap condition. Oddly I didn't notice any of the local scrappies there and no sign of there vehicles.
The machines were housed in a farm shed mostly open to the north. The machines and floor were covered in a deep layer(hard to tell that the floor was actually concrete due to the depth of crap in most places) of dirt and dust. The old horizontal only 'Cinci' was possibly of WW2 vintage and appeared frozen up. There was a board attached to it with pegs holding probably 40 milling cutters. These were just lumps of rust. The pedestal drill was an Arboga as I had suspected. It was a dirty oily rather messy unit of recent manufacture and looked very unloved as well. It was huge; a good 2 metres high with a round 'leg' of about 150mm and I would guess somewhere around 1 tonne. The other machinery was probably in worse condition.
I was walking back out of the gate also before the auction start time.
How can people treat their equipment like this? Why do they do it? I just had another swig of port to try and take the bad taste out of my mouth:wink:. I think I will need quite a few more.
A disgusted Ken.
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