Auction of the Decade - Dec. 1st South Dakota

[frazzer316]

why did he have so meany tracktors whit so few engine hours?

[Feterlj]

Ahh! I was at this auction. This is Don, Art, and Milo Stip's auction. All three of the brothers are deceased, therefore this auction took place. They also had a big land sale two weeks after the equipment auction. They owned about 10,000 acres but sold about 3000 acres.

[machinerypete]

How did the land sale go? Did you hear a per acre sale price figure?

[Feterlj]

I am not sure, I didn't go to the land sale although I bet it would be very interesting to calculate how many millions they got for the land. My grandpa sold his land about a year ago and he got 4500 per acre in pretty good farm land, so I can just imagine what the Stip's good land would bring per acre....

[dskrum]

I did not hear the figur but i did hear that the home place where the auction was on the first did not sell.

[TVan92]

@machinerypete They sold two quarters near my house and one went for 3100 and some went for 3300 an acre. Dont quote me on those but they are somewhere close.

[Dustin1911]

Is this the diamond Ring Farm!

[dskrum]

Ya but thats what you get when Fords next disel motor waasnt not that great and you just cand find any good low mile trucks like that anymore.

[machinerypete]

(3) lunch wagons.....wow. How about the bidder registration area yesterday? I don't think I've been to an auction before that had 4 or 5 seperate (long) lines to get your #. Quite a sale indeed :-)

[dskrum]

Ya I was in line for 30min to get my food and by the way I was suposed to be in school yesterday.

[machinerypete]

I think a day at the auction yesterday provided plenty of education for one day!

Reminds me of being a kid and getting to miss school to attend the local "Dealer Day" (loved the donuts!). I remember watching a movie about the "NEW" JD 6620 combines........many, many moons ago :-)

[dskrum]

Ya it was well worth it and i learnd that a ten year old pickup can sell for $25,000.

[machinerypete]

Oh man, those pickups were nuts. I shot video of one of those F250's, the blue one with 59K miles, an '02 model. Sold for $25K. Wow!

[dskrum]

That sale was crazy there was probly abot 5,000 people there.