February collective auction one of best yet

The day’s top price of £21,600 went to a 2005 JCB telescopic loader. Other leading prices were: £17,000 for a 2005 Valmet A95 tractor, £11,200 for a 1999 Massey Ferguson 8240 tractor, £10,000 for a 2009 Marshall 12- tonne rear discharge spreader, £9600 for a Steyr 1994 with loader and £7700 for a Lewis Badger compact digger/tractor.

A Nante mini digger made £5800, a 2004 Thwait one-tonne high lift dumper made £4000, a Mustang skid steer loader made £3500 and an old JCB 3CX Mk3 sold for £1250.

Star of the buy trailer section was a Richard Weston 16 tonne root crop trailer, which sold for £7000. Other leading prices were £5800 for an A. W. 14 tonne silage trailer, £4500 and £3700 for Richard Weston 14-tonne trailers, £3100 for a Chieftain 14- tonne dump trailer, £2700 for a Marshall eight tonne silage trailer, £2650 for a Wheatley eight tonne grain trailer, £2300 for a Griffiths eight tonne trailer and Ifor Williams livestock trailers sold to a high of £1800.

Harvesting machinery included a local authority rotary mower at £1500, a PZ 300 haybob at £900 and a Rossi rowing up machine at £560. Cultivation equipment included two McConnell seven-leg shakerators at £3500 and £3000, a Kuhn four metre power harrow at £2100 and a Brown five metre grass harrow a £1750.

Fertiliser broadcasters sold from £100 to £1250 for a K. R. M. model, a Parmeter post driver made £1000, a Protec post driver for the front of a mini digger made £900, a set of Goodyear row crop wheels sold for £800 and a silage pusher and silage grab made £550 and £440 respectively.

“Good quality and well maintained second hand plant and machinery is very sought after by buyers both within and outside the UK,” said Matt Williams, from Halls.

To enter plant and machinery for Halls’ next collective auction in April contact Shrewsbury Auction Centre on Tel: 01743 462620.