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Sales Auction Company Holds 14th Annual Fall Auction

Thu November 02, 2023 - Northeast Edition #23
Sheila Capetta – CEG CORRESPONDENT


Sales Auction Company LLC hosted its 14th Annual Fall Action Oct. 21, 2023, at its permanent facility at 55 King Spring Road in Windsor Locks, Conn., as well as online via Proxibid. In addition, Sales hosted a timed auction on Oct. 20.

A total of 492 lots went on the block up at the live auction and more than 3,100 lots sold at the timed auction that included aerial equipment, crawler dozers, tractors, trucks, mini- and midi-excavators, screeners and crushers, skid steers, wheel loaders, backhoes and much more.

There was a total of 2,137 registered bidders online and despite rainy weather, there was a total of 984 registered bidders on site.

The top selling item was a 2017 Caterpillar 950M wheel loader with 11,500 hours that sold for $122,500. Other high-ticket items sold included a 2019 Caterpillar 313FL excavator with 6,200 hours that sold for $110,000; a 2005 Snow Dragon snow melter that sold for $100,000; and a 2019 Bobcat S570 skid steer with 129 hours that sold for $38,500. The auctions grossed $9.1 million. CEG

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(L-R): Jesse Veprauskas and Ken Liberty, both of Jesse Property Services in Southwick Mass., and Eddie Benton of Greensite Tree and Land of Feeding Hills, Mass., stand in front of a 1994 Caterpillar 426B backhoe.
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Jim Guarino (L) of Smart Business Credit in Exton, Pa., and Al Dufresne of Killingly, Conn., check out a 2006 Ford F-550 XL S/A dump truck.
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Going on the auction block were a 1997 Caterpillar D6M XL crawler dozer, a 1995 Caterpillar D6HXL crawler dozer, as well as John Deere and Dresser dozers.
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Shelley Sales of Sales Auction Company registers bidders for the auction.
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The Sales Auction truck and crew making their way around the yard through the rain.
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An attendee tests drives a 2010 Volvo BL70 backhoe with power shift.
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A 2013 and 2012 International 8600 S/A, 2014 International ProStar+ S/A were some of the many trucks up for auction.
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Dan McHugh (L) of Brookside Equipment Sales in Phillipston, Mass., and Sam Sales of Sales Auction Company in Windsor Locks, Conn.
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Andrew St. Jacques (L) of Four Season Landscaping in Windsor, Conn., and Tom Van Gordon of Precision Land Management in Monroe, Conn., stand with a 1990 Caterpillar 950E rubber-tire wheel loader.
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Kevin (L) and Mason McSwiggan of Rockwell Construction of Newton, Conn., check out a 2015 Caterpillar 938K rubber-tire wheel loader.
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The Sales Auction Company office crew team welcomes attendees and helps them get registered and checked out for the auction (L-R) are Ashley McMann,  Simonne Masse, Shelley Sales and Emily Musumesi.
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Sales Auction had a wide variety of crawler dozers from John Deere, Caterpillar and Dresser and crawler carriers from IHI and Morooka.
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A Wacker Neuson vibratory articulated trench compactor sits in the foreground with a variety of hydraulic excavators from Yanmar, Doosan, Komatsu, Caterpillar, Volvo, Takeuchi and more.
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Skid steers from John Deere, Bobcat, Caterpillar and more went up for bid.
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