Yoder & Frey Holds Successful Seven-Day Sale in Kissimmee, Fla.

The seven-day auction featured a huge assortment of backhoes, wheel loaders, excavators, dozers, dump trucks, motorgraders, paving equipment, attachments and much more.

Mon February 23, 2015 - National Edition
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(L-R): Kevin Steward and Mickey Gibbs of Gibbs & Sons Machinery, Gadsden, Ala., talks with Peter Clark, President of Yoder & Frey Auctioneers Inc.

Craig (L) and Scott Pondish of C&S Equipment, Mount Holly, N.J., hoped to find some bargains.

Yoder & Frey’s Sharon Bernath and the rest of the office personnel raced to keep up with all the paperwork and processing behind the scenes at the auction.

Walt (L) and Landon Boring of Boring & Associates, Ocala, Fla., were watching the action.

John Helton of Tractor World, Plant City, Fla., was looking over a lot of different equipment at the auction.

Clifford Miller of Miller Engineering, Marion, N.C., looks over this Hitachi excavator.

According to Jo and Arden Shell of Arden Shell Truck and Equipment, the weather is much better here than in Michigan.

This Hitachi excavator may be going to Connecticut with Chris Davis of JHD Corp., if the price is right.

Eager Beaver showed off its new 100-ton trailer — the 100 GSL. (L-R): Randy Hall, Johnny Gomez and Tina Flowers of Eager Beaver Trailers show it to Ken Harp of Superior Construction Company.

Paul Dabbs (L) of Yancey Bros. Co., Atlanta, Ga., and Jamie Wurthmann of UCM Inc., Mulberry, Fla., strike a pose reminiscent of the Schwarzenegger-DeVito movie “Twins.”

The seven-day auction featured a huge assortment of backhoes, wheel loaders, excavators, dozers, dump trucks, motorgraders, paving equipment, attachments and much more.

Tom Shaw of Shaw Equipment Co. looks over the Florida Auctions issue published by Construction Equipment Guide.

Monitoring the pricing of the motorgraders in the sale (L-R) are Jesus Ramirez, Gibbs & Sons Machinery, Gadsden, Ala.; Brent Beverly, BTM Machinery, Charleston, S.C.; and Don Gibbs, Gibbs & Sons Machinery.

The staff of BTM Machinery, based in Charleston, S.C., were out in full force at the Yoder sale and (L-R) included Blake Thornton, Marsh Howard and Clay Thornton.

Guys with some serious deep thinking going on (L-R) are Clayton Mullins, Mullins Machinery, Hickory, Ky.; Victor Brown, Charles Brown Trucking, Hixson, Tenn.; and Billy Seals, Thompson Tractor, Birmingham, Ala.

Looking for deals while enjoying some terrific weather at the Florida auctions are Mike Zyndorf (L), Mike Zyndorf Equipment, Mays Landing, N.J., and Dan McHugh, Brookside Equipment Sales, Phillipston, Mass.

Tim Thomas of Tractor & Equipment Company, Birmingham, Ala., jots down a couple of notes on a Komatsu WA450 wheel loader.

These guys from Abingdon, Va., were very interested in this Caterpillat IT28G tool carrier. (L-R): Danny Reynolds, Abingdon Equipment; Roger Rowe, Rogers Trucking; and Frank Stophel, Stophel Construction.

Doug Reed (L) Silver Creek Supply, Kenton, Ohio, talks with the top bidder on this Caterpillar 928Gz loader, Rodney Hensel of Hensel Ready Mix, Kenton, Ohio.

The proud new owner of this Caterpillar IT28G is Steve Mohre of M&M Asphalt, Blakeslee, Ohio.

Robert Calph (L) of AJ’s Lawn Care & Landscape Service, Fredonia, N.Y., talks about his newest acquisition, this Case W24C loader, with Kevin Reading of St. George Enterprises, also based in Fredonia.

The Yoder & Frey ringmen scan the crowd for one more bid before the gavel drops on another piece of iron.

The office staff at Yoder & Frey once again managed the impossible — registering and attending to the needs of thousands of bidders.

This American bald eagle seemed to be enjoying this demonstration of good old fashion American capitalism at its very best at the Yoder & Frey sale.

Jimmy Davis, president of Davis Auction in Conn., is sporting a new ATV.

Another couple of snowbirds escaped the weather nightmare in New England. Oscar Plourde (L) from Suncook, N.H., and , John Neville of Neville Construction, Goffstown, N.H.

Brendan Wray of the Wrays LLC, Sawyer, Kan., considers a bid on the Volvo L180E wheel loader.

Auctioneer Joey Martin calls out another winning bid.

(L-R): In for the auction from Wyoming, Mark Mahnen of Wyoming Machinery Company talks equipment with Ohio’s Butch Frey of Butch Frey Equipment and George Gessner of Newton Asphalt.

Mark Pentz of Calvin Group Inc., based in Colorado, came to the auction hoping to find some asphalt equipment bargains.

Jim Motsic (L) and Richard Curry of Curry Excavating, Duncansville, Pa., were impressed with the number of graders up for bid.

(L-R): Jimmy Miller of Melway Paving joined Chase Hensley, Derrick Marx of Ray Hensley Incorporated, Andrew and Phil Schlabach of Melway Paving, along with Karla Whitt and Ken Hensley.

(L-R): Jesse Hill, Megan Biddle of Hill Brothers Excavating along with Gene and Kim Gunter of EFG Paving and Nathan Hill, also of Hill Brothers Excavating, all of Delaware, hoped to take home this Takeuchi TL140 skid steer.

Yoder & Frey held its 41st annual Florida Auctions sale Feb. 9 to 16 in Kissimmee, Fla.

The seven-day auction featured a huge assortment of backhoes, wheel loaders, excavators, dozers, dump trucks, motorgraders, paving equipment, attachments and much more. Attendance was strong as many bidders from all over the United States, once again took advantage of the great Florida weather and bargains on iron.

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