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[Genem]

Fill your boots...

https://www.sweeneykincaid.com/auctions/lot/3974/5/1166305

[Genem]

Some smaller engineering kit here though...

https://www.sweeneykincaid.com/Auctions/SaleDetail/3969

[GHOBHW]

now i just need the space for it

[GRMac]

Blimey, those milling machines aren't on a lot of money with a few hours to go. It'd cost more in fuel to collect them...

[Wittsend]

I'd love a lathe if I had the space 

[kev]

Would that crane fit in my 88”?
If so, I’d be interested.

[StooBee]

Surely those prices have to jump considerably towards the end of the auctions......some of those Colchester lathes are rather cheap right now

[rustynuts]

How big is the crane that will needed to load and unload that crane at each end of the journey home?

[nathanglasgow]

Sigh. If only I could afford 3phase.

[George1990]

Drooling

[diffwhine]

I'm surprised that something that big has only got a 6.3T SWL

[andrewR]

Sad to say but a lot of this stuff probably comes from people dying. When my uncle died he had a massive toolmakers lathe, milling machine, and the garage full of all the rest of the kit that would go with that kind of lifestyle. Unless you have space to inherit it, you just can't take it and it goes for auction, with, as already said, transport costs and potential buyer's space availability severely limiting the realistic number of bidders and hence the sale price. My dad took a load of smaller stuff, but also discovered that donating the bigger pieces to other organisations became a good way of reducing the inheritance tax bill. So the Ffestiniog railway at Boston Lodge received all the big kit as a gift.