Well weathered vintage machinery at auction near me( smith Silk planer, #5 becker brainard mill, #2 vert cinci mill, lots of old blacksmith stuff)

[jeff76]

I see an auction nearby coming up in case anyone needs any more projects lol. Everything is rusty- looks the the building is gone but the machinery is still in place. Smith Silk planer, Becker #5 mill, Cinci #2 vert. mill, Leblond lathe, lots of blacksmith stuff, few hit miss engines, ect... Auction is in Plymouth, Ohio 44865 and auctioneer is Chuck Miller. Not affiliated anyway- just passing along in case anything can be saved.

Jeff

 

[Robert Lang]

Link.

Machinery, Black Smithing & Antiques- Barn liquidation | Charles Miller & Associates Auctioneers

Buy At Auction. 125 lbs- Trenton ANVIL- good condition, Armstrong 225 lbs ANVIL- 31in w/ orig. base- nice, 6 ft- blacksmithing table w/ 7 in VISE- see detail, 1994 Chevrolet Silverado1500- 120 K miles-Details, 5 pcs- Pexton ANVILS- blow horn, forming stakes &, The Plymouth Potato cutting...

charlesmillerauctioneer.hibid.com

Rob

 

[Robert Lang]

Some of the pictures.

Rob

 

[Robert Lang]

More pictures.

Rob

 

[Robert Lang]

More pictures.

Rob

 

[Robert Lang]

Last of the pictures.

Rob

 

[Tom A]

Why is it that they wait until the stuff is so far gone that no one but a scrapper will buy it, and only then think to auction it off ?

 

[enginebill]

It looks like someone has been spraying the machines down with salt water they are so rusty.

 

[reggie_obe]

Better late then never.
Beats finding an intact machine shop a developer bought. He has the excavator operator tear the roof off and then plucked each machine out with the bucket and thumb, placing them "gently" in the scrap dumpster.

 

[Jim Christie]

It occurred to me that some machines seem to have more rust below a certain level.
Perhaps they had been in a flooded basement or low level stream side building under water at some point for an extended period of time and not treated when they were removed.
A quick search didn't show anything in the way of wide spread flooding in that area but sometimes these things can be local and not make the news.
Jim

 

[neilho]

Arg. Well, maybe the arbor press is salvageable. Anything else would have to be a labor of love to be usable.

 

[M.B. Naegle]

Stuff like this looks like the owners health declined or he passed, and his wife/family didn't want to mess with his hobby that hasn't done anything but rust in years, but has taken up so much space for so long. People can grow to resent things like that.

Gotta have an exit strategy.

 

[neilho]

Yeah, but resent it so much that they carefully remove the building around the machines before selling the machines?

That's a level of emotion above (below?) resentment. More like malice, not to mention shooting themselves in the foot.

 

[M.B. Naegle]

Yeah, but resent it so much that they carefully remove the building around the machines before selling the machines?

That's a level of emotion above (below?) resentment. More like malice, not to mention shooting themselves in the foot.

Some of it is just sheer stupidity. Years ago we had a machinist who was having some health issues about the time we bought a new CNC mill, so while we were reorganizing the shop, we let him take the old CNC mill home (old Bridgeport Torq-Cut 22. Not massive, but much bigger than a knee mill) on loan to put in his garage and work at his own pace while he recovered. A few years later he passed away and we had room to bring the old mill home. The family was easy going, but decided they would help us out by letting their electrician buddy disconnect the machine and push it outside with a front end loader. Lost some sheet-metal and bent up the enclosure, as well as having some corrosion issues in the electronics cabinet and pneumatics, but we got it running again.

 

[neilho]

Yeah, true. Stupidity is a huge force in the world. And when paired with ignorance, virtually unstoppable.

 

[johnoder]

Neat thing about Beckers was the saddle being almost same length as table. Here is a "ghost" image from those days

Cinc Mill is from teens and the scan is from 1913

Good looking Cone Head lathe is the 18" W.F and J. Barnes - though unlikely to still have its stack of change gears