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Ritchie Holds Largest-Ever Auction in Hartford, Conn.
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itchie Bros. Auctioneers held its largest unreserved Hartford, Conn., auction to date in terms of gross auction proceeds, number of total bidders and number of online bidders, on April 14. In total, more than 1,100 bidders from 30 countries, including 48 U.S. states and nine Canadian provinces, registered to participate in the auction, of which more than 680 people bid online. Approximately 95 percent of the equipment was sold to out-of-state buyers from as far away as United Arab
Emirates, Peru, Vietnam and the United Kingdom. The auction featured more than 700 equipment items and trucks, including more than 30 hydraulic excavators, more than 35 crawler tractors, more than 25 skid steer loaders, more than 25 wheel loaders, cranes, loader backhoes, truck tractors and more. (Editor’s note: This coverage originally appeared in the New England state supplement.) see RITCHIE page 140
Bidders gather around the trailers as they anxiously wait to place their winning bids.
Industry professionals from all over the United States and beyond were in attendance at the Ritchie Bros. auction in Stafford Springs, Conn., (L-R) including Randall Sanderson of T-Quip Sales and Rentals, Londonderry, N.H.; Tim Crean of Crean Equipment, Rutland, Vt.; Bryn Smith of The N.I.C.E. Company, Bellingham, Mass.; and Rick McLaughlin of McLaughlin Brothers, Brockton, Mass.
Travis Steiner (L) and Adam Byrne, bid catchers of Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, were hard at work searching the large crowd for the highest bidder.
The unreserved public auction provided prospective buyers with a large number of equipment for sale, including these 25 hydraulic excavators.
Jack Whyte of Beck Equipment, Preble, N.Y., attended the Ritchie Bros. auction on April 14.
A 2008 Link-Belt 298HSL 230-ton (209 t) crawler crane leads the way to a bevy of cranes on display for sale at the auction.