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More Than 900 Participate in Ritchie Sale in Conshohocken
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ore than 900 bidders participated online and in person at Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers’ multi-million dollar unreserved public equipment auction Dec. 11, in Conshohocken, Pa. Bidders came from 34 countries, including 46 U.S. states. More than 54 percent of the equipment was sold to out-ofstate buyers, from as far away as Costa Rica, Malaysia and Singapore. Online bidders purchased more than 29 percent of the equipment sold (by dollar value). In total, more than 300 equipment lots were sold, including loader backhoes, crawler tractors, hydraulic excavators, articulated dump trucks and more. see RITCHIE page 138
Bidding was very strong on site and online, including for this spread of hydraulic excavators. One excavator went to a bidder from Singapore.
Caterpillar crawler tractors — including a D4C Series III, a D4G Xl, a D5G Xl, a D5K LGP, a D6R XL and a D8R — are lined up and ready for new owners.
Bidder Number 112, Braun Wagler of Advanced Contracting, Stoneboro, Pa., stands on the tracks of a Caterpillar D8R dozer.
Rich Somers (L), president, and Mike Manieri, supervisor, both of Innovative Construction Services in Folcroft, Pa., are ready for the auction to begin.
Young William Gnouse (L) attends his first auction with J. Smith of Justice Excavation Inc., Aspers, Pa.
Ed Glassbury (L) of Meco Constructors Inc., Bensalem, Pa., catches up with Jerry Holleran of Machinery Services Inc., Royersford, Pa.