Auction Bargain

15 years ago

I attended an auction of a former BBQ restaurant today. Overall the prices were soft. Among my purchases were 3 wire shelf stands they used in the coolers to hold meat ect. I will post a link that shows one I gave $27.50. Will use it for a plant stand and also a light stand if I ever need another. In fact 2 of the 3 would work for a light stand. And all the shelves are adjustable. I also bought a bread cart with wheels which I will use to move trays. Only gave $5.00 for it. And the other two were 12 and 15. The wire stands are heavy made so will easily hold up plant trays. I'm proud of my purchases. They sold some more shelf stands later and two of them were identical to the one I will show a link of but sold considerably higher. You can never figure out an auction.

The rain last night started about ten miles east of town. From there to 20 miles SE of Liberal a distance of 80 miles it rained anywhere from a 1/2 inch to between 3-4 inches. Glad we missed the heavy rain as it also contained heavy hail. A friend of ours has a corn field along the highway I travel. I was remarking to my step dad Thursday that our friend had some of the biggest and best looking corn I had seen. He is considered one of the best corn farmers in this area. The corn was at least a foot tall. Today you can't even tell corn was ever there. There is nubs maybe an inch tall. The rain washed all the leaves to a low spot in the field which is now a big lake. The irrigated wheat across the road from it was days from harvest. It is harvested now. Around 4 inches tall. The rain washed the straw into big piles that look like win rows. Just when you are depressed because you didn't receive any rain then you see that and decide it could be worse. And we didn't get the tornadoes either. Jay

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elkwc
Original Author
15 years ago
Forgot to attach the link to the shelf stand.

Here is a link that might be useful: Shelf stand
elkwc
Original Author
15 years ago
That link just gets you to the auction site. You can click on King's BBQ and then on view auction results. I bought lot 7,8 and 9. Jay
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Okiedawn OK Zone 7
15 years ago
Jay,

What great deals you got! I like the way you're going to use them.

Speaking of the storm, The Weather Channel had video footage of the Beaver supercell from yesterday. Have you seen it? It is incredibly black and menacing-looking. I've linked the video below. You have to sit thru 30 seconds of an ad before you can see the footage of the supercell, but it is worth waiting 30 seconds to see.

I hate hearing about that gentleman's corn. You know, it is so frustrating that someone can do everything right and have a great crop and then weather can wipe it out in the blink of an eye.

Is it too late in y'all's growing season for them to replant something in their fields (after the lakes dry up or drain away)?

Dawn

Here is a link that might be useful: Beaver Oklahoma Supercell
elkwc
Original Author
15 years ago
Dawn,
I imagine at this stage he will plant wheat this fall. Could possibly plant late milo or beans.

Yes wish now I had bought more. Would work nice in the reefer trailer also. They were all in great shape. The one set has plastic covers over the wire shelf. So will work great in the lean to or greenhouse.

I will have to go look at the cell. Bob and I went out and looked at the place SE of Liberal I've been looking at. The super cell passed right through there. They got real heavy rains. Everyone said there rain fell in a few minutes. You could tell that also by the lakes even in the deep sand. It also created a lot of rivers in the fields. Jay
panhandlejan
15 years ago
Jay,
Glad the nasty weather last night missed you. It all was north of us. We had strong cold winds off of the cloud and enough rain to wet the sidewalks. We were without power for about three hours last night due to power poles that were snapped aroung Turpin. We heard there was severe wind damage to one house and some pig barns in the Turpin area.

We are one day closer to rain!
Jan
soonergrandmom
15 years ago
Jay, You did good.
elkwc
Original Author
15 years ago
Jan,
Glad it missed you also. I only saw 2 areas that had received real bad hail. Several damages received what looked like light to medium hail. The corn will recover ok from it I think. I'm sure it hurt the uncut wheat but didn't total it. The one bad area was north of Hooker at what we call the 2nd street intersection( Highway that runs from Liberal to Elkhart basically straight west from Liberal with a mile jog) and then east for 2-3 miles. The other area was approx. 20 miles SE of Liberal in OK. The real estate lady and also a coworker told me that a power pole was blown down close to the Beaver turn off on 64 and it also blew some sprinkler sections over in that area. We had strong winds here. But they must of been stronger in a few areas by the damage we saw. I don't feel the hail was hardly as severe in the OK area we saw but still bad. Jay
Okiedawn OK Zone 7
15 years ago
Jay and Jan,

I hope y'all get some good rain (nice rain! friendly rain! non-damaging rain!) soon.

Y'all have such a good attitude about it all despite the lack of rainfall. I know you're used to extreme dryness, but it seems so extreme this year, and then when rain comes, it tends to be accompanied by big hail and high winds.

You both are another day closer to rain, and I hope it comes sooner rather than later.

Dawn
owiebrain
15 years ago
Nice score on the shelves! Those things aren't cheap to buy used, let alone new. You practically stole them for those prices.

We've got more rain the past few days and a few days still coming. Since the post office is failing to deliver the rain I've sent previously, I'll take all of the kids into the yard. We'll all blow your direction at the same time and the clouds should start heading that way. There's a lot of big mouths and hot air in this family so it should work.

Diane