Complete Retirement Sale Report
On behalf of H D Marks, Gilly Flatts Farm, TS21 1HH
Wednesday 15th May 2024
Without doubt one of the largest crowds in recent memory assembled to ensure that the quarter of a century spent farming Gilly Flatts by Heather Marks and her late husband Jim was sent off in some style. This sale from the outset looked to have all the necessary ingredients to draw a massive crowd; highly respected and well-liked folk who over many years had gathered a truly impressive collection of farm machinery and livestock requisites. Trade was fantastic from the off, from a tremendous array of workshop tools right through the machinery and on to the well-maintained vehicles at the end, everything was competitively bid for. Immense support from near and far saw over four hundred lots sell to one hundred and twenty-three buyers from the length and breadth of the UK, hundreds more went home empty handed on what proved to be a pleasant, dry Spring day in Bishopton.
No surprises that the top priced lot of the day proved to be the penultimate one, a 2018 New Holland T7.270 Autocommand tractor with 2180 hours on the clock sold for £70,500. A very tidy Case 115u Farmall loader tractor followed at £31,100 with the showstopping MB Trac 1000 reaching £19,500 and the 2002 registered New Holland TM150 selling for £19,000. A list of the top prices is featured at the end of this report.
All the staff and directors here at Darlington Mart would like to take this opportunity to thank Heather for the kind instruction to conduct this sale. Alongside husband Jim the Marks’s have always been a pleasure to work for and lest we forget that the wonderful cattle from Gilly Flatts for many years were some of the very best we offered through our sale rings. The volume of friends, neighbours and like-minded farming folk in attendance today as the curtain fell on Heather and Jim’s era at Gilly Flatts was true testament to their kindness, hard work, knowledge and dedication. We wish Heather all the very best in her well-deserved retirement and we are delighted that she will remain local and therefore stay a part of the DfAM family.
New Holland T7.270 – £70,500
Case Farmall 115u – £31,100
MB Trac 1000 – £19,500
New Holland TM150 – £19,000
Merlo P40.7 – £16,200
Polaris Ranger – £14,500
Krone Swadro TC640 – £11,000
30ft Barraclough Bale Trailer – £10,000
McHale v660 Baler – £9800
McHale C430 Straw Blower – £9000
Triffit Grain Trailer – £7600
MF 3095 – £7400
McHale 991LBER Wrapper – £6500
Henton Grain Trailer – £5300
Mustang 920 Skid Steer – £4800
Master M150 Grain Dryer – £4500
3 Leg Sub Soiler – £4200
Cattle Crush & Race – £3900
Kuhn 6 Rota Tedder – £2900
Bale Trailer – £2800
Opico Vari Discs – £2700
Tipping Trailer – £2200
KRM Fert Spreader – £2200
Ifor Williams Flat Trailer – £2100
Vaderestad Drill – £2100
Low Loader Trailer – £2050
