Farm Auctions (Bangor, Millinocket, Calais: sales, houses, bankruptcy)

[AliceT]

One of the things I miss about Florida is the Farm Auction that was held every Saturday night. If it had to do with farming and livestock management, it was there, including livestock and other critters. Is there such an auction somewhere between Bangor and Millinocket?

[Maine Writer]

Tilton's in Corinth is what you're looking for. Livestock, poultry, equipment and more.

[bignhfamily]

Originally Posted by Maine Writer

Tilton's in Corinth is what you're looking for. Livestock, poultry, equipment and more.

Thanks for the post! What's Tilton's? Have any other info?

[Submariner]

On Puddle Duck Road.

They fill the gallery with junk tables [furniture, animal cages, saws, boxes of rabbits, chickens, ...] the stuff that no body will bid on gets piled on one table and they throw $5 on the table and try to auction it as a 'lot' starting at $1.

Then they do jewelry.

Then they bring in automobiles.

Then livestock.

I have bought and sold goats there.

Good folk

[Maine Writer]

Originally Posted by bignhfamily

Thanks for the post! What's Tilton's? Have any other info?

Jeffrey T. Tilton
29 Puddledock Rd.
Corinth, ME 04427

I've never been. Steve thinks I'll put us into bankruptcy.

[AliceT]

Awesome, thanks.

Any chance I could pick up a pony and/or donkey there?

[AliceT]

Originally Posted by bignhfamily

Thanks for the post! What's Tilton's? Have any other info?

A farm auction is my kind of a night out!

[bignhfamily]

Originally Posted by AliceT

A farm auction is my kind of a night out!

Oh yeah, mine too! We have a livestock auction in Rumney, NH. I haven't been in awhile but it has been a great place to spend the day in the past. I mostly bought pigs there. I found that I could get a 150 lb pig for less than than a piglet. We would feed them corn and garden scraps for a few weeks then off to the butcher.

[corgis]

I've not been to a farm auction but I have been to some farmhouse auctions, way out in the country, selling the contents of farmhouses and barns.

I am a self proclaimed auction, estate sale, library sale, church rummage sale, yard sale, garage sale junkie. I can't wait for Spring to get out on Saturday mornings with the paper and hit as many sales as I can. It's amazing what people have to sell, I've gotten some wonderful bargains here.

In Eastport, it's wonderful to get up on Saturday morning, get in the car and start checking telephone poles all over town for yard sale signs. Then check the bulletin board at the IGA for any sales not on the poles. Then I head for Route 1, yard sale to Pembroke, take the Charlotte Road to Calais and yard sale my way back to Eastport from the other direction. I'm in pure heaven on Saturday mornings from Spring through Fall. My only requirement is that I put a $20. bill in my pocket and when I've spent it all, I'm done for the day.

[AlisonL]

Originally Posted by AliceT

Awesome, thanks.

Any chance I could pick up a pony and/or donkey there?

You probably could, but you will be bidding against dealers most times. There are lots of them in Uncle Henry's every week. UH would be my choice to find one.