13-05-2025
Top prices at CCM Skipton reach £17,500 for landrover and £6000 for 2WD tractor
A BRAND -new Thursday evening format for the first of new quarterly sales of machinery, reclaim, implements, stone and timber at CCM Skipton last week proved an immediate hit when attracting a bumper entry of 864 lots and a massive crowd of customers.
Multiple four-figure prices were achieved, with a top of £17500 in the vehicles section for a 2015 Land Rover Defender Hard Top 90, followed at £6000 for a Case IH 785XL 2wd tractor, one of several successfully sold, an Iveco EuroCargo horse box galloping off at £4000 and quads selling to £2950 for a CF Moto CF800 4x4.
Trailers also pulled in the purchasers, peaking at £6800 for a RM Clough 22ft bale trailer, plus £3600 for a Bailey personnel trailer, while a special section for grassland machinery was ideally timed, with a section high of £4000 for a Moore Uni-Drill and £2600 twice for an Opico 6m grass harrow with seeder and mobile sheep race/handling system.
Multiple miscellaneous goods sold to £1500 for an IAE cattle crush, stone and timber lots trading to £480 for a stone sink, with reclaim items seeing £370 for a ride-on mower, a large anvil going under the hammer at £180.
Principal prices are listed under the reports section at with the next quarterly sale scheduled for Thursday, July 3.
The latest monthly Saturday livestock sale of stirks, weaned calves and young store cattle attracted a turnout of 312 head and multiple four-figure prices. Continental heifers remained in ready demand, various runs of suckler-bred cattle producing a sale high £1930 each for a strong Limousin pair from K Lister & Son, Kettlewell, the first prize pen in the second 'Grass Day' show, a Limousin-x trio from James Penter, Litton, selling at £1850 per head.
Native heifers sold to of £1880 for five Aberdeen-Angus from first-time vendor Lauren Thorpe, Oakworth, with other strongest heifers regularly £1500-£1750, yearling suckler-bred heifers making £1500-plus.
Younger suckler-bred bulls were £1500-£1640 regularly to a section high £1700 for a Limousin from Richard Hardy, Thornton, Bradford, steers also peaking at £1700 twice, first for another Limousin from Peter Cordwell, Manchester, then an Angus from MD&HE Wallbank, Embsay.
Charolais-x bulls sold to £1580 from R Falshaw & Son, Gisburn, a brace of native Angus bulls from Philip Robinson, Barnoldswick, away nicely at £1380, black and white steers trading to £1440 from Richard Spence, Sutton-In-Craven, a trio of younger 6/7-month-old black and white bulls from J Caygill & Partners, Skipton, each making £710. The next sale is on Saturday May 31.
Also on the same day's agenda was the annual early sale of Border Fine Arts and Beswick pieces, plus toys and collectables, the 268 lots on offer achieving 80% clearance, with a good number of three-figure sales to a top of £580 for a 2008 Hereford family, then £480 for a 2001 'Under the Hammer' model with original box.
