LEWISTON — Everything from a restaurant-grade refrigerator to a vintage sidewalk plow to 18,000 yards of reclaimed asphalt will go on the auction block for the city of Lewiston next week.
Norm Beauparlant, the city’s budget and purchasing director, said the city has hired D. A. Folsom Auction Services of Gardiner to sell off some old equipment and supplies. Items up for bid range from 1996 Chevrolet pickups to 1987 excavators to vintage lathes.
“We talked at first about having sort of a high-end garage sale, a yard sale where we’d put a price on things and then they could come in and haggle over each one,” Beauparlant said. “Then, we settled on this.”
The auction is scheduled to kick off at 9 a.m. Sept. 11 at the city’s Sand and Salt Facility, 195 River Road.
Beauparlant said most of the items up for bid were replaced some time ago.
“It’s still stuff with some known value,” he said. “It was leftover equipment that was being stored at various locations. Some times, they were replaced. Some times we traded them for newer equipment, but the old pieces just got left behind.”
They include a CAT trash compactor, a heavy-wheeled vehicle designed to roll over trash at the Lewiston landfill. It also includes a 1985 Bombardier sidewalk plow and restaurant equipment from the now-closed Multi-Purpose Center kitchen.
Other items are being sold in lots.
“We have all of this aggregated scrap metal, from old plows and other parts that is just rusting in place,” Beauparlant said. “That can be sold to scrap-metal dealers.
Beauparlant said the city is also eager to get rid of three different piles of old asphalt, removed from roads that have been repaved.
“A certain amount of it we crush and reuse it as reclaimed material,” Beauparlant said. “But we have such a large pile now, we hope some other companies can use it themselves.”
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- Surplus property from the city of Lewiston will go on the public auction block on Sept. 11 at the city’s Sand and Salt Facility on River Road.
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- Traffic lights are just one of the items up for auction on Sept. 11.
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- Everything from aluminum boats to small buildings are up for auction on Sept. 11 at Lewiston’s Sand and Salt Facility on River Road.
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- Surplus fire department equipment tends to attract collectors, said Norm Beauparlant, Lewiston’s budget and purchasing director.
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