Britannia AuctionsWarehouse and logistics equipment sales in Doncaster
Doncaster's biggest sheds have a railhead. The distribution park at iPort by junction 3 of the M18 was built around a rail freight terminal, and the units there and at West Moor Park and Redhouse are among the largest in the north. When a retailer or a third party operator gives one up, the equipment inside is on a scale to match. Racking that runs the length of the building, a fleet of reach trucks and very narrow aisle trucks, order pickers, conveyors and dock equipment on both faces.
The older trades in the town sell warehouse equipment of a different weight. Rail engineering works, glass plants and steel fabricators at Kirk Sandall, Wheatley Hall Road and Balby Carr keep heavy stores with cantilever racking, stillages and trucks rated for the loads. We sell both kinds by online timed auction, on site or from our premises. Tell us what you have through the contact form.
Big box handovers between the M18 and the A1(M)
A very large shed is a long sale to catalogue and a narrow one to market, because equipment on that scale suits the operators of the other very large sheds along the M18, the M62 and the M1. Racking in runs of hundreds of bays is marketed to the dealers who take whole buildings and resell, and to operators fitting out nearby. Trucks go in front of hauliers and dealers from Rotherham to Goole. Sequence is the thing to settle. Trucks and small equipment first, conveyors and mezzanines next, racking last is the usual shape, and we agree the order and the dismantling window with you against the handover date.
The A1(M), M18 and M180 are minutes away, and the newer parks were laid out for articulated traffic, though what a particular yard and dock will take is checked at the site visit and put in the catalogue. Where there is room, we give the larger buyers set slots and fill the gaps with van collections for the small lots.
Heavy stores at the older works
A rail engineering stores or a glass plant stores is built for weight and length. Cantilever racking for rail, bar and sheet, pallet racking rated far above the standard, A frame racks for glass, stillages and bogie stands, and counterbalance trucks of five tonnes and upward with fork positioners and clamps. Agricultural machinery dealers and plant hire yards on the edge of the borough keep the same sort of kit for different parts.
The trades that use it are fabricators, steel stockholders, plant dealers and other heavy engineering firms across South Yorkshire and up towards Wakefield and Scunthorpe. We record the load ratings and the truck capacities carefully, because that is what those trades bid on. Older sites vary a great deal, so we check the approach, the turning space and the yard before the catalogue goes out and plan collection by slot around what we find.
What these sales can include
- Counterbalance forklifts
- Reach trucks
- Powered pallet trucks
- Hand pallet trucks
- Pallet racking
- Mezzanine floors
- Longspan and cantilever shelving
- Conveyors and sortation
- Roll cages and stillages
- Stretch wrap machines
- Pallet scales
- Battery chargers
- Order pickers and stackers
- Dock levellers and loading equipment
How the sale runs
After a site visit we agree what is in the sale and what stays. We catalogue and photograph each lot, list the sale online and market it to warehouse operators, dealers and contractors. Bidders view on a set day, then bid online over the sale period, with lots closing in sequence.
Lots are offered as seen under the auction terms, with buyers expected to inspect before bidding. The buyer pays the hammer price plus a buyer's premium, with VAT charged where it applies and shown separately. We collect payment before release.
Collection runs over a window agreed with you. Buyers arrange and pay for the removal of their lots, with suitable handling equipment or specialist contractors where the item needs them. Our staff attend to release lots against paid invoices and see that dismantling is done safely.
The warehouse and logistics equipment sales page covers racking and how it comes down, forklifts and the records that matter, the small equipment adds up, timing a sale around a site handover.
Questions about selling in Doncaster
- Our glass plant is closing and the stores has A frame racks and glass handling equipment. Who buys that?
Other glass processors, glazing firms and stone and panel fabricators, who use the same A frames, harp racks and vacuum lifters. The same trades are present around Doncaster, so a viewing day is within their reach, and the rest bid online. The forklifts with glass handling attachments sell to the same buyers or to general trade with the attachment sold separately. We list load ratings and the condition of the rubber on the frames, because that is what a glass buyer looks at first.
- We are a plant hire yard with a workshop stores on the edge of town. Is that big enough for a sale?
Probably. A parts store, a few runs of racking, tyre racks, a forklift and the workshop equipment might make thirty or forty lots, and a sale of that size is worth running. If the yard takes a lorry and there is a forklift left to load with, we would sell on site with a viewing day and a collection day. If not, the lot can be collected in one visit and sold from our premises with other consignments. The plant and workshop trade in Worksop, Barnsley and Pontefract is within easy reach either way.
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