Britannia AuctionsWarehouse and logistics equipment sales in Sheffield
Warehouse equipment in Sheffield comes from two sources. Logistics operators run sheds near junctions 33 and 34 of the M1, and when a contract ends the racking and reach trucks need to go. Steel stockholders and toolmakers across Attercliffe and Tinsley keep stores of their own, with cantilever racking for bar and plate, A frames for sheet, heavy duty pallet racking and counterbalance trucks rated for steel.
We sell both by online timed auction. Whether the site takes a low loader or an articulated lorry is checked on our first visit, along with the turning space, the yard and the loading facilities, and that decides whether the sale runs on site with a viewing day and collection days after. Where a store is small or the site is closing early, the lots can be collected to our own premises instead. Bidding is online, and the trade in Rotherham and Barnsley is close at hand. Use the contact form and we will arrange a visit.
Cantilever racking and the heavier end of storage
A steel or tooling firm's store is not a retail warehouse. It holds long bar in cantilever racking, plate in A frames, castings on heavy duty pallet racking and a forklift with a higher capacity than most warehouses ever need. That equipment belongs to the same trades that use it, and Sheffield has plenty of them within a few miles of a viewing day.
We catalogue cantilever racking by arm length and rating, and forklifts by capacity, hours and examination report. High capacity counterbalance trucks come up less often on the second hand market, and hours, attachments and a current examination report are what decide the level a five tonne truck reaches. Stillages, lifting magnets, bar trolleys and pallet boxes go in as small lots. If the works is closing, the store equipment can go into the same auction as the machine tools, which saves a second sale and a second viewing day.
Sheds near the motorway junctions
Logistics sheds off junctions 33 and 34 are fitted out for contracts, and a lost account leaves a building full of racking and trucks that the landlord wants gone. We run these sales against the handover date. Racking is lotted with frame heights and beam lengths listed, and the buyer arranges and pays for the dismantling on days agreed with you. Trucks and chargers take the first collection window. Dock levellers are sold on the basis that the buyer removes them with a competent contractor.
Access on these sheds is checked at the visit, including whether an articulated lorry can load from the dock. Doncaster and Worksop are close by along the M1. Timing is usually the greater pressure. If the lease has a fixed end date, tell us early. We would rather have the sale close a week or two before the keys go back than run the collection days into the final week.
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 Sheffield
- Our store is part of a works in Attercliffe that is closing. Should the racking go in with the machinery?
Usually yes. One auction covering the machine tools and the store equipment puts both in front of the same trade on one viewing day, and costs you less to run. The racking would be lotted by run and taken down after the machines have gone, in an order agreed with you, so the rigging contractor has room to work. Cantilever racking is worth its own lots, because it belongs with the stockholders rather than the machinery trade.
- We have a forklift on hire purchase. Can it be sold with the rest?
It can, once the finance company has agreed. A truck on hire purchase is the funder's until the agreement is settled, so we ask you for the settlement figure and put the request to them before the sale, and where they agree the settlement is usually paid from the proceeds. Started early, it need not hold the sale up. Trucks on hire rather than finance are different. Those belong to the hire company and go back to them.
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