MORE than 2000 buyers and sellers attended Aberdeen and Northern Marts' fifth collective sale of plant, machinery and equipment of the year at its Thainstone Centre, last Saturday, where trade reached £30,000 for a five-year-old Volvo FH500 6x2 mid lift artic.

With 82% of the 3115 lots forward sold on site and online, with nearly 90 registered bidders from the UK, Ireland, Czech Republic and Romania having joined the same remotely via i-bidder, next best at £29,800 was a one-year-old Fruehauf tri-axle alloy bulker, while a 12-year-old Volvo FM9 8x4 plant lorry with a Palfinger 44-tonne crane made £29,200.

Top price in the tractor and plant section at £27,200 was a 2012 Hyundai Robex 1402C-9 excavator, while a two-year-old Ford Transit 460 17-seat minibus led the light commercials and 4x4s at £13,000.

LEADINGprices:

Tractor and plant – 2012 Hyundai Robex 1402C-9 excavator £27,200; 2012 Manitou MLT1440 telescopic handler £26,000; 2012 JCB JS160 excavator £24,500; 2007 Volvo L90E articulated loading shovel £24,200.

Light commercials and 4x4s – 2016 Ford Transit 460 17 seat minibus £13,000; 2012 Land Rover Discovery XS SDV6 auto £12,000; 2005 Toyota Landcruiser Amazon 4.2TD £10,800; 1998 Peugeot Boxer motorhome £10,500.

Heavy commercials – 2013 Volvo FH500 6x2 Mid Lift Artic £30,000; 2006 Volvo FM9 8x4 Plant Lorry with Palfinger 44t crane £29,200; 2014 Scania R445 6x2 tag axle artic £27,000; 2008 Merc Axor 2633 cement mixer£11,000.

Trailers, caravans and containers – 2017 Fruehauf tri axle alloy bulker £29,800; 2006 Faymonville tri axle extender low loader £11,800; Macaulay Tri Axle Extender low loader £5200; Fruaefauf Skelly timber trailer £3800.

Farm machinery and equipment – Welger RPC 245 baler £21,200; Claas 4700P forage wagon £15,900; Bunning muckspreader £9600; Pottinger MexVI chopper £8900.