Forty years of picking barns, estate auctions, and Saturday farm sales — written down.
Name's Otis Granger. For forty years I've been the fellow standing in the back of the sale barn with his hands in his overall pockets, waiting on the box lots. Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Missouri. I've hauled home a lot more junk than treasure — and I put that on the record before you spend a dime, because it's the most honest sentence in this whole book.
But the exceptions are real, they follow rules, and the rules are learnable. The difference between a two-dollar wrench and an eleven-hundred-dollar wrench is almost never the wrench. It's a stamp the size of your thumbnail. This book is me walking you through every family of barn iron where those exceptions live — slow, with a flashlight, turning everything over.
Every dollar figure inside is a real sold price — auction hammers and completed sales, not wishful listings. And I'll tell you plainly when a thing is only worth thirty dollars, because honest odds beat hype every time.
Thirteen chapters. Every one walks a family of barn goods the same way: what the ordinary version looks like, what the exception looks like, which names carry money, a realistic sold price, and the check-it list you run with the thing in your hand.
Instant PDF download. Read it in a chair tonight; carry the Field Guide chapter in the truck Saturday morning.