An auction of the contents of a rural property, held after the property itself has been sold.
the farm's 180-gallon tank will go under the hammer in this weekend's clearing sale
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A farm clearing sale is a little like a wake.
Locals expect the clearing sale to be the biggest the town has hosted.
The clearing sale is for the estate of a Mr Williams, who died last November.
The basic equipment was a tractor, plough, grubber, drill, and a set of harrows—and bought second-hand at clearing sales, they were not too expensive.
Much of my childhood was spent trailing the footsteps of my father among the bidders, browsers, and serious buyers at auctions and rural clearing sales.
Clearing sales often follow a death or a bankruptcy, and the neighbours attend as a mark of respect and support, as well as to pick up some useful tools or equipment.
It's one of 14 tractors listed at a huge clearing sale in western Victoria.
In those days, free grog was the understood thing at big clearing sales.
Hundreds turned out for this clearing sale.
It was a difficult separation to achieve, but after long weeks of setting up for the clearing sale, I found I was impatient for the life at the farm to end.