# Asset hunt 2026-09-28T00:05 UTC ## What changed - Stihl MS 462 at Balnarring, $1,250, 63 hours, ex-government. Best find today. - Daniel Harvey 2-tyne ripper at Heathcote, $750 - right size for a 90-130hp tractor. - 20ft container home at Albury, $10,999, 230km away - closest portable home in budget. - No tractor in spec: nothing 90-140hp with a loader inside 400km on Marketplace today. - Offset discs thin: one 32-plate Grizzly at $20,000, width still needs checking. ## Summary First sweep. Facebook Marketplace was the only source that answered: tradefarmmachinery returned 403 and the Grays farm-machinery search came back empty, so auctions are unchecked this run. The saw and the ripper are the two worth acting on. The tractor is the hard one - inside 400km of Darlington Point the Marketplace stock is all compact (Kioti, 55-80hp Deere) or the right machine sitting 550km east in Gippsland. ## Live list ### Tractor, 90-140hp, with front-end loader (0 live) ### Portable home, container or similar, 2+ rooms with bathroom (4 live) - [decent] 20ft portable building / container home / site office - $10,999 - Albury, NSW - Facebook Marketplace <https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1249309847278847/> - [decent] 13m tiny home - $16,000 - Murchison, VIC - Facebook Marketplace <https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1686976389426178/> - [decent] Self-contained transportable cabin - $18,500 - Mansfield, VIC - Facebook Marketplace <https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1224120766564540/> - [stretch] Tiny home - $27,500 - Wangaratta, VIC - Facebook Marketplace <https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/994104143003780/> ### Chainsaw, Stihl or Husqvarna, 30 inch bar capable (3 live) - [strong] Stihl MS 462, 63 hours, ex-government - $1,250 - Balnarring, VIC - Facebook Marketplace <https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/3457382634440178/> - [decent] Stihl MS 460 - $800 - Melton, VIC - Facebook Marketplace <https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1736426260785685/> - [stretch] Stihl MS 661 C-M - $1,900 - Ballarat, VIC - Facebook Marketplace <https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1119908973800443/> ### Offset discs, 24-32 plate, for a 90-130hp tractor (1 live) - [stretch] Grizzly 32-plate offset disc plough - $20,000 - Memagong, NSW - Facebook Marketplace <https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1403934454913845/> ### Deep tyne ripper for tree roots (2 live) - [strong] Daniel Harvey 2-tyne ripper, 3PL - $750 - Heathcote, VIC - Facebook Marketplace <https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1728630198256000/> - [decent] International 5-tyne ripper - $400 - Myrtleford, VIC - Facebook Marketplace <https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1401972901425524/> ## Notes First seeding run, done by hand rather than by the skill. Searched on Facebook Marketplace (logged-in Chrome, location set to Morundah NSW / 500km): 'tractor loader', 'tractor front end loader' with $15-80k filter, 'tractor loader 100hp' sorted by distance, 'stihl chainsaw ms 462' with $500-2000 filter, 'container home bathroom portable building' with $5-30k filter, 'offset discs tractor', 'deep ripper tractor tyne'. Tractor: nothing in spec. Inside 400km the Marketplace stock sorted by distance is all compact - Kioti CK/DK/RX at the Griffith dealer, John Deere 5055e and 5075e, a 1992 Kubota M6030. The right machines exist but sit 550-600km east: a 2020 John Deere 5090M loader tractor at $70,000 in Berry NSW, a Massey Ferguson 4609M 90hp with FEL at $55,000 in Inverloch, a 2017 Case Farmall 95C at $35,000 in Nambrok. All are outside the 400km rule, so none were listed. Worth deciding whether the radius should flex for the right tractor. Auctions unchecked: tradefarmmachinery.com.au returns HTTP 403 to a server-side fetch, and the Grays industrial-and-farm-machinery search returned zero results on the URL tried. Pickles, Slattery, Manheim and RB Auction were not reached this run. The daily run should work out the right search URLs for each. No photos: the Chrome extension disconnected part way through, before any image could be cropped. Every find above has no photo - the next run should pick them up, since hunt.py retries any find that has no image. Only the MS 462 listing was actually opened and read; the rest carry title, price and location straight off the search results, which is why several say 'listing not opened yet'.
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