Three 10-meter-long 1997 Terex TS14D motor scrapers -- machines that chew up roads for repaving -- roarpast a crowd of 1, 200 in baseball caps and blue jeans at a recent Ritchie Bros. auction in Clinton, Wisconsin.
The dull roar of the wind, rushing past at a speed of eight knots, punctuated by the occasional pop of the canvas sail that billows and gusts below my dangling feet.