The chuckwagon season is unofficially underway with the tarp auction of the Grande Prairie Stompede over the weekend.
The half-million-dollar mark was cracked with Rae Croteau Jr's team nailing the top bid of $30,000 from Cinch Oilfield Hauling Inc.
That's an increase of almost $150,000 over last season.
Locals from the area did very well with Mark Sutherland garnering $15,500 from Nordic Energy. His son Dayton is also back full-time on the circuit this year as are Jordie Fike and Jason Glass. See how much they raised below.
The Grande Prairie Stompede runs from May 31 to June 4, 2023, with the next canvas auction scheduled for April 13 for the Calgary Stampede.
Here's the complete list of all 44 teams that were in the canvas auction in Grande Prairie:
- Rae Croteau Jr.
- Cinch Oilfield Hauling Ltd.
- $30,000.00
- Chanse Vigen
- Sundown Oilfield Services Ltd.
- $23,000.00
- D.J. King
- Swamp Donkey Oilfield Services Inc.
- $22,500.00
- Todd McCracken
- CLHbid.com
- $22,000.00
- Evan Magee
- FluidPRO Oilfield Services Ltd.
- $21,000.00
- Tuff Dreger
- Compass Access Solutions Ltd.
- $20,000.00
- Dean Dreger
- Northern Mat & Bridge
- $18,500.00
- Kurt Bensmiller
- Half a Dime Contracting
- $18,000.00
- Derek Aebly
- Friends of Aebly Racing
- $17,500.00
- Wade Salmond
- Pidherney's
- $16,000.00
- Mark Sutherland
- Nordic Energy
- $15,500.00
- Cody Ridsdale
- Fraction Energy Services
- $14,000.00
- Mitch Sutherland
- CDN Controls Ltd.
- $13,000.00
- Dustin Gorst
- Grande Prairie Airport
- $13,000.00
- Jordie Fike
- Full Force Ventures Ltd.
- $12,000.00
- Preston Faithful
- Grande Prairie Stompede Board
- $11,500.00
- Codey McCurrach
- TOMCO Group of Companies
- $11,000.00
- Kirk Sutherland
- Jim Hansen's Gateway Ford Lincoln Sales
- $10,500.00
- Evan Salmond
- WE Logging
- $10,000.00
- Dayton Sutherland
- Sutherland Racing
- $10,000.00
- Cruise Bensmiller
- Prairie Iron Rentals
- $10,000.00
- Troy Flad
- Mr. Fireplace
- $9,500.00
- Obrey Motowylo
- Dynamic Energy Group Inc.
- $9,250.00
- Jason Glass
- Friends of Jason Glass
- $9,250.00
- Layne MacGillivray
- Cascade Energy Services
- $9,000.00
- Troy Dorchester
- Zedcor Energy Services Corp.
- $9,000.00
- Vern Nolin
- Triple Threat Diesel
- $9,000.00
- Logan Gorst
- Northstar Hydrovac
- $9,000.00
- Jamie Laboucane
- Wild Rose
- $9,000.00
- Doug Irvine
- Swab Pro (2018) Ltd.
- $8,000.00
- Jamie Tom
- Prime Towing & Recovery
- $8,000.00
- Chad Fike
- Ken Sargent GMC Buick Ltd.
- $7,800.00
- Chance Bensmiller
- Pinnacle Picker Services Ltd.
- $7,500.00
- Chance Thomson
- Hills Vac & Steam Services Ltd.
- $7,500.00
- Kelly Morin
- Jeff & Julie DeSutter
- $7,500.00
- Brad McMann
- CIMS Corp
- $7,500.00
- Gage Flad
- Events GP
- $7,000.00
- Kris Molle
- Farm Boys Oilfield Services Inc.
- $6,700.00
- Roger Moore
- Envolve Energy Services Corp.
- $6,500.00
- Darcy Flad
- Sniper Servies
- $6,200.00
- Layne Flad
- Keddie's Tack and Western Wear
- $6,200.00
- Josh Hrynyk
- Triple B Crane Ltd.
- $5,750.00
- Chance Flad
- Control Tech
- $5,500.00
- Ross Knight
- Jeff & Julie DeSutter
- $5,000.00
Total Amount Bid:
- $514,650.00
Average Bid:
- $11,696.59
Median Bid:
- $9,375.00
High Bid:
- $30,000.00
Low Bid:
- $5,000.00
2022 Total
- $371,050.00
Difference Over 2022
- $143,600.00