More than 850 bidders participated online and in-person at Ritchie Bros.’s multi-million dollar unreserved public equipment auction May 5 in Mt. Airy, Md.

The auction was a complete dispersal for Mt. Airy-based AccuBid Excavation Inc., a heavy contractor specializing in site development.

Bidders came from 34 countries, including 49 U.S. states and nine Canadian provinces and one territory. More than 80 percent of the equipment was sold to buyers outside the state, from as far away as Ecuador, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Lebanon and Mexico. Online bidders purchased approximately 22 percent of the equipment sold.

The auction featured more than 460 equipment items and trucks, including wheel loaders, hydraulic excavators, articulated dump trucks, crawler loaders, motor scrapers, vibratory smooth drum rollers and an unused 2005 Komatsu BR550JG-1 44 X 24 in. jaw crusher, which sold to a Pennsylvania buyer.