I got a call from a friend that wanted me to give him an idea on what an old 1980's farm tractor was worth. He is a member of the board for the local sewage plant. He said it was purchased new when they built the sewage plant in the mid 80's. They have a disk too.  So I met him at the sewage plant yesterday.  Well to say the least, I was shocked.  It was anticipated when they bought it that the sewage sludge would be spread on the local old hay fields and the sewage plant would have to disk it in. Apparently they never really had to do it. 

I was shocked to see a 5088 IH with only 267 hours on it.  It looks and drives like new.  The only problem is the rear tires have chloride and there is rust marks around the valve stems on the rear tires.  It would seem new rims would be needed.  They have a  front end loader they want to update and are looking to trade this 5088 in, with the disk, 8' snowblower and the loader on a new or newer loader.

It told them they have the equivilent to the 67 corvette in grandma's garage with 1000 miles on it.  They need to be very careful that a dealer on the loader doesn't doctor up the numbers in a deal that they don't give them what its worth.  If I remember right, about a year ago someone posted on here a JD 4440 with 2700 hours sold at an auction for $55K.  I may be wrong on that, but this thing should be worth a lot.

So, what should/could it sell for?  What would be the best way for the Sewer Plant to sell this to maximize there price?        

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