Help with a tough situation

[ss55]

Hey everyone. First post here so if you'll allow me a little backstory and the opportunity to ask for some help I'd appreciate it. I'm located in central NC and didn't grow up around tractors but I'm pretty handy when it comes to working on cars and equipment and for the past 3 years I've been working as a welder for my friend's business. He was a welder and also had a couple tractors that he enjoyed running and working a little. Unfortunately, about a month ago, he turned one of the tractors over by getting too close to a soft creek bank and passed away from the accident. I'm now in the position of trying to help his wife sell off his business and most of his equipment.

Included in this liquidation is at least one of the tractors, the one that he turned over, a Minneapolis-Moline M670 diesel. In-between some of the other work I had to do, I pulled the tractor up out of the field and got it back running and driving. It appears that nothing was damaged mechanically, but most of the body panels are dented up or bent badly. From what I can tell, these tractors were not very common in our area so I'm wondering what the likelihood is going to be that I can sell it? As I said, it runs and drives so it could easily be driven up onto a trailer but I'm a little out of my depth when it comes to knowing where to list it and what to ask for it.

I'm sure its bad form to just show up and start asking "what's this thing worth?" but I really am struggling to find helpful resources for listing this for sale. I wasn't sure if yall maybe knew of a MM group I could post this to or some other avenue that would be more appropriate but I would appreciate any help you could give.

I realized today that I havent actually taken any pictures of the tractor since the accident so I will try to do that on Wednesday when I'm at the shop working on some stuff. What other kind of information should I be trying to gather? I assume serial no, but I'm not sure where to find that. Also if anyone has a diagram detailing the controls on the tractor that would help me a lot to determine what shape the hydraulic system is in. I'm assuming that it needs fluid as every other system did after being upside down, but I dont want to go pulling levers without knowing what they're supposed to do.

I really do appreciate any help you can provide. And I have a little work on his Farmall M to do to get it ready for our church fall festival so I may ask a question or two if I run into difficulty on that. For now though any direction on where to go next with this M670 would be very helpful. Thanks.

Keep in mind that the roll-over damage will decrease the tractor's value compared to when it was in field ready condition with fair tires and fair paint. The fact that it still runs keeps it above scrap and salvage tractor value. For an estate's inventory valuation I would estimate no higher than half to previous value. The estate might be plenty busy with other matters, not be interested in spending money to repair the roll-over damage, and just want to sell it in it's current condition.

 

[ss55]

Keep in mind that the roll-over damage will decrease the tractor's value compared to when it was in field ready condition with fair tires and fair paint. The fact that it still runs keeps it above scrap and salvage tractor value. For an estate's inventory valuation I would estimate no higher than half to previous value. The estate might be plenty busy with other matters, not be interested in spending money to repair the roll-over damage, and just want to sell it in it's current condition.

IMHO it would be worth $1500 to $2000 as-is running.