I want to thank everyone that responded to my questions concerning a New Holland 6610 tractor, and helping me identify the year and finding the serial number location, etc.
Just for a update on the unit. It was offered in a auction in central Illinois on July 16th. I went back two more times to look it over, and took a high tech tractor mechanic with me.
The tractor still wouldn't start. Still had battery problems. It hadn't been cleaned up at all, and most likely hadn't been since they bought it. The entire rear end from the Hydro outlets and down to the hitch was covered with a caked black soot like stuff, which was most likely Hydro oil mixed with the dust from the fields soaking up the fluids. We couldn't determine if it was leaking or poor maintenance. Decided most likely a leak, based on the amount of fluid soaked up by the dirt/dust. The seat was in need of replacement. The front end loader had a small chunk broken out of the lower lip, but wasn't bad enough to bother anything, and could be repaired also.
We looked the tractor over very through, and also the other items in the sale. Nothing had been maintained very well. We didn't see any grease fittings that showed signs of maintenance. None of the equipment , seemed to be cared for at least in the last several years. The New Holland tractor seemed to maybe have been left out often as the seat was shot, the paint fading (but not too bad) Other deteriation signs showed as well.
The Executor of the estate, nor anyone else having anything to do with the sale was not available to give us any input. Only the Auctioneers name and telephone number was in the advertising, and they didn't call us back.
After weighing everything we could deduce from our visits, we decided not to bid on the tractor. We didn't attend the sale and don't have a clue what it brought or even if it sold. I dropped any interest I may have had in this tractor and decided to go elsewhere.
There are many many tractors for sale and they continue to build them, so I'm sure I can find one!
Once again, Thanks to everyone that helped us, it was a lot of good input for us.
Deamer1