9-10-2026 | Freeport IL & ONLINE – Marlo and Judy Groezinger: Farm Machinery & Equipment Auction 🗓

DATE: Thursday, September 10th

TIME: 11:00 a.m. (app. 12:00 p.m. for online items).

LOCATION: 6668 Pearl City Rd., Freeport, IL 61032. From Freeport, IL head west on Pearl City Rd. for app. 3.5 miles to the sale on the right.

NOTES: Marlo and Judy have lived and farmed in the Pearl City area for many decades along with owning and operating Highland Manufacturing. Marlo was an inventor, fabricator, and designer; always coming up with a new gadget. In later years he focused on his hay business. They have decided to move closer to family and sell their line of machinery. In case of bad weather, auction can be held undercover.

TRACTORS: JD 6420 w/JD 540 self-leveling bucket, R.O.P.S., FWA, tach shows 1,967 original hrs., 3pt, triple hydraulics, a,b,c,d-partial power shift w/shuttle shift, 2nd owner, very nice; Massey Ferguson 4608 loader tractor, bought with Massey Ferguson DL250 loader, FWA, shuttle shift, R.O.P.S., tach shows 350 original hrs., 6 speed transmission, 9.5/42 rear rubber, 2nd owner, like new, original Titan 16.9.30 tires, just like new-sells separate; JD 4440, tach shows 5,438 original hrs., 8-suitcase weights, bought new; DH, quad range, bought new; JD 4020, Synchro range, 4-slab weights, tach shows 5,507 hrs.; TRACTOR ATTACH: JD quick hitch; 4-tine bale spear; mat. bucket;

ATTACHMENTS: 72” bucket; 84” green bucket; 60” mat. bucket; 3-tine bale spear; stack mover w/bonnet; 3pt hyd. bale mover, lifts up to 5’ high; new drawbar for a JD 4020;

TRUCK: 2003 IH 4300 DT466 straight truck, 19’ flatbed w/hoist, 366,034 miles, new wood floor, alum. sides, Eaton 6-speed transmission;

TILLAGE & FORAGE: Hesston 3750 lg. sq. baler w/acid, app. 20,000 bales, bought new; Kewanee 4-section drag on cart w/overrides; Hesston 14-wheel Bi-Fold Rake, hi-capacity; 15’ field cultivator; Hesston Agco 3312 center pivot discbine w/steel rolls, nice; Salford 1-2100 24’ vertical till, sharp; Brillion 55T1201 grain drill w/grass, large & small compartments;

FARM MACHINERY & EQUIP: Defoliator for soybeans, set up for quick tach; 3-galvanized flare boxes w/hoists; homemade 3-wheel cart used to move large sq. bales; Bush hog 120-09 3pt., 9’ heavy duty scraper blade, hyd. tilt & swing; Woods Cadet 84 3pt mower;

MISC. FARM ITEMS: 2-soy bean shuckers, 1 elec. & 1 hydraulic; 300-gal sprayer w/hand boom & pump, & rear safety cage, used to put fires out in CRP land; 40-gal. Fimco Industrial sprayer w/hand sprayer & booms; 10-concrete H-bunks, 6’; elec. motor; bull catch; pallets; elec. wire; galvanized water tanks; pallets; pitchfork; tractor chains; 2-Highland fenceline panels for Highland round bale feeders; sm. walking plow; auger hopper;

TOOL & SHOP ITEMS: 16.9.30 new Titan tires; hyd. cylinder; truck tires; tarps; steel pulley; hyd. log splitter; elec. heater; cement mixer; used pallets; 13-50-16T tire;

LAWN & GARDEN: JD 317 riding mower; Featherlite weed eater, gas; snow sled; elec. leaf blower; lg. animal trap;

HAY: Approximately 300-lg. squares of grass bales, 2024/2025 season, stored under cover on pallets, baled dry;

WOOD: 3-wagon loads of mostly oak split wood in flail boxes, to be sold separately;

AUCTIONEERS: Tom Bidlingmaier, Browntown, WI  608-328-4878 & Cory Bidlingmaier, Auction Time Rep, Monroe, WI 608-558-4924.  Illinois Auctioneer Licenses: #41000268 & 41000269.  Illionois Reg. Auction Firm License #444000205.