If your Oliver Super 88 has dual hydraulics it could easily be the tillage and loader tractor for your current 7 acres and much more ground in the future. It may not have the creeper gears you want for bedding though. The guys on the Oliver forum can probably find your transmission speeds if you tell them your tractor's serial numbers. As-is, your S88 should have 50 to 60+ HP and weight 5000 lbs or more, add another 700 to 1000 lbs if it has fluid in the rear tires. It should comfortably handle a 3 bottom trailing plow, turning close to 1 1/2 acres per hour, and a 10 to 12 foot tandem finishing disk turning close to 5 acres per hour. Maybe go narrower on the disk in exchange for more speed to throw the dirt further for knocking down raised beds.
An aftermarket 3 point hitch (Saginaw brand? - no draft control) can be added for $600 to $1000 if needed. If you need more flotation and traction in a soft mellow seedbed, a set of rim mounted dual rear tires can be added for $100 to $300 (if you can find them).
A narrow front rowcrop tractor is pretty manuverable. Your disc brakes should be able to lock-up either rear tire for short pivoting turn arounds. No power steering will make the job harder, but a spinner knob on that big steering wheels will help a lot.
If your S88 does not have hydraulics it should be worth $1500 to $2500 as trade-in on a newer tractor that can do the bedding, tillage and loader jobs.
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