Now that I have returned from the Ophthalmologist, I can respond to this thread as long as the pain meds don't cause me to pass out. :sidelaugh: :sidelaugh: :sidelaugh:
In past posts, I have remarked about the very issue you are referencing. The chart we ......and everyone else.......have, cannot be trusted to provide the true year of the tractor. Once again, there are THREE factors involved here.
1. We have the Parts Manuals that don't give a damn about the date a tractor was made. All the parts books do is show how certain models were assembled beginning with one serial number and ending with another serial number. Those serial number "breaks" do not necessarily coincide with the end or beginning of either a Calendar Year or a Model Year.
2. Then we have the thing called a "Model Year". This is where the manufacturer decides to stop painting the tractors the way they did previously and start painting them differently. We see this when the Desert Sunset paint ended with the 1976 Model Year tractors and the beginning of the Power Red/Power White tractors for the 1977 Model Year. We see it again when the Power Red/ Power White tractors ended in the 1983 Model Year and the Black Frame/Power Red tractors were produced for the 1984 Model Year.
3. Calendar Year. This begins on January 1 and ends on December 31. Thanks to Bob Meyer's input on this issue, I am now convinced that the CHART shows the serial number of the FIRST tractor that rolled down the assembly line on January 2nd.
Factually speaking, huge numbers of 1984 Black Frame models were actually constructed and shipped to the distributers around the country, in the months leading up to 1984. As such, the serial number for those tractors imply that Black Frame models were made for 2 years, not one. On one hand, this is technically correct but in truth, it is wrong. The entire auto industry is a prime example. They dealers are told to stop taking orders for a 1985 Ford F-150 as of May of 1985 so that the plant has adequate time to build those trucks prior to shutting the assembly line down in mid-June. At that point, the assembly line is modified to build the 1986 Ford F-150's. New tooling, new jigs, new power tools as well as hand tools are all put in place so that when the workers are called back after summer vacation, the plant can begin building the next model year's vehicles. Case and Ingersoll were no different except for one thing. Their record-keeping system was crap and they left behind a legacy of confusion that was totally unnecessary. However, at the time of building these tractors, they were not thinking about what was going to happen with them 30 or 50 years later. The system apparently worked for them and now ...... we have to live with it.
I need to go lie down now. Those eye pokes really smarted. :sidelaugh: :sidelaugh:
In past posts, I have remarked about the very issue you are referencing. The chart we ......and everyone else.......have, cannot be trusted to provide the true year of the tractor. Once again, there are THREE factors involved here.
1. We have the Parts Manuals that don't give a damn about the date a tractor was made. All the parts books do is show how certain models were assembled beginning with one serial number and ending with another serial number. Those serial number "breaks" do not necessarily coincide with the end or beginning of either a Calendar Year or a Model Year.
2. Then we have the thing called a "Model Year". This is where the manufacturer decides to stop painting the tractors the way they did previously and start painting them differently. We see this when the Desert Sunset paint ended with the 1976 Model Year tractors and the beginning of the Power Red/Power White tractors for the 1977 Model Year. We see it again when the Power Red/ Power White tractors ended in the 1983 Model Year and the Black Frame/Power Red tractors were produced for the 1984 Model Year.
3. Calendar Year. This begins on January 1 and ends on December 31. Thanks to Bob Meyer's input on this issue, I am now convinced that the CHART shows the serial number of the FIRST tractor that rolled down the assembly line on January 2nd.
Factually speaking, huge numbers of 1984 Black Frame models were actually constructed and shipped to the distributers around the country, in the months leading up to 1984. As such, the serial number for those tractors imply that Black Frame models were made for 2 years, not one. On one hand, this is technically correct but in truth, it is wrong. The entire auto industry is a prime example. They dealers are told to stop taking orders for a 1985 Ford F-150 as of May of 1985 so that the plant has adequate time to build those trucks prior to shutting the assembly line down in mid-June. At that point, the assembly line is modified to build the 1986 Ford F-150's. New tooling, new jigs, new power tools as well as hand tools are all put in place so that when the workers are called back after summer vacation, the plant can begin building the next model year's vehicles. Case and Ingersoll were no different except for one thing. Their record-keeping system was crap and they left behind a legacy of confusion that was totally unnecessary. However, at the time of building these tractors, they were not thinking about what was going to happen with them 30 or 50 years later. The system apparently worked for them and now ...... we have to live with it.
I need to go lie down now. Those eye pokes really smarted. :sidelaugh: :sidelaugh:
