Date your tractor

[bc.gold 3,403]

I recently purchased a couple of junk yard pieces, a Jacobsen reel mower and a Toro sand pro that I'm having trouble dating the years of manufacture. When suddenly an idea formed, the tires would have a date code embedded on the sidewall.

 

Chances are these junkyard finds still have the original tires, albeit weather checked and rotted, but the embedded sidewall data has a story to tell.

 

Edited August 5, 2020 by bcgold

[bc.gold 3,403]

AG tires are date coded differently, they're not required to have a DOT number.

 

3. Date Code

Date Codes tell you where your tire was made as well as what week of what year it was manufactured.

 

- Code for manufacturing location - VE is the code for tires produced as Bridgestone/Firestone Des Moines, Iowa.

 

- First two numbers - This is the week your tire was made

 

- Last two numbers - This is the year your tire was made

 

- "0819" 0 Indicates a tire manufactured on the 8th week of 2019

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 5, 2020 by bcgold

[953 nut 55,091]

[bc.gold 3,403]

1 hour ago, 953 nut said:

 

Do they have any peelers, er I mean parts tractors over there.

[The Tuul Crib 7,336]

I believe you can also trace back the serial numbers on tires as to who bought them. Not meaning these tractor tires but the car tires and see in the ditches. Trace them back to who owned them and fine them for littering!

[953 nut 55,091]

5 hours ago, The Tuul Crib said:

the car tires and see in the ditches. Trace them back to who owned them and fine them for littering!

Your honor, I sold thos tires to a guy who then sold the car they were on,   I plead not guilty!