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hardscrabble

01-15-2004 19:57:01




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Every once in a while I see a for-sale ad for a tractor. The seller can't nail down the year because the serial # plate is missing. WHY??? It sounds to me like something underhanded or crooked is happening. What reason would a person have to remove such identification? I don't see what would be gained by such action!




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markct

01-16-2004 11:13:32




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 Re: ID tags in reply to hardscrabble, 01-15-2004 19:57:01  
i have seen, and been guilty of a few times, where the tag is easily removed with a few screws and ya take it in the house or to the autoparts store cause its easier than writing down the numbers, and then ya forget to put it back on the tractor.



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Wayne

01-15-2004 20:54:04




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 Re: ID tags in reply to hardscrabble, 01-15-2004 19:57:01  
Like Bob said there are many noncrooked reasons for serial number plates to be missing on old equipment. Working on equipment for a living I see it all the time. One big thing nowdays is these mfgs in their quest to save the almighty dollar have started putting all the important info on printed tags or something similar. These are worthless because they fade out, peel off, or otherwise become unreadable in a very short period of time. Believe it or not I recently saw an industrial engine in a piece of equipment that actually had the serial number sticker attached to the alternator. Now what happens the first time the alt. goes bad....all that engine info just disappeares. Funny thing is one of the first things in just about every owners manual says to get parts have the model and serial number handy.....In the end the mfg looses out because in my experience when parts become a nightmare to get for any reason, even something as stupid as this, the customer will usually think twice before buying the same brand of equipment the next time. Alot of the old equipment we work on actually has the part numbers cast or stamped into the piece, so no matter if you have a complete machine or just that one part, it's no problem knowing what you need. With all the high technology that is supposidly available to industry nowdays why can't they even begin to match up with what was being done as late as 30 yrs ago???? Just my .02

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Bob

01-15-2004 20:14:45




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 Re: ID tags in reply to hardscrabble, 01-15-2004 19:57:01  
I would guess some tags have rusted or corroded off, some have been vandalized, "accidents" have occured while mounting equipment such as cultivators, tags have been removed from "Grandpa's" tractor parked in the weeds by a family member who wants to take home some memento of a family "heirloom", and there are probably a dozen other "innocent" thinggs that could happen to tags.

Then you have all the "crooked" reasons for missing tags.

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