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Hey guys I was looking for the serial number on the 30 I just bought on the left side frame under the hydraulic control. There are numbers there but they look like they were made with a center punch does this sound right, I was expecting stamped numbers they are hard to read going to have to remove some old paint to make them stand out more. Thanks
 
The numbers are about 1/2 inch or taller in size somewhere along the left side while sitting on it. They are real stamps not centerpunch marks.
 
Every once in a while you will run in to a 30 that doesn't have a serial # stamped in to the frame, it not rare. On early tractors the year was the first two numbers, the model was the second two numbers and the others were the serial number, about 1950 or 51 the year numbers were not used. I was told that if the frame had been replaced it would not have had a serial number.
 
The replacement frame having no serial number makes sense.
I have also been told that the year of the manufacture might be missing on later models. It is MY OPINION and MY opinion only that the purposely left off the year of manufacture on later models because they had a harder time selling them and they didn't want a farmer to avoid them because they may have been sitting at the dealer for a year or two.
When WWII was over, hundreds of thousands of farmers were coming back and they needed a tractor immediately and the dealers had no problems selling their inventory. A decade later, farmers had more choice and the inventory sat at the dealer for awhile longer and the farmer might not want a "new" tractor that was already a few years old.
Again, my opinion and my opinion only. Irv and Phil, if you care to pick apart my opinion and set me straight, please feel free to correct me.
 
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