Each sub-assembly on my Ford 4000 has its own date code on it that says when it was assembled, and various parts on my tractor were assembled anywhere from 3 weeks to 6 months before the final assembly of the tractor. I know that's how the Ford assembly line worked for their farm tractors back then. I'm not sure how Deere does/did it, but back in that time frame a lot of manufacturers would build the various sub-assemblies of the finished product separately ahead of time, like the engine, frame and transmission, and then they would sit in stacks along side the final assembly line waiting for their turn to be installed into a tractor, and it wasn't always FIFO (First In First Out), so one tractor might have an engine that was assembled a few weeks before the tractor left the assembly line, while the transmission might have been from 3 months earlier and the mower deck from 8 months earlier.
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