[Richard-tx]

It was made before mine. Mine has a serial # of 617116 and was shipped from the factory on 3/07/1989

It sat on the dealers floor for a while and was finally sold on 7/20/1993

 

[Richard-tx]

All we need is to have Don to look up a few serial numbers and maybe we can decode them. Noting makes sense so far. Maybe the serial number says nothing about when it was made.

 

[Richard-tx]

The fact of the matter was that sales dropped to the point where Ariens/Gravely could not afford to keep making them. In short you can't sell what people don't want. Would you spend $15,000 for a 20G? How about $7500 for a Pro12? That is what those tractors would sell for today. How did I get those figures? I went back to about 1972 and compared the price of a Gravely to the average price of a new car. I also took other price lists for later years as well.

In general the price of a new Gravely had not changed in over 30 years. A two wheel tractor cost about 25% of the cost of a new car. The top of the line 4 wheel tractors like the 816 and 20G cost about 50% of the price of a new car.

 

[Richard-tx]

Here is mine

MODEL NUMBER: 987054 SERIAL NUMBER: 617116

DESCRIPTION: TRACTOR, PROFESSIONAL 24-G

Dealer #: Owner:
Dealer Name: WAKEFIELD'S GARAGE Address:
Ship Date: 3/07/1989 City: ATHENS
H D Store: State: OH
Dealer Sales Representative: Zip: 45701
Principal Use: Commercial Country:
Sold Date: 7/20/1993 Phone:

 

[Richard-tx]

That's interesting. Wakefields is only a few miles from my house. Now that tractor resides in Texas. These things move all over the country. Pretty cool..

I imported that tractor from Ohio to Texas.

 

[Richard-tx]

Neither. I bought from Carmichael's

At the time I had the money earmarked for a Pro-16 but that tractor came up so I bought it.