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Terry Miller

08-03-2005 03:28:26




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I am pretty serious about buying a utility 300 here in Wisconsin and looking for some help. It has a TA but does not work, it smokes a little for the first few minutes, and does not have a loader, no power steering. He started out asking 2200 and will take 1700. It has a small anti freeze leak but when I asked where he said he could not answer that. I can get my hands on a loader for 800 but am concerned about even being able to steer it. I am on a tight budget and this is our first attempt at a utility. Grew up with M's and H's.

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TDK

08-03-2005 20:41:53




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 Re: IH utility 300 in reply to Terry Miller, 08-03-2005 03:28:26  
Hugh made a good point about the Farmalls & Utilities. If the Farmalls are worn out then get a Utility that "hasn't done any work" and you at least wont have to start rebuilding the trans/diff on them. There must have been a market for 300U's since IH built 4000 more 300U's and 7000 more 350U's than the Farmall 300 & 350's. Seriously, they are weak in the steering box. If you put a loader on one you really need power steering. On small acreage they are handier than a Farmall. Some seem to think because they farm several hundred acres that everybody does, this is not the case which is at least one reason that different types of tractors were built. Back to your question, the price seems high for the condition of the tractor. Here in the south it might bring 900 -1100. I'd shop around some more.

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Hugh Mackay

08-03-2005 15:44:13




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 Re: IH utility 300 in reply to Terry Miller, 08-03-2005 03:28:26  
Terry: If you grew up using Farmalls, why in heavens name would you ever settle for a Utility. Some of the guys mentioned the hot fuel tank, personally I think the hot transmission would be worse, and further more it's between your legs.

Most folks I've talked with who own utility type tractors, say they like them because of ease getting on and off. I say get a rowcrop, then you are up where you can see what your doing and thus you don't need to be getting on and off.

Utilities in my view do have one good point, power train makes a good parts source for Farmalls, mainly because they have never done much and most Farmalls have.

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john d

08-03-2005 12:19:06




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 Re: IH utility 300 in reply to Terry Miller, 08-03-2005 03:28:26  
Terry, we had one without power steering, no TA, and no fast-hitch. We used it as a loader tractor. If you get that thing, and put a loader on it, you won't need to go to the gym to get an upper body workout! The steering box in a 300U is not any too strong, and the abuse you'll give it with the loader may do it in. They are a very handy little tractor and are a pleasure to operate in the right situation. Using a loader without power steering is NOT the right situation. Other than those complaints, and the problem of overheating the fuel tank in hot weather, as mentioned by a previous poster, they are good and tough tractors. We used and abused ours for over 20 years and had no repairs other than one front wheel bearing and normal maintenance.

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Mike Van

08-03-2005 11:58:04




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 Re: IH utility 300 in reply to Terry Miller, 08-03-2005 03:28:26  
Terry, I had a 300 w/loader, with no power steering it was a s.o.b. to steer, with something in the bucket, 3x as bad. I used it a lot picking rocks from fields, soft dirt, used to hate it. With a non working TA, a leak where? not a hose i'll bet - I would say no, wait for a better deal.



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DWV

08-03-2005 06:42:49




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 Re: IH utility 300 in reply to Terry Miller, 08-03-2005 03:28:26  
Just my opinion,if you add the price of tractor
loader and cost to fix tractor to good operating condition.Keep looking and you can probably find
one in better condition with loader and power steering near the same total.



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Allan in NE

08-03-2005 04:24:15




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 Re: IH utility 300 in reply to Terry Miller, 08-03-2005 03:28:26  
Hi Terry,

You know your situation far better than I, but I've always had trouble trying to figure out what a feller would use one of those utility types for.

Is this for a grounds keeping project or something? Commercial contracting or building tasks? What's a guy use 'em for?

Just wondering,

Allan



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Ksfarmmer

08-03-2005 06:24:04




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 Re: IH utility 300 in reply to Allan in NE, 08-03-2005 04:24:15  
My dad had a 300 utility with a front end loader and a backhoe. Worked like a charm. The low profile was much easier to get on and off of particularly with the backhoe since you had to enter from the front of the tractor. The low profile and wide front also made for a nice stable base when the loader was lifted high, at least it made one feel a little safer. Later when we took the loader and backhoe off, it was still handy for small jobs again because the ease of getting on and off. Wasn't much to get out and get heavy work done in field however. Small gas tank and it really sucks the fuel if you are working the engine.

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Janicholson

08-03-2005 05:43:21




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 Re: IH utility 300 in reply to Allan in NE, 08-03-2005 04:24:15  
Allan in NE,
In Indiana, and other high density states, acreage may be divided up into 5-12 acre chunks. With trees, ditches, and sometimes people, getting into the line of sight from the steering hub across the radiator cap and to infinity (gotta aim somehow). Those Uts's turn and cut with the accuracy of a barrel racer. We still use ours (57-350Ute)in preference to a row-crop most of the time. Bush hog, cultivating, plowing gardens, snow plow, baling, backing wagons (not trailers), and a million other tasks including pulling a 70' deep well casing directly out of the ground (there must have been 8-10 ton of lift on the fast hitch drawbar).
The only time they do not "get-er-done" is on the hottest of days plowing for hours, 3/14's in second straight/TA in clay (yellow stuff that could be used for ceramic projects). The fuel tank is so close to the engine and enclosed by the sheetmetal that it can get the fuel too hot.
That is my one finding of weekness.
They are just a handy ball of metal.
Help me here Paul IH350!
Jim Nicholson

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PAULIH300

08-03-2005 14:45:55




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 Re: IH utility 300 in reply to Janicholson, 08-03-2005 05:43:21  
Good tractors,lousy steering,and the gas tank needs a heat shield in hot weather.I paid $1500 for a 300U with loader and fasthitch platform and a home made logsplitter.$1800-2000 for a clunker is too much to pay.



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iester

08-03-2005 20:57:27




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 Re: IH utility 300 in reply to PAULIH300, 08-03-2005 14:45:55  
These are great tractors..Just need to be used property...not bulldozers,,but tough



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