300 Farmall utility tractor

jdfamily · Mar 12, 2019

Asking for a friend. Thoughts on a Farmall 300 utility tractor. Seems to be in pretty good shape, runs great. Also he asked if the 300 utility was built by Farmall/ International company, and would there be any problems getting parts. Any input would be appreciated.

rustyfarmall · Mar 12, 2019

The 300 utility is an International. Not a Farmall. The Farmall is a row crop tractor. Having said that, It is basically the same as a Farmall, and parts are readily available. Only drawback might be the steering gearbox, but if that is solid now, it should be good to go many more years.

jdfamily · Mar 12, 2019

What exactly is that difference? Two different manufacturers?
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jm. · Mar 12, 2019

No Farmall as you call it and International are the same company, International Harvester.

tractorsam · Mar 12, 2019

Same manufacturer, different branding. Farmall?s were pitched for row crop work, International were utility and industrial tractors. Sam

Athol Carr · Mar 12, 2019

Farmall was a trade name used by International Harvester Company

Janicholson · Mar 12, 2019

As noted for the "brand". They are a sweet little utility. Pretty good hydrauolics, 10 speed and 2 reverse (using the torque amplifier) good Power Take Off. Brakes are OK if maintained a bit. I own a 350U Jim

Northvale PA · Mar 13, 2019

I have one with a front mount pump driven loader. Power steering too. I inherited it with only 500 hours. I converted it to 12 volts and put new tires on. It starts and runs perfect. However, the loader is very heavy duty and probably too heavy for a tractor of this size. I use the loader for all sorts of things but rarely for field work as I have other more nimble tractors for that. It is not as easy to work on different things as other brands. Harder to reach.

Leroy · Mar 13, 2019

Farmall is the cultivating tractor but can still do ground preperation. International and earlier they were McCormick Deering and they were just for ground prep, no cultivating as wheel tread was not adjustable as well as no crop clearance. Not sure of year or why they changed from McCormick Deering to International. But the 300 was first to carry the international name. Previous model the 300 replaced was the W4 based on the Farmal H and strictly a ground working tractor. McCormick Deering was formed by Cyrus McComrick and a person named Deering. When they started aquiring more brands the company changed its name to International Harvestor and the Farmall name came into being with the Farmall Regular as it was the first tractor designed for all purposes like tillage, planting, cultivating and harvesting thus the name Farmall meaning that the one machine could do all those jobs. But when the International 300 came out it became also a cultivating type of utility tractor but still could do the work of the previous wheatland tractors that a lot of the world does not raise the row crops that the states do.

jdfamily · Mar 13, 2019

Thanks for all the information. I will go take a look at the one that is for sale down the road a bit from me.

SVcummins · Mar 13, 2019

Leroy they dropped the mcormick name after the last family member of the mcormick family died that was to do with the founding of international Harvester company .
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hd6gtom · Mar 14, 2019

When I had my farm fuel business in the 80's several customers had them. They were a gutty little tractor. 100 times better than a N Ford.

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