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exdosit: I guess it depends on just how fast you wish to acomplish all of this. 560 is definitely going to have a lot more ability than a 350, but the 350 will be a lot more agile when it come to mowing, loader work, etc. I had both a 300 and a 560, the 560 was diesel, and would do more work on half the fuel. If I were you and had more than 50 hours work per year, I'd go diesel. I also had a 656 diesel and as years went on we found ourselves using the 300 less and less, and it was purely fuel consumption. I actually liked the 300 better for jobs like mowing, baling and loader work, but at 3 gallons of gasoline per hour versus 1 to 1.5 gph of diesel in 560 and 656 doing the same work, it wasn't hard to park the old 300. We weren't paying 2006 prices for fuel back in the 60s, 70s and 80s either. Interesting about H, 300, 350 size tractor and how IH destroyed it. 460 was just too cumbersome for 40 hp tractor. 504 diesel was a nice little tractor, but the wide front was too light. 544 was a decent tractor, but IH priced it too close to 656, thus sales really never took off. After that it was all basically British-German hi utilities. If it wasn't built in North America, I always avoided it like the plague. If a guy wanted a new tractor today under 100 hp, probably he may be better off getting the plague. I'd operated a few on them, all makes, they aint going to be around 50 years from now like those old Farmalls.
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