Re: international 300 utility

Posted by Hugh MacKay on December 14, 2006 at 08:19:24 from (209.226.247.91):

In Reply to: Re: international 300 utility posted by Wardner on December 14, 2006 at 06:09:58:

Wardner: I have to agree with your "WHY". I know on our farm we were looking for IPTO long before the days of the 300. We had both Cockshutt and Oliver dealers, asking why we'd by a Farmall H or M with transmission driven PTO then maybe add that mickey mouse M&W hand clutch and still not be able to shift gears.

It always amazes me the number of 300s that came with non live PTO. I would have thought with the 8 year jump Cockshutt and Oliver had in that IPTO market, IH would have made it standard equipment after 1954. Unbelieveable. Then you get guys on here thinking 560 rear ends were the beginning of the down fall of IH. IH missed the boat before the 560 was built.

Three items that hurt IH before the 560 were IPTO, TA and Fast Hitch. IPTO should have come in the late 40s and then perfected much faster. Perfection in my opinion only came with 06 series. TA was very nice, but development dollars should have eliminated free wheeling within 3 years. We were teenagers at the time caught on to TA but the old timers only after the tractor took off freewheeling, then they reached for the lever. I watched my dad do that many times. He never drove the 504, 560 and 656 much, precisely why 300 was the only TA we replaced before 10,000 hours. While fast hitch was an excellent forerunner to lower link sencing draft control, Harry Ferguson won the hitch war before IH sold their first fast hitch in 51 or 52.

Those three items were driving farmers away from IH in droves, before the 560 rear end problems ever occured and the problems were driving them away all across the continant. About the only guys turned away by the 560 problem were the mid west guys. In my home town a Massey dealer opened his doors for business in late 1955. It was nothing short of amazing the business he took away from IH that first 5 years, and he's never looked back. He did it in the under 50 hp tractors, and those customers never returned to IH. Today that Massey dealer is still there, selling Kubota as well now, along with CaseIH parts. CaseIH no longer have a dealer. John Deere does and so do New Holland. Now that parts deal is likely about to end at MF, but I'm betting he will thrive without it.

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