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Remembering tractor sounds from when you were growing up

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Jason S.

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I spent a lot of time riding the fenders on our tractors growing up. As a kid I would ride and watch the equipment and try to figure out how it worked and over the years the sounds of the tractors and the equipment got stuck in my head. Due to the dishonesty in the family I had all the farm and equipment and such taken away from me so I wasn't around any farming for years. Finally when I did get back into it I bought stuff that was similar to what I grew up with because I knew how to use it. I was able a few years later to buy the old New Holland 68 baler that was in the family. What a sound the first time I ran it after all these years. We always pulled it behind a MF 165 and the sound of the diesel, the sound of the plunger and the knotter tying,and the rocking of the tractor back and forth was a sound I didn't know how much I had missed it until I hooked it up and ran it behind my MF 175 I have now. All the memories from my childhood came flooding back. All I could do was grin from ear to ear. The sound of that old 165 in high multipower when plowing was a sound that I just loved and still miss because my tractor is an 8 speed and doesn't have multipower. Anybody else have the same memories of certain sounds and always trying to find them again or miss certain sounds terribly?
 
Just this evening I was leaving the family farm that I don't live on but my grandparents and uncle/aunt still do. As I came out the lane I had a very clear memory of pulling silage wagons with the CASE 930 and listening to that thing pull going up a hill with a load of silage behind it. That sound is one that I can hear very clearly. The ole 930 has a very distinctive sound and it is still in daily use on the farm to this day.
 
growing up in a tractor dealership sounds of different tractors were pretty neat. But my grandpa's sawmill powered by 453 Detroit and IH lumber truck with6-71 Detroit was my favorite.Going to deliver lumber with gramps are some really good memories.Thanks for making me think of that.
 

Yep - The things I remember most are the sound of G'pa's WD or WC pulling a load and the neighbor's JD at work in the distance - sounds like that stick with ya!
 
I liked how the corn stalks sounded when they where bone dry and they cracked when plow them under with a mold board plow.

There are some smells that are that way with me too. One of them being the smell of fresh dirt while plowing. I always loved plowing. It always seemed like you where getting something done.


I am going to plow some of my hay strips this coming spring. The boys say I am crazy but I don't like seeing all that green manure go to waste when killed with RR. It will be with an open station tractor too.

So I am going to do them old school. Apply cattle manure this winter/spring, lime and potash come spring, and then plow them just as soon as the ground is dry enough. Light disking or two and plant.

Guys say your crazy for doing all that but I can just about guarantee a good corm crop that way. The notil thing is hit or miss if the weather gos bad around here. The ground can get like concrete and the stands are not good.

IF we where still doing this on the 30-75 acres we used to and the rest of the farm in other crops maybe there would be a better farm community left. I know it is dreaming but I just do not think that everyone being "HIRED" hands for a BTO is the way to go for a good community or the ground.

Good post Jason. The sounds and smells of years gone by are still in your heart/mind.
 
Born and raised on the farm I live on, however; the sound I miss most is the sound of a JFS (jet fuel starter) firing up those two awesome engines of our countrys F-15 Eagle aircraft. Did a 21 year break from the farm and spent 15 of those years working that wonderful bird.
 
Nothing sounds much better than a Perkins, Jason. I love the sound of them pulling. I was reared on them Masseys.....started driving on a 65 diesel when I was just 6 yrs old. It was sold when I was 7yrs but every now and then I got a chance to drive my neighbours 65 until he was killed in a road accident. I drove the 100 range for years. We had just about every model. And then I got a chance to buy an imported Ferguson F-40 about 14 years ago. I had to off load it at a ramp about a mile from our place as it was a tricycle front end and could not come down the twin ramps of the truck....Driving it home did not have the sounds of the diesel 65, but it was just like being back in my favourite armchair!
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I really like the sound of my 1900 oliver with the 4-53 Detroit diesel in it under a good load. Problem is I should have worn hearing protection cause now I don't hear much! Seriously I would have to say the most memorable sound was running Dads 88 oliver diesel cutting corn with the Dion forage harvestor. It was over 40 years ago when Dad first gave me this responsibility, and in my mind I can still hear it today.
 
Didn't have any tractor sounds. Lived in a small city that was on the edge of acres and acres of strawberries. We weren't farmers. At the end of our subdivision was a sand pile left over from some construction job.

I spent countless hours running my little Tonka style dump truck over that pile making ruts and roads and buildings and all making verbal sounds like "bruum, bruum, bruuuuupm, bruuuuuum. And then I would get (artificially) stuck and boy then the motor sounds would really come out. Had a blast as a boy.

Mark
 
About 3 months ago, a friend of mine (our age group) that got heavy into building engines for local racers, told me "The sweetest sound in the world is a chevy V8 turning 8 grand." I said "Lloyd, you have lost your marbles, the sweetest sound in the world is a G john Deere pulling 3 bottoms lugging through a tough spot." "Dale," he said, "I think you are right, I had forgotten that sound."
 
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For me it would be any well fueled and turbo'd diesel puller building boost and leaving the line going down the track.

Or the international 523, 1046, or any of the German built International tractors that had the bullet shaped exhaust on.
They all had a distinctive whistle at high revs, but no turbo's fitted, drove a few different ones with no radios fitted, one of the few tractors that's a pleasure to listen to working hard.

Kinda have more than a bit of a liking for ford 6 cylinder industrials with and without turbo on from the 2700 series motor range, and the ones in the 8000 and later series tractors and combines before the Iveco motors to.
Not much of a perkins fan they seem to rattle to much for my liking, compared to some of the others.
Regards Robert
 
Hated the sound of every one of the JD tractors that Dad had; give me 4 cylinders any time!
 
the two that come to mind right away are a Case 1470 working and a Case 1660 running in heavy wheat, the combine cylinder groaning with the flowing crop and the sound the Wheat makes as its coming from the elevator to the bin auger have always brought a smile to my face, I still have several of each of these to run and enjoy, anyone who has run a 1470 knows they have a feel and sound all their own
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Favorite tractor sound would have to be our '51 DC CASE. Being the big tractor on our 135 acre dairy farm I can still hear it's long stroke/low rpm engine giving it every inch it had chopping heavy corn with the Gehl (83?) Chop-all, or o the 10' John Deere disc in spring plowing. While it no longer gets tortured day in and day out, I can still listen to that sweet tractor anytime as it's in she shed right now waiting for spring work.

Another favorite sound is that of the old Surge milkers we used for over 50 years. Peacefully clicking along in a warm, peaceful Wisconsin dairy barn on just such a winter's night as this.

Sweet sweet memories.



Glenn F.
 
One sound I can just barely remember at all was an old farm truck we had. We had an old 1947 Dodge 2 1/2 ton truck with the old flat head six. I can just barely remember hearing that truck run because they parked it when I was very little. My great aunt used to drive it to town some. She didn't mind the double clutching. I also remember the sound of the Ferguson rake we had. I remember if it had bent teeth on it as I raked hay the teeth hitting the stripper bars would make a pattern of sound. I can remember listening to those teeth for hours on end and it actually making me sleepy. In addition to the sounds some of the sights growing up I fondly remember. I remember we had an old Dearborn pull type combine that stayed in one barn we had and it was on the side of the barn that they had carved away part of a bank to build it and the wall on that side was mostly cinder block and the door was always down. That combine looked huge to me when I was little, but being that it was on the dark side of the barn it scared the bejesus out of me. To get into the tobacco basement you had to walk by the hood on the end of it where the straw came out of it and I hated it. There was no lights in the barn except for the tobacco basement and I never knew what was up in that thing looking back at me...lol. I can remember seeing my grandfather pull it with the 165 combining oats and I thought that was the coolest machine I had ever saw run. I only got to see it run a few times but I have never forgotten it. I have one now but it needs restoring. I remember the sight of getting off the school bus and seeing that 165 hooked to the new idea corn picker we had. I would run at top speed to get to the field because I only got to use the corn picker a few days a year. I also remember the horrible racket that thing made...
 
Just a few of those sounds. My Dads sawmill had a UD18 power unit I can still here it start on gas switch over to diesel then put it in gear and the sawdust blower howl. Neighbors blew silage with a V4 wisconson that galloped a bit. We also had two cylinder JDs, one trick was to shut them off and almost when they stopped turning turn the switch back on for that backfire(don"t think we choked it but we might have).
 
My dads 35 Cockshutt baling hay with his Alis-Roto baler. The 4 cylinder Herc. in the 35 was a sound you didn;t here every day. And this might sound a bit odd, but the smell of diesel exauhst and cow manure, pulls me back to my youth, even though we still have plenty bof that stuff to deal with. Bruce
 
Everyone in our neighborhood had cases. A lot o flambeuus the 30 series, then 70 series. One sound I will never forget was Saturday mornings with my Dad helping his buddy saw logs with a Case LA belted up to the mill.
 
I can't say anything. I love plowing myself. I still plow most of the time using my little Ferguson TO-20. I'm not in a hurry to get the plowing done because I enjoy it. Although I do always try to plow throwing the dirt uphill to help prevent erosion. It does have a smell that you never forget. After all that happened with my family years later I got some land and started off with just my 175 and a bush hog for my 45 acres. I was just going to keep the fields clean and that was it. But slowly as I was bush hogging I realized how much I missed the sounds,sights,and smells that I grew up with. Now I guess I have a disease....5 tractors and more equipment than I will ever need. Most of it is really old stuff like what I grew up with. I am always willing to go help a neighbor with something just to get to use my tractors and equipment more. I baled hay for a neighbor one year for nothing. All he had to do was provide the fuel and twine. Am I trying to reclaim the years and land I lost? Probably so...all I know is I really miss those old sounds and sights and will probably chase them until I can't chase them any longer.
 
Nothing like the sound of a case 830 pulling 4-16's through the corn stalks in the fall. Spent many days playing hooky from school to run that tractor and later an 870 that sounded just as good.
 
For smells it would be fresh clover hay off the field or corn silage fed to the cows on a day like this. Oh yeah, the smell of diesel smoke in the shed when warming up those old cases in the winter.
 
I had a UD-6 power unit on my sawmill. Crank start only. Sure could've used those extra cylinders.
 
EXACTLY! Neighbor up the road about 1/2 mile had a "Johnny Popper" (I THINK it was an A or B). Every time he started that thing up, the hair on the back of my neck would stand up. He'd come down the road on it, and I would run and hide! I STILL can't stand that sound!
 
There are several. I always liked the sound of the 856 pulling the disk and packer. What a machine. Some sounds surprised me, though. I had forgotten completely about this sound, but we used a Farmall H with no muffler on the mixer grinder. It was a pretty good load for that tractor and the governor was pulled most of the time. I had forgotten what that sounded like until I pulled the stack off my M to get some equipment out of an old lean to. It was like deja vu all over again. It also made my ears ring.

The all time favorite sound is the straight 6 Chrysler in the Massey super 92 combine. Those had such a destinctive sound. You could hardly hear them coming, but when they turned you got that 6 just pulling away under there. There's a YouTube video that has an old one that I have watched several times as it captures it perfectly. That's what harvest should always sound like. Mix that with the slight manifold leak on the 64 Ford grain truck and I am in high school all over again.
 
Dad green chopped sudan grass everyday with a JD 2520 diesel and a 350 IH choper with a five ft direct cut head.The 2520 had a nice smooth sound and the choper would realy hum.After stopping the pto the IH choper cuterhead would seem to run forever with the overruning clutch dogs making a dinging sound.
 
Riding in the cab of the 830 Case comfort king while dad was baling hay with a 5600 Heston baler. When the going was good he'd run it in 5th gear (1st high), and that gear had a distinct whine to it. When I'd hear that whine I knew things were going good and we were making hay. Then when I got old enough to rake hay, I remember the sound the D-14 Allis Chalmers made coming home in road gear at the end of a day. Again, a distinct rear end sound on the two lane county road. Finally, the engine/exhaust sound of Grandpa's 860 Ford. He had 55 gallon barrel mounted on the 3pt hitch filled about 3/4 of the way with rocks for weight. I'd throw an old blanket or pad on top of the rocks and ride in the barrel as grandpa gathered the round bales off the fields in the fall and brought them into the yard before the snow got too deep in the winter.
Grandpa has been gone 20 years now, I own the farmstead, but dad and all three tractors are still here on the farm and going strong yet today.
 
Plowin with 706 gasser turning back into furrow at end of land. 1/2 throttle drop plow SNORT, wack the throttle open WHINE, throw the TA forward SNOOORRRTTT :)
 
Yep, Dad has one of those IH choppers and even though it has been a long time since we needed I will back a tractor and give it a spin just for old times. A person can hear those run for miles.
 
I always remember the sound and smell of the exhaust of dad's 1950 ZA Minneapolis Moline. Spent alot of years riding on it with him, and still have it.
 
G JD running wide open in 3rd gear pulling 4-14's. Third had a distinct sound that I can still here.
 
For sounds, I was alwaws impressed by the sound of a Case 1370- 2670 out in the field under load, pulling a peice of tillage equipment. Not in the driver's seat, but out to the side of it. All you could hear was the sound of AIR being sucked in through the Aspirator and the smooth muted sound from the turbocharged big cube 504 Case engine. Couple that with the slight whine of the tranny, and the sound off disc blades scraping over/around rocks, and the smell of spring tilled ground, still stick in my mind.
As a dealer at the time of these tractors, I liked to get a perspective customer aside at a show or on a farm demo, and stand back with him and tell him to just listen. Getting them to do that sold many of these tractors for us. A 1370 running a Hesston 2000 chopper was equally gratifing. The NH and JD choppers had a very loud and irritating cutterhead noise that could be heard all across the field. The Hesston chopper was smooth and quiet, like the 1370.
Loren, the Acg.
 
Grandpa had the flapper style rain caps on everything that needed a cover, most everything was green. Always remembered the irregular clang as the cap clapped shut while they set there idling for whatever reason. I like fords and last winters project had to end with vertical exhaust and a flapper rain cap. Really don"t care what the proofmeter says the idle is at, I could sit there and listen to that cap banging all day long.
 
Dads A-6 Case combine with V-4 Wisconsin
Dads A JD on 2x16 plow
Dads M Farmall on a 3x14 plow
Dads 123 McCormick SP combine
Dads 72 Massey SP combine
Neighbors 77 New Holland baler with V-4 Wisconsin
Dads 460 Farmall diesel on a 3x16 plow
Dads G-900 MM on a 5x16 plow
Dads Oliver 1950 with 4-53 Detroit on a 6x16 plow
Neighbors Chevy 10 wheeler with a V6-53 Detroit
All the 318 Detroit powered trucks pulling the railroad overpass 3 miles west on the hiway
 
Since I have more memories of race engines than most everything else... the smell of a 800 HP SB chevy doing a burnout, sitting on the line with rev limiter at 6500rpm, tree turns green, off trans brake, front wheels up, 60ft later shift at 9000 rpm on it's way to another 9 1/2 second pass.
Wasn't mine but learned alot and turned a lot of wrenches on it. R.I.P. Patrick
Only other memories are the grader my Dad ran for N.Y.S.D.O.T. Blizzard of '66 seeing it pull up outside the elementary school with all the yellow lights flashing and knowing my Daddy was gonna make sure I got home safely.
Most of the time it ran w/o a muffler and it affected his hearing something bad. Since I spent many many hours in it back then, I too suffer hearing loss. R.I.P. Dad
 
Oh yes, the sound of the plunger. First it was a Deere 14T, then a 24T, behind a Deere 60, then a 730 gas, then a 4030. The trip arm would hit the top with a 'tink' then the sound of the knotter working.

Another sound was the hitch pin jingling in the drawbar of my neighbor's SC Case when he was coming up the road to our place to help pick corn.

The sound of the cobs hitting the blower pipe on the corn sheller.

The howl of the grinder mixer. My ears ring permanently partly because of that howl.

The screech of a disk blade going over a rock.

Not a tractor sound, but the sound of the hog feeder lids randomly banging. Or the sound of a hog giving a loud snort and all the lids banging shut at the same time. My city raised brother in law slept in our house with us one night back when I still fed hogs. The next morning he asked me "do those pigs ever sleep?" He could sleep through the sound of screeching tires and honking horns but the feeder lids kept him awake. LOL Jim
 
Sound of my Oliver 550 diesel baling, when the hay got a little tough in the evening, it would start chugging a little when it hit the governor. I knew when it was time to quit just by the sound of the tractor. Go much longer, and you start busting shear pins.
 
the baler plunger ,and the differential whine of the DC ,, pop sometimes baled with the 35 ferguson , neighbor had a wd allis that he lugged terribly plowin in 2nd gear..always liked cold starting the wd in the cold weather , easy starter , but it buksnorted til it was warmed up ,,.. dads cuzin on the ohio river had ihc ,jd and case,,//////////// the 730 jd diesel had a pony motor,, I wasn't even old enuf for school ,but I remember the very 1st time I heard it start,,.////. rat a-tat a putter putter -waaahhh a waahh!!,,and then screech!surge surge,whirl-roll- whirrrrr-whirrel sputer hump put-rattle, whirrrr put poof Put-Put, pufftput a tuk put snoof! Put a Put pumtp !-Put,and then itevened out and , was hammering out those puts evenly and vibrating the front tires with each stroke .
 
The JD 70 diesel at first howling to life with the V4 starting engine. Hearing the snort when initially rolling the diesel over. Then wail, the drive train howl and drop rpm a little against the compression of those massive pistons. Then the diesel snorted to life and thundered when fuel injection was started. The starting engine rpms slowed and quieted as the diesel continued operating.
 
chikens clukin ,pig sqeels,and moo moos ....///, we had jd 30 combine Pop run on the 51 DC Case with a big muffler , when dad would go over the hills and around the bottom from behind ,, all you could hear was a hum hum hum ,, the DC always had a fan hum zoom and the combine seemed to harmonize with the DC with its own fan hum drumdrum hum ,, but as they come up you could hear the rattle of the pitman and the zoom of the DC ,///,always liked the sound of the 800case-omatic surging into direct drive.//.the variable speed drive on any combine as it matched the power to the load .going up hills and or taking off down the road ///and who could forget the510 massey with 327 chevy headers groweling out angry hungry horsepower as it pulled up those hills with a full bin ///a neighbor had a fertilizer /seed /trukin biznez,,, he finally got a Detroit diesel,,he thought he liked the roar ./but it turned out to be problematic , and a great shop truk stayin there more than out on the road worki n ...when speakin of that truck , he said that motor never sounded better as it left HIS PLACE the day HE SOLD IT,,LOL ...
 
I can remember every one of them, milking with Surge milkers, barn cleaner running with the paddle scraper banging. Baling hay with a New Holland 77 with the Wisc engine, cutting silage with a Gehl chopper with a Leroi power unit on it, pulled with a Massey 44 diesel going up a long hill, old 44 blowing smoke and that Leroi on its knees is good corn. The smell of cow manure and silage at feeding time. Grinding feed in the winter and half froze and then head for the milk house where it was always about 75 degrees from the bulk tank compressor to warm up. I liked evry thing about dairy farming the old way, I never minded the work. Have a Son in Law that dairy farms, so I'm still around it.
 
We had a new 1206 open station and I liked the whistle sound of the turbo.We also put them on our 4020s and the turbo just had a neat sound.Not quite as fond of the noise the cabs made in late 60 early 70s before Sound Guard bodies were introduced.At the time I thought they were great but now I cant stand the noise.
 
My favorite would be plowing with grandpas 730 LP pulling 3 14's I live the sound of a 2 cylinder lugging while plowing with the smell of fresh turned dirt. Next ones in line would be the sound of dads 4020 with the Schwiess snow blower running full in the big drifts of '96 '97 the slight PTO whine the sound of the 404 lugging down and as a 1st grader I knew that we would be able to get out and go to school. The next would be the 4020 on the OMC baler when the baler was getting full with the PTO whine. And my neighbors 7140 magnum on the tub grinder grinding prairie hay the sound of the grinder when a slug went into the mill the sound of the tractor lugging to 1600 the smell of the diesel smoke when it was lugging. So many sound I love, just more reasons I love farming
 
Dad had an 800 Ford and I noticed how familiar the sound was on my 601 with 172 engine. Lots of memories.
Ron
 
I agree with most all posts here, but something stirred my memory when someone spoke of diesel engines starting.... I rode an old diesel-electric submarine 1960-64. She had 10 cylinder, opposed piston Fairbanks-Morris diesels, 1500 HP each. The sound of those "rock crushers" air-starting when we surfaced is forever etched in my memory banks. They about drove me deaf, but I would cherish the experience of hearing them one more time.
 
Fourth gear whine in a Farmall C, when I was finally allowed to take it out on the road. I still have the C, and use it all summer.

Horse drawn mower, also the sound a scythe makes. The mower is sinking into the ground behind the house, and the scythe hangs on the wall in the shop.

Buzz saw, rotting down behind the sugar house, and a good place for it.

New Holland 77 baler, the way it kind of coughed and gagged as the knotters cycled. Belonged to a neighbor, and I don't miss 75+ pound bales, more than I weighed at the time.

Piston vacuum pump on the old milking machine, and also the sound of hand milking. Dad stopped shipping milk in 1954, stopped hand milking one cow for home use in the late 50's-early 60's.

Steel sled runners screeching over bare rock, when hauling logs or sap. The sled irons are sinking into the ground behind the woodshed, I skid logs with a dozer and arch, and the sap comes down the hill in pipes by gravity.
 

Gear whine in a old Fordson tractor.

Much later, the v 4 Wisconsin engine in a 77 NH baler.

KEH
 
Has to be the sound of that Perkins P6 diesel from the Fordson e27n then of course the thump thump of the Field Marshall and finally the first bark of a Fordson n as it burst into life for the first time in the morning. I guess if I had been growing up in the US rather than Scotland the choices would have been different.
Bill
 
Sounds transport you to a different time and place.

1. The whine of the Oliver 88 in any gear. Love pulling grain wagons and shifting on the go from 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th.

2. The sound of an IH in Hi 3 or 4th...806 / 856 / 1066 / 1086 - spent hundreds of hours on those.

3. The sound of the fan on an Oliver 1800.

4. Gleaner M diesel picking corn.

5. IH 1066 with chrome stack under load on a batch dryer.

6. Grandpa had a 1951 Ford F-2 truck...loved to hear that old tranny.

7. Riding the school bus in an International Loadstar with that ole 345...those ole IH gassers had their own sound.
 
Dad had a big straight pipe on an Oliver 66 that was unique. The IH 42R combine had a sound all its own too. All you could hear was the sound of the knives cutting the stems. Otherwise that thing was all but silent.
 
Not a tractor, but there aren't too many sounds on earth that will beat the sound of a 454 Chevy engine, with headers and a nice pair of glasspack mufflers, in a dually pickup turning about 3,000 rpm and working under a little bit of a load.
 
JD 2-cylinders
helping my mother carry, drag, the milk can to and from the dairy farm to get some milk. about a mile.
hearing the JD's working the fields, probably A's in those days.
As the JD approached the road under full grunt, couldn't see the operator,
just a grill as tall as a skyscraper to me.
I wasn't much bigger than the milk can :D
 
(quoted from post at 23:33:33 12/25/13) Since I have more memories of race engines than most everything else... the smell of a 800 HP SB chevy doing a burnout, sitting on the line with rev limiter at 6500rpm, tree turns green, off trans brake, front wheels up, 60ft later shift at 9000 rpm on it's way to another 9 1/2 second pass.
Wasn't mine but learned alot and turned a lot of wrenches on it. R.I.P. Patrick
Only other memories are the grader my Dad ran for N.Y.S.D.O.T. Blizzard of '66 seeing it pull up outside the elementary school with all the yellow lights flashing and knowing my Daddy was gonna make sure I got home safely.
Most of the time it ran w/o a muffler and it affected his hearing something bad. Since I spent many many hours in it back then, I too suffer hearing loss. R.I.P. Dad
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Getting into cars then. The Grand National sounded pretty good with the low restriction air filtration into the turbo. And with a hollow cat converter. Wasn't loud, a stealth machine.
 
Neighbor had a Case baler with a Wisconsin V4 engine. That poor litte engine never got a breather when pulled into a hay field. Loved the deep down sound of the F-20 and later the M when disking or plowing.
 
I married into a farming family so I have no memory of farming sounds that used to be. I am familiar with sounds on the farm now - diesel roar, gear whine and the whine/shriek of hydraulics. At our state fair, I always attend draft horse events, log pulling and impliment displays are my favorite. Once used to the size of those horses and the near lost skill to drive them the things I appreciate most are the sounds: creek of leather, jingle of metal fittings, the occasional snort and the steady scrape of an impliment being drawn over the ground. I go there to hear these things and wonder about the time when a farmer spent his days with those sounds.
 
Don't remember too many tractor sounds as a kid but--I do remember our Chinese neighbor. Absolutely a great guy! Would help anybody virtually any time as long as his hay was done. I worked for him for several years. I was always amazed that he was about 70 when he went back to China and found his wife. She was 22 for 23. Also a very nice lady who insisted on preparing lunch for all of us when we were doing hay. The sound that I remember is Mr. Chong when his Oliver baler broke. Never knew what he was saying but it was hilarious--boy was he mad. I guess he's been gone about 40 years now. His wife just passed last year. Miss them both.
 
Massey Harris 44 and a really big load of manure when the goveror opened up,The way my old IH 56 planter clicked when turning on the headland,Surge piston pump and bucket milkers.The coolest one was the GM 366 truck engine.Milktruck had one Cattle hauler used one and the feed truck from the mill.Seems like our cash cropping nieghbours had them in their grain trucks.Sitting beside the barn with dual exhaust they had a unique rumble at slow idle that is still with me.
 
Turbo'ed IH 756, pulling its guts out on 1150 grinder mixer. The clicking of the wheel on the Ration-Rite scale. The jingling of the hammers when the mill coasted to a stop. The roaring sound of corn sliding down a length of plastic drainage tile
Never liked hogs much, but sat down and cried when I ground the last batch of feed before we had farm sale.
All the sounds of a 346 Deere square baler with thrower bring back a lot of memories too.
Grandpa's old OMC swather, with crimpers you could hear banging away a mile from home..his 1850 Oliver lugging away plowing.
Hearing the turbo wind down after shutting the 1066 off.
The starter on a 1960 F600 with 292, the 348 In the old C60.
560 Farmall sputtering after a cold start. The sizzling sound of a block heater. Hog feeder lids clanging at night.
400 Cyclo planter blower.
Could go on and on... But this is stirring up a lot of memories, both good and bad.
 
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