unigue combine sounds

01gentdc

Well-known Member
Thereis a post over in Tractor talk about the most unique sounding tractor ,, What About Combines ?/ Lol ,, Not Just the motor but All The Threshing racket going on ,,. Most us fellas know exactly what sumthin sounds like before it gets bad and stuff
really happens ,or entirely stops ,,LOL , either Raise the Head back off speed , or quikly throw the thresher out of gear when you HEAR and finally ,,. see a big ol rock bouncing along the auger,, friend of mine had a 4400 and 6620 deer ,, he always knew when he was kikin corn out the back ,,Seems like I am returning phone calls while unloading and always can tell when shes near empty , and time to conclude my call ,,. But as Far as motor exhaust sounds , The 510 massey 327 with dual headers Wins hands down ,, Have not heard one working hard for some 20 yrs , funny ran a gleaner f diesel , with all the doorsand windows shut , hardly could here the big 6 back there ..the 300 gasser massey is unigue ,. kinda like moldin man and machine together ,when my son Michael runs it I get watch and chek its work and tweak things , each side of the machine had its own distict noise , the bent bar on the feeder house , the cackle of the exhaust or the hum of the thresherout the back with the chopper zing -singin
 
unique engine sound from a Claas 106/108/116/118/M8460 with a V6 Mercedes in it... i've had one for years, but a neighbour who bought one about 5 years ago kept phoning me to ask it the exhaust note was right... they have a definite rasp to them...
 
I have been running 2 different JD 95 sense 1988 and know every sound, shake squeak rumble and rattle and road in them.

If I feel the cab shakes I back off the speed as I am in grass and the cycle is dull.

If I feel a rumble in the cab floor what ever I'm cutting is getting tuff from the dew time to quit.

If I feel the back of the seat shaking its time to check the chopper being wrapped up or it is getting to tuff to keep going.

If I hear a squeak I know I'm in good grain flow coming into the bin (still don't know why).

If I hear the engine starting to roar its time to back it off on the speed a little.

If I hear the thrasher drive belts singing I know I'm in good thick heavy beans and she is working hard. Time to back off a little.

If I hear the drive belts singing I know the bin is about full and she is getting heavy.

Now if you hear and feel all these things at one time I know I am in trouble! Its like I have said before, I run a combine by sound and feel. By the roar of the engine and the sing of the belts and the shake rattle and roll, That's how I run them. Oh a JD 95 gas has a sound all its own running in the field. My neighbor says he can tell how good my beans are by the roar he hears 3/4 mile away. Sweet! Bandit
 
Most unique sound combing was back with the Gleaner F gasser, turned a main bearing, it ran rough long enough for me to push the clutch in and look at the gauges and wonder what.....

And bam!

Engine stopped from full throttle to zero revolutions in just a couple revolutions, and it was very quiet other than the thrasher parts idling itself down to a stop.

I can still hear those chains and shafts rolling to a stop, no engine noise at all.

Paul
 
Loved the sound of the Chrysler Industrial engines in the two Cockshutt SP112's that we ran. Those engines had a nice chuckle to them when they were working.

Also liked the sound of the "Z" engine on the MM G3 combine that we had before we got the Cockshutt combines.
 
All Those feels and sounds at once ,,You Are in Trouble LOL ,,. Or How about rude awakening Paul got as all the wheels coasted to a stop after a KABAAM!,,, ,btdt too ,,,Yuck,,Like bandit said a fella can sense everything after a while running the same combine ,,, serveral yrs ago , I wasrunnin Ol Clarence 300 Massey ,, in beans ,, no header control ,and no lites, field was perfect,beans runnin good ,,head glided well , and I could sense when it was grouding, bounce the lift lever a bit ,up and down ..as the sun was setting , I could finally seethe cutterbar decent ,without glare , finished bin in the dark ,
 
I can remember the M2 Gleaner we had, in good corn it made sort of a groaning noise as the material fed through the cylinder.

The old MF 300 we had when I was a kid made a "shaka shaka shaka" noise when it was threshing, always assumed it was the grain shaking on the grain pan. I also remember how when you changed ground speed--especially speeding up--with the variable speed it made a noise that sounded just like the "Tasmanian Devil" spinning around on the old Loony Tunes cartoons!

Al
 
Know Those sounds very well ,,. How about When the 300 is empty , traveling across end of field on hi side and then it is crowded into heavy corn The governor Hammering that C hrysler 6 All the while pulling the variable bac k down to the low side,, the sounds the combine makes as corn cobs pop and bust hittin the cylinder rapidly rattles thru the empty sieves and up the clean grain chain ,kinda like hearing a well take prime .. rattling down into the empty bin , , til that sound moderates,,25 yrs ago , I have had my Youngest daughter2 and son 3yrs old sound asleep in the cab on the landing behind the seat , on a blanket my wife put there so she could get some pix ,they were wide awake and happy, I closed the door and started shelling ,,By the second round Dianna said they were nodding off .. Lol,,. we were all smaller then , And Dianna kept All the pix when she left with the kids ,.She has Misplaced them.. but is on the lookout for them
 
Neighbor's R42 gleaner with a Deutz... Seems like it is twice as loud as my grain dryer. I don't know how his ears aren't bleeding.

On the saddle tank Masseys, I like how you can tell how full the grain tank is based on sound of grain running in.
 
01gentdc, yup I had forgotten that 327 in the 510 Massey, sure was a sweet sound when she revved up, had nearly 7000 hours on it when it went to scrap, should of saved the engine.
 
Oh boy. Hands down what I said on the other topic. Chrysler 265 straight six on the Massey Super 92. It would really roar a throaty growl when it was working. I'm not sure what it was that made that exact sound, but it was beautiful. There's a YouTube video that has it in there. I will find it and post the link.
 
Here's the Chrysler. It is just awesome from about 2:55-3:15. The funny thing is, this is the harvest setup we had exactly. The only thing we had was a cab and swamp cooler on our combine. An early 60's Ford to match (even the same color) - it doesn't get better. The memories are so fun.
Poke here
 
Maybe not unique, but a sound I'll never forget.

In the late 70's I was combining beans with a MF510 when one end of a cylinder bar came off and went through the top of the cylinder housing and punched a hole in the engine pan. I got the engine shut down before it was hurt (very small hole and slow oil leak).

It was a job to repair, the bar wrapped around the cylinder.
 
I love the sounds my A-C 66 makes. In a good standing crop you don't have to look back to often as you can combine by ear. The cylinder has a unique hum that lets you know all is well or to be aware. One of my favorite things is when you start each cut is there is a few seconds between the start of the cut and the time the crop hits the cylinder that you can hear the sickle cutting the crop.

We have two Gleaner Ks. The one we use in corn has just a strait pipe, running at night is fun. When your in a nice steady run there will be a nice even blue flame coming out of the exhaust and the engine produces a nice smooth cackle.
 
I always like the sound of Dads 1959 model 72 Massey Harris SP combine with 12 ft head....Of course I'm a huge flat head Chrysler 6 fan so I loved the sound of the engine...The hydraulics kind of made it have a whining sound...

Dads old 123 IH SP combine with the flat head 6 IH engine with a straight pipe sounded good too.
 
My earliest combine sound memories is of our 1945 Gleaner pulltype with the LeRoi 4 cylinder engine and that little acorn muffler right on the manifold. When a slug would hit the cylinder I can still hear that LeRoi grunt. When you would ride on the combine operator platform that exhaust was right at your feet behind you. I can still hear that engine today.

That is my one regret with farming with cabs, I don't get to hear the engines talk like I did when I was young. But with the acres we must cover today there is no other option.
 
I remember hearing the neighbors 95 running diagonally across the section depending on which field they were in 1 and 1/2 to 2 miles away , those old girls really screamed ! And those were the pre roundup ready beans days so you could hear it struggle with the cocklebur and jimson weeds.....and hear the cylinder pound and growl when things started getting damp and tough after the sun went down. Definitely the most memorable combine sound for me in my youth.
 

Everything Bandit said about a Deere is right on. I'll add one more to it; the inside of the cab is noisier when the grain tank is empty. Oh, and you can feel the straw chopper vibes more when the grain tank is empty.

On a more modern thought, the turbocharger scream a CIH 2388 makes is unique to that one model. We were in the panhandle of Oklahoma combining wheat on a still evening with five 2388's. The dust was hanging low so we could not see the combines for the dust but there was the scream of five turbos coming from this 80 acre dust cloud.
 
Hi Rich , My Masseys always fill the rite side 1st ,,beans seem to rattle the loudest ,always take note when I hear grain begin dropping into the left side ... The distance traveled for that to occur sometimes is disheartening ,, And Sometimes exciting ..
 
The axial flow IH combines you never know the engine is running from the cab. So quiet. When I hear the whine of the hydro increase and my ground speed slow I know the mud is getting bad.
Best sound yet was the straight piped 350 GM engine in the 510 Massey I ran for years.
My 510
 
Gleaner R72 with the BIG CUMMINS straight piped or not won on 'modern' combines!

Otherwise big gasser are nice!
 
The sound of a donut spare tire (off the rim) going up the feeder house of a 760 MF is one I'd rather forget!
 
The chrysler 360 on the oliver 5555 was a fuel hog but gave quite a beller with straight pipes,until it spit a valve out the exhaust,that was a whole nother' SOUND!
 
Look real close about 50 seconds in.Looks like he is smoking while driving an open combine.I've started enough little fires spraying burndown and planting to know that might not be a good idea.Cool video though. had a 60 for a very short time.
 

We sell tractor parts! We have the parts you need to repair your tractor - the right parts. Our low prices and years of research make us your best choice when you need parts. Shop Online Today.

Back
Top