Re: Remembering sounds

tomstractorsandtoys

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I always liked to here ears of corn coming out of the picker and thumping on an empty gravity wagon. Untill a few years ago we always had a mounted corn picker and I loved that sound. Still have the picker all oiled up and setting on wood blocks in the shed. Tom
 
A distant train whistle or horn. Works for me like a sleeping pill when I am in bed

The sound of the milk trucks starting their engines with an air starter at 6 in the morning to pull up out of the unloading bay.

A hard working John Deere in the distance put-putting away.

The "peepers" singing away after dark in the summer.

Those were the common sounds I most remember when I was a young lad growing up out in the country.
 
I remember lots of sounds, but the one that I like the best is the almost silent sound of a team of horses laying into the harness when Dad lowered the implement. Don't know why I remember it so vividly, but it's in my mind.
 
The vacuum pump starting up when it was time to milk, and the pulsators on the old Surge bucket milkers. Oliver 550 diesel chug-chugging against the governor when the hay started to get tough in the evening- time to quit baling!
 
Remember that sound well. Caught myself staring at the old Oliver 2 row picker in the barn the other night and hearing that sound in my mind.
 
Pop "chuck-chucking" a team of horses out of the side of his mouth, to get them moving.
 
My first recollection of a sound is from my grade-school years. The Pick/Sloan project to channelize the Missouri River brought barge-mounted, pile-drivers to within 1/2 mile of my house. From dawn to dusk for weeks it was the concussive thud and clank of those machines driving 40 foot piles into the river bottom. And all for naught. That project is a total economic and ecological mess.
 
Several Barred owls hooting in the very early morning at mating time in January and February.
BAR in the dense jungle.
 
A train loaded with cotton bales leaving the gin, loved that sound as the big engines lugged to get
rolling. Church bells from loudspeakers on Sunday morn from Methodist church roof.
 
The sound of an old JD Model D off in the distance while that fellow was working in the field close to evening. Very distinctive. Bob
 
The sound of the Big Ben alarm clock beside my Dad's bed at 4:30 a.m., clanging slowly at first,
then erupting into a rapid succession of clangs. Followed by Dad's feet hitting the floor, with
him saying, "Let's hit it, boys!" to my brother and me. We would get up immediately put on our work
clothes and head out into the dark to get the cows in and get the barn ready for milking. And,
like Cooshoo, the compressor for the Surge milkers turning on.
 
Yes, the sound of horses working, the chains on the traces were wonderful sounds,and also the smell of the horses.
I must agree with another post the sound of the vacuum pump and the milking machines was wonderful music. Also the sound of milk hitting the bucket and watching the foam grow on top when hand milking.
 
My young memories seem to be not so fun. The sound of six sheets of wax paper being torn off the roll at about 5 AM. Which woke me. It was the signal that mom was making lunches for school (which I mostly hated- the school that is). The sound of mom winding her baby ben alarm clock. The last to bed every night it was the "quiet" signal.
 
We had a hired man that had a Pontiac straight 6 with a split manifold and straight pipes. It was 2 miles to Dewitt with 5 sharp curves and an overhead iron truse bridge with a wood floor. You could hear him and knew exactly where he was at.
 
John Deere "D" on the 48" Separator..1959:

The "D" would Bark when the feeder chain was piled high with Barley Bundles:

Bob..
 

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