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Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours?

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BobG

07-21-2005 06:22:35

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I read an article on the net about someone's favorite sounds on the farm when they were growning up. Here's mine, I was reminded of it this morning at 3:00 am when I could hear the neighbor out baling alfalfa a half mile away. It's the thump of the the baler compacting hay.

I remember hearing my Dad baling alfalfa early in the morning at 3:00 or 4:00. Even though it ment being on a hay stack in the hot sun all that day.

What's your?

Bobg

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pbutler

07-25-2005 06:55:28

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

Sound of a well running combine and corn moving all the way through to grain tank.

Followed distantly by the sound of a well tuned sickle mower when you first kick it in. Also the sound of planter chains and gears as you drop in in the ground and head out through field.

All takes me back a lot of years.

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tim[in]

07-22-2005 19:35:36

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

the sound of ear corn hitting the wooden bed of the wagon. bob white quail, the sound of my old 14 T tieing another bale and the pick up teeth that always hit the one band on the pick up.the sight and sound of baby pigs nestling down in straw.the clcking sounds of the manure spreader.

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Randy-IA

07-22-2005 17:17:46

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

I spent all my summers growing up on my grandparents farm in Georgia , they had a egg operation so chickens ( all 1600 of them ) was a given ! But my favorite sounds where the bullfrogs way back in the pond and the whipperwills (sp) at dusk ...Randy

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Our Farmer

07-22-2005 05:49:07

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

Dinner bell

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TRC

07-22-2005 04:39:39

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

My favorite sound is the whine of the gears in the ol' Allis Chalmers WD as she worked her way through whatever chore we had undertaken. I heard way too little of that before my family got away from farming.

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Burnie

07-22-2005 01:00:09

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

The silence in the field when the cotton picking's done.

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Burnie

07-22-2005 00:59:51

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

The silence in the field when the cotton picking's done.

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Don-Wi

07-21-2005 20:25:03

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

Mine is Grandpa's Oliver 1600 gasser any time it's running, they just have a distinct whine. I've been working on it for over 2 1/2 years now, but I finally got it running again this past Sunday, and fuddled w/ the timing last night. It's been over 3 years since it ran under her own power last, even longer since we've run it on the blower. Come in 2-3 weeks..... You guessed it!! she's goin back on blower duty for break-in. I also love the sound of our 1855 grunting under a full load, weather it's plowing or chopping, and just the light clanging of the tie stall chains when all the girls are musheling their corn silage.
Donovan from Wisconsin

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just a guy

07-21-2005 19:49:13

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

Where do you start, The crickets chirp, the frogs croak, the rusling of trees. Or the animals, just all of of them. There is no way to limit it to a favorite sound, because so many are special they are all my favorites

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Galen

07-21-2005 19:22:25

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

Wind rustling through the Cottonwood trees. The SLAP of a hog feeder. Blackbirds talking in the trees. Farmall H warming up. The lonely call of mamma at calf weaning time. An 8N mowing Brome hay. Cicadas buzzing. The "where were you all day" sounds your dog makes when he hasn't seen you for half an hour. The "chirping" sounds a side delivery rake makes. Windmill spinning in the breaze. To many others to mention..... ..... ...

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07-21-2005 14:37:26

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

Ilike the quiet on a farm away from the road in the morning and then the sound of a farm equipment(maybe a John Deere two cyl.) anything start to work almost too far away to hear.

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Danny Tabor

07-21-2005 19:03:28

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to 02, 07-21-2005 14:37:26

The low moan of neighbors milk pumps early in the morning. A sign that all is well in the neighborhood. Also the sound of the silo unloader and the corn silage hitting the side of the chute to the belt feeder.

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Jerry D in NC

07-21-2005 12:52:51

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

Ok I am having a hard time deciding which is the favorite one. I love running my little Ford 2000 at night using a NH Rolabar rake. My hay is under the the landing pattern for the local airport so you can drive along listening to the tic tic tic of the NH 55 and seeing the stars. OR sitting in a laurel thicket beside a mountain stream running fast over the rocks on a hot summer day feeling that natural "air conditioning". And as always the sound of a sicklebar mower cutting hay.... Oh well this post definitely brought on some memories

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larry w-tx

07-21-2005 11:00:01

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

Listening to the M plowing rolling hills at nite, seeing the red glow on the muffler and occasional spark drifting into the air. ahhhh what times. But this was 50 years ago in east central Nebraska.

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RustyFarmall

07-21-2005 09:37:45

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

The sound of thunder after a long, dry spell, just like I am hearing now.

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randy

07-21-2005 09:29:22

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

chickens

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JMS/MN

07-22-2005 08:03:46

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to randy, 07-21-2005 09:29:22

Chickens..... ..... ..... ..frying

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Count Me In!

07-21-2005 15:53:43

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to randy, 07-21-2005 09:29:22

My vote goes with the chickens. Nothing like lying in bed as the sun is slowly coming up, listening to the roosters announcing the day.
Just having a few old hens around is good for one's outlook on things.☺☺☺

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JSunderland

07-21-2005 09:42:19

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to randy, 07-21-2005 09:29:22

Randy

I have to agree that nothing beats the sounds of happy chickens. To expand on chickens, is when you have roosters in a crowing duel.

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Danny Prosser

07-21-2005 09:10:16

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

Mine was hearing my granpa starting his 8N to go to the field.I was only 3 and when I heard it crank up I would run out on the front porch and cry until he would take me with him.He got sick and died when I was 5 but I still remember pulling the cotton trailer to the gin on the 8N with him and buying candy to eat on the way back.I don't remember alot about my granpa but I sure do remember the times with him on that 8N.I think he probably smiles in heaven now when he sees me and my granson on our tractor.These memories will last with him just as mine did.

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Dick Kline

07-21-2005 09:07:38

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

A SMD staining on a plow

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Iowa Jim

07-21-2005 08:59:39

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

my favorite sound:

"Honey, why don't you stop what you're doing in the shop and come to bed..... .."

Jim

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Cheese head

07-21-2005 11:49:17

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to Iowa Jim, 07-21-2005 08:59:39

The sound of cows eating hay in the barn just before you shut the lights off to go to the house

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jimont

07-21-2005 08:42:49

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

Standing quietly in any livestock barn around midnight Christmas Eve , snowing outside.

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07-21-2005 07:08:32

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

Probably the sound of the Farmall mowing hay over in the field in the morning. A combination of the sound of the Farmall C engine through one of those old IH mufflers with the small outlet, the gear whine, and dad singing Amazing Grace thinking no one could hear him over the tractor. By the way I mowed hay with this tractor and sickle mower Tuesday evening. Still love the sound, but need to get one of the original style mufflers.

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Brian Mizikar

07-22-2005 06:07:03

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to FC, 07-21-2005 07:08:32

The slight clanging of harness on a team of horses doing whatever. Not alot of noise but alot of work being done.

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Sid

07-21-2005 07:06:37

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

Rain on the barn roof.

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jrp

07-21-2005 07:05:20

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

BobG where do you live that you can bale at 3:00 in the am? We almost always have a heavy dew here in east TN. that prevents us from baling until on up in the morning? My favorite sound is the hum of a disk mower laying down hay.

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Soldier Tom

07-21-2005 14:47:15

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jrp: East Tenn where? in reply to jrp, 07-21-2005 07:05:20

jrp, I was born and raised near Dandridge, a mile off Douglas Lake off exit 412 of I40. Where are you? If you don't mind my inquiry. We might even be kin, you never know... ~Walk in peace~
Soldier Tom

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HillBilly in Vegas

07-21-2005 20:11:54

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Re: jrp: East Tenn where? in reply to Soldier Tom, 07-21-2005 14:47:15

I'm also from East TN, born and raised near Bristol. My brother and I still own a farm there.

My favorite farm sound is listening to one of our JD 2-cylinder tractors getting ready to work in hay.

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Bobg

07-21-2005 07:25:08

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to jrp, 07-21-2005 07:05:20

JRP and Sammy the Red,

I'm in eastern Washington state and was raised in MT. We would bale alfalfa early in the morning when it was real dry, we would have just enough dew on the windrow to keep the leaves from falling off. We generally have less than 10% humidity.

Bobg

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Allan in NE

07-21-2005 07:53:38

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to Bobg, 07-21-2005 07:25:08

Yep,

The trick is to get the hay so dry that the leaves will almost fall off if ya even look at 'em.

Then wait til 3 or 4 am when there is a sloppy wet dew to bale. Hay turns out as if it was manufactured in a factory. :>)

Allan

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Kevin in OK

07-21-2005 06:52:50

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

I'm a big fan of the machinery starting up, seeing as how that doesn't happen all the time. That and the sound of wind blowing through the trees.

Kevin

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sammy the RED

07-21-2005 06:43:07

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

Never baled hay at 3 a.m., hay was to "Dewey". The latest we ever baled was around 10 p.m.

Always like the sound of the cows in their stanchons, while they ate their ground corn, just before milking them.

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Indydirtfarmer

07-21-2005 06:39:42

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

Sounds bring back lots of memories, but without a doubt, the "happiest" sound I can recall was specifically on May 12th, 1984, when dad said to me, "I've decided to sell off the cows, and get out of the dairy business". (Saved me from re-enlisting in the Army!)

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Allan in NE

07-21-2005 06:33:13

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

Hi Bob,

That "swish" sound when the crop first hits the combine bin.

Allan

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Allan in NE

07-21-2005 06:30:13

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to BobG, 07-21-2005 06:22:35

Hi Bob,

That "swish" sound when the crop first hits the combine bin.

Allan

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Illinois Boy

07-21-2005 06:50:48

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to Allan in NE, 07-21-2005 06:30:13

The sound of one of my tractors when it first fires up - that ties with my bird dog barking his greeting to me when I come out to feed...

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KRUSS

07-21-2005 07:05:17

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to Illinois Boy, 07-21-2005 06:50:48

The sound a W6 or M makes picking up its rpm s

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Harley

07-21-2005 07:03:47

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to Illinois Boy, 07-21-2005 06:50:48

You guys just aren't thinking again. It's when supper is called. Anybody knows that. Either by bell on the porch or by voice, it means the end of the day, and chow. Harley

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RustyFarmall

07-21-2005 09:36:05

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to Harley, 07-21-2005 07:03:47

Harley, that's what I was thinking. Mom sticking her head out the back door and hollering that supper's ready.

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Vince H

07-21-2005 08:22:12

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to Harley, 07-21-2005 07:03:47

The sound that is the most pleasant to me is snow falling through the trees. The sound I like the most is when idiots drive too fast and end up on the shoulder of the road while spreading manure. Nothing like the sound of a large clump of horse apples smacking off a SUV windsheild.

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workhorse

07-21-2005 19:05:09

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to Vince H, 07-21-2005 08:22:12

The windmill filling the cistern on the hill

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jason zang

07-31-2005 11:57:17

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to workhorse, 07-21-2005 19:05:09

farmall m with a straight pipe

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jason zang

07-31-2005 11:55:55

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Re: Favorite sounds on the farm? What's yours? in reply to workhorse, 07-21-2005 19:05:09

farmall m with a straight pipe

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