(800) 853-2651
SHOP NOW

Everyone's different favorite motor Sounds?

F

Farmall706guy

Member
Hey, posting a message seeing what everyones most favorite sounding tractor motor sounds, regarding IH, but if its not, still share it with us! My favorite sound is my d-282 in my 706. A lot of people do indeed think them motors sound a little small with just a plain muffler OR straight pipe, though I do have a 6 inch diameter chromed straight pipe on mine, and ohh boyy, it sounds so deep and good, almost like a Cummins engine! It would sound like GOLD if i put a turbo on it, but I am saving my head gasket!
 
I really liked my TD-14 at the moment of switch over to diesel, and the TD-18, but I ran the TD-14 a lot longer. Similar with an MD or SMD. Looking forward to getting my 450D back to running and hearing it. The diesel blowing smoke and taking off is just great.
 
Indeed everyone, I only run my straight pipe during the winter months, (slow months of the year) but once summer comes around and there is a lot of spraying a cultivating to do, i put the muffler
back on because I do have to have it quiet when I'm in the field all day.
 
I like the sound of the 70 and 90 series Case tractor engines at work. Very distinct sound. Music to my ears.
Kow Farmer Kurt
 
JD 4230D, 4" x 3' straight chromed pipe, my parade queen.

1955 Chev 265, dual glass packs, 3 on the tree in 2nd half way up the rpm curve; didn't have one, just "Lusted in my heart" (Jimmy Carter).
 
The sound of my neighbors 354 Perkins in his '68 Oliver 1850. Love the sound of that thing. I also like to hear that 706 282 D as well, makes some great memories come alive.
 
Nuttin beats the sound of a Two Cylinder John Deere G Tractor or the Potato Potato Potato Potato sound of a Harley Davidson Motorcycle

John T
 
I always thought the turbo 310 Waukesha sounded a lot better than the Perkins in the 2-105. The turbo scream of a 310 on full governor pulled down to about 200 rpms under maximum rpm. is the coolest sound on Earth. Several of my neighbors thought so, too. The Farmall M and the Allis WC/WD also had a sound all their own.
 
(quoted from post at 08:54:31 01/24/17) The turbo scream of a 310 on full governor pulled down to about 200 rpms under maximum rpm. is the coolest sound on Earth.
Click to expand...
... for many that was just seconds before it threw a rod. :)
 
in the ihc line its the WD40 with its distinct sound. my favorite in john deere is the D and G with its deep husky popping. in the statioary engines its the type M with its popping.
 
8 T-33 turbofan engines working in unison to put 500,000 pounds of B-52 into the air, then watching that old bomber climb out tail high. As big and ungainly they looked on the ground once they took to the sky they became almost graceful. And I mentioned the t-33 as I only worked H models that had the turbo fan engines as opposed to the J-57 turbo jet engines.
 
I heard a John Deere G pulling in Big Rapids, MI around 2005 and I don't think I've ever heard a more awesome beautiful sound. I also like the sound of the Allison and Rolls Royce Merlin and Griffon engines in the Unlimited Hydroplanes and also when they were in the aircraft they came out of like the Mustang P 51 and others...
 
To me it was the sound of a CASE 2470 pulling a big disc. There is a very distinctive sound of the air going through the strato tubes into the engine combined with the mellow sound coming from the muffler of that big turboed 504 engine. Always liked the sound that a disc harrow makes as rocks pass thru it.
Loren
 
I read one time about the why of the potato sound. Seems, like a Johnny popper they went whack whack, rest, etc. letting the flywheel inertia carry you through. Makes sense if the sole purpose of the engine is to spin the flywheel....that does the actual work.
 
Anything that sounds exactly like it's supposed to when I get done working on it!

And an added bonus, the smell of new paint cooking off the motor!
 
Brings to mind of a talk me and a cousin had . We both grew up with flying by the seat of your pants farming none of these computers or idiot lights even gauges were few . One thing you learned was listening to the motor feeling the vibrations in the seat (the back and forth of the plunger on the baler on a small tractor you could feel it) and maybe thats my favorite sound not any certain tractor but the sound of an engine and machine working together no odd scraping noise or a stray thump. Even today both me and my cousin use that i can pick up at work if something is wrong than a guy walks up to me with ear phones and says how did you know that he still hasn't figured out why i don't like a radio blasting away. My cousin drives a new combine with all the latest gadgets and warnings he very rarely plugs up but others do i dont think he likes digging straw out of a plugged combine others like the radio and apparently digging a belly full of straw out.
Thanks for the memory of a warm day the sound of a tractor at half throttle and a baler running right good days
 
John Deere R starting on the pony motor... 1970, Uncle Sam's American Hoist & Derrick Model 2380 All terrain military crane powered by a Cummins 265 V8 diesel with a straight pipe coupled to a power shift transmission. The low RPM's of the Cummins when it shifted gears with the straight pipe was a beautiful noise. Any body else remember this?
 
I remember the J 57s full "water injected take off thrust", smoke so thick you couldn't see, nose down attitude as the beast slowly lifted off the runway, wing tips flopping a full 18' from runway parked to fully airborne, with the "cross wind crab" wheels set at an angle to offset the quartering wind while the fuselage was pointed straight ahead.....if you were 4th or later in a Bravo alert you couldn't see your nose in front of your face...so to speak......fire warning lights were the norm which went out several minutes after TO.
 
that sound of a continental gasser a h 277 or the jd 382.....loved them very quite diesel the jd 382.....in my massey harris 555 ...of course!!!...the H 277 in my 444....massey harris
 
yeah... and its opponent the orenda Iroquois... wonder how it would have turned out if not dumped like they did... would have out done the j57...
 
No sound like the General Electric J-79 Gas Turbine, model GB101(civilian rendition LM1500...Land & Marine). As the Compressor spools up, whine of the starter, variable inlet guide vanes closed. At some point around 1500 RPM twin igniters arc. The sound of thunder as the fuel air mix is ignited. As the CIT sensor and feed back cable operates the variable geometry, the starter stays engaged until G.G. is at some point around 3000 RPM. T1 temperature starts to drop (ambient inlet),T2 temperature climbs and T3 approaches 1100 F as the fuel control pushed the innards towards 1500+ HP! The scavenging oil approaches 200 + F. The scavenging oil pump located in insulation in the AFT bearing frame starts to heat up like a barbecue!
At -40F the Combustor casings glow Reddish Blue and heat emanating from the combustor aft is like non other.
As the heat penetrates the PT foils (Blades) the foils growth is so extreme they seem to have zero clearance to the honeycomb seals that ensure all heat must pass through the PT!

Check out.... S&S TURBINE on the NET....I dawn coveralls at their test cell from time to time:

Retired Gas Generator Tech and proud of it.

Bo..
 
Have got several Olivers, but I like the 770 best. Got a sound all it's own. A 2 banger deere Pulling hard on a plow is easy to listen to also.
 

Caterpillar 966G going into the pile, 2014 Camaro SS with chambered type of exhaust loafing along.
 
318 Detroit in a long nose 9500 GMC road tractor
4-53 Detroit in a Oliver 1950 tractor
Flathead 6 Chrysler in a 101 Massey or Wards tractor
230 Buda gas in a 40 Cockshutt tractor
Oliver 88 gas tractor
DT361 in a 1206 IH tractor
231 Buick turboed V-6 in a drag car
12 port GMC 302 6 cylinder engine
308 Hudson 6 cylinder
Blown 426 Hemi at high rpms
 
The sound of a Farmall Regular anytime - but in particular...

The sound of her popping-off on the third crank... on a sub-zero day with 6 inches of snow on the ground and your DC3 Case snow pusher just had the clutch go out while you were trying to back it into the shed with a different issue.

Husband had to jack the Regular up a little bit to free it from the frozen ground that day... but that tractor running was the best sound ever (it was so cold and none of the other tractors would start - but that old girl did).

OTHER favorite sounds:
A Rumely Oil-Pull coming across the show grounds.
Also any steam engine chuffing along.
 
My favorite engine sound is a P&W 1340 on the front of a crop duster working a field at day light. I remember as a kid waking up to Medlock Dusters flying around Davis Ca. and enjoying the sound. Later I spent 20 years in the ag. flying business. Steve
 
Yup, my dad's sawmill had a UD18 power unit, can still hear it in my mind even though it was 40 years ago he sold his mill.
 
(quoted from post at 12:08:54 01/24/17) 8 T-33 turbofan engines working in unison to put 500,000 pounds of B-52 into the air, then watching that old bomber climb out tail high. As big and ungainly they looked on the ground once they took to the sky they became almost graceful. And I mentioned the t-33 as I only worked H models that had the turbo fan engines as opposed to the J-57 turbo jet engines.
Click to expand...

Tractor related - any engine I have worked on and starts right up. Hope to have my JD A running this year.

Aircraft related - B-1B full augmenter, B-52G hiting water, B-52H low level pass. I have three years on G's, 6 years on H's, and 11 years on B-1.

Vehicle related - Pontiac GTO 400 4 Barrel trying to suck the hood down the carb.

Rodney 8)
 
I agree about the long nose GMC with A 8V-71. I drove for a company that had several, and we would pass other companies trucks like they were sitting still. Oh, the good old days.
 
We of course had the J=57s in the tankers, many folks won't believe it when I tell them a KC-135 with 4 engines with water injection was louder than the H model B-52 with 8 engines. My office was off the south end of the runway at K.I. Sawyer in the summer when the tankers were departing to the south using water augmentation stuff would vibrate on my desk, you stopped doing anything until they passed. I caught one of the MITOs for Global Sheild, there was a black cloud of JP-4 that hung over the base for about 3 days
 
Favorite sound, Flat six either airplane or automotive.
Next in no particular order.
Inline sixes, 6-71 Detroit, odd fire WI V-4 .
Cummings or Perkins V8s
Ground pounders V8n Can Am cars from the 60s.
British twin M/Cs.
British single ,such as 500CC BSA Catalina
There are more.



.
 
The sound of a big 4 cylinder like in a 40/65 Twin City, Caterpillar 60, and a 10Ton Holt. The sound of a big Rumely 2 cylinder. The gasping and popping of the 30-60 Hart-Parr. There is nothing else like it
 
560 farmall D on a 2 row field cutter back in their day under full load the engine sound playing off the cutters sound. 720 or 730 D working in the distance. And last but not least a UB Minneapolis Moline propane also on a field cutter. Memories of my childhood. One I learned to dislike was an H Farmall in 1st gear low row to mid idle first pass in corn with a 2 row cultivator. It seemed the fields had no end.
 
My favorite sound is the combo of the "BRRRT" of the 30 mm GAU-8/A gating gun and the twin General Electric TF34-GE-100 turbofans on an attack...or if you don't recognize that data the "A-10 Thunderbolt!" Only thing coming close to that would be the Boeing AH-64 Apache Longbow. In another lifetime I built the throttle controls for each of these. What memories.
Worst sound I ever heard was Detroit diesels...just can't stand the noise they create. Goes right up my spine.
 
429 tunnel port Ford in a crown vic police interceptor. with large diameter dual exhaust making black streeks at 50 miles an hour with g-70 wide oval tires. jIM
 
(quoted from post at 10:42:31 01/24/17) Sound of a JD 2 cyl.
Click to expand...

The sound of the pony motor starting a 2-cyl Deere diesel.

Any of the GM (now EMD) two cycles used in locomotives.
 
Yeah, my old '51 G with my "custom made" muffler sounds pretty boss when I'm plowing with the 555 3-16's about 9 inches deep in clay loam. Our little model M Oil Pull sounds good running our thresher if the bundles are a little damp or the guys pitching them in get ambitious. I used to like the sounds of those J47 GE jets doing water alcohol assisted take off runs on our old B-47's back in the 1950's, those little devils would crackle out the thrust big time.
 
The sound of a V-12 Allison or a big block Deere at about 200 ft. going down the track at a tractor pull.---Tee
 
Nobody has mentioned my 2 favorites. First is the r-4360 in a C-124 Cargo plane. On the flight line at midnight out in the wing crawl way adjusting full power mixtures on that monster 4 barrel carburetor. with head phones on it was not loud, but 3600 horsepower just throbs through your body.

2 is the sound of a 2470 cubic inch Packard PT boat engine under full power.

Also like the sound of my Case LA on the sawmill cutting a 24 inch red oak log.

Gene
 
(quoted from post at 10:54:53 01/24/17) We of course had the J=57s in the tankers, many folks won't believe it when I tell them a KC-135 with 4 engines with water injection was louder than the H model B-52 with 8 engines. My office was off the south end of the runway at K.I. Sawyer in the summer when the tankers were departing to the south using water augmentation stuff would vibrate on my desk, you stopped doing anything until they passed. I caught one of the MITOs for Global Sheild, there was a black cloud of JP-4 that hung over the base for about 3 days
Click to expand...

I believe that they were louder. I live in southern NH not far from Pease AFB where B-52s were occasionally stationed, and an air refuelling wing flying KC-135s was stationed for many years. The tankers were a common sight in the skies pretty much anywhere in the area, and it was not uncommon to have one taking off over you as you drove along I-95 just off the end of the runway. One day I saw one coming as I was driving up 95, and as it passed over me it made far more noise than I had ever heard one make before. The next morning I asked a friend in the ARNG who flew choppers if he knew why it was three times louder than normal, but he knew nothing about it. Two weeks later I found out that the Persian Gulf War had started, and that the tankers were taking off to refuel fighters that were deploying from Langley AFB to Saudi Arabia. A little while after that I found out that the tankers normally took off with way under a full load for the missions that they ran in those days. For this mission they needed to take off with every ounce that they could lift, and then they circled just off shore and got topped off before heading for their rendezvous with the F-15s.
 
A Moline 1350 or Oliver 1350 w the 585 diesel has a sound unlike any straight six engine I have ever heard. Saw one at a tractor pull in stock form there is a good balance of weight, traction and power in that tractor. They will have a deep rumble probably due to the large displacement motor. They just don't sound like any other six cylinder tractor.
 
I like the sound of the small Euro diesels. The David Brown 770,Fordson Dexta,most any of the Fiat diesels. They have a slight ping to them while being super quiet with a good muffler.
 
The motor sounds i enjoy are: my 70 Hemi RR with the .557 lift cam at idle, my 2 cyl Model A at slow idle and of course my little lady when her motor starts a run'n...
 
3 cylinder ford diesel would up, loaded up, with the governor kicked in... after an hour or so it just rings like a bell when it barks, and smooth as silk. Seems like some engines are made to idle smooth and not be used at full rpm and loaded, and some are made to run flat out and work... neither kind benefits from using it the other way... I like the kind that sound like they enjoy a load. Agree about the M farmall and the big Cases too. Also had an 806 that was a wonder..
 
My favorite is a 383 or 440 Chrysler engine with a Road Runner cam.

I may be different, but I learned to like the ear ringing silence right after shutting the tractor off at the end of the day. Another 45 minutes of livestock chores and then go in the house for supper.
 
The Chrysler Industrial flat head 6 cylinder engines in the Cockshutt SP combines that we had, whether working or idling.
 
We once had a particular Crane cam in SBC 350 in one of our stock cars. The slip that came with the cam said not to idle the engine below 1400 rpm for the first hour to let the cam break in.

With that cam, the engine wouldn't idle below 1400 rpm anytime.

Like you said, dang that was a pretty sound. 180 degree headers made it even prettier.
 
Favorite: Any turbo'd Cummins 855, pulling hard at 1,600 RPM.

Honorable mention:
- Supercharged Cummins 743 - the "iron lung"
- Continental F226 flathead (Massey 44-6 and others....)
- Oliver/Waukesha 308 (Oliver 1850 gas tractor)
- Mack 673/711 "Thermodyne" diesels
- John Deere 4020D
- Pratt & Whitney R985 (radial aircraft engine) and its cousins
- 16 cylinder EMD 567 locomotive

The older Cat D-8 diesel and the Detroit 8V71 are pretty sweet too.

----

LEAST favorite: Grumman LLV US post office delivery vehicle, and Ford F150/250 gassers
 
40-50-60 years ago I absolutely loved the sound of mildly muffled or unmuffled tractor engines under load. Now my hearing is so badly impaired that I dread having to make a telephone call!
 
The sound of a Mopar factory super/stock max wedge 413 /426 firing up and idling. That 13 :1 comp. ratio and partial fender well headers just made a sound you will never forget. Even better than a hemi.
 
JD 9000 series doing tillage pre tier 4, guy next to me comes up to the end turn and shift up 2 or 3 gears after the disc is back in the ground that 1305 liter makes nice sounds
 
Merlin aero engine. The sound that saved the free world... (imho)

There is something magical about that sound to me.
 
I kind of like the sound of all my tractors. The 3 cylinder JD diesel has a bark to it, the Perkins in my MF50 diesel is VERY smooth, the gas engine in the 756 sounds to me like a locomotive engine.

I've got a Wheelhorse tractor with a twin cylinder Onan engine and it sounds great. Also have an older Lawnboy 2 cycle push mower. The muffler is under the deck and it has a sound of it's own - much better than the box store Briggs engines screaming around the neighborhood in the Summer.

Bill
 
I have many different makes of tractors I own. When it comes to tractor engine noise: I have a John Deere G that when you put it under a full load it sounds like a canon shooting. Then come the Farmall M cotton picker when you put it to work but then give it open throttle man it sounds like on bad roar of an engine. the last tractor I really think is neat is my Allis Chalmers model B. Some times when you shut it off it will back fire with a 3" flame threw the muffler and sounds like a shot gun being fired. I have one tractor I call my quiet one it is a 1948 farmall Cub that C-60 engine purrs like a little kitty cat.
 
The sound of a tuned B-29.
a149677.jpg
 
The howl of a IH350 chopper being powered by our JD 70 in good corn. Could hear it a mile away. The 265 Chrysler flat head in my Massey 101 Sr. puller. Had it rigged up with a 2 carb Ellis intake and 6 straight pipes....that motor would sing!
 
An Offenhauser screaming down Indy straits, Any 50's model 2cyl Deeres ,a small block chevy turning nine grand.
 
The Buda six cylinder engines in my Cockshutt tractors are some of the nicest sounding to my ears. Especially a diesel model. But lately the real music to my ears is the flathead Mercury in the old 52. I never get tired of that sound. The slow smooth idle through the straight pipe or the full throttle blasts up and down the gravel roads.
Mercury sounds
 
How about that slow chug of a 450. The very distinkt purr of a Allis Chalmers "C" engine or the sound of a sewing machine that a CUB 60 engine makes.
 
Chrysler straight six 265 in a Massey combine. Get her opened up and loaded in a big crop and she would just bark right along.
 
At this point in my life , just still being able to hear any engine, sounds ok. Darn tractors claimed much of the hearing from my left ear. Still the sound of either my 930 or 1030 Case tractors running at idle , with a muffler, is pipe music for me. Never could see why anyone would want to run a tractor with a straight pipe. Bruce
 
The sound of any low RPM engine under load is pure music my ears, but nothing is quite like my old JD D pulling hard on a plow or disc. I help out some of my neighbors running much newer equipment, but the "feel" just isn't there. Maybe I'm gettin' old.
 
Those old flatheads and Y-blocks had a unique firing order and nothing else sounds like them. Whenever I hear one it brings back memories of my old 1964 Ford pickup with a 292 Y-block. Great old truck!
 
I like the sound of my 3cyl diesel Ford 4400 when it is idling. Just sounds so healthy!

I really like the sound of the Super M with a straight pipe, just a powerful roar, but I had to put a muffler on it for useability..

I really really like the "sport pipe" muffler and custom exhaust on my 1995 Chevy / 5.7 Just a good, solid sounding engine!

I LOVE the sound of my Duramax with a straight pipe.... Nice low end rumble, and fairly quiet when going down the highway!
 
Love the sound of the F-20's and M Farmalls under a load when still at home and the sound of the EMD locomotives when picking up speed leaving town. (PS my city job.)
 
A Farmall 460 gas definitely had a sound of its own. Kind of a deep smooth sound. You can be at a tractor show with 100 tractors in the field and when a 460 is started you notice that sound.
 

Not other engine has the deep burbling sound of a 550 Oliver at idle.
I like the sound of my 4000 Ford 3 cyl at pto speed but a 5000's 256 sounds effortless.
Allison V12 at any speed
VT903 Cummins cuisine along at 2200
My old Ford super stock 289 anywhere from 7500 to 10000 was music to my ears.
The Liberty Belle B17 toured our area a couple years ago, the sound of those four super charged Pratt and Whitney's was magical.
 
My friends black 49 Chevy with a split manlfold and smltty glass pack mufflers as he cruised by the school.
My Dads John Deere A pushing dirt with a blade and the motor would sometimes pull down to barely running and you thought it was dead, but no, it would hit again!
The slow boom, boom, boom of a big ship engine at full power or the really slow sound at idle.
 
(quoted from post at 19:55:35 01/24/17) At this point in my life , just still being able to hear any engine, sounds ok. Darn tractors claimed much of the hearing from my left ear. Still the sound of either my 930 or 1030 Case tractors running at idle , with a muffler, is pipe music for me. Never could see why anyone would want to run a tractor with a straight pipe. Bruce
Click to expand...

Yes, how could I forget the smooth exhaust note of my 930 Case? That and the neighbour's older six speed I used to run once in a while. You sat so far forward on those that it seemed I could almost reach out and touch the muffler. Big , slow turning and powerful engine there. And no, I've never wanted to run a tractor with a straight pipe for long.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

B
Favorite Semi Tractor?
2 3
Replies
53
Views
2K
Moline_guy
M
S
Two Cylinder sounds
Replies
6
Views
2K
buickanddeere
B
Tractor Parts Tractor Manuals

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.

Copyright © 1997-2024 Yesterday's Tractor Co.

All Rights Reserved. Reproduction of any part of this website, including design and content, without written permission is strictly prohibited. Trade Marks and Trade Names contained and used in this Website are those of others, and are used in this Website in a descriptive sense to refer to the products of others. Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy TRADEMARK DISCLAIMER: Tradenames and Trademarks referred to within Yesterday's Tractor Co. products and within the Yesterday's Tractor Co. websites are the property of their respective trademark holders. None of these trademark holders are affiliated with Yesterday's Tractor Co., our products, or our website nor are we sponsored by them. John Deere and its logos are the registered trademarks of the John Deere Corporation. Agco, Agco Allis, White, Massey Ferguson and their logos are the registered trademarks of AGCO Corporation. Case, Case-IH, Farmall, International Harvester, New Holland and their logos are registered trademarks of CNH Global N.V.

Yesterday's Tractors - Antique Tractor Headquarters
Website Accessibility Policy

Back
Top