10 Big Old Fairbanks Morse Engines Sound That Will Shake Your Soul

Big Old Fairbanks Morse Engines Sound That Will Shake Your Soul
Fairbanks Morse 32D 6 Cylinder
1936 Fairbanks Morse
Fairbanks Morse Model 32E
Fairbanks Morse 2 cylinder
1917 Fairbanks Morse Model Y
Fairbanks Morse 3 Cylinder
1919 Fairbanks Morse 2 cylinder
Fairbanks Morse single cylinder
F-M DIESEL 300 HP
Fairbanks Morse rollin' coal
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[@nigelman9506]

Fairbanks Morse engines are like musical instruments, they sound alive, I could put this on loop and fall asleep

[@haroldwilkes598]

Sitting in my living room chair grinning like I've got a roomful of puppies...I love these old engines.

[@scopex2749]

Im a lifelong engineer over 45 years, my wife cannot understand how I can fall asleep listening to these big engines - I told her its 'Machine Music'!

[@tomthumb5445]

I nap every day to a WWII Bomber playing on my laptop. Only way I can get a good sleep.

[@dennisk5818]

These are just beautiful machines from a time when quality and engineering meant something. Ah, the smell of diesel exhaust in the morning.

[@SurnaturalM]

These engine look alive, breathing fire.

[@Tom-jy3jd]

Those old dude’s in coveralls are a dying breed

[@caryd67]

My uncle had a fishing boat with an old Fairbanks engine. He showed me the original advertisement for the engine, and all it said was “Jesus, the light of the world”

[@kevinrice7635]

Agreed 👍

[@mrbillmacneill]

was that actually an Easthope...? made in Vancouver BC. That quote of yours appeared in the Marine section of the Vancouver suns every Friday and Saturday editions paid for by the Easthope family..

[@caryd67]

@@mrbillmacneill Ohhhhh yes, you are totally correct. It was in fact an Easthope. My mistake.

[@John-oe5nb]

You can keep your electronic ignition and computer run sensors. I can listen to these engines all day long.

[@rverro8478]

My Grandfather's ship was upgraded to a Fairbanks-Morse 3 or 4 banger. I never sailed on that ship but, my father did and, the only description I had about the engine was, the regular thumping/humming sound so, here I am, listening to what the ship engine room sounded like. Similar to the one @ 12:43 or @ 15:09. Thanks for sharing.

[@2StrokeDriptroit]

Nothing beats a 2 stroke. These big engines are built like small 2 stroke petrol engines with no valves in tge cylinder (s), crankcase pressure scavenging, individual reed valves to the crankcases, and transfer passages to the cylinder intake ports. Super simple, the way a diesel SHOULD be! Great engines! 😋

[@AgricultureTechUS]

Absolutely astounding, the future of science looks brighter than ever.

[@mountaininfidel2060]

A Symphony of Iron and steel.

[@subohmcircus]

In a post apocalypse age these wil become very valuable.

[@cslloyd1]

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.

[@johnschneider3082]

Wow these old engines are amazing and for their age they make “ in most cases “ less smoke than the majority of Russian T 72 tanks. And Yes their sound is almost hypnotic.

[@wideyxyz2271]

Nice to see the old "safety sandals" in use!

[@nerkonator]

Beautiful sound good old maschines.

[@smiley19912]

That big twin at around 9 min, is the engine that rotates the earths core.

[@Aquila-sz8pl]

Why are the negative comments at the beginning? These machines are fantastic.

[@user-ys3dh5gl3o]

Just beautiful machines !!

[@technofusionhd]

Yes they are!

[@richardstoteler1951]

They are pieces of art

[@TheWaterbug101]

Dravo Shipyard at Pittsburgh, PA used to install pairs of military surplus Fairbanks Morse 2,200 HP engines on their river boats that had dual over and under crankshafts with two opposing pistons per cylinder. They were of lower RPM with good efficiency for that purpose.

[@vovan515]

Работал на тепловозе с такими дизелями .

[@vovan515]

Работал на тепловозе ТЭ3 . Там стояли копии судовых дизелей фирмы Fairbanks Morse . Очень надёжна конструкция !

[@richlevenson6605]

Ah - beauty is truly in the eyes and ears of the beholder!

[@erikziak1249]

Three cylinders have the best sound.

[@blendpinexus1416]

these old engines are just awesome. are they efficient? hell no, they're thermal efficiencies are somewhere below 40% usually. but they just work all day long with no problems and usually don't care about how nasty the fuel is. wish i had a small single cylinder one of these.

[@mountaininfidel2060]

A symphony of Iron and Steel.

[@leon419]

For those asking about the amount of smoke these give off, these are most if not all, hit and miss diesels, naturally aspirated, no forced air induction, you are going to get alot of soot and roll some coal from inefficient burn.

[@fryloc359]

True, but these spend most of their lives running at load, so very little miss.

[@proberts34]

Very impressive. One of the more impressive things to me is that it took a 24,000 lb. engine to generate 75 hp, and it ran so much. 🙂

[@fryloc359]

It might only be 75 hp, but it's probably 5000ft-lbs of torque

[@MichaelMattison]

This and radials 👍

[@congerthomas1812]

I've ran 2 a 6cylinder and a 20 with 2.5ft bore,100hp electric turbo.

[@joegeiman2964]

Steam punk after steam! And before it was stylish LOL

[@joedulewich3207]

I love the sound of the old radial engines as well..nap time when that comes on... BUT,I also love the sound of machine gun fire and such to fall asleep with......loudly going on t.v. Drives my neighbor loopy...

[@tomthumb5445]

Engine number 5 in the clip is the sound you will hear in heaven everyday.

[@user-xu7qi8vs6x]

Hear how well it started with a peacock jammed in each cylinder 😂❤

[@shakuvendell]

I'm just glad I'm not the only one who heard peacocks.

[@proberts34]

I don't know what that means, but I assume it's good. So thumbs up. 🙂

[@mcjdubpower]

Gud mechanical techno vid 😊🎉

[@user-db2fb1db1m]

Beautiful Engineering masterpiece Amazing

[@technofusionhd]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@boe4448]

It would be interesting to know some specs and history of these beautiful monster power plants. Thanks, Boe

[@bruced1429]

put one of those FairBanks Morse engine in your mastercraft wake boat and see how is does, enough torque to flip the boat over witha 6 foot prop.

[@joedulewich3207]

I like how you think,lol.

[@mossieeduanmostert9508]

Like the Mod.Y the most

[@rebekahfrench5747]

Be Still going strong in another 100 years.. when everything else is dead...😂😂 they would sound better if loaded but..

[@edwhifferdill8063]

Where are these located? I would love to see in person

[@fryloc359]

I wonder how different they sound when they are running under full load?

[@Mesa_Mike]

Add a stamp mill for enhanced sound.

[@markskaggs9421]

Like to see any F/M Submarine genarators The 8 an1/8 or 5 an1/4 , 2 stroke too.

[@ricardovelasco3976]

I assume they used these engines as electricity generators.

[@theot4077]

Add: -- 18min -- 29sec

[@MdAktarurjaman-yu8dw]

The big engine where it used?

[@cwmbc]

I cant hear the engine sound as the exhaust noise drowns them out.

[@richarddodds9326]

I had a 1 cyl 9 hp that I loved till it was stolen

[@MegaGeorge1948]

Boy! Talk about the "carbon footprint"!

[@FixNewsPlease]

Hobby carbon production.

[@maxjakobsen5526]

crappy video of a really nice engine, add.

[@jimihendrix991]

... these brutes produce so much torque they could pull Jupiter out of its orbit...

[@dhstadt]

I don't see any coolant. Short runs only?

[@ErikVonderlieth]

Yes, I have the same question, how are these engines cooled ??????......

[@Jim-ku6ry]

The coolant is stored in an external tank and pumped into the engine block. In most of them you can see the tank at end of the engine.

[@janjager2906]

I watched this in horror, why are all these engines smoking like crazy? I’ve seen engines on display similar like those in this video in person. I understand that a cold start with a lot of extra lube is smoky. But why not a few video shots when they are not smoking. Or are they immediately stopped again because they are not cooled? Sorry, as an old engine enthusiast there was nothing to be liked in this video.

[@MrMADMILO69]

Horror? Drama queen. But yet you watched it anyway, just so you could complain about it. There's always that one crybaby, and you had to be it.

[@leon419]

Just so you know, most of these FM engines are hit and miss diesels, they are naturally aspirated, no forced air induction, so you are going to get alot of soot with each burn stroke, and unburnt fuel as well.

[@jbbumpkin]

@@leon419 Are they 2 stoke as well? Not that a 2 stroke diesel has to carry it`s piston lubrcation in the induction like a 2 stroke petrol (gas) engine. But it certainly looks like each cylinder is firing once every revolution of the crankshaft.

[@garyevans5335]

@@leon419 They are not hit and miss.

[@garypippenger202]

The fact that we are still amusing ourselves with air-fouling activities like this, shows me we still don't get it: our air, water and soil are getting completely polluted by our activities. And yet we persist! Of course, various car races, tractor pulls, demolition derbies, etc., etc., are far more polluting than seen in this video. Still, when will we realize that all non-necessary fossil fuel combustion has to stop!

[@seanworkman431]

Tell that to a container ship that burns 14 tons of heavy fuel oil per hour, I have no idea how much fuel an aircraft carrier fleet burns in a day and America has eight of those stationed around the world. Without fossil fuels we are going back to the caves and I'll bet you won't survive a week without your modern conveniencances.

[@timwasson1115]

You realize, of course, that responding to the video actually consumed some amount of electricity, right? And now your comment will be stored forever in the cloud somewhere, consuming yet more.

[@hswing11]

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