M4 SHERMAN "squirrel" radial engine irregular sound !!!
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2011
- Continental R-975 C4 radial engine.
This year (2013) this sherman engine passed a large inspection and works more stably at low speed :) - Auta a dopravní prostředky
I don't think I've ever seen anything that looks less like a squirrel.
TOG II. :P
The Germans used to call the Sherman the Ronson After the Ronson cigarette lighter that used to always light the first time. The Sherman always catching fire with the first hit. Rather amusing and disheartening at the same time.
Robert De
That had to do with ammunition propellant fires (rather, not stowing it properly or commanders fearing a supply shortage, ordering excess ammuniton be carried outside of stowage) not the design of the vehicle itself. With the addition of wet rack stowage and (when properly loaded) it was no more or less fire prone than any other armor of it's day.
Robert De All tanks caught fire when hit - take a look at aerial views of Kursk, you will all German and Russian tanks on fire all over the battlefield
donb1183 Both Russian and German tanks were much more resistant to catching alight then the shitty made american shit box
"We built too many radial engines, the planes won't use all of them. What shall will do?" " Jam them into tanks" "Brilliant!"
funny thing is these are quieter than the Ford V-8 powered ones
@@Xg04 more likely to breake too
Well that’s what we do in the US I mean the abrams has a turbine engine.
It gets funnier when they started to put helicopter engines in modern tanks.
My dad was at Fort Dix, N J before he shipped out for England. He was involved in tracks tests. Only Sherman to power out of the pine barrens’ salt marshes was a radial, five cylinder diesel job. It was rejected because if the oil seeping into the bottom cylinder, wasn’t drained, it could bend the bottom connecting rod. Think of how many U S Tankers burned to death over these army officers’ decision to use Cadillac V 8 gas engines in our tanks in Africa and Europe?? The Israelis used Sherman’s with diesels and French Turrets with 100+ mm mIn guns, in the 67 Arab Israeli war, successfully.
“Now we do not have the element of surprise. They will hear our Detroit motors long before we ever get inside that town.” - Oddball
Classic line from a classic movie!
"Don't hit me with them negative waves so early in the morning..." - also Oddball
'That's PAINT'
Woof woof!
I only ride them I don't know what makes them work
Commander (probably): "Alright men, You'll be fighting Tigers, Panthers, and all sorts of scary German stuff. You'll need the best tanks we have."
That one guy: "What's our tank called? The [insert big, scary, animal name]?"
Commander: "The Squirrel"
Then there's the first Sherman captured by Germany: "War Daddy II"
@@bobmcbob49
Americans: Yes daddy
Germans: wut
Americans: wut
Have you ever heard a german try to pronounce “squirrel”? Look it up it’s hilarious
@@bobmcbob49 Is that why Brad Pitts character in the movie Fury is called "War Daddy"?
LMAO :-)
That has to be one of the quietest tank I’ve ever heard
Wait until you hear M1 Abrams or T-80.
@@hailexiao2770 Т 80 когда движется на тебя слышен только шелест гусениц, рев слышен только когда находишься позади танка. когда служил рядом боксы танкистов стояли, когда нам было лень лопатами разгребать снег, мы просили танкистов отвалом почистить до бетона.)))
@@counciousstream dude...thank you for that video! It was awesome one the music died down.
@@hailexiao2770 abrams has a turbine engine u can hear it from several kms away.
@@santiagoperez2094 wrong, gas turbine are incredibly quiet when compared to diesel engines.
Sounds just like my morning toilet session after Taco Bell
FOAML8X it played me an ad for wet wipes after I watched that video lmao
Reading this on the throne the day after a good burrito, fitting
Lmao
You make it till morning?
@@x1mmx shitting my bed sounds different
My dad was a tracked vehicle mechanic with the 4th Armored Division in WWII. He always told me about changing the radial engines and cleaning piles of spark plugs. He made it as far as Nancy and Metz before he got shelled bad and sent home.
Terry from South Carolina
I appreciate your dad's service.
There was a book written by a mechanic in such situations, Death Traps. Eye-opening.
@@BlackHistoryReview I have read it. I had no idea what they went through other than what little he told me.
As Cdn ex-military myself - thanking him for his service.
Thanks to your dad for his service and his effort for our freedom! Love from France!
Great story Terry. Respect to your dad.
From a former M60A1 tank guy, that looks like a nice tight track. These tanks must be well maintained.
Thanks, I've been liftin a few weights recently..
Oh the tank, nvm.
@@huntforandrew both are good
Lol 'tank guy' is quite the title
@@Andrew-yl7lm Sir tank guy was taken so I had to settle for "tank guy".
0:45 i love that engine sound
Za Ko sounds like a cam in a big old school v8
It is an converted airplane engine, they used it during the war to reduce cost.
Sounds like it's hardly running to be honest, I laughed hearing it especially at 0:30. You can see why radial tank engines never took off that thing sounds like it would stall all the time hahaha
Sounds like popcorn popping
@@Phantom_Aspekt Never took off? Bruh it's a tank, duhhur
M4 was so tall because the engine is in the rear and the transmission is in the front. The drive line between the two has to pass underneath the turret bustle.
The fact that the M4 could be powered by a variety of power plants was a great strength. Also in the desert in Africa when the M4 was introduced the radial engine was a godsend. No radiators consuming limited water rations and the air the engine fan sucked in provided ventilation for the crew stuck in a metal box under the sun.
Then, there was a Continental, European Winter...... Brrrrrr.....
@@ridgerunner5772 There actually was provision for that. There was a selector that closed off the fighting compartment from the engine air intake. This made all the engine air be drawn from outside.
Granted there was no heater but the infantry around the tank did not have it any better. Can not think of any ww2 tank with heaters even when liquid cooled.
@@Cragified, the Twin Ridley Brothers, former Mayor(s) of Smyrna, Tennessee manned an M36 during the Battle of the Bulge and said the doors never really worked and they would stuff rags to ward off the powered draft to no avail..... They both won Silver Stars for their actions in knocking out German tanks at intersections... They would shoot and scoot.... They said you had to hang on when the TD took a shot and went into Combat Scoot... Anyone not hanging on outside the thin wall, open turret would tumble off the back.... They also mentioned driving on ice was dangerous as hell for the lack of weight and traction...and you could be in a ditch, all but upside down if you turned to quickly on a road or next to a ditch.....
Guys thanks for the detailed info. I really enjoyed reading all of this. Many thanks to all of you👍
Interesting! Did not know that, thank you!
The sound of absolute reliability and mass production
Perhaps the only strengths of Shermans.
@@AFT_05Gthere were also 76 mm variants with pretty good firepower. Other Sherman's had up to 102 mm of armor if I'm not mistaken. The greatest strength of a Sherman was adaptability
@@AFT_05G besides of course excellent visibility and crew comfort, good armour for a medium tank, the gun stabilizer, the excellent HE shell that it packed that the pz iv lacked, it was just all around a good tank
@@AFT_05G Looks like somebody watched too much History Channel. The Sherman was probably the best tank of the war.
@@floof4444 the jumbo sherman had almost 180mm effective armor thickness.......it was invincible to all german guns except maybe the long 88 mm
On the plus side, these radials were powerful, reliable, needed no water cooling system, often continued to operate even if one or two cylinders were damaged, and were reportedly easy to change out.
The radial engines might have been reliable and Powerful but they still didn't have near enough power for the tanks and where notoriously underpowered, this is one of the reasons they started sourcing new engines for Sherman's pretty early on
Being a long-time helicopter pilot, I have to say that nothing beats the sound of a round (radial) engine!
Now that is some muscle car sound right there!
A Tiger had the same effective armour thickness as a Sherman from the front, due to the angling on the Sherman. Slightly thicker from the side. At typical combat ranges in Western Europe and Italy (under ~500 metres) both could penetrate the other easily enough, albeit the Sherman with the 75mm was on more dicey ground there from the front.
+iatsd Under 500 meters was not the typical combat range for Tigers lol. Why the hell would it, their greatest advantage was their long range cannon, something no Sherman ever matched. Tigers were dropping Allied tanks like flies because of their superior firepower, range and accuracy.
At under 500 meters the Tiger could completely penetrate one Sherman and knock out another Sherman behind it.
"One of his Shermans turned the corner of a house and got off three shots at the front of a Panther, all bounced off. The Sherman then backed behind the corner and was disabled by a shot penetrating two sides of the house plus the tank." - Lt. Colonel William B. Lovelady, commander of the 3rd Armored Division’s 2nd Battalion
Fuzzy McFudger i would love a sherman radial engine.....it can push a 30 tonn tank 25 mph at least, imagine dropping that into a large car or truck........f*** yah, the sound alone I love..... obviously the tigers engine is more powerful, I still love the sound of a piston radial
sounds like me when im in the toilet
yep.. that cam has a heavy lope to give it that throaty sound
It’s called Squirrel because it was good at hunting Nut-zis.
Super cheesy dad joke (I like it)
I get the joke but more like this tank taking shit when met a tiger tank
@@kuratortrivia795 That specific tank is a 76mm, it takes tigers for breakfast
Nice pun, I like it.
Omfg
Good thing that guy walked ahead of it to warn people. I would've never heard it coming.
Confutse says a brave man walks ahead of a tank.
@@dingdong2103 I kept saying "Get out of the way!!"
He's called a ground guide it's a military thing
You forget that people are very stupid these days. Oh the guy in 50 ton moving steel box probably sees me, he'll stop
Radials always idle roughly. Watch the videos about WWII radial-powered fighters and you'll hear a similar sound. Since some of the cylinders are upside down (gravity working against fuel flow) and some are right-side up (gravity working in favor of fuel flow) a low RMPs there is always a tendency of rich mixtures in some cylinders and lean mixes in others. This evens out when the manifold pressure rises with higher RPMs.
Yes, the fuel / air mixing is no too good a low idle
Aircraft radial engine in a tank, that's why it almost stalls when the tank stops. Aircraft tend not to like stopping in flight as they have a gravity issue. So they like to keep moving.
To be fair an aircraft will *never* stop mid flight.
They'll either go forwards or downwards but they'll always be moving.
@@victorselve8349 Until they mate with the ground. ;)
@@victorselve8349 actually not true. Helicopters and few planes can hover, which is basically not moving.
@@himedo1512 Helicopters, and the few V-tol style aircraft all have intake. They don't count.
@@RadicalKattastrophe what?
Just imagining what it would have been like to be an 18 year old kid in one of those things, moving through France and Germany, just praying that you'd fight well and survive to make it home.
Fighting someone you have everything in common with for leaders who think you’re cattle? No thanks
@@deutscherfischer55 you like nazis?
@@deutscherfischer55 where do yall keep coming up w these comparisons....nobody had any gripe w the regular German people it was the regime in charge is what people didn't like...nobody hated Germany because it's Germany, it was what was happening in and around Germany by the leaders of Germany...where do yall seriously get these comparisons from
@@starfighter1043 Yeah it's a pretty dumb comparison, but to be fair the Russians did do a lot of messed up stuff as they pushed into Germany, and the allies weren't perfect with there bombing placements either.
@@deutscherfischer55 How does it feel knowing you are the most hated kind of person in society ? Fuck Hitler and fuck the Nazis
Thanks for telling me to turn on my speakers, I've been going since 2005 without hearing anything. Didn't know why!
Lol!
Pardon?
Carl: Hey guys, I stuck a cammed LS in the Sherman!
Everyone else: Goddammit Carl!
In fairness the radial engine used in the M4 Sherman made something between 350 and 400 hp. So a LS could power one. Hell drop a 5.7 super charged iron block LS in one and it would be faster than the stock engine. One from having more power and two from shedding a lot of weight.
That's the sound of 'Murica right there.
The sweet sound of a one hit kill
ᛏ Backtoast ᚢ The greatest tank of ww2 (along with the T-34)
@@thebakedtoast the sweet sound of the safest tank to be in when hit and after its hit as well. Pretty much everything else would brew up and ammunition detonation would kill survivors.
@@guenthersteiner8163 oh hell no
@@guenthersteiner8163 How in hell was the T-34 one of the greatest tank in WW2??? Please, PLEASE do some research
This explains why my wife gets woken up five times a night telling me she hears squirrels on the roof!
Magnificent piece of machinery! Alot of guys probably had a sigh of relief hearing that thing back in the day!
When I see a Sherman I think of Oddball (Kelly's Hero's)
To you a hero is some kind of weird New York sandwich.
Ukogbn W
I thought Heroes were chocolates!!!!!!!
Arrrrrrrrrrgh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+ToonandBBfan best movie ever :D
+ToonandBBfan Woof! Woof!
HOLD IT!! (Said in Oddball voice)
Reminds me of the 'Thrush' and 'Cherry Bomb' mufflers that were big in the 70's.
Glass Packs !
I can conferm they still live to this day in rural Tennessee. Go for a drive on a Saturday, and it's like a car show everywhere you go. Everyone just drives around the town with no destination.
Sounds like mucle car, not like those zing zing euro things
Cherry bombs are still a thing
Gees I haven't heard the name thrush mufflers mentioned in decades, I had one on my 64 Comet!!
The sound is amazingly satisfying!
I absolutely love everything about how that sounds.
Mmm, I love the sound of combustion.
With this sound i am falling in an instant LOVE!
Shermans sure were lookers. Seeing that coming up the road must have been a welcome sight for our guys back in the day.
Such a lovely sound.
She sounds amazing. Real pretty tank.
Squirrel?! What a cute name for a machine like that... :D
Cute it sure is
+22fret Tiger has eaten a dozen squirrels, and is now resting with a full belly.
+22fret The M4 wasn´t actually more than a squirrel. Ok let me call it a shoe box.
+bernisweltredsun A shoe box for those 76mm feet that it stuck up the German's asses.
What Tiger, the one who broke down 2 days before and had to be abandoned?
Oh, that's Gorgeous! What a gorgeous tank.
As a kid, I had the pleasure of riding in an M3 Stuart Tank that had a radial engine.
Drove it on the open road. I’d seen Kelly’s Heroes, and I definitely channeled Oddball!
Had a car come up behind us.
The look on the drivers face: priceless.
One of my best memories as a kid.
Damn that sounds good. I love radials.
That sound is distinctive of large displacement gasoline engines at idle with minimal sound suppression! I would sometimes pump extra gas into my 350 truck engine to get a similar sound for a few seconds on start up! I love it!
I love the radial sound. 🥰Nothing sounds better than a radial engine.
Never thought I’d be watching an old Sherman do a drive by on CZcams but here I am! Cool video!
the old m4 sherman tank sound great very nice old tank.
I also now see I kept the 75mm going instead of a 76mm.It is also notable that the Sherman platform seen conversions to alternate tanks such as the M10 Wolerine tank destroyer, and a mobile rocket launcher.The powers that be at the time were reuuctant to make any changes to Shermans,but necessity finally required it,and the Sherman really came through.Hard to imagine WW2 without a Sherman.
What a beauty the sherman 76s are
Sounds awesome. Like freedom. Much respect from Canada
I hear that sound and I say "where's the propeller?"
I just imagined a bunch of Wehrmacht Anti-Air cannons scanning the skies whilst an M4 Sherman rolls on by.
German Soldier: I didn't see scheiße! Did you see anything?
I have heard a sherman firefly drive around at a museum, these things are godawfully loud. Louder than a giant excavator.
Love that sound. Best music on CZcams.
This is m4a1 76 (W)
I love that sexy engine noises
Rrrrrewaaaawr!
Favourite tank
beautiful sound
I had a 55 Olds that sounded just like that. Thanks for that memory.
"How many RPM?" "20.....may be 30" "Wow I had no idea it could do that speed, 30,000 RPM!?" "No like 30, like one bang every couple of seconds..."
Tiger II: I'll put his misery to an end
Tiger II:
America: Wanna hold my beer? Y'all watch me skin this cat.
USSR: Oh, your approaching me?
Since that video, i love those engines sounds
Man, I love that sound!
Its a good thing I was warned about switching on my speakers or I would have gone on watching this without a clue as to why.
The Sherman sounds epic you should also check out the T-34,s engine sound both amazing!
@Mosella No, but the dirt and dust will
U have youtube link to that
@Mosella M88 is the best sounding military vehicle when the turbo kicks in they sound amazing. Just listen to this czcams.com/video/QGfr2M3z9wI/video.html
props to the dude that got out of the way when he saw someone filming, thanks guy
There were bigger tanks, faster tanks, far more heavily armed tanks, and far more heavily armoured tanks during WW2. But the Sherman was the undoubted all-round workhorse that so much helped to win the war.
The bullet-sponge of tanks. They made so many, the Germans ran out of ammunition.
@@paullangford8179 lmao you gotta read a book or two. I would recommend Zaloga's work, especially "Armored Thunderbolt" which is entirely about the development and deployment of the Sherman
In short, the thing was quite a dependable machine. Sure it had its drawbacks but when you compare it to what the Germans were fielding in numbers (remember, only about 16% of German tanks were Panthers or Tigers) they were quite superior.
@@paullangford8179 the only known variant of the Sherman made to bullet sponge is the E2 Jumbo. and that has 139mm of armor in the front glacis and 150mm+ on the turret shield. The regular Sherman was 90mm+ on the front glacis(armor depends on model and hull variant) and that was close to the 100mm of the Tiger and the Sherman was lighter.
Love how it sounds like a bellowing alligator.
I was recommended this video, SPECIFICALLY so I could read this comment at a quarter past 5 in the morning.
No Sleep Me (tm) is most amused.
Hmm ... wasn't there a flamethrower version nicknamed "the Aligator" or am I thinking about the British Churchill tank?
Outstanding! Fantastic, thank you so much!
Love the sound!
Can you just imagine being there back in WW2 and hearing a battalion of tanks coming in, god some of the stuff our grandparents and great grandparents would’ve went through back then
Now young adults need a safe space because words hurt.
@@jacobmccandles1767 so true mate, how the world has changed
Must be great to drive especially when you know an 88 isnt going to take your turret off at any moment. The sound also reminds me to book my wifes car in for a service.
Might be a little bit to late for a comment but still.
Well with the recon troops, scour cars, grasshopper recon planes, photo recon planes and light recon tanks always driveing ahead of the Shermans and scouting every bush, tree, barn, building, trench and hill the sherman crew realy did know when their head could be potentialy cut of by a 88 and they also knew exactly where the 88 was standing while the 88 didnt know where the Shermans where.
Complete air supiriority is realy powerfull in war.
@@jakobc.2558 you talk like there where 88s everywhere. Most M4s where Not killed by 88s. Your comment was and still is, misleading. That why i posted my sarcasm comment.
Wilco Wortel well still things that could kill the allied tanks were still spotted and maybe an 88 here and there
@@somedudeonline1936 jacob was giving the impression that there where so many 88's. the majority was probably killed bij panzerfausts etc.
Wilco Wortel wasn’t the battle field full of Tigers just slaughtering 50,000 Sherman’s too?
I think this s my all time favourite engine sound.
It sounds wonderful
I never realized that the Sherman was powered by an air-cooled radial, let alone five other engine configurations.
Depends on the variant
Sounds surprisingly similar to a CV9030 (served as a commander of one of those in the Finnish army), even though the engine is totally different.
So nice to hear
Just so, so impossibly tall. I don't deny they were effective and got the job done, but we definitely learnt more as time went on. As one might expect.
So you pull up to a drag strip and a Squirrel pulls up next to you. Would you let the Squirrel win? *Gun Barrel slowly turns*
Not knowing a lot about Sherman’s, I was really stunned to find that some of them had radial engines, but logical, saved space without sacrificing power!
Shermans had all sorts of engines, look it up youll be amazed of all the engines they used
it didnt save space, actually, it was a bodge to make sure they could use excess engines from the aircraft manufacturing.
it made the sherman really high, the driveshaft had to make a bend to accomodate it.
Ohhhh man! What a sound! "It must be a REALY BIG Tank" ... And than comes a M4... What a Show...
Gänsehaut! Das beste am Sherman.
Tiger: oohh fresh meattttt !
Sounds like my uncles SS 68 Camaro with a full worked LS454
Lol
Cam lope for days ;)))
@@laser69beamI love the sound of a lumpy cam!
Your uncle must think hes just the coolest guy in the trailer park & wal-mart parking lot...😒
Yeeaaahh V8 is V8 !!!
Amazing piece of living history...
The Ronson never fails to light!
Turn the idle speed up a touch dang
Heh. Aircraft engines dont like stopping very much 😅
I thought that as well.
The tank versions of the radials have different valve and ignition timing, they will idle over perfectly at low rpm, we have a Stewart at our military museum, it idles over like a big Caddy V8. We found ours ran better after dropping the fuel pressure, the fuel pumps were flooding the carb at low speed.
@@raygale4198 How low of a RPM is this idling at?
OMG I would give up my motorhome for one of these in my back yard!
Love that cast hull
Sounds like it’s taxiing for takeoff! Thank you for sharing
all these tank games make us forget how intimidating tanks in real life really are
Sounds great when it's lugging a little.
Love that sound!
Sounds so good
Big squirrel in the way, I couldn't see a tank
Sounds exactly like my 1930 Chrysler 66 when the exhaust silencer is taken off
"exhaust silenced"... Do you know anything about cars? Muffler?
NSarge same thing aye😉
@@NSarg04 Yeah but it does accurately describe the function of the muffler
i love the engine sound
That's a nice M4
Brilliant camouflage.
**Rolling slowly into enemy positions**
Karl: "What iz dat noize?"
Hans: "It zeems to be a zome zort of zquirrel. No need to worry, Karl."
Sounds like my dodge with a Cummins in it trying to start her up when its -5 degrees outside
this footage is so time-traveling
Video quality is better than other Video uploaded on CZcams 9 year ago.
Thank's for all comments :)
Me: Hmmm? Sound?
Petrolheads: *ORGASM*
I think it sounds great!
i learnt to drive a manual on one of those willys back when i was 14. it was an authentic ww2 willys that has serviced in north africa according to what the owner told me. it also had a bullet hole the size of a thumb behind the passenger seat, pressumably from an aircraft. it was a bit sketchy to drive on the road because the steering wheel had a lot of play but i managed to drive to a gas station and back home with it no problems. shifting gears was very easy and accurate. the clutch had a bit too much travel imo, like 15cm or somewhere around that. stepping on the gas didn't feel like you where going anywhere. i'd say it would take around to 20s to do 0 to 100kmh on that thing but it didn't go faster than 60 or 70kmh because 3rd gear was too short (it only had up to 3rd and reverse of course). off road that thing was absolutely NUTS. locking the differentials and engaging low transformed it into something completely different. mud? easy, near 25° uphill? easy, deep mud? sketchy but if i made it alive with no driving experience prior then easy as well. in fact it was so good the owner used it to tow cars that would get stuck on the mud or fall on the ditch (used to drain water on rural dirt roads) at the side of the road during rainy days, were the mud would get so slippery you can't even stand on it. same for cars and trucks. if you stopped, you would fall to the ditch nearly 100% of the times.
oh, and the fuel tank was right under the driver seat and the cap leaked, so you would smell a fire hazard entire time lol
Berlin is that way! Though.... you might be a little late
Sherman disappears in electric fog in 1945 reapers in 2019 lol
I arrived late to the D-day droppings and they had to launch me from a C-17 because no C-47 was avaliable, the AA fire still surprised me.