[AT] Noise Concerns

[Gene Dotson]

    I started farming in 1972 with a Case 700 and 800. Was working a full 
time job and working in the fields in the evenings. I would come in from the 
tractor and be completely fatigued and just needed to sit for a while to 
even spend time with the kids. I brought home some of the earplugs from work 
and started wearing them. Made a big difference even though the tractors 
were not that loud. Was able to come home and be in a good mood. Another 
advantage is they keep the bugs out of my ears. Seems bugs have a strong 
attraction to my ears, especially when cutting hay.

                        Gene




-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 11:06 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Noise Concerns

On 4/3/2015 8:22 AM, Dennis Johnson wrote:
> Herb,
>
> Probably a bigger concern is noise from riding mowers and weed eaters.
>
> Todays tractors have slightly quieter engines, cabs to shield noise, etc. 
> Still, hearing protection is good to used.
>
> Thanks,
> Dennis
>
>
>> On Apr 3, 2015, at 8:38 AM, Herb Metz <metz-h.b at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> The noise(s) created by boosters (turbo-chargers, super-charges, etc) is 
>> the subject. The screaming Detroit Diesel two cycle truck engine of a 
>> couple decades ago have been thoroughly discussed; conclusion was “you 
>> can tell who the operators were because they hollered ‘what’ the loudest 
>> and the most frequent”; so that does not need re-discussed.  My 
>> experience is none;  last sizeable tractor I operated was Dad’s Super M 
>> in 1968, before he retired.  What about todays operators; should they be 
>> using special hearing protection for db. protection?  for frequency 
>> protection?  Hopefully those few operators (not many on an antique 
>> tractor forum) are using any needed protection, and can share such 
>> information. Herb(GA)
>> ___
Foam ear plugs are the best I have found and I still use them even on
the quiet cabbed machinery that I run in the fields. it makes a
difference I can notice on the odd day I forget to wear them.
The ear muffs might be handy but I've found I could only wear them for a
short time before they put way too much pressure on my head and I could
not stand it. But I don't think even the foam plugs are any guarantee
against hearing loss in some cases. I had a grandfather, and a
grandmother who had never operated motorized equipment and both were
extremely hard of hearing as they used to say. You had to shout to make
them hear. As a kid that taught me to protect my ears as much as
possible. So far it seems to have helped.

Ralph in Sask.

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