[AT] Noise Concerns

[Ralph Goff]

On 4/3/2015 3:13 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> I spent a zillion hours running tractors from the time I was 8 or 9 (early
> 1950's). Some of the time mufflers were optional. Some of the loudest stuff
> was the hammer mill, corn sheller and the hay chopper. The old John Deere
> 45 combine cab got pretty loud when running corn.
The first worst noise I recall as a kid was the first time I helped dad 
cut firewood with the "buzz saw".
That thing just screamed and literally hurt my ears. After that I 
noticed working by the hammer mill
was also annoyingly loud . When I first started field work with a few 
hours of harrowing with the
Cockshutt 40 I did not think it all that loud but that evening when I 
shut down and noticed there was
a noise in my ears it made me think. I started using cumpled up kleenex 
to plug my ears. Better than
nothing but not by much. Eventually someone showed me the foam ear 
plugs. They are amazing
at blocking sound and they actually make it easier to hear the radio in 
the cab. They seem to block the
tractor noise and clear up the radio talk.
Nowadays the grain vac is about the noisiest machine on the farm. 
Definitely an "earplug zone" but
it sure beats shoveling grain.

Ralph in Sask.
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