[AT] Noise Concerns

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

We used to have a batch grain dryer. We pulled it with a straight six IH 
Silver Diamond engine with no muffler. If you had to talk to somebody and 
were standing close to the engine and fan you had to get about 2-3 feet away 
from them and scream. If we were waiting on it to load unload we tried to 
back off as far as feasible. No one thought of how load it was. I'm guessing 
dad's house was 1200' away, you could open the door and tell if the burner 
was lit.

For you Southerners, how about being on the backside of a row of bulk barns, 
all of them running.

John Hall


-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 9:59 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Noise Concerns

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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