[AT] Noise Concerns

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Sat Apr 4 06:49:07 PDT 2015


John, the Brockway truck I used to drive had an 8V71 detroit with
exhaust stacks that came up behind each corner of the cab.  It as a
standard cab so one of the stacks was less than a foot behind my head.
The mufflers on the truck were gutted.  The guy that drove it before me
put an AM/FM radio in it and put both speakers right behind the drivers 
seat.
There was a speaker less than 6" from each ear.  In order to hear the radio
while in the cab you had to turn it up almost wide open and still could 
barely
hear it.  If you got out of the truck and walked 15 or 20 feet away from the 
truck
it was blaring loud.

I never spent much time around bulk barns.  That was after my time.  The old
Gas-to-bac burners in the stick barns were nice and quiet.  I have been 
around
the bulk barns though and they do make some noise.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: jtchall at nc.rr.com
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2015 7:31 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Noise Concerns

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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