[AT] Noise Concerns

[charlie hill]

Ralph I live on the bank of a river here and we get that
same deal with boats.  Folks will be out in their boats
trying to talk to each other above the engine noise and
sometimes talking about stuff they probably wouldn't want
others to hear.  They can barely hear each other but up here
on the bank we can hear them just fine.  It's funny sometimes.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2015 10:08 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Noise Concerns

On 4/4/2015 7:49 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> 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.
Reminds me of the fender mounted tractor radios that John Deere sold in
the sixties and seventies
before cabs were popular. To overcome the tractor noise you would need
to turn that radio up so
loud that it was probably doing more hearing damage than the tractor
exhaust itself. And yes,
people off in the distance could probably hear the radio as well or
better than the operator of
the tractor.  I never had one myself.

Ralph in Sask.
>

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