Installing speakers in the headliner of the B3030

[srs]

SRS

I always price out what the part I'm cutting up before I do it, Headliner $285.00, that was my just in case I wreck it price

I don't know with your workmanship I find it difficult to believe you would screw up something like this. It takes a lot of thought to do what you've done to your 3030 and they ALL turned out perfect. This also applies to the projects that 4shorts completes, both you guys do a great service here to TBN members by sharing your knowledge.

 

[WaxMan]

I don't know with your workmanship I find it difficult to believe you would screw up something like this. It takes a lot of thought to do what you've done to your 3030 and they ALL turned out perfect. This also applies to the projects that 4shorts completes, both you guys do a great service here to TBN members by sharing your knowledge.

Thanks srs, but to tell the truth when I do screw up, it just leads me in a new direction and I just make it look like that's what I had in mind when I started!

 

[4shorts]

I don't know with your workmanship I find it difficult to believe you would screw up something like this. It takes a lot of thought to do what you've done to your 3030 and they ALL turned out perfect. This also applies to the projects that 4shorts completes, both you guys do a great service here to TBN members by sharing your knowledge.

srs. Everyone screws up from time to time. I don't post my screw ups I appreciate your comments on our posts. I'm a member of a number of forums and post on all of them and it's always nice to get feedback on what I do. One thread on a bike I restored has over 44.000 hits on it now and that's rewarding to see there are those who are still enjoy viewing it.

I share most of my work online. Just the other day I was doing a little custom work on a Harley part a customer brought in to me. He had a pattern made out of plywood and needed a windshield trim made for the fearing. As you can see by the photo I made the trim and buffed it plus made the other aluminum parts. The trim is sitting on the same material the it was cut from. Just a small example of something else I do other than my usual automotive repairs. Thanks again for your kind words!

 

[DavidA]

Would you mind taking the tractor out and then going back inside and taking pictures of those large pictures or posters on your walls and posting the pictures for our review?

 

[WaxMan]

Would you mind taking the tractor out and then going back inside and taking pictures of those large pictures or posters on your walls and posting the pictures for our review?

Well OK Dave, but your supposed to be looking at my tractor,
Believe it or not but she's been hanging there since 1986 I never thought she would be in the picture until I posted the tractor.
For your review.

 

[ArTrvlr]

Hey! I've got a BelAire compressor... but I think I am missing a part!! I got cheated

 

[forester2]

Waxman- SLOW DOWN. I haven't even copied your light project yet and now you've done another one thats got me going. Did you do a previous post on how you sey up the dome light in your tractor and wired it?

 

[cisco]

Hmm, I love music as much as the next guy/gal (listening to a CD now, on a very good audio system), but I'm stuck with using an MP-3 player (the compact kind one wears at a gym or similar) and noise reducing headphones while on my tractor. I realize that your speakers, installed very well, are inside a cab - me, I'm in SC and only have a ROPS for mounting stuff. What is the ambient noise level in your cab - my L3410 runs about 80 db at idle, without a cab, much more when I rev up. At 85 db in a commercial setting one is supposed to have yearly hearing tests, and at 90 db a mandatory hearing conservation program (hearing protectors). I don't want to be a "stick in the mud", but when you combine the hearing loss that creeps up naturally with ageing to that of noise exposure, there's a huge number of our 60 plus year old peers who can't hear well at normal conversational levels, and are more or less clueless trying to follow conversations in noisy environments, such as a family gathering.
Without getting extreme about it, protect your hearing when it's easy to do so (yup, I don't use earplugs when hunting - heck 1 shot from my 7mm is all I usually need, and admittedly they "ring" for a bit, but my hearing loss isn't much, yet). It's worthwhile, and there's no good substitute.

 

[JJZ 109]

Picked up my new B3030 HSDCC this afternoon. Spoke to my salesman earlier in the day about a Kubota radio mount. He tells me that his cost was in the $250 neighborhood because the mount and speakers are sold as a unit.
Rather than argue the point, I decided to just look elsewhere or possibly have a local audio place do an install sometime in the future.
I have more important things to learn about this tractor and the way it operates and the differences between it and the JD 790 that I traded in so I 'll get to the audio at a later date.

 

[WaxMan]

Hmm, I love music as much as the next guy/gal (listening to a CD now, on a very good audio system), but I'm stuck with using an MP-3 player (the compact kind one wears at a gym or similar) and noise reducing headphones while on my tractor. I realize that your speakers, installed very well, are inside a cab - me, I'm in SC and only have a ROPS for mounting stuff. What is the ambient noise level in your cab - my L3410 runs about 80 db at idle, without a cab, much more when I rev up. At 85 db in a commercial setting one is supposed to have yearly hearing tests, and at 90 db a mandatory hearing conservation program (hearing protectors). I don't want to be a "stick in the mud", but when you combine the hearing loss that creeps up naturally with ageing to that of noise exposure, there's a huge number of our 60 plus year old peers who can't hear well at normal conversational levels, and are more or less clueless trying to follow conversations in noisy environments, such as a family gathering.
Without getting extreme about it, protect your hearing when it's easy to do so (yup, I don't use earplugs when hunting - heck 1 shot from my 7mm is all I usually need, and admittedly they "ring" for a bit, but my hearing loss isn't much, yet). It's worthwhile, and there's no good substitute.

I understand what your saying and your right about hearing loss, I'm not sure of the noise in the cab but I know the tractor is a lot louder when you open the door probably twice as loud when the door is opened . The cab makes it much quieter.
The reason for the extra speakers in the headliner is not to turn it up louder but since the speakers are closer to your head they don't have to be as loud.
At least it seems that way, My Ipod earphones would have to be just as loud and I'm sure just as much damage or more can be done with the headphones up too loud.
In any case a cab tractor is going to be less noisy then a rops tractor.
I think i said a couple of times I don't want to have to blast the music in my cab to hear it and that is what you have to do when the speakers are on the bottom.
I might pick one of those meters up , maybe even custom install one in the headliner

The better the system is the less volume you need to enjoy it.

But I agree with you on that and maybe now I will be more aware of the damaged I could be doing to my ears if it's too loud . Thanks for that wake up call. I appreciate it.