Sound attenuating earmuffs

[Boondox]

Has anybody else tried these while operating a tractor? My first experience with them was really weird! The roar of the engine was muted, but there were dozens of little squeaks and rattles I'd never heard before, and the mower had this strange pulsating harmonic quality. Plus the background noise was interesting. Never heard dogs and sheep before while operating the tractor at PTO speed! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Pete

 

[GaryM]

I have a set that I've not used in a few years. They were recently uncovered during our move. I'll have to try them on the tractor. Then when the bushhog hits something I'll be sure to hear it!

 

[Soundguy]

I have a set of shooters muffs I use at the gun range.. muffles the 'attack' of the muzzle.. but yet I can talk to people next to me.

Soundguy

 

[hillslider]

Do they make a pair that would mufflel the sounds a 2 year old daughter, a 4 month old son and a wife make so I can watch TV????? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[GaryM]

I'm certain that they do, but the cost might be more than you want to pay! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[dmccarty]

BoonDox,

I use the ones that where mentioned years ago on TBN. Can't even remember the name, Pro Ears? I use them all the time with the tractor. They help. I also hook a radio up to them which works real well.

I like 'em. The only complaint I have is that its easy to leave the things on a run out the battery or have them turn on when they are getting bounced around the truck. The need a lock out switch but that is a nit.

Later,
Dan

 

[Poppa]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Do they make a pair that would mufflel the sounds a 2 year old daughter, a 4 month old son and a wife make so I can watch TV????? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif )</font>

Hillslider, some people call it finding their center, I call it being in the zone. I will often come out of a trance while the end credits of American Chopper or Amercian Hotrod are rolling to find my three year old daughter, one year old daughter and pregnant wife all looking at me waiting for me to answer an apparently important question that I swear I never heard.

Anyway, one thing I have learned is that the answer is never, "What?" /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Mike

 

[Richard]

I got the same set that dmccarty has and one thing I've found amusing (and my wife hasn't /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif)...

If I'm sitting on Brutus with engine running and rpm's up, I can hear the wife BETTER with the Pro-ears ON, than with them off. From HER perspective, I'm double insulated from her by machinery noise and hearing protection. SHE hears all the racket, sees me sitting there with my ear muffs on and becomes quite short with me and my unwillingness to remove them to "hear her better" when in fact, I can hear her better with them ON.

(it really IS true)


I've neglected to mention the obvious that I could hear her BEST, if I simply turned the engine off...but for some strange reason, THAT thought never crosses my mind during these conversations!! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Scozz]

Hey for what its worth Ijust picked up a pair of these ear muffs from here:
http://www.northjeffersonsales.com/k8108j/product.asp?dept_id=26&pfid=EEM004
They work GREAT ... I was not expecting them to work so well for $50.00 (compared to $300. models) but I must say I'm quite impressed ... Scozz

 

[SCDolphin]

I am glad the sound cancelling muffd were listed. I was ready to drop $300 on a set of Bose head phones. I wonder how they stackup?

 

[BrettW]

FYI,
I got myself a set of Worktunes headphones for 60 bucks at Christmas. If you'd rather listen to the radio/ music/ sports then these work well. I know some guys don't like them as the signal goes in and out a bit. So what, I didn't like the sound of my mower and tractor at 2500 rpms either. Now that I have a canopy, the sound is even louder. I listen to Brahms Requiem and mow the grass, good deal.

 

[Scrounger]

I travel aks fly alot and I have a pair of the Bose headphones. I won them in a raffle so I tried them. They are amazing and they do block out the noises that cause fatigue and damage.

Around machinery its odd since the higher frequency and abrupt noises like a cun shot are blocked while the lower frequency and pitch sounds are not. Hence on the tractor, you'll hear sounds that you'd never hear with them off and the deck or engine running.

The cost difference in all of them is related to the range of frequency it can block and the technology of the processor that handles it. Use a cheap pair and a high end pair side by side and the difference is night and day. Especially when you pipe music into them.

Another way to tell ok from great models is to listen for the soft sea shell sounds, the cheaper ones will actually produce too much white noise and the result is a slight wooshing sound.