MP3 players while on lawn/garden tractor

Soundguy · May 11, 2005

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It won't be long before memory technology catches up. i just picked up a 1gig sd card for my camera the other day.. pretty neat.. 1 gig.. size of a quarter or so...

Soundguy

eberlej · May 11, 2005

I'm new to TBN and hope you don't mind my 2 cents worth. I had a mowing business for years and this is what I found to work nicely: I bought a pair of Stihl ear muffs with the removable ear cushions (made by Peltor). I'd buy a cheap pair of headphones from Radio Shack and remove the headband. Take the headphones and insert them behind the foam cushion in the earmuff, cut a hole in the foam to accommodate the headphone and then cut a small notch at the bottom of the ear muff for the wire. Snap the ear cushion back on.

These devices served me very well over years of service. One great benefit is to use a FRS radio that's plugged into the headphone to teach or coach a new user on a mower, tractor, chainsaw, etc.. This worked great until my daughter dropped the radio out of her pocket and ran over it with the flail mower. Ouch! Hope this helps.

Gatorboy · May 11, 2005

I put my earplugs in and hum -- that's my extent to music while driving the tractor. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Michigan_Mike · May 11, 2005

I have a Creative Labs MP3 player, the I wear under a pair of "ear muffs", and think it's great. I've tried cassette tape and CD, but this is the best. Just turn it on, and drop it into my shirt pocket.
Be carefull of the earphone wires though. You can get caught up in them when turning, and pull the earpiece right out of your ears. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

PineRidge · May 11, 2005

Soundguy here's a picture of the 1 gig Hitachi microdrive that our Nikon camera uses and it's only slightly larger than a quarter.

BigEddy · May 11, 2005

Just as a testament to the robustness of the Flash Drives, my son left his RCA MP3 in his pants pocket, and we washed it. Found it while moving the laundry from the f-load washer to the dryer. Pulled the battery, hung it in front of a furnace duct for 24 hours and it has worked fine ever since. Not sure how well it would survive a trip through the mower, but it did okay through the washer.

fishman · May 11, 2005

I bought my daughter a Creative Labs MUVO FM at Walmart for $98 a couple of months ago. They recently dropped the price to $79. It holds about 60-80 songs (256 mb?) which is plenty, and is very easy to interface with the computer. It just plugs in like a USB flash drive and shows up as a removable drive on the computer. Anyway, she really likes it, and the sound is quite good. Oh, and it receives FM stations too AND you can use it as a thumb drive. What a deal.

The various reviews I read always placed this model very high when comparing among the various flash drive mp3 players.

Now I have to think of an excuse to get me one. My vintage personal CD player the wife bought me in 1995 is still going strong, even after dropping it, etc. Can't kill it and it still works great. A whole 3 seconds of skip protection built in! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Soundguy · May 12, 2005

My kodak camera is the same way. At home I can hook the usb cable to the camera, and then it shows up as a drive.. i can copy stuff to it's internal memory, or to the sd card. then at work, my computer has one of those 8in1 readers.. sm sd xd, fd ms.. etc.. And I can then copy files back and forth.. etc. My old polaroid camera uses smart media, and my home computer has a smart media reader.. so that's an easy way for me to also tote files back and forth.. since both computers accept smartmedia. Gosh.. makes floppis pretty much obsolete! Just think.. an item the size of a coin holding that much data, compaired to a flippy drives 1.44 mb formatted..etc.

Soundguy

Wingnut · May 12, 2005

Gosh, I can say "me too" /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
I have a Creative Zen Xtra 40mb. So far I have ripped and downloaded 420 CD's (which put me at about 40%), and I'm hoping to get to the old LP's "real soon now".
I got the Zen in order to supplement the stereo on the Goldwing, since I favor back roads and can't always count on decent FM reception.
Although these have real hard drives, the hardware does seem to be mounted well, as the crappy Michigan roads haven't yet caused a head crash, although I cheat a little by putting a foam pad in the fairing pocket under the Zen.
I haven't yet tried to use it while on the tractor or bouncing around the lawn (I'm too familiar with the costs of head crashes ... having performed "open hard" surgery on PC's far too often). Instead, I use a solid state MP3 player. Less music, but it doesn't get used for 10 hours at a time like the Zen.

thcri · May 12, 2005

A bunch of the guys have them while we 4 wheel. That's some pretty rough terrain and we bounce around pretty good. So far none of them no matter what brand none have had a jump or skip.

I just go to make enough extra money to get one this year for myself.

murph