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[BB_TX]

Like Bird, I have had tinnitus in my ears for a number of years, probably from toughing it out in my younger years. Now I use ear plugs when on my tractor, mower, weedeating, chainsaw, or any other loud noise and it is much more pleasant. And like TC35dforme said, I can hear sounds with the earplugs in that I can't hear with them out. Seems the louder noise drowns out the more subtle noises.

 

[Nasty135]

Eight straight hours of any kind of loud noise will give just about anybody ringing in the ears unless their already deaf.. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

As BB TX said the ear plugs help muffle the loud and let the noises that you need to hear come through , Like its time to EAT!! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Indydirtfarmer]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Eight straight hours of any kind of loud noise will give just about anybody ringing in the ears unless their already deaf.. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

As BB TX said the ear plugs help muffle the loud and let the noises that you need to hear come through , Like its time to EAT!! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif )</font>

Whatta you fixin'?????

 

[Moon]

I picked up worktunes a year ago, and ...it worked okay last year, but now it works intermitently. Acts like a cracked circut board ..but I can't smack it or vibrate it to make it work. I still use the headphones for protection. I turn on the radio but for the last two mowings the radio has not come on even once. I'm ready to try one of the portable satelite radios like Freds talked recently in the related topics forum. ...All it takes is money! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Moon of Ohio

 

[SteveInMD]

I use Worktunes. No problems at all.

 

[SPIKER]

I too have tinnitus as well from workign around JET ENGINES for 6 years while in military. it is noticeable especially at night, unfortuneatly I learned too late what NOT to do. we / I did wear ear protection durring the long running engine periods but it wasn't enough. the high pitched crackling of the after burners durring tests did a good job at slicencing my upper range of hearing.

when mowing I use GOOD protection in the form of reuseable ear plugs which have a plastic clip which keeps pressure on the ear plug part which seals up the outter ear as well as the inner ear. (somethign very few devices will do) these I recieved form NORTHROPE the big aircraft MFG when I was in military. (I worked on their planes the last years I was in under strict test situations. which is why hrs of engines running at full power ) anyhow a lawn mower will kill the range of sound which we LISTEN TO VOICES with, so if you have a nagging woman, run a mower & kill of the listening abilities /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif other wise it is better to wear ear protection and if you hear ringing then it is already killing the hairs which transmit the sound to the brain and you are loosing hearing those hairs don't grow back like the ones in the nose & outter ears do /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

anyhow be ware of the ear phones as they can actually accelerate the hearing loss, people turn it up and the actual damage is not so much form the sound as it is from the viberations aginst the ear structure which can cause a different type of damage. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

MakrM

 

[JimCald]

Like you, I use a set of the Boise headsets when mowing. Not only do they reduce the noise, but they are extremely comfortable as well, I can wear them for several hours with no discomfort at all.

Jim

 

[Inspector507]

I use the worktunes too. I can still hear the mower no matter which one I'm using. I can hear the engine as well. I have lost almost ALL hearing in one ear due to a tumor and it's removal. They tested the other ear and found that it had decreased hearing too. Probably due to my job in construction. So now I try to preserve what little I have left. I wear an aid in the bad ear, except when on the tractor. I slap on the Peltor worktunes and sing away....... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
I'm sure glad no one can hear me over the engine and the mower......or CAN they??

 

[johan3400]

As it always seems, this site focuses on the problems we all face. After a life time of running tractors or Golf Course mowers I frequentley have ringing in my ears. I am going to check out the Bos Earphones now and see if I can help myself out a bit. Thanks for the good thread here.

 

[Indydirtfarmer]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I use the worktunes too. I can still hear the mower no matter which one I'm using. I can hear the engine as well. I have lost almost ALL hearing in one ear due to a tumor and it's removal. They tested the other ear and found that it had decreased hearing too. Probably due to my job in construction. So now I try to preserve what little I have left. I wear an aid in the bad ear, except when on the tractor. I slap on the Peltor worktunes and sing away....... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
I'm sure glad no one can hear me over the engine and the mower......or CAN they?? )</font>

So THAT's what the noise is.....! I THOUGHT that was a dying calf in a hailstorm.... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif