ALL YOU LAWN CARE BUSINESS PEOPLE OUT THERE: DO YOU WEAR EAR PROTECTION?

[midnite rider]

We require every single employee to wear ear and eye protection at all times when using any equipment.

What about the married ones, not required? :laughing::laughing:

 

[midnite rider]

My trimmer guard took a lot of abuse and broke off. I did not remove it on purpose but found out that I like it better that way and did not spend the money to replace it. I wear safety glasses most of the time if they are handy and rarely use earplugs. Saay what?

 

[Ric]

Up until the time I purchased my first new Trimmer anything I came up with was used or County junk and never had a guard so by the time I got a new trimmer I was so use to working without a guard I just continued without. They all just ended up in the circular file.

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

This is a picture of the headphones I wear while mowing & weedwacking.

 

[exotion]

I use the harbor freight cheap ones, i have a habit of breaking the expensive ones and the cheap ones do more than an adequate job.

 

[lawn mower fanatic]

I also bought a pair of headphones with the active noise reduction, where if it hears a certain frequency it will send out a frequency to quite it (or something like that). I didn't like them, because there was a slight noise in your ear all the time. They did just as good as the 3M headphones, but where like double the cost!

 

[petee]

THANK YOU FOR THE INFO, RIC

I WILL GO TO LOCAL CC DEALER AND CHECK OUT THE ZFORCE 54 WITH LAP BARS--I'M WITH YOU--IF I WANT A STEERING WHEEL I'LL DRIVE A TRUCK

FRANK

MAYBE IF U WORE HEARING PROTECTION. YOU WOULDN'T NEED TO TYPE IN ALL CAPS.

Pete

 

[SUREYARDS]

I HOPE YOU LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO REALIZE TYPING IN CAPS IS A SENIOR THING

FRANK---SUREYARDS

 

[mowermec]

HI to you all.
Here is what I did many years ago to make my mower run as quiet as a sewing machine.The machine was a very old Hayterett with a 3 HP briggs and stratton engine.First I had to identify where the noise was coming from.Most of the noise was from the exhaust and the rest was general mechanical noise.Here is what I did.First I dismantled the engine and reprofiled the exhaust cam to give a much slower lift allowing the products of combustion to escape slower.I then connected the muffler outlet to discharge under the mower deck.Next was the problem of mechinical noise.There is a product on the market called Barofoam,this is a product to attenuate noise and is used in the Air conditioning industry to line the inside of ducting.With this product I lined the outside of the blower housing and the complete top of the mower deck and like I said it runs just like a sewing machine.No more ear plugs for me now.

 

[graydog]

Yes, yes and yes. Ear protection, eye protection, skin protection, etc.

Me too.....ear plugs, a good pair of goggles, sunscreen and a buggy top sun shade too. I had a melanoma successfully removed from my cheek 5 years ago. It cost $100,000.00 but I have good insurance. With Obama's healthcare, I would be dead now, as I would have been limited to $5000.00. The doctor said it was from sun damage when I was a kid.