Real men don't wear ear plugs

[Tedster2]

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Safety is always an option...however bright and industrious you may (or may not) be.

I believe that's called natural selection, lol

 

[Tedster2]

I have had a giant box of those for almost 20 years. The box is finally about empty, hence the new purchase. The rolling up before inserting is what I am looking to get away from with these new plugs. I'm thinking/hoping I can one handed partially remove a plug so I can communicate with my fellow wood cutting friends, and then simply push it back in with one hand and continue cutting.

Could use a signaling horn, lol

 

[Tedster2]

Ear plugs or muffs anytime I'm running any power equipment. Saves my ears for Death Metal!

Roll ups, in Mickey mouses, lined with more dense foam. Lost em at a Tool concert. Hope some young buck/doe is using em and learning from my "young, dumb and full of some(thing)" phase.

 

[Tedster2]

https://www.baileysonline.com/pfanner-protos-integral-arborist-helmets.htmlThe price is painful, but you'll not regret it. I went through all the usual plugs, muffs and other helmets and finally said screw it and got one.

If I could go back in time, I'd have not been tighter than bark on a birch tree.

 

[Tedster2]

I am 49 hearing Niagara falls in my ear whenever its quiet and I "should" hear the birds sing or actually go to sleep.
You? That's like an 11year old baby telling me to plug it.

Wisdom comes from surprising sources...

 

[HansFranz]

Woah, 22 posts in a row all from the same guy

I'll have what he's havin!

 

[Tedster2]

Woah, 22 posts in a row all from the same guy

I'll have what he's havin!

I only date cracks whores, so......

 

[Tedster2]

I only date cracks whores, so......

They know what I want, and I know what they want. Since one way or another you end up paying for it anyway, it curtails the game quite a bit, ROTFLMCO!!!!

 

[HansFranz]

I only date cracks whores, so......

They can be some hotties!

 

[Tedster2]

They can be some hotties!

I am a shallow Hal though, lol

 

[Bob Hedgecutter]

I have an internal switch that turns my hearing off whenever my wife starts nagging about a job I should have done around the house some time ago!

Ahhhh, selective hearing- the only gene developed fully by time and the addition of a band to a finger of the left hand.

 

[capetrees]

Wish I had my earplugs in today!

Was working around a tree, lots of brush and branches around it and BOINK!!!! A stick shoves right into my right ear! Hurt weirdly for a few minutes, no blood but I can't hear 90% of the noise around me currently. Went to the clinic as a walk in, nurse took a look and told me there was nothing in there but the ear canal looks like it had some road rash to it. He couldn't confirm the eardrum being pierced or not so off to the doctor tomorrow morning.

Should be interesting

Went to the doctors today, confirmed that I did pierce the eardrum and off to a specialist on another day to be more specific as to what the damage is. 2-3 months and it should be back to normal.

And typically yes, I wear earplugs. Just not then.

 

[Iffykid]

There are DB meter phone apps. I wonder how accurate they are.

you get what you pay for and mic sensitivity on phones are all over the place.

I did not read all pages so it might have been said earlier, sound levels are cumulative so 90db over several hours may cause as much damage as say 110db over 30 minutes.

 

[Billhook]

Ahhhh, selective hearing- the only gene developed fully by time and the addition of a band to a finger of the left hand.

The switch is easily overridden by bedroom promises, another gene developed fully by time!

 

[PEK]

All little boys like to play with their thingy, I was told that playing with it would make me go deaf or blind. Should of worn ear muffs and safety glasses when playing with him!

 

[JimR]

I have an internal switch that turns my hearing off whenever my wife starts nagging about a job I should have done around the house some time ago!

It is called selective hearing

 

[link]

Wisdom comes from surprising sources...

I cant remember that conversation and I don't understand my own comment.. don't want to look back at it either.
But as for the hearing damage I don't hear Niagara falls, I must have been particularly annoyed at the time.
When its quiet I hear a constant high pitch ringing tone (peeeeeeep) quite loud. Trick is to always play loud music...
that is both the cause of the problem and the solution to it. Cheers

 

[Cricket]

Makes it hard to let go if the saw, lol. I prefer to chew the pitch. It's like drinking gin without the intoxication, lol.

Pinion pine sap - makes... interesting... gum.

 

[capetrees]

Pinion pine sap - makes... interesting... gum.

Ok, Ill ask, why?

 

[Tedster2]

I cant remember that conversation and I don't understand my own comment.. don't want to look back at it either.
But as for the hearing damage I don't hear Niagara falls, I must have been particularly annoyed at the time.
When its quiet I hear a constant high pitch ringing tone (peeeeeeep) quite loud. Trick is to always play loud music...
that is both the cause of the problem and the solution to it. Cheers

As is alcohol lol