When dropping a tree, what are you guys watching??

[rwoods]

Ringing is what drove me to muffs for shooting. Unfortunately, my exposures to other harmful noises didn’t announce themselves.

My wife and I accuse each other of going deaf while denying it is happening to ourself. Her culprit would likely be Bruce Springsteen.

Ron

 

[madhatte]

Every year when I do my physical for fire the audiologist is surprised how good my hearing is. I've always been pretty religious about PPE and it's paying off.

 

[newforest]

I hope this has been said, didn’t read the whole thread. When the mass starts to lift I quit cutting, pull the saw out of the cut, and proceed along my previously planned/cleared escape route at a 45 degree angle back away from the line of fall. So what I am looking at as the fall proceeds is often the ground so my boots don’t encounter any surprises and my hard hat is covering my head as it’s supposed to. I don’t look at the falling stem until I am sufficiently far from any unexpected possible falling object. Sometimes I can then turn and still see the stem hit the ground, sometimes not.

 

[056kid]

some say that short stints of high volume isn't so bad. if yer on the saw all day, do wear hearing protection.
This from a kid thats been playing guitar through cranked half stacks for nigh on 30 years... but I wear plugs with a saw, or around whining machinery...

Sitting a few feet in front of a 100w twin reverb that's breaking up isn't a good way to preserve one's hearing. Albeit half the wattage, the EVH 5150 iii I recently got is even louder than the twin. It rattles the entire house. First noise complaint I've ever had called on me. Must rattle the neighbors' houses too.