The problem is, nobody on here is young enough to learn from a bunch of old fellows mistakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Take heart nchawkeye. Some of us (35 years old) listen very carefully and do learn from past mistakes. Earplugs are a must for me. Chainsaws, lawn mower, weed wacker, skill saws, shooting guns, etc... I even make headphones mandatory when I fly.

I wear muffs when mowing lawns. Yap the engine noise is deadednd but the hum of the blades is so much louder I think. I think I'll start with the foam plugs and then the muffs when mowing.

I'm glad we were por when young so our shooting was spread out when shooting game. No money to waste shooting targets.
At 67 I can still pass the hearing test those fools at the hearing aid store keep trying to make me fail.


Al

Some of hearing loss is hereditary. But most is from non use of hearing protection equipment over time.

I wonder how today's kids with their Ipad or Iphone plugged into their head jamming the loud music so bad the walk in front of trains will fare?

I do think those young'uns that do will be doing without hearing long before I or most of us lost it!

But then again - I made use of my loss - turn the good ear to the pillow and all is well or just sit quietly with no emotion as the wife hollers at you! Hey Try it! I have gotten rather good at it!

Sorry dear you where saying?

JW

Absolutely correct! My Dad was born partially deaf and wore a hearing aid all of his adult life. I was born with normal hearing and it was fine while I was younger but it's slowly fading away. I no longer hear deer coming in from the distances I used to. I was a machinist most of my life and before OSHA came on the scene, hearing protection was not mandatory so we never used it. Even a cheap pair of common foam ear plugs can do a lot to help save ones hearing. My wife is a very soft speaking person and I find my self saying "What...I didn't hear what you said" a lot more than I used to.

BPS

You too???

My hearing was always perfect throughout my 26 yrs. in the Air Force. I worked my whole career on the flight line on fighter jets. But just within the last 6 months I have developed tinnitus and had a hearing test. My hearing is in decline and I am loosing my upper levels of hearing. I am starting to not be able to hear my wife when she is talking to me from the kitchen. She also tells me that the car radio is too loud to her, but not me.

Getting old stinks!!!!!

Yeah, the ringing for me comes, and goes. When it's ringing at it's peak I can't hear a thing.

Hello - hello - with all that ringing is that you Muley?

Ya I got tinnitus too.......funny thing about 6 yrs back on my way to judge a pointing dog test my right ear just started to fade and went dead. I mean nothing but that constant ringing. I have very little hearing left. And no reason why as I was poked, prodded and scoped.....

So protect what you have left.

JW

May 1967, NVA mortar round. Hearing gone. Humped for weeks and weeks afterward stone deaf. Some (30%) came back eventually but now even with hearing aids and ear plugs around machinery, shooting, etc, that too, is on the decline.