If you spend any amount of time on a tractor while mowing alpaca pastures then you will know that the noise can be really bad. If your tractor has a cab then this makes a big difference , but how many of us can afford a cab on our tractors?

So whats the answer? Well there are all manner of ear defenders out there that will do a great job. However if you want to listen to music or talk radio then you have to crank the volume up so high that its probably causing more damage than the tractor noise was in the first place.

But I now have a better answer, last week was my birthday and my eldest son bought me a John Deere noise cancelling headset.



The John Deere headset provides 18 decibels of noise cancellation which is the highest of any active noise reduction (ANR) headset on the market. It is the only headset specially tuned to reduce the ambient repetitive noise produced by residential and commercial lawn tractors, agricultural equipment and hand held products such as gas trimmers and leaf blowers.

They are quite amazing you put in two AAA batteries and put them on, straight away the noise is reduced, but then you flick the "ON" switch and the noise justs melts away!

They aren't cheap at $89.99 but they are much cheaper than similar sets offered by Bose and Panasonic.

Bottom line; I can now listen to the radio while mowing and I don't have to crank up the volume to factor 9 to hear it. Plus my ears are protected from the constant noise created by the tractor and mowing machine.



Adrian Stewart