"Coty" (coty) 03/17/2015 at 10:40 • Filed to: None

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Does anyone here mow lawns/ do other activities/jobs that require good ear protection? What's the best? Bonus points for low key options, hard to see or notice if you're looking at the person wearing them.

Party-vi > Coty 03/17/2015 at 10:48

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Just pick up a bag of disposable ear plugs at your local hardware store.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Coty 03/17/2015 at 10:48

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Other than ordinary foam-squeeze earplugs, I can't say I have any real recommendations. I personally like to use full cup/ear cover style if I'm somewhere noisy, but they don't play well with my glasses or safety gear and are the opposite of invisible. For practical use/easy-in, easy-out, I like the banded kind, but I haven't had a set in a while:

They are the easiest to pop out to hear what someone's saying, are pretty comfortable, and are easy to set in your ears - particularly if your hands are dirty and you don't want to filth your ear canals rolling the foam ones.

Luc - The Acadian Oppo > Coty 03/17/2015 at 10:48

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Honeywell Thunder T3s Earmuffs. With 30 decibels of noise reduction you won't hear a goddamn thing.

jariten1781 > Coty 03/17/2015 at 10:52

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Best are going to an audiologist and having them custom mold you something then wearing over-ears over that. That's what I did when I worked industrial. There's also DIY custom molds, but I've never tried them.

Now, I just buy a box of el-cheapo foam plugs.

Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole > Coty 03/17/2015 at 10:53

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Foamies, or some high quality molded ones. For maximum protection, I use my old David Clark headset from when I was crewing jets.

CounterTorqueSteer > Coty 03/17/2015 at 10:54

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I use these for shooting. Comfortable and easy to pop off to put and hang around your neck.

Meatcoma > Party-vi 03/17/2015 at 11:20

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You can get these with a little string attaching them like earbuds. I like those the best but any hearing protection is better than none for sure.

Party-vi > Meatcoma 03/17/2015 at 11:32

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I don't like the stringed ones - always a pain and they get caught on things.

Coty > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 03/17/2015 at 11:59

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Hopefully my car won't be as loud as an F-16.

Coty > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/17/2015 at 12:05

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I think I'm just going to get muffs, even if I will look silly in traffic.

Captain of the Enterprise > Coty 03/17/2015 at 12:08

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why is your car so loud?

Coty > Captain of the Enterprise 03/17/2015 at 12:09

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Because I'm an idiot.

Meatcoma > Party-vi 03/17/2015 at 12:11

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To each, our own! I reuse the ones with the string more than the ones w/o. I always drop the ones w/o a string and then don't want to put them dirty back in.

Captain of the Enterprise > Coty 03/17/2015 at 14:11

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Yeah, that'll do it

My Uncle has a sweet pair of work over ears with bluetooth and and radio they are kind of like this but yellow

http://www.ionaudio.com/products/detai…

Coty > Captain of the Enterprise 03/17/2015 at 14:18

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Oh that would be perfect.

jester74 > Coty 03/19/2015 at 07:53

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I can sympathize on how loud those Beetles can be. I found this article on sound deadening specifically for Bugs. http://1967beetle.com/sound-deadenin…