What type of hearing protection do u wear in the shop?

[nomoman]

1) No roll foam
2) Roll foam
3) Multi-use
4) Banded
5) Muffs
6) None of the above

I use the muffs.

[Gene Howe]

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[foxtrapper]

Depends on what I'm doing in the shop.

[dusty]

When I wear protection it will be muffs.

Is hearing protection needed as much in an outdoors environment as when indoors?

Example: Basement Shop vs Garage Shop (three walls)

[mickyd]

Muffs or I-touch ear buds.

[heathicus]

I completely overlook it too often. But when I realize I need them, I use the foam ear plugs. I buy them by the box for riding my Harley. (Maybe it's the helmet straps, maybe it's the funky shape of my head, but the wind blowing in my ears when I ride is so forceful it hurts, hence the ear plugs).

[robinson46176]

I don't wear hearing protection as much in the shop as I should but when I do I wear the same kind of muffs that I wear target shooting.
I grew up in the pre-protection days around all kinds of obnoxious noise levels especially working in a big room in a factory with hundreds of pneumatic cylinders firing off sometimes as often as 20 times a minute. It sounded like a rifle range all day. When we all shut down the silence was deafening... (OSHA? Is that some kind of woodstove? :rolleyes: )
I have a zillion hours of operating loud tractors and farm machinery.
I consider myself very lucky to only have very slight loss at my age and I have had that ever since that factory job back in the early 1960's.
Of course one of my brother-in-laws might wear hearing protection for one noise then play his music so loud in his car that the windows bulge out... :eek:
How about when you walk past someone and can clearly hear the music from their mp3 player.
Most of my woodshop machinery is not really all that loud. My TS-3650 is actually fairly quiet and I never put on muffs for a few quick cuts. Large ripping jobs, yes. MY big planer is pretty loud especially on something hard and the duller it gets the louder it is (kind of hammers the wood). It is always a muff job. BTW, it is a 5HP 220V and I suspect that I tend to allow it to get duller before sharpening since it has power to waste.
My jointer is pretty quiet. The bandsaw is a good muff job since it sort of screams while cutting.
I never wear the muffs with a hand plane. :D

[greitz]

Muffs (27 decibel noise reduction, I think). --Gary