Hands free options for mobile for harvest

[Doing it for the kids]

that time again is approaching!

Fed up with not being able to hear and speak to people over the noise of kit etc in the back ground, what do others use?

I’m very tempted with a throat mic set up but they are either too cheap and thus probably don’t work or very expensive which being a farmer I’m not keen on buying!

Any thoughts welcome!

 

[TomO]

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[Dead Rabbits]

that time again is approaching!

Fed up with not being able to hear and speak to people over the noise of kit etc in the back ground, what do others use?

I’m very tempted with a throat mic set up but they are either too cheap and thus probably don’t work or very expensive which being a farmer I’m not keen on buying!

Any thoughts welcome!

Apple iPhone head phones.

 

[Highland Mule]

that time again is approaching!

Fed up with not being able to hear and speak to people over the noise of kit etc in the back ground, what do others use?

I’m very tempted with a throat mic set up but they are either too cheap and thus probably don’t work or very expensive which being a farmer I’m not keen on buying!

Any thoughts welcome!

Make sure the back window of the tractor is shut for a start - if not you’ll grow old being deaf and with farmers’ lung. Once you get attuned, you can still hear any anomalies albeit at a lower total decibel level.

 

[Robert K]

When the phone rings stop as that's normally when things go wrong as you are trying to multi task things

 

[Doing it for the kids]

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How will that fair with tractor engine noise though, jcb reversing etc?

Apple iPhone head phones.

I find the other person can’t hear me very well with these.

Make sure the back window of the tractor is shut for a start - if not you’ll grow old being deaf and with farmers’ lung. Once you get attuned, you can still hear any anomalies albeit at a lower total decibel level.

Agreed! And it keeps the dust out. Forever telling others to close the damn thing.

When the phone rings stop as that's normally when things go wrong as you are trying to multi task things

I agree if doing something tricky but if loading bales or land work it’s not so bad

 

[bobk]

Ring them when you're finished . I've not even a radio in the combine , the Mercs verbal is music enough .

 

[solo]

I have to use text in the combine. Wasn’t that what it was invented for?

 

[TomO]

They are noise canceling. Very clear to you and your caller. And a bargain.

 

[sawdust]

Jack plug cable from Phone into radio, works a treat

 

[d williams]

that time again is approaching!

Fed up with not being able to hear and speak to people over the noise of kit etc in the back ground, what do others use?

I’m very tempted with a throat mic set up but they are either too cheap and thus probably don’t work or very expensive which being a farmer I’m not keen on buying!

Any thoughts welcome!

Nicked the kids game headphones with a microphone it’s spot on £14.99
Excellent

 

[betweenthelines]

Do you REALLY need to be contactable at all times? Just how fecking important are you?

No mobile phones 30 years ago and the World still went round

 

[bobk]

Do you REALLY need to be contactable at all times? Just how fecking important are you?

No mobile phones 30 years ago and the World still went round

Think I put it more politely ..

 

[Neddy flanders]

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tried a set of these.
the side without an ear piece digs into your scalp.
you wont wear them more than 2 minutes.
put them down
phone rings and can only be heard in earphones.
pick up phone and try speaking into it,
realise you need earphones on
wonder where you've put earphones
caller rings off as all he can hear is swearing.
you throw earphones out window and go back to driving and using phone.

like you, I also need a solution to this problem

 

[Exfarmer]

You need a call centre operators headset with mic in front of your mouth.

 

[Zippy768]

tried a set of these.
the side without an ear piece digs into your scalp.
you wont wear them more than 2 minutes.
put them down
phone rings and can only be heard in earphones.
pick up phone and try speaking into it,
realise you need earphones on
wonder where you've put earphones
caller rings off as all he can hear is swearing.
you throw earphones out window and go back to driving and using phone.

like you, I also need a solution to this problem

Bingo

 

[deleted user 837354]

People operating tractors with the back window or door open drive me mental.

 

[milkloss]

People operating tractors with the back window or door open drive me mental.

Proper farming moosh. Need to hear when the haybob is about to self destruct behind fifteen gazillion horespower.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Proper farming moosh. Need to hear when the haybob is about to self destruct behind fifteen gazillion horespower.

Ah so not only do you go deaf, but you are inhaling dust all day and the cab interior is loaded with the stuff for the next man!

 

[milkloss]

Ah so not only do you go deaf, but you are inhaling dust all day and the cab interior is loaded with the stuff for the next man!

Hell yeah! No. I’m taking the pish, but I do have the back window open a notch so I can tell when the baler etc is about to self destruct. I find you need that advantage when cash is tighter than average. Guy driving the telehandler today thought it too hot, driving with the doors shut and didn’t hear the front propshaft rattling. 20 mph up the road and ‘BOOM rattle f**kity feck rattle’ and bits all over the road, guard destroyed, uj flange wrecked etc etc. Might just have been prevented with the door open and a 3/8 spanner on the spider cups for a couple, of mins. But no. The radio and air con was more important.

What about this?