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Re: Noise Pollution In Your Community

Unread postby Withnail » Sat 25 Jul 2015, 17:28:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', 'h')edge trimmers.

sick of them. ruins a summer afternoon.


Sorry, but IMO if you're going to let hedge trimmers ruin your day due to "too much noise", I think you're fighting a lost cause.

Where I live, the blaring speakers blathering on for hours, often after dark, from the nearby school broadcasting sports events (where there was just an empty quiet field when my parents bought the house) is probably at least 10x as loud as hedge trimmers next door.

The cops drive by, look around, and do NOTHING.

So if this is the level of your "problem" -- I respectfully think you're dealing with a lost cause, by a long shot.


Sorry to hear about your situation. I was just expressing that hedge trimmers are loud and annoying. I don't want to listen to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre sound track when I'm sipping Pimms and playing croquet on the back acreage.
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Re: Noise Pollution In Your Community

Unread postby Tanada » Sat 25 Jul 2015, 23:13:42

Hmm, all the hedge trimmers I have ever used were either muscle powered or electric.
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Re: Noise Pollution In Your Community

Unread postby Withnail » Sun 26 Jul 2015, 05:43:14

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'H')mm, all the hedge trimmers I have ever used were either muscle powered or electric.


These must be petrol driven. They are like a little motorbike or chainsaw sound wise.
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Re: Noise Pollution In Your Community

Unread postby davep » Sun 26 Jul 2015, 05:54:58

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'H')mm, all the hedge trimmers I have ever used were either muscle powered or electric.


These must be petrol driven. They are like a little motorbike or chainsaw sound wise.


Are you sure it's hedge trimmers and not chainsaws, shredders or circular saws?
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Re: Noise Pollution In Your Community

Unread postby Withnail » Sun 26 Jul 2015, 06:07:40

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'H')mm, all the hedge trimmers I have ever used were either muscle powered or electric.


These must be petrol driven. They are like a little motorbike or chainsaw sound wise.


Are you sure it's hedge trimmers and not chainsaws, shredders or circular saws?


No, it's hedge trimmers. You can see the hedges have been trimmed when you walk past on the days when the noise happens.
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Re: Noise Pollution In Your Community

Unread postby Newfie » Mon 27 Jul 2015, 20:18:37

AC co sensor units. damn things run all the time. We don't AC so we want the windows open. Let's in the roar.

I find the noise of the city oppressive. Nature is seldom truly quiet, if you really listen.

But out on the boat? Bliss, quiet bliss. I do t even listen to music.
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Re: Noise Pollution In Your Community

Unread postby Tanada » Tue 28 Jul 2015, 08:49:52

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'A')C co sensor units. damn things run all the time. We don't AC so we want the windows open. Let's in the roar.

I find the noise of the city oppressive. Nature is seldom truly quiet, if you really listen.

But out on the boat? Bliss, quiet bliss. I do t even listen to music.


True nature is seldom quiet, and if it is very quiet you better be aware something may be hunting. On the other hand the sounds of nature are random and often subtle, the sound pollution of mankind is neither subtle nor random. Our lives are to structured, and the more of us in one location the more structured they have to be for functional reasons.
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Re: Noise Pollution In Your Community

Unread postby davep » Tue 28 Jul 2015, 08:59:04

I love the racket of nature here where I live. We once had five or six nightingales singing all at the same time. It was about 1am and I was outside, entranced, just listening to the duelling birds in the dark; accompanied by the rustling of the trees and other, unknown, nocturnal sounds.
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Re: Noise Pollution In Your Community

Unread postby yellowcanoe » Tue 28 Jul 2015, 10:13:55

The houses in our neighbourhood always seem to have the furnace room located on the side of the house opposite from where the patio area is. The result is that when your air conditioner is running it is your next door neighbour that hears it -- not you.
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Re: Noise Pollution In Your Community

Unread postby Newfie » Tue 28 Jul 2015, 16:09:10

There are a few Go Fast boats that launch at a county ramp just across from our boat. Most have straight pipes and are loud as hell.

The worst offense, with twin engines is.....NOISE POLLUTION!

I kid you not.

Fortunately it is just an occasional problem.
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Re: Noise Pollution In Your Community

Unread postby Subjectivist » Tue 28 Jul 2015, 16:17:49

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'T')here are a few Go Fast boats that launch at a county ramp just across from our boat. Most have straight pipes and are loud as hell.

The worst offense, with twin engines is.....NOISE POLLUTION!

I kid you not.

Fortunately it is just an occasional problem.


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Re: Noise Pollution In Your Community

Unread postby Outcast_Searcher » Tue 28 Jul 2015, 17:51:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Withnail', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'H')mm, all the hedge trimmers I have ever used were either muscle powered or electric.


These must be petrol driven. They are like a little motorbike or chainsaw sound wise.

OK. Well my bad then. In my experience of hedge trimmers they're electric and they are quiet enough that they can hardly be heard over, say, 50 feet away. I mistakenly assumed it was THAT level of noise which was bothering you, which is why I said I thought that was a lost cause.

Yeah -- something that sounds like a chainsaw -- sure -- that's very loud and annoying.
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Re: Noise Pollution In Your Community

Unread postby Outcast_Searcher » Tue 28 Jul 2015, 17:57:19

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', 'I') love the racket of nature here where I live. We once had five or six nightingales singing all at the same time. It was about 1am and I was outside, entranced, just listening to the duelling birds in the dark; accompanied by the rustling of the trees and other, unknown, nocturnal sounds.

For me, the most beautiful sound is the mockingbird (at least when it sings like a bird. When it, for example, imitates a chain thumping against the flagpole at the main post office -- not so much (but amazing, still)).

Watching two male mockingbirds compete for a female's attention is pretty amazing. More sophisticated than, say, sheep butting each other or men insulting each other.
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Re: Noise Pollution In Your Community

Unread postby Newfie » Thu 30 Jul 2015, 08:35:23

We have mocking birds in our marina.

I wonder what percent of their energy goes into their singing?

We also have Great Blu Herons.....GRAWWWKKKKK!!!!
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Re: Noise Pollution In Your Community

Unread postby Keith_McClary » Fri 31 Jul 2015, 01:46:03

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Re: Noise Pollution In Your Community

Unread postby onlooker » Fri 31 Jul 2015, 19:50:52

I wonder how everyone would feel if it was completely silent for long stretches of time. Kind of eerie. Yet I think I would love it. As it is living in the populated N.East of US, my entire adult life, noise is a fact of life. The most important thing is to make your peace with it, cause if you do not then the physiological and psychological problems could become problematic.
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