03-16-2018, 05:53 AM
This Ag is always noisy and offensive narrative is somewhat misleading. If there is a tractor running all day, it is probably on a lot in the hundreds of acres. (And the noise is spread across a large area.)
Chainsaws, weedeaters, other tools? They are run intermittently mostly, and in daylight hours. In Hilo town, there's guys running leaf blowers all over. Every day. And I hear just as many barking dogs.
The noise that is most problematic, city or country, is 1) chronic and 2) occurs at night. Roosters and generators. And many people using generators are not farmers, and a proper generator house mitigates the noise.
Chainsaws, weedeaters, other tools? They are run intermittently mostly, and in daylight hours. In Hilo town, there's guys running leaf blowers all over. Every day. And I hear just as many barking dogs.
The noise that is most problematic, city or country, is 1) chronic and 2) occurs at night. Roosters and generators. And many people using generators are not farmers, and a proper generator house mitigates the noise.