Sometimes the solution is simple

[Faulkner]

When I'm bush hogging on my tractor or mowing on my zero turn I like to listen to audio books on my Audible account. I've always worn ear muffs or plugs when on the tractor or mower to save wear & tear on my hearing but the past couple of years I transitioned to a bluetooth headset that doubles as ear muffs to keep the noise out. I also like the fact that with the bluetooth headset I can take calls or text messages from Mrs. Faulkner or emergency calls from the sheriff's dispatcher even when I'm out in the fields.

The bluetooth arrangement has worked well except for one thing, I really didn't have a good way to hang on to my iPhone. I had it fall out of the cup holders several times (and fortunately I've never ran over it), then I wrapped it in a koozie to help hold it in the cup holder, but I've had limps knock it out. I usually don't know it's fallen out until I start to get out of bluetooth range and then I have to backtrack to find it, which hasn't always been easy. Putting it in my pocket seems like a logical option but in the hot Arkansas summers I'm on the equipment a lot wearing T-shirt and shorts and that hasn't worked out well either.

Well, recently I picked up several surplus M16/AR15 magazine pouches out of the $2.00 bin from the military surplus store. They were laying on my workbench and I just happened to lay my iPhone next to one of them. Curiously, it caught my eye that the iPhone might fit in the pouch and when I opened the flap it fit perfectly. Now, I'm not saying I'm the first to ever determine this, but it was an epiphany for me.

With the iPhone in the pouch I walked over to the tractor and looked for a spot to mount the case that would be handy from the seat and found that on the roll bar would work. I tried it out this morning and works perfectly. I mounted another one on the roll bar of my zero turn as well.

Such a simple solution.

 

[Eric300]

Sold! Necessity is the Mother of Invention. Great idea. I've had my cell phone slip out of my pants pocket and slip into a crevasse between the gas tank and seat on my Z Turn mower. The void was just wide enough for the phone to fall into. I couldn't even see it while looking for it. Fortunately, someone called while I was searching for it and I saw the screen light up. I had to make a hook on the end of a straightened wire coat hanger to fish it out. It was like playing a carnival game.

 

[Faulkner]

Sold! Necessity is the Mother of Invention. Great idea. I've had my cell phone slip out of my pants pocket and slip into a crevasse between the gas tank and seat on my Z Turn mower. The void was just wide enough for the phone to fall into. I couldn't even see it while looking for it. Fortunately, someone called while I was searching for it and I saw the screen light up. I had to make a hook on the end of a straightened wire coat hanger to fish it out. It was like playing a carnival game.

Same here on my zero turn. It's not easy to see and once you do find it it's not easy to fish out. At least when it falls in a crevasse it's not exposed to getting run over like when it falls out on the ground.

 

[Puller]

Wow, I'm going to give that a try.

 

[Alk8944]

Wow, I'm going to give that a try.

Actually the expression should be "Invention is the Mother of Necessity"! Many products we use every day that are considered indispensable were invented by enterprising people before the need for them was appreciated! Now that Faulkner has discovered the utility of those magazine pouches he, and others based on comments, will consider them to be necessary.

 

[wundudnee]

I was once mowing my pasture with my tractor and brushhog. A bee flew into my face and I made a swipe at it knocking my glasses off in the process. I heard them go through the mower. I never had the will to carry my phone. I know I would probably mow it.

 

[Smoke]

The only drawback might be over heating while it's in the pouch.

 

[Protocall_Design]

Poverty is the father of invention...

 

[Eric300]

Actually the expression should be "Invention is the Mother of Necessity"!

My lisdexity must be kicking in.....

 

[Breakaway500]

I like the peace of quiet when I mow with a good set of comfy ear muffs. It's 2 hrs of just listening to the voices in my head.

 

[pmanton]

I wear Dickies work pants that have a pouch on the right leg that seems to be made to hold an iPhone.

 

[Faulkner]

I wear Dickies work pants that have a pouch on the right leg that seems to be made to hold an iPhone.

Yep, Dickies or Carharts are good weather permitting, but this time of year I'm usually wearing cargo shorts and I've had the phone work out of my pocket on those.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

You might consider a "Dummy Cord" from the headphones to a shirt buttonhole, for that sadistic tree branch trying to get the phones squished under the mower deck.

Ivan

 

[Faulkner]

You might consider a "Dummy Cord" from the headphones to a shirt buttonhole, for that sadistic tree branch trying to get the phones squished under the mower deck.

Ivan

I have trimmed all my trees so that I can drive my tractor under them without any limbs hitting the roll bar. My zero turn sits lower, so if my tractor can go under the zero turn can too.

 

[swsig]

I have four shirts from Cabela's (the old, good Cabela's) that easily hold cell phones. Two are long sleeve, two are short sleeve. I wear them constantly. They are similar to the one linked below from today's Cabela's. They all have a vertical zippered pouch located behind the left breast pocket that is very convenient for holding a cell phone.

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Ignore the "Access Denied" link. It should take you to the Cabela's website if you click on it.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Several years ago I bottom plowed then harrowed one of my fields. I lost my phone. I had been caring it in my tee shirt pocket but thought it might be safer in my shorts pocket......WRONG.......I plowed it under. Got home and missed it. Wife got on computer and it pinged in the north end of my field. i went over late evening and walked all over. NOTHING. Went to Harbor Freight early the next morning and bough a metal detector. By then the phone was dead and would not show up on the computer. So I started "grid walking" the field.....After about an hour the detector started pinking.........I dug my phone up. It was buried about 10 inches deep....No worse for wear other than being dirty. Now.....If I carry it on the tractor I put it in the toolbox on top the fender and shut the lid.

 

[Greyman50]

A excellent reason why Army Navy surplus stores used to be very good. Sadly now days most only have china junk……

 

[Bald1]

Like Mike said. Why not just put it in toolbox?

 

[Faulkner]

Like Mike said. Why not just put it in toolbox?

It's not handy back there, can't reach it from the seat. Plus, I'd have to place the iPhone in some kind of protective case to put it in the toolbox to bounce around with all my spare lynch pins, nuts & bolts, adjustable wrench and channel locks.