Does noise from logging equipment keep deer away?

My brother inlaw is a logger and there are deer pretty much all the time , they will stand around a weigh for the trees to come down to eat the buds at the tops dozens at a time depending where there being cut . Spring road grader operators have to watch out when they back up because so many dear are on the road ( must be the salt ) . Doesn't seem to bother them any untill you stop and get out , the same thing when your driving along the roads as soon as you stop to watch them they will disappear. Turkeys the same thing. Once they get Accustomed to Vehicles or machinery it doesn't seem to phase them much at all .
 
Deer seem to recognize the sound of chainsaws and wood-cutting operations as being those which provide tops for browsing. I've seen them watching, but usually at what they consider a safe distance ... maybe 75-100 yards away. Once the "noise" stops and the people withdraw, they are all-over the new (reachable) feed. Some are a litle more wary and won't approach until all is quite after dark, but invariably they find the tops. Maybe a little more noticeable in the winter and spring perhaps than the fall. They seem to have a preference for maple tops ... from trees that are 10"-12"or better in diameter.

Once shot a nice buck sneaking around that was well within earshot ( 250 yds. or so) of a piece of construction equipment ( I believe it was a dozer) that was equipped with a "back-up beeper". That beeper going-off ever 20 seconds or so when the dozer was in reverse was driving me nuts, but the deer didn't seem to overly bothered by it.
 
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beretta boy said:
Deer seem to recognize the sound of chainsaws and wood-cutting operations as being those which provide tops for browsing. I've seen them watching, but usually at what they consider a safe distance ... maybe 75-100 yards away. Once the "noise" stops and the people withdraw, they are all-over the new (reachable) feed. Some are a litle more wary and won't approach until all is quite after dark, but invariably they find the tops. Maybe a little more noticeable in the winter and spring perhaps than the fall. They seem to have a preference for maple tops ... from trees that are 10"-12"or better in diameter.

Once shot a nice buck sneaking around that was well within earshot ( 250 yds. or so) of a piece of construction equipment ( I believe it was a dozer) that was equipped with a "back-up beeper". That beeper going-off ever 20 seconds or so when the dozer was in reverse was driving me nuts, but the deer didn't seem to overly bothered by it.
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I read that deer are hard wired to compartmentalize and separate sounds, thus ignoring sounds that are not a threat while focusing on possible threat sounds. I understand they are able to hear footsteps on leaves above the din of machinery as well.
 
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