Do tractors, jackhammers etc. make you go insane?

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It's something I really don't know how to handle and even when debating within myself, with nothing but silence around, I get flustered over memories... and I can't think of any ideal way to handle it at all; going as far away as possible would be the first thing to get thinking straight (I find I can barely breathe in such an environment, let alone think things through), but I can't possibly do that permanently or I might as well be homeless... so I just make these mini-resolves to just give in to madness and attack them from above with whatever I have inside, but when I tried with bottles of water in the past they simply ignored it and kept going (although it didn't lend on them, just the equipment)... I'm not sure I even want to imagine what it's like to have them at ground level alongside like some rotten patch of cabbages oozing hell. That could be one advantage I never thought of before of high buildings.

There's construction taking place on the street that I live right now. The pounding and the driving and hollering really gets on my nerves when I lay down for my mid-afternoon nap. It looks like a battle ground out there.

I rush away covering my ears.

There isn't any construction going on close to my apartment at the moment (knock on wood). But once when I was really young I saw tractors digging up the place across the road from my house and I actually ran to my room and hid in my bed for the rest of the day. I agree with how it looks like a war zone, but I now find them a noisy inconvenience instead of an actual threat.

My mom works at a scrap yard so she has to listen to those things all day long. And she must get a thousand phone calls a day. I don't know how she handles the stress because I know I couldn't.

Not as much as vacuum cleaners. That's the worst. I don't vacuum because of it. Dirty floor doesn't bother me nearly as much as that damn noise.

They bother me and disrupt my focus a lot.

1. They´re bothering my ears.
2. They scare me: Physical fight-or-flight response.

I can deal with it in the moment, but I think I have to pay for it later with a lot of quiet time, napping, or listening to music.