Excess Genny use

RDMueller wrote:
We have really started to gravitate towards CGs with electric hookups because of this very issue. Even though we are perfectly happy dry camping, we are doing it less and less because it seems that we frequently end up near someone who runs a construction type genny for 4+ hours/day.

On a recent trip we had a guy in the next site with a Honda Eu and we barely even noticed it running. But the guy 5 sites away with the construction genny almost made us give up and leave! Completely ruined the experience... It was so funny too, we were 5 sites away and it was driving us crazy. The people with the gen were sitting at the picnic table having breakfast with that thing about 5 ft away! What part of that could possibly have been in any way enjoyable???

In my personal opinion, that type of gen should only be used for short periods, maybe to use the microwave, brew coffee or for a hairdryer. To run for a couple hours for battery charging, gotta have a quiet inverter gen.
Those cheaper Chinese generators are quite loud. Perhaps a suggestion to USFS about noise standards would help.
Since I don't have one I'm not sure what the is making all the noise.
If it is the exhaust, we use to repair lawnmowers all the time, never needed to buy a new one, and there were a variety of mufflers. We made some interesting sights with water pipe and small and large mufflers. The threads in the old Briggs and Strations were standard 1/2 inch pipe threads.
Our on board diesel Onan could use quietening down. Perhaps they make a better muffler. If nothing else a plywood box a good bit larger than the generator with holes for air to engine and exhaust, but not the exhaust sticking way out might work. Onan or others could make a bit of change selling a good muffler and pipe to people with these noisy chicoms.
This is what happend in ant colony, someone is always banging into yo u and stepping on your feet and playing loud country and western hip hop.
Look at their brocures, on the net and pick a site you want such as evening sun to yur back patio facing east.
My goal is tow or thrre sites we like, buying them, instalaling wells an septic a and capping it all off. When we arrive hook up to generator and well.Extra deep Cycles would do good ad the soalr most certainly charge up a battery bank. MIght not have to run gennie much at all, unless a codl frot comes through. aS big pad fancy as you want it, flowers maybe large pond with small fish and So, yes, I totally share your frustration!

make it much better with our own pad on your ow property. PUt one in this year and two next year all using solar and battery banks and generators and wells. ZOnly bill would be taxes and some diesel. Don't forget the little or big pad box or building that might be cover, cantilevered over your coach and pad for shade, weather, and solar panels on top. One acre or two 20 to 15 to 20,000..maybe nt that much On two acres their noise may not annoy you if you plant a double avenue of 6 ft cedars around the perimiter. Buy fie acres and have nine holes of golf or 20 acres and a 18 holes,your own firearm and skeet range, free style pool fed by springs around here. While you are at one, of the others, rent it out and get them to keep it up, to your standard. Put it on lake Superior or thevery tip of lake Michigan, not much snow there, in winter and you can ice fish all winter and drive to where you want to go.
@0 acres is the question. Perhaps 30,000 American then ten to fifteen for everything else. So for the price of a cheap Caddy you have a 100% double throw down personal resort. Next you will put a house on it.
A fifty thousand dollar prime site, this year, a sixty thousand site next year. Rent them while not there and well tht is heaven. A few extra plugs and connections and buried water line from pump you can bring in your friends and charge them and wala you have another income stream and choice of where to stay this summer or build a neww somewhere.
Anybody do all this remember who suggested it. We will take real good care of your pad, on Superior of MMicigan, or new Brunswick.