jaycocreek wrote:
SidecarFlip wrote:
I'm doing a NM Elk hunt in October, that is as far as I want to go and it will be cold, we will be at 8K feet.
While I agree with your not wanting an AC or any part of the desert or hot climates,I have a different take on generators, living in the mountains of Idaho.We are also are many miles(85) away from a Costco or Walmart or any chain store with one dealer in town for chainsaws mostly but he also carries the Honda line...One stop light in our town!
Therefor I get my stuff from him and it does help, his son is one of my sons best buddies and on the Fire department..So I own two Honda generators a 2K and a 3K plus a 4K Generac and a 2-stroke..Just sold my attached Onan...
There is an old saying in the hunting world to use enough gun and that saying should, but does not, carry over into generators meaning why try to make a 2K generator do a 3K generators work, just like why take a .243 on a once in a lifetime Elk hunt...It will work if everything is right but Elk hunting does not give everything is just right shots all the time.
I live to Elk hunt and one reason I live where I do..September bugling is by far my favorite time of the year more fun than killin' them because that is work..We even had a big bull chase my wife out of the woods and she was wearing Muck-lucks(sp)..
So if I think I need AC I will throw in my little 5K window unit that my little Honda just purrs in eco-mode with.
Entirely off thread but....
I live to hunt. It's a consuming hobby, why I own Northern Michigan property so I can hunt there as well. 57 acres of virgin hardwood forest and it's acessdable with the TC (in 4wd of course). Why we have the TC in the first place, for the property. I can spen a week there and not see a soul, we both like solitude and no people. Just forest creatures milling about when we go to bed and it's so dark you cannot see your hand in front of your face, just fine with me.
Me, I always take enough gun. Have a nice selection of 'tools' for different scenario's. Everything from a 460 Smith XVVR wheel gun to a 3338 Lapua and everything in between. and I handload everything, I actually build loads for the entire hunting group, I've been hunting with the same 3 guys forever.
Don't think we have consumed store bought meat in at least 10 years, maybe longer and we grow all our own vegetables too, just crocked up 15 gallons of cabbage for sauerkraut.
I found out real quick that my Lance was a no go. Just too high to negotiate seasonal roads in a forest setting. As it is, every year I have to trim my way in first time.
You live in suburbia. We don't even have a stoplight, just a 4 way stop and no stores to amount to anything, just a gas station and a couple taverns and a Post Office. Nearest town of any consequence is 25 miles away and farming and raising livestock kind of limits out 'adventures' anyway. Farming is a hands on occupation, 24/7/365.
Planning on going to Maine in September, we will see how that plays out. We have to pre arrange any trip, someone has to be here to feed the stock, water it and take care of daily chores.
