Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 06:59:34 -0800
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Fri. Generator rant.
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I have used similar tactics. My response to one Mo Ho who generated nearby
without a thought was to fire up both our dirtbikes with the exhaust
pointed at his bedroom at 5am, and let them idle till he got up and finally
killed his cheapo gen set after running it all night, for some reason.
My camping rarely includes formal campsites. I've left my van in all
it's Asuan Brown paint because it's harder to notice. I selected a tin top
just because tent-sided campers I've had in the past were not good in noisy
situations. It seems like people are herd-animals, so we've been
"camped-on" in very remote sites, and often they set up *really* close when
there are hundreds of square miles that they could have camped without
sending us a 'sonic toothache'. I carry ear plugs. It's not really
possible to always evade generator people...we do our best to select sites,
but even now, 10 miles out from the nearest town on desert land I have
three gens going within earshot. Sheesh.
On Feb 5, 2015 9:56 PM, "OlRivrRat" <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote:
> Don
>
> AgreeWithYou 100% on the NoisePolutionIssue ~ It's the main reason
> why I
>
> Avoid CampGrounds > With A Passion < & SeekOut OutOfTheWayPlaces to do my
>
> Enjoying of TheGreatOutdoors ~ Another reason is that when I get up in the
> Middle
>
> of the night because NatureCalls I don't want to bother AnyoneElse when my
> Slider
>
> does its PoorAttempt @ trying to call in a few Elk ~
>
> OnceUponATime back before my WestyDays my Wife&I were CarCamping
> in a
>
> CampGrounds Quite a Ways OffTheBeatenPath in the SW Colorado Mtns & we had
>
> the place all to ourselves until about dusk when a huge PUTruck with a
> BackYardGrill
>
> in the back pulled in, just a couple of spaces away & behind where I was
> parked ~
>
> They FiredUp the Grill & the Generator & then the Stereo with some sort of
> "music"
>
> that DidNot Appeal to The2OfUs Especially since we had planned on a nice
> Quiet
>
> NightInTheMountains ~ MyRide ThoseDays was a '66 2+2Mustang & I had a
> Really
>
> Fine Stereo of MyOwn ResidingWithin It ~ Some of the speakers were mounted
> in the
>
> bulkhead between the Backseat & the Trunk so if the TrunkLid was open &
> the Volume
>
> CrankedUp it Presented like a ConcertVenue ~ I decided to
> FightFireWithFire & Popped
>
> the Trunk, put one of my FavoriteTapes of the time in the Player & let
> David Allen Coe
>
> HaveHisWay with these folks with '"If That Aint Country You Can Kiss My
> A**" ~ It only
>
> took that 1 song & it was Quiet the rest of the night ~
>
>
> ORR ~ DeanB
>
> O5 Feb , 2015, at 4:29 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
>
> > "Preaching to the choir" ? I appreciate the agreement. I've not
> > encountered many VW vans with generators, but there are some.
> >
> > Organized formal camps often have "generator hours". It just amazes me
> > that people are so 'unintentionally' rude..It seems to go right over
> their
> > heads that someone might want to sit outside and enjoy nature without a
> > background drone. I've actually asked a couple of people if they would
> > perhaps shut their generators down, and I've never had a civil
> response..
> >
> > The best answer I got was a few years back from a guy with a noisy
> > one....He would fire it up and leave for hours.....Asked him very
> > politely. His answer made my jaw drop! He said something on the lines
> > of..." I don't like the noise, so I always leave it on and go away so I
> > don't have to hear it"
> >
> > Anyhow, that's my Rap...generators are noisy and a big imposition on
> > others. On a still desert evening you can hear a Briggs for miles and a
> > Honda for about one mile....I have 3 I hear going within earshot as I
> post,
> > On Feb 5, 2015 2:34 PM, "Dennis Jowell" <dennisjowell@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I agree 100% shut the noise off and hear nature that's what most of us
> >> are out here for.
> >> Don thanks for your insight!
> >>
> >> Dennis Jowell
> >> Scotch Hollow Farm
> >> Newbury, Vermont
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Feb 5, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Again I must comment on how selfish it is to "camp" with your generator
> >>> on. Plug your ears, stick out your tongue and yell "La LA LA..." at
> high
> >>> volume so you don't have to "hear" what I'm saying here, but there it
> is!
> >>>
> >>> Deny deny deny, but your generator noise DOES completely eliminate the
> >>> peace and quiet that many people go camping to find. Is it fair to
> >> impose
> >>> your noise on everyone around you? No it is not.
> >>>
> >>> I know that most people don't even get out into the country very often
> >>> and fewer yet think their generators make any noise at all, but they
> >> really
> >>> do.
> >>> The natural world is getting full, I know, but dang!...There's Solar
> and
> >>> batteries that do not impose on others who may value no unneeded noise,
> >> and
> >>> nobody NEEDS to listen to a generator.
> >>>
> >>> OK you all who Generate....You can unplug your ears and stop going "LA
> >> la
> >>> LA LA LA!" now, my annual anti-generator rap is done...hit the starter
> >>> button and go outside by your exhaust pipe and enjoy your camping...
> >>
>
>
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