using generators at campsite

[Barry G]

Just sad that there seem to be fewer and fewer places where it is possible to 'get away from it all'.

Symptomatic of nowhere being 'off the beaten track' i.e. anyone can now get anywhere, so more and more do.

With:

• much improved roads than 20 years ago;
• more powerful and 'driver friendly' vehicles;
• the comfort levels of 4x4 'trucks' being such that they are purchased as daily drivers / mums taxi; and
• chinese prices making equipment (like genies) so cheap to purchase

every dog and its (wo)man can get virtually everywhere with the kitchen sink and a genie to power the kitchen TV! 

The unfortunate result is that peace and quiet is now so much harder to find.

[scarps]

This thread has inspired me to drag this old girl out from the shed and take camping.



I need it to run my ghetto blaster so I can listen to my favorite Dennis Leary song.


I was amused many years ago by a fellow camper on the Murray River who took great pride in telling us how he threatened to toss a retired couples genset in the river cause than ran it a bit late one evening.
He was telling us this story while sitting of the bow of his skiboat.  A 19ft Hallet, with a rear mount 400 chev and straight through over transom pipes!  The very same boat could be seen every morning around 7:30am doing mach 1 downstream.
Given the size of this tattoo clad nethanderal I felt it was best not to point that out to him.

He was just charging his batteries:-)


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[Teabag]

To be honest, I don't worry too much about what others do. If I want peace and quiet, then I go bush where nobody else will be. If you are in a designated camp ground where there will be others then you have to expect noise, it's a nature of the beast. To me, it sound like many are intolerate and if we took the time to communicate we would be in a far better place. Generators, chainsaws, loud exhausts, music, loud talking and what ever else is just life and understand there are others in the world entitled to their choice and it's not all about you. Communication and consideration with a little respect and tolerance goes a long way........:-)

[krisandkev]

To be honest, I don't worry too much about what others do. If I want peace and quiet, then I go bush where nobody else will be. If you are in a designated camp ground where there will be others then you have to expect noise, it's a nature of the beast. To me, it sound like many are intolerate and if we took the time to communicate we would be in a far better place. Generators, chainsaws, loud exhausts, music, loud talking and what ever else is just life and understand there are others in the world entitled to their choice and it's not all about you. Communication and consideration with a little respect and tolerance goes a long way........:-)

Well said.        I have seen what happens when campers take matters into their own hands. Someone ends up in hospital and someone ends up in court.     Kevin

[BernieShelly]

I like camping and i (we) enjoy our self i hate sower and whingy things fist in best dressed dont like it bad luck move on or go in the bush further ! just saying
 

[GS]

Camp next to me with a noisy 6 and 8 year old and you would wish you had parked next to a grey nomad with a generator....

:-)

[Kalebjarrod]

I went camping with a mate who borrowed a 6kva diesel generator from work to run his engal cause it no longer ran on 12 volt only working on 240volt

He ran it from 5-6 ish till 10-11 ish at night

Sounded like a midget in a 44 gallon drum trying to break his way out with a lump hammer

Bad weekend...........  NEVER AGAIN

[Graza71]

Camp next to me with a noisy 6 and 8 year old and you would wish you had parked next to a grey nomad with a generator....

:-)

Hahaha gold!!

I reckon I'm in the same boat. My 5 and 8 year olds are quiet at night but they're up at the crack of dawn EVERY day. Sometimes I wish I could camp away from THEM!! 

[sonny]

To be honest, I don't worry too much about what others do. If I want peace and quiet, then I go bush where nobody else will be. If you are in a designated camp ground where there will be others then you have to expect noise, it's a nature of the beast. To me, it sound like many are intolerate and if we took the time to communicate we would be in a far better place. Generators, chainsaws, loud exhausts, music, loud talking and what ever else is just life and understand there are others in the world entitled to their choice and it's not all about you. Communication and consideration with a little respect and tolerance goes a long way........:-)

I too agree.  I'm not a grey nomad - yet - but wish I was.  I don't have a genny - and don't want one.  However, I'm sure I've done things in the past which have annoyed other campers.  Whether it be snoring - which I deny but husband insists that I do;  the annoying cough when I end up with the flu sometimes when camping;  or years ago when we had a baby that SCREAMED all night (yes very loudly) when he got an ear infection - bet that really annoyed the other campers around us.   Not something that I would wish on anybody (least of all the poor baby).  Oh and I almost forgot - Zippers !!  Sure they annoy the neighbours during the night too.  Nobody's perfect - and I'm sorry for all the other campers I have inconvenienced over the years, but they have inconvenienced me at times too.  Has it ruined our camping trip - no - Live and let live.  Yes it is really annoying when people blatantly flout the rules - but the agro and retaliation is just not worth it.  We just move on.

[RebsWA]

To be honest, I don't worry too much about what others do. If I want peace and quiet, then I go bush where nobody else will be. If you are in a designated camp ground where there will be others then you have to expect noise, it's a nature of the beast. To me, it sound like many are intolerate and if we took the time to communicate we would be in a far better place. Generators, chainsaws, loud exhausts, music, loud talking and what ever else is just life and understand there are others in the world entitled to their choice and it's not all about you. Communication and consideration with a little respect and tolerance goes a long way........:-)

  A sensible and balanced and mature response. 
              Something for all to think about. 

[xcvator]

A sensible and balanced and mature response. 
              Something for all to think about. 

Spoil sport, there's no fun in that 

[gregw56]

I have a gennie and use it when i need to.Although Iam making the move to solar. I always try to camp well away from anyone else.So I don't have to listen to feral kids or family fights , loud music or mamma going of about camping is not for me. When I get a nice spot why do they want to camp next to me. The gennie is one of the first things set up,whether i use it or not if they look like getting to close
I fire it up. Last trip to the murray i had a nice spot not another camp in sight and the feral family want camp right next to me. I control my dog yet they can't control their kids. time for a bigger genset iam thinking

[scarps]

In these days of environmentally friendly thinking, I have a solar set up, but guarantee that the sun doesn't shine when you need it to.  Instead of looking an a gennie, I thought maybe a wind turbine or hydroelectric turbine might be the go.  One thing I can be sure of, if the sun isn't shining, it will be blowing a gale or p#ssng down with rain.  Go Green:-)


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[GeeTee]

There is a very efficient, high-output and (unless you have a noisy exhaust) relatively quiet generator under the bonnet of each and every tow vehicle. It's getting a little off-topic but why so many newbies "think" they "need" the extra weight, expense and fuelling requirements of a portable generator is, for me, one of the great mysteries of the universe!

Like indy trailer suspension and enormous swags, gennies are another triumph of marketing over common sense




(GT ducks for cover...)

[DannyG]

Like indy trailer suspension and enormous swags, gennies are another triumph of marketing over common sense

Opinions are great, we all have one!

Indy suspension because it is better, enormous swags because some people like the extra room, genies because some people want 240v. Yep none of them are necessary but like opinions, everyone is entitled to do their own thing 

[KingBilly]

Opinions are great, we all have one!

Indy suspension because it is better, enormous swags because some people like the extra room, genies because some people want 240v. Yep none of them are necessary but like opinions, everyone is entitled to do their own thing 

Yes everyone is entitled to do their own thing (within the law and normal society expectations) but people still need to be considerate of others.  If more people considered the impact of their actions on others, the world would be a far better place and we wouldn't be having this conversation in the first place.  That is my opinion 

KB

[DannyG]

Yes everyone is entitled to do their own thing (within the law and normal society expectations) but people still need to be considerate of others.  If more people considered the impact of their actions on others, the world would be a far better place and we wouldn't be having this conversation in the first place.  That is my opinion 

KB

Couldnt agree more

Just on the topic of gennies, I used to have one of those $99 GMC 2 stoke versions (recently sold it at a garage sale for $50! go figure) that had done a lot of work. Towards the end it ran like a pig, it would miss, pop, fart, backfire and was nice and loud. I only used it when up the bush with no else around but I cant help but wonder what the new owner is going to use it for..........he did mention camping

[GeoffA]

.......but I cant help but wonder what the new owner is going to use it for..........he did mention camping

Probably still in Tassie, so that's OK......

[krisandkev]

There is a very efficient, high-output and (unless you have a noisy exhaust) relatively quiet generator under the bonnet of each and every tow vehicle. It's getting a little off-topic but why so many newbies "think" they "need" the extra weight, expense and fuelling requirements of a portable generator is, for me, one of the great mysteries of the universe!

OK, I'll bite       Noooooooooooooooooooo.  We have had that happen to us when camped in a nice quite spot the bloke besides us starts his car early in the morning to charge his batteries.....    Also not good for the engine.  Kevin

[RebsWA]

There is a very efficient, high-output and (unless you have a noisy exhaust) relatively quiet generator under the bonnet of each and every tow vehicle. It's getting a little off-topic but why so many newbies "think" they "need" the extra weight, expense and fuelling requirements of a portable generator is, for me, one of the great mysteries of the universe!
(GT ducks for cover...)

I'm no newby and my diesel makes more noise at idle than my little lightweight, fuel efficient, about as noisy as a mouse fart!ng, honda genny.

[GeeTee]

OK, I'll bite       Noooooooooooooooooooo.  We have had that happen to us when camped in a nice quite spot the bloke besides us starts his car early in the morning to charge his batteries.....    Also not good for the engine.  Kevin

Yes of course some engines - like some gennies - are noisier than others! (and around we go!)
But for some campers using the vehicle to charge is a better 'solution' than a genny - yet it is something they've never thought of or realised

Sure there may have been problems in the past, but there's no worries with idling any modern engine for a few hours 

[scarps]

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Time to connect the solar panel. Think this thread might be running out of power?


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[Jeepers Creepers]

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Nah mate, everyone's just refuelling the gennies up.....

Ripstarts at 50 paces in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6........

[Spada]

 I used to have one of those $99 GMC 2 stoke versions that had done a lot of work. Towards the end it ran like a pig, it would miss, pop, fart, backfire and was nice and loud.

Check the fuel tank for sugar........................

[Teabag]

Yes of course some engines - like some gennies - are noisier than others! (and around we go!)
But for some campers using the vehicle to charge is a better 'solution' than a genny - yet it is something they've never thought of or realised

Sure there may have been problems in the past, but there's no worries with idling any modern engine for a few hours 

Idling a diesel for long periods is not good for them, easy way to quickly Glaze them up.......Hence, I try to avoid idling for long periods......