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[madokie]

108. Heres a little tip I learned years ago

if you have a motor that is making too much noise for the neighbors go to the muffler shop and have them to bend you a piece of exhaust pipe that fits your muffler and then dig a hole in the ground near the generator and fill if with large fist size or so rocks, The hole needs not be any larger than a 5 gallon bucket, in fact you can put a 5 gallon bucket in it to hold the rocks and let the exhaust from the engine exhaust into that bucket of rocks and surprise of surprises the noise will not be there any longer or what is won't disturb anyone even if they have an open window near. I've been here and done that and it works. Maybe the OP can suggest something of this nature to his neighbor to quieten the exhaust down. If he wants to settle this without hard feelings that is. The price of the pipe and the bending of it by the muffler shop won't be that much either. It works and it works good. I have a system as I described for our generator even though ours is not automatic so I generally won't start it unless its colder than hell out and I need the power to run our Pellet stove to keep from freezing. My neighbor never knows when I start the generator as the noise from my apparatus doesn't penetrate his dwelling. He'll just come over and ask me if he can plug a cord in so he can keep his furnace and refrigerator running and we're both happy as he'll help pay for the fuel and I'm being a good neighbor.