Posted 2010-06-28 10:34 AM (#121655) Subject: Generators....Not nice or that's life?
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This is our first year to show horses with an LQ trailer, for many years we showed out of a stock trailer with a 4 foot changing room. We don't have a super fancy trailer, a 2001 Exiss 3 horse with a factory conversion, 8 foot short wall, toliet, shower, etc, it's really nice for us and usually one of the few LQ trailers at the 4H and Open Shows we go to. At the shows we go to eveyone is tied to trailers, parked in the grass in any spot they can find. Do you think it is rude to run the generator while at the shows so we can have AC? We would probably be the only person running one, it's a Honda so it is quiet as generators go but for anyone that uses a generator you know they still make noise. So is it rude to run the generator? No one else is running a generator becuase they don't have ac or a generator.
Posted 2010-06-28 11:02 AM (#121658 - in reply to #121655) Subject: RE: Generators....Not nice or that's life?
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Posts: 213 Location: Virginia
In events I go to where only a couple of people have generators, I have noticed that they park as far away as possible on the edge/sides and keep the generator behind the trailer.
Parking right in the middle of everyone and firing up the generator would be frowned upon.
Posted 2010-06-28 11:03 AM (#121659 - in reply to #121655) Subject: RE: Generators....Not nice or that's life?
Location: Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain...
I just wouldn't park in the middle of everyone and start it up, but I would seperate myself a little and use it. After that, if they park around you and the generator is bothersome, it's on them. JMO
Posted 2010-06-28 11:04 AM (#121660 - in reply to #121655) Subject: RE: Generators....Not nice or that's life?
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Posts: 3802 Location: Rocky Mount N.C.
Get there early, fire up the generator and A/C, if someone has something to say about your noise, then tell them to move.... My roof mount A/C unit is about as loud as my Yamaha EF3000IseB generator. Inside the trailer I can't hear the generator over the A/C. I do keep the generator in the bed of the truck and keep the tail gate up, you would be suprised how much quieter it is rather than it running, sitting on the ground.
So far as others getting their a$$ on their shoulders because you're making your own electricity and indoor climate, consider who's complaining. Most are just jealouse and mad cause the gnats aren't eating you up!!! LOL!!
Posted 2010-06-28 12:00 PM (#121665 - in reply to #121655) Subject: RE: Generators....Not nice or that's life?
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Posts: 3802 Location: Rocky Mount N.C.
Truck's not hooked to the trailer when generator is running unless it's jack knifed around with the tail gate down, exhaust pointed to the rear and a 20" box fan helping to evacuate the fumes from the bed area.... Most of the time we're set up for several days anyway so the truck is free'd up to run to the store and such. I'll park the truck with the bed pointed down wind on the leeward side of the trailer. It's easier to unhook the trailer than it is to unload that 180# generator off of at 38" high tailgate while sitting in a wheelchair..... I tried that once a long time ago, you ask, "how'd that work"? NOT TOO GOOD, it left a mark, LOL!!!
Generators....Not nice or that's life?
