Loud ass generators are not even remotely friendly

Some levity amid the hurricane here in Naples:
When I quit racing for the 10th time I sold my EU2000. I have a work geny and it's good enough, but I do feel guilty firing it up at the track. Stuck in Dallas, looking at CL, I see an EU2000 started but never used, feared Harvey would reach Dallas, selling for $800 so I pick it up.
Neighbors stopped in today to gather a few things from their home. Their daughter has power so they're staying across town. Chat a bit and they ask if we are staying in the house. I say yeah, I have a generator running a small AC unit for the master bed and bath, a lamp and chargers for cell phones etc.
"you have a generator?"
"Yep"
"And it's running right now?"
"Yep"
"How come I don't hear it but the neighbor's I can hear from 2 doors down and across the street?"
"Because I'm a courteous guy"
He didn't get the reference

 

Ha ha

 

Mongo, that noisy old generator I bought off of you however long ago did just fine for us this week. Don't care if the neighbors didn't like it, I didn't have to dump all the refrigerators and freezers.

To be fair, you couldn't hear it when you stood in front of the house. You couldn't sleep in the house when it was running, but that was a small price to pay.

 

Are you in FL or Texas? Hope all is well. Again, this was meant to be a joke. The street sounds like pits at a race, it's all good. Lots of snowbirds here in Naples so 3 doors down the couple that watches 7 houses on the street were told to clean out the fridges and freezers. We ate like kings for the last 2 nights! Fillets and veggies for about 10 people! People are starting to come back and there are semis with generators selling on some of the street corners. Loud ass generators are like gold right now here in Naples.

 

When the power goes out in out neighborhood I always end up with neighbors at my house drinking beer.
The inverter Yamaha has easily paid for it self.

 

I loaned my work geny to the guy 3 doors down that house sits. It's a party at his house every night for the handful of us that are here. The only way my story could have been better was if I had loaned my loud ass geny to the neighbor across the street

 

In beer?

 

You loaned your genny to a band?

 

Actually, I'm in Atlanta. Compared to the folks in Florida we got off scott-free. There is some damage for some people, but I came out of it with a couple broken branches at our rental property. I can deal with that shit. Two houses in our neighborhood got hit by trees, and some folks in the next neighborhood got their houses flattened.

I have nothing to bitch about.

 

If it wasn't for the gennies in the hood I couldn't sleep. I've slept like the dead this week lol.

 

We rock the block until the 9:00 curfew.
Oh and you guys always do those rants:
1. I'm a grown man, or at least a large child and I'm perfectly capable of being out past 9:00
2. I'm perfectly capable of operating a gas can, or at least I used to be. For the love of Pete you can't pour gas from a can anymore. Takes 3 people.

 

We have 3 small roof leaks from a tree and a huge mango tree landed on the rub rail of our boat, barely a scratch. Absolute miracle. Racer buddy in Marathon lost everything in his house. I'm not bitching.

 

Back to generators, I went to the Hershey RV Show today and stopped at Cummins to check out their rv gennies. They fired up the 6000 diesel on a cart stand. It sounded like either my EU1000i or my EU200i...I couldn't tell which. I think it was a combination of the 1000 running at speed and the 2000 at idle.
Pretty amazing and crazy stupid low fuel usage compared to their gas 5500. But, yeah, it's $$$.

 

Truth right there. If some asshole would wake me up at 5:30 AM by blipping a TZ outside my window I'd feel right at home.

 

Yup. The Cummins/Onan gennies really do appear to be top shelf.

The diesel's engine is a Kubota, looked like a 3 cyl. Rep told me Cummins doesn't actually make any small engines.

 

https://m.ebay.com/itm/122631833359?_trksid=p2349526.m2548.l4275&_mwBanner=1

Does Honda make a kit to connect to a fuel can, or will any of these eBay kits work? Also, how would that extra tank work, gravity? Does the generator pull fuel in like a vaccuum?