HELP! Extended power outage!

[faulkan]

Put a muffler on that bad boy and 1) your neighbors won't get PO'ed at the noise, and 2) they won't show up with a 100' extension cord.

Now that you have it, get lots of gas cans.

I looked into mufflers the other day and the best one I can find only drops the sound levels of the exhaust by 6 dB. Even if you could completely silence the exhaust, the motor is still very loud. I'm looking into sound proof sheds.