Dern my post disappeared when I book marked this.
Last night I got freaked out...hubby in bed and me in the living room at the computer reading and I hear what sounds like someone (with long strides) walking in the gravel outside my living room windows...it is midnight, I shut off the lights, grab the night vision goggles and go look around but see nothing, same thing happens again at around 2am, looking through my goggles again I see nothing...so I stay up until hubby gets up at 4am for work and get him to go walk outside in front of the flower bed in the middle of yard, then in front of the living room window and along the side of house by fireplace and I can barley hear him walk. perhaps because in the night sounds are louder(?)...today I tell myself it was probably a deer cutting through my yard and the hoofs would make more sound on the gravel...yup, that is what I am telling me...lol
I can sit on my front deck and watch deer walk up and down my driveway.. No sound comes from them. Same with yoties and bears. Animals are very quiet.. I would set up a camera on a motion sensor.
The biggest noise source is the exhaust.The bigger the exhaust,the quieter it is.Not everybody can have a 50 foot exhaust pipe.Running it into a lake or reservoir or maybe even a barrel might get rid of the noise and smell.I think.Just bubbles left.If you try it let us know if it works.
Be careful how you run a exhaust pipe into water. When you turn the engine off the heat from the exhaust can draw the water up into the pipe and into the engine.
