SeanKroll
Treehouser
So it's told that wood poachers (burls, maple for musical instruments, old growth cedar block thieves and such) run a modded muffler that is somehow (presumably flexibly) piped into a bucket of water to deaden and change the noise.
I wonder how this would work on my 661. Would resistance of the water (maybe a couple inches in depth, dunno) affect the performance, due to 'back pressure'?
I'm thinking that if the muffler can be modded to effectively have a bit of pipe to clamp onto while milling, without interfering with normal work, it might suppress milling noise, cheaply, and portably. A small reservoir, easily dumped and refilled, attached to the mill frame would weigh very little, but might be really nice for the miller, and neighbors. Further, the water will filter out some of the exhaust impurities that the miller is exposed to.
I wonder how this would work on my 661. Would resistance of the water (maybe a couple inches in depth, dunno) affect the performance, due to 'back pressure'?
I'm thinking that if the muffler can be modded to effectively have a bit of pipe to clamp onto while milling, without interfering with normal work, it might suppress milling noise, cheaply, and portably. A small reservoir, easily dumped and refilled, attached to the mill frame would weigh very little, but might be really nice for the miller, and neighbors. Further, the water will filter out some of the exhaust impurities that the miller is exposed to.