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Post by shinester on Jan 5, 2016 22:50:34 GMT 10
As a peaceful protest, makes senses looking at the circumstances.. being armed? As an insurrection, rather poorly executed.
They're kind of in the middle and with the poorest position of both.
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Post by shinester on Jan 1, 2016 7:23:13 GMT 10
$20 for 25kg of wheat at the feed store
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Post by shinester on Dec 31, 2015 17:39:18 GMT 10
Welcome preppernettie. I suggest you post up an introduction thread too -------------- I rather like to keep ongoing goals and work at them, rather than wait till this time of year, never the less, my ongoing goals at this point are; - make stacks of money with my business this year, aka financial preparation. - get good stores of ammo and reloading components as per firearm as per my spreadsheets. - set up a bug out location 'kits/cache' which will be stand alone and would at least enable survival for a planned 3 months and then place them in the various locations. Currently working on the planning of what I would need. Each location offers different challenges. - expand my no-pump veggie experiments to take care of most of my veggies. I had originally planned to be there now, though I'm glad I took some extra time as I have come up with much better plans and systems, far less costs, better reliability and increased the ease of use. We've had a lot of heat down in vic and my tomatoes have used so little water in the heat, kind of incredible really. - Get even fitter, aka sprint/run'n'gun type exercises with sand filled pvc. - loose another 10kg. I've already lost 19kg in the last 5-6 months. - do some hiking and camping out at BOL. Dual purpose, fitness and scouting/set up. - more medical knowledge.
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Post by shinester on Dec 30, 2015 0:23:04 GMT 10
Yeah I love it, not easy to find one if you live in the bush, there are often some post drills on eBay but due to the weight they are always local pickup and never in my area. I got this one in Brisbane, he held it for ages until I got down that way. It's a Dawn 611 with auto feed. I haven't used it in anger yet though .. used it in auger
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Post by shinester on Dec 26, 2015 18:53:29 GMT 10
$30 for a cheapo dryer is hard to argue with, they all pump warm air. Yes the better dryers are neater and aesthetically pleasing, which matters to my wife.
I have 2, one for veggies and drying brass/water dropped lead bullets.
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Post by shinester on Dec 26, 2015 18:34:35 GMT 10
For sure, religious content or not, I also find pastor Joe's vids excellent. I also like the reality frame he holds, that is as you say, no BS. I'm crazily thinking I might just put a small shack together hidden in the bush, to which there's plenty nearby. It's crazy for many reasons, it could be found after all it'll be on public land lol, it could be knocked down, it could fall down, I'd have to lug in much of the material by hand to a certain extent. Having said that, some of that could be mitigated by being careful about where I put it and keeping ability to access [and tracks] to a minimum. There's the idea of using a shed, ... or using free pallets. Both have positives and negatives, the shed being quick and easier to transport. The pallets being cheaper, longer to construct and the worst part, moving them by hand would be pretty slow. $389 at Bunnings. Comes in 2 boxes, I could probably carry them with the Alice Pack I have [which was made for being able to carry objects] though it might be tricky maneuvering. I can't imagine that weight will be a major issue at least with one box at a time. I think I'll scout around for a suitable location [using google earth to start with] and then get on the ground in the next couple of weeks and see if I can find a good spot, would be good to have another BOL to pitch a tent and bury some supplies there anyhow, so either way's a win. Any suggestions for foundations for such a shed would be welcomed, currently I'm thinking it's just going to be dirt or I'll lug in some treated pine and build a frame.
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Post by shinester on Dec 25, 2015 10:18:12 GMT 10
Indeed.
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Post by shinester on Dec 23, 2015 1:57:19 GMT 10
I'm fairly squared away in lots of ways in regards to prepping, food, water, security... you can always do more of course. That's all fine so long as I stay here or move a good deal of what I have if I have to move. Sure I have 5 BOL's, and have plans on when/what circumstances I might head there but none of them are stocked, my BOBs have a weeks worth of food. They all have water sources. So what do I do if I had to get to those locations? I consider this a good reminder at least to myself and I thought I'd share the idea that having some caches and stores and BOLs which might even be a friends house with a nearby cache of food. It's looking like this will be one of the priorities next year.
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Post by shinester on Dec 23, 2015 0:33:43 GMT 10
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Post by shinester on Dec 22, 2015 4:37:03 GMT 10
Ha, ha. I'm unlimited $60/month in regional areas, decent connection , clubtelco.
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Post by shinester on Dec 22, 2015 4:30:59 GMT 10
He he, he's hoping we never find out for real. I don't think being alone for that long would worry me, I guess it depends on what you had to do but I admit that in a northern winter one could get a little cabin fever. I'd be buggered with the hunter-gatherer part though, not in my current skill set Yeah, I've got your skill level there, hardly anything. I can fish, use [and have a few] animal traps that I might use in such a situation, though my perspective is about growing things. Whilst I don't have the time required now to grow enough to eat, I've done the calculations and have run the experiments to prove the concepts of growing enough food to get by, or at least mostly get by supplemented with some occasional protein/stores until things bounce back enough. There's a reason we mostly do agriculture these days it has to do with needing a wide range to gather enough food for one person and also the energy it takes to collect. Agriculture is far more efficient.
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Post by shinester on Dec 20, 2015 23:00:42 GMT 10
Well that was depressing!! I want the smiling happy version of the apocalypse please!! It's all about how you look at it. To think an apocalypse such as described certainly wouldn't be about unicorns and rainbows is delusional, nor would any such a situation and thinking so would lead to problems. I teach my clients that being peaceful in sadness is just fine. Avoidance leads to further issues and avoidance is really meant to be used mostly for emergencies, aka in the moment, the problem is people do that over extended periods. So, basically it's a crappy situation, no point in deny or making things up that aren't true. From that, looking at the positives within that, are a pathway to dealing with it as it would be horrific. Also, I look at the people giving up in the movie, with a kind of disdain, that people just gave up instead of fighting to the very end. That's an insult to the gift of genes and nature of our being and millions of years of evolution, yet I also think that there's a certain validity to many people indeed giving in, evidenced by how easily they have given in, in their pursuit of doing the best they can in life, in their giving in to their emotional challenges and so on right now. Huge amounts of stress would push many people beyond their ability to cope, [having not even coped with their own inner turmoils] so I also think that there's a good chance that a number of people would indeed do themselves in. This has happened in different situations.
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Post by shinester on Dec 20, 2015 3:53:16 GMT 10
A depressing look at post TEOTWAWKI
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Post by shinester on Dec 16, 2015 9:10:56 GMT 10
Tough times. We probably wouldn't last a week. Knowing a little of your 'travels', aka the extensive hiking/walking you've done, I'd suspect you'd be one of the best at lasting in here. With that much wood to keep warm, that much food to stay full and so on, it's camping What most people would struggle with [and potentially loose their sanity to] is being alone for 6 months. Collecting all of the food, firewood, hunting with ancient techniques in the months leading up until the winter would however would be the really hard times. Whilst he had some livestock, it looked to be a LOT of hunter-gathering in there, which is hard enough to get enough for today, let alone 6 months in excess for winter. Worse because he was doing it alone.
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Post by shinester on Dec 10, 2015 1:42:55 GMT 10
Because it's a government project... .. enough said.
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Post by shinester on Dec 9, 2015 11:16:17 GMT 10
.. global warming hahahahaha... 97% hahaha.... you look at the facts of it and you laugh, you just have to at the extent of misinformation is peddled. Is CO2 up... yep. Is temp up... not really. Is CO2 a plant food .. yep. Do we need fuels to keep people from starving... yep.
So, yeah, frak those who try and scare us [particularly scaring children!].
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Post by shinester on Dec 9, 2015 11:12:45 GMT 10
I like these kinds of things because I think to myself, am I squared away for fuel shortages? What if fuel was in such short supply that we didn't have transport for food? It's great being prepared, I sleep well.
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Post by shinester on Dec 9, 2015 11:09:10 GMT 10
If you're down in a bunker [does anyone actually have one on here??] then you'd either have a genset a huge amount of fuel or you're peddling [maybe you have some solar but it might draw attention] to keep the lights and the ducting fan to keep the air flowing. Personally I've got tons of redundancy and as you can see I love having plenty of options ============== 220W + 900Ah batteries [needs much more solar] + 2400W Inverter 160W + 75Ah battery 40w + car battery [in car with BOB] 40W + 14Ah [UPS] 7W for phones/radios/AA batteries .. and I've got a gen [fuels too precious], as well as a electric bike motor and circuit bike [heavy flywheel] so I 'could' peddle if I wanted to to make power and more than enough juice stored in the batteries to weld it into place ============== Uninterrupted power supplies, aka UPS. These are back up power units for computers. What's cool about them is that they use deep drain batteries [usually 7 or 14amp], have a regulated 240V output from a few sockets [you might need a cheap adapter], provide a charge controller for your battery from the mains so the battery stays charged and they keep your computer going for a little whilst so you can save your work They are also 'cheap' second hand, for in effect quality in a simple package. To give you an idea, I picked up an ebay item for $20 which has an output of 880W [240V] and 2 good batteries [they're almost always charged so last quite a while, cheap to replace anyhow] and as mentioned a charger for the battery. If you hook up a 40W solar panel to a charge controller and then run that output to the battery, you'll have a whole system. Mine has a rear port for an expensive cable but automotive spade connectors connect up just fine. I'll probably get another one in the future, though I'm probably a little obsessed with POWEEER The main plans for power are lighting/radios/tools/laptop . Besides a few days for what's left in the fridge/freezer I have no plans for keeping them going. If things weren't out of control,
Electricity isn't necessary for life [and ought be way down the list], it's just 'easier' having equipment and tools that use it.
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Post by shinester on Dec 8, 2015 15:32:46 GMT 10
Those who try to scare me make me angry.
In humans, fear creates a mechanism in which our thinking and reason goes out the window. This makes sense biologically, all of the humans who weren't frightened when the lion came are no longer in the gene pool. Like other pack/herd animals, this fear spreads quickly to alert us of this danger so that we might survive. Again, the humans who this didn't happen with have mostly left the genepool. This mechanism is utilized by the schoolyard [and later] bully, politicians, the sales person, the media, creating fear in their prey to have them not be able to reason, to think clearly as blood flow literially reduces to the pre-frontal cortex, aka consciousness/higher reasoning center. We then look towards a leader or to be directed, to follow the flock. It is used to control our thinking and activity and does so well.
Now the antidote to fear is anger. Anger isn't as most think it is, all or nothing it comes in many flavors, be it low key assertiveness all the way to rage. Anger when applicable to the situation and when not turned up higher than is warranted [often because of not learning how to do that or having suppressed anger from childhood] is incredibly useful in dealing with fear. To be angry at the people creating the fear leaves space in which consciousness and reason can slip in, again, so long as there's not a lot of repressed anger. Obviously anger isn't 'as' good as being peaceful for reasoning, though there's times for it. Those who claim you shouldn't be angry are either delusional, don't understand emotions or are trying to get control. Parents are great at not letting kids be appropriately angry.
Anger lets you fight the lion, helps you scare off the lion, helps you to trap the lion, helps you to out think the lion. Fear helps you get away and yet you can also get away from the lion with anger just fine. Being jumped by 6 guys attacking me with bottles made me angry, though there was a much better option in getting away from them. Both fire up the adrenal system for better physical performance, perhaps another way of thinking about it is that we have both fear and anger and we can use them both at the same time. If we only use fear, we won't have a lot of thinking going on.
So, when dealing with those who try to scare you, get annoyed at them, you can still run if you have to, but you won't run just because they tell you to. Are they trying to save you from the lion or are they the lion, trying to bring you to them? I do brain stuff for a living and teach people how to deal with fear/anxiety and add peace to their lives, those are my thoughts and the approximations I have made after 20 years or experience and research.
Approximately get a low level angry when people who try to scare you and find out more as to their motives.
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Post by shinester on Dec 8, 2015 14:53:45 GMT 10
Yeah totally bud. The more the merrier. Peddling as mentioned is potentially more stealth.
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