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Post by grumble on Jan 8, 2022 20:08:23 GMT 10
Interesting to see that Yamaha don't sell their natural gas powered one anymore...must of not sold many of them. That would of been the one I would of used - no fuel stability issues. Unless there was something else going wrong with them ie. gas waxing like LPG car system can do...Anyone know if natural gas has any issues for long term as a fuel? Economic reasons pretty much LNG and LPG generators hardly sell in Australia so the big guys stick with what does sell there are still the odd one like these around www.elgas.com.au/appliances/lpg-clothes-dryers-lpg-refrigerators-lpg-generators/lpg-generators/greengear-generator.html
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Post by grumble on Dec 14, 2021 9:40:04 GMT 10
Sadly because we are just a tiny blip on the map for demand in trucks, pretty much majority of the line haul trucks imported to Aust are made to Euro standards, and they are the ones pushing all this enviro things for exhaust systems. The same crowd are also the ones pushing for full electric trucks as well. Yes and that needs to happen. All of those long haul trucks travel through urban centres and the number of them is astounding these days. Unless we restrict large trucks to outside of urban areas (not practical) there must be emmission controls. Diesel exhaust is known to cause a range of health problems from learning impairment to respiratory ailments and premature death. These things are far more important than someone's preference for an engine type. both types of diesel engine I refer to meet US, AUS and European emission standards the only difference is one is based around adblue and the other isn't. the greatest issue we will always face in Australia is our logistics require a tailored solution rather than following what others do to sort out their issues EV's will be a large part of future transport but we still need to deal with the overall logistical nightmare that is Australia and that is never going to be a simple solution nor will it be cheap because we have the population of a large city spread over a land mass the size of Europe. There is always the simple solution of simply making everyone live in high density mega cities with a highly functional public transport system with a central localized distribution center of essential goods supplied by a fleet of EV's but i am pretty sure people wont like giving up their hobby farms and so on to be jammed in like sardines but if that what it takes it is what will happen eventually
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Post by grumble on Dec 13, 2021 20:35:45 GMT 10
Even better we just stop importing equipment fitted with engines that have the adblue system installed and use the diesel engines that run perfectly fine without it and meet the pollution requirements Caterpiller have both types of engines in their machines for an example a 972M loader doesn't use adblue but a 330F excavator does so really its just a matter of looking at whats more important down the track
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Post by grumble on Dec 11, 2021 8:41:31 GMT 10
A former employer of mine has already been approached in regards to the short term leasing of his roadtrain fleet to keep freight moving due to the fact they are not reliant on Adblue. Now these rigs are normally pulling quads and are rated to 110 ton so i guess where there is a will there is a way. I think the guys that are going to lose out the most are the big corporations that have fleets of the latest trucks driven by visa workers so they are certainly going to shout from the roof tops that the sky is falling
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Post by grumble on Dec 7, 2021 10:34:28 GMT 10
been there before and there was a work around that worked on a 2019 CAT 330F excavator basically no adblue but kept the machine out of limp mode however i couldn't switch it off till i had adblue to refill the tank and let it do its shutdown purge
So there is a way but its tricky
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Post by grumble on Nov 10, 2021 10:41:17 GMT 10
One day some domino will fall and start the chain reaction of another GFC that will flow downstream to make the situation worse than before but until then prices on property and everything else will keep going up to the point that people will simply starve and end up homeless. Some friends down south happily bragged to me how they just sold their house that they owned outright for a huge profit and were so proud of themselves but now they are crying because they had to go into several 100k debt to buy another house because the market is running so hot even with the "huge profit "it simply wasn't enough and now they are stressing that interest rates will go up and ironically now live in a high crime area so they have to pay higher insurance fees
My simple thoughts are whatever will happen will happen i just make sue i diversify enough that i'm covered the best i can be
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Post by grumble on Apr 24, 2021 19:44:01 GMT 10
I've given up on gimmicks and stick with satellite phones now for emergency contact out in the wilds and it doesn't cost that much to get set up with a unit that will suit most people most of the time. I find it interesting that people shy away at the cost of a serviceable entry level sat phone but will spend twice as much on a new smart phone. I've used mine heavily for a year and used it as my sole contact to the outside world for weeks on end including using it to check in 3 times a day to let people know i was still operational The benefits of a sat phone i feel outweigh the initial cost and yeah you only have to pay $15 a month to maintain connection on some of the plans but here is the important part satellite phones are not equal and price or popularity is not an indication of quality or reliability do your research and importantly sit down and work out what you really want from it and don't over complicate it don't buy a unit that isn't what you need just because some sales guy try's to upscale you to something else here is the unit i use www.telebiz.com.au/product/Thuraya-XT-Lite/9?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=falseits a great unit and so far its survived being bounced around in machinery and tossed on the dash even with thick cloud cover I've not had issues with reception plus if you get the external aerial for it you can have it set up inside like a home phone
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Post by grumble on Apr 5, 2021 8:31:48 GMT 10
It all comes back to life boat ethics..... plus it’s tribal. Part of the tribe - yes. Not part of the tribe - no. It also depends on your disaster...... multi-generational grid down scenario those antibiotics are beyond worth there weight in gold and are simply irreplaceable. So someone else’s kids, not part of group, then no, I wouldn’t give them my ABs. But I also wouldn’t screw them for everything they have. I simply wouldn’t trade. I wouldn’t tell them I have ABs. I don’t think that makes me evil, I am simply prioritising my family over someone else’s. The analogy carries on to every other human need - the whole point of preparedness is being prepared, you cannot give it all away. Hmm, those not part of the tribe could become much needed parts of your tribe in the future. How long is the shelf life of your AB's ?
I dont think you are evil, just missing my point.
Based on historical incidents from my own families experiences that occurred during dark times in the realm of humanity people are generally nicer when comfortable and safe rather than scrambling to survive just another day. Good deeds were repaid with violence and betrayal more often than not and it wasn't because people are inherently evil but more because they are desperate Since those dark times society has devolved even more , into more individualism and expression of individualism than collective tribalism this has resulted with more people being disenfranchised and becoming further isolationist and individualist in mind set and a stronger belief in self entitlement over the needs of others Combine that with the collective of resentment towards those that have vs those that have not , mental health issues and narcotic reliance ( abuse ) for a multitude of reasons you have one very nasty brewing pot Those with a good heart and kindness will want to carry a big stick History does demonstrate though those that were kind and merciful were generally given the same in return 'most'of the time but not all the time and that mercy might just be a quick death rather than a long drawn out one For people to be actively engaged in a pay it forward economy it would imply all their basic and higher needs have been met and covered and everyone is on reasonably the same footing
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Post by grumble on Mar 30, 2021 22:03:57 GMT 10
I take solace in knowing some of my recent ancestors survived the worst of the worst (Eastern front in WW2, strategic obliteration of entire cities packed with refugees and genocide/mass expulsion) with far less kit and knowledge than what I now have access to. The whole "Mad Max" fantasy a lot of Preppers think is "hard-core" is kindergarten compared with being systematically hunted down by a well equipped military force bent on revenge and long term occupation. This is my worst fear to large degree as well my parents had a very hard and brutal life for quite sometime they survived the bombing and retribution and the occupation they like many witnessed the true barbarity of mankind on a grand scale that was committed by"normal people " unthinkable things like mothers committing infanticide and fathers executing their daughters to "save" them witnessing things like anyone old enough or strong enough to hold a gun being gut shot and left to die in the streets yeah mad max is a fun hike in the woods compared to what can really happen
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Post by grumble on Mar 30, 2021 13:22:37 GMT 10
I think that recent events have shown that the non-prepared are prepared to react very quickly whenever they perceive an interuption to the supply chain. For example, the Premier announces a lockdown and within hours the locusts strip bare the supermarkets. They even think like preppers temporarily and buy up freezers, seeds, gardening tools etc. So even if the Chinese threat isn't real, if the media say it is then expect the panic buying to begin almost instantly. To counter this possibility I try not to have a last minute shopping list, I get everything I think I'll need now, because the locusts swarm is very fast indeed. witnessed this yesterday at bunnings when QLD mandated masks were mandatory in all public places after 5 pm I was actually was there to get a few items for a project i was working on when it all went down the thing that stood out the most but didn't at 1st was the mini bus filled with certain people they pulled up they all filed out about 15 of them and entered bunnings i was like oh they are having an outing to bunnings. Next thing i know they had trolleys full of every type of masks and were heading for the checkouts the place was stripped before the average person knew what was going on and they were on their bus on to the next target probably to buy baby formula Now its easy to get angry at the situation but one has to respect the way they were so well informed and organised with a clear direction of purpose unlike a lot of Australians who sit on their veranda watching footy then try and get masks at 16:50 then abuse staff because there is none left Now i wasn't personally effected by this as i didn't need any masks i have plenty at home but it did show to me that if things did kick off from more than just hostile words and hot lead instead that its quite possible we could have problems on home soil very quickly if everyone isn't just a harmless student visa worker So the way i have adapted to the new world with my prepping supplies and general life is by adopting an approach of making sure i have parts and spares for critical equipment I've gone large on 18Volt tools and batteries with a solar set up to recharge them i even have an 18volt lawn mower , chainsaw , brush cutter , miter saw , circular saw , reciprocating saw and the list goes on I try to avoid buying stuff i know im not going to ever need in a real world situation because well its just false economy but i do have a handy list of critical spares for both our cars like fore my wife's car i have a spare injector and coil put away and a set of plugs i have done this because in the past we have had these items fail and it took a little while to get one ordered in when things were functioning normally It is extremely important that i point out my adaption to prepping due to disruption normal shipping supplies is about maintaining a level of normal civil activity ( normality ) so that means lawns mowed house maintained car in a serviceable condition life goes on and its not about a mad max type situation . Over the last couple of years we have progressively purged our house of non sustainable items that are critical to household function and replaced them with items that deliver a much longer service life and are either repairable or able to be substituted with by another item
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Post by grumble on Mar 27, 2021 9:14:29 GMT 10
I experienced this 1st hand back in tassie where my property went from valueless farmland surrounded by farms and bush blocks to being built out and surrounded by smaller 2 and 3 acre properties after all the farmers subdivided. The types that bought into the area were not willing to accept that in rural locations people do things associated with rural activities and slowly the the pressure of inner city living was on my door step. Things like
Concerned members of the public calling the environmental department about the legal tree clearing i was performing with a permit as part of a pest weed control program and fire hazard reduction Concerned members of the public calling the police because they heard gun shots in the distance while performing a permitted target species on my property and any other time i let a shot off as i was lawfully permitted to on my rural property the local police were good about it but they basically said it would always be me that got spoken to never the people complaining
objections to my yearly fireworks display that was part of a winter thing we use to do with a big bonfire and a bunch of fireworks under permit from workplace standards and tasfire 5 of the 6 new neighbors objected due to "wildlife concerns "so they had no choice but to revoke my permit
Their dogs comming onto my property and killing chickens that we had as a breeding program for sale as show birds we lost $5k worth of birds in 1 night due to this the dog involved was exploded by a 130gr copper hollow point .308
The more of them that moved in the more the problems grew so i sold out and moved but realy it was more i was forced out because in long term it was going to cost me far too much to remain defiant and live on and manage a rural property as a rural property surrounded by urbanites on hobby farm
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Post by grumble on Mar 18, 2021 9:18:06 GMT 10
What sort of soil profile are you siting this on? It'll have important implications for a safe and effective design. If I were you ... I'd split toilet sewerage from everything else. The bulk of greywater is low hazard and easy to deal with. Use it to water some fruit trees. That leaves you with a much, much lower volume of nasty sewer water to dispose of. If you have sand at depth in your soil profile, be aware that bacteria laden water can move for miles below the surface and contaminate streams and bores. I've seen that 1st hand where the septic contaminated the ground water in a shallow bore. even though the bore was sunk quite some distance from the septic it was basically "upstream" from the bore and yeah testing of the water said hell no don't drink this They sunk another bore in the other direction a bit further away and it came back ok but personally i would never trust it especially if you had a few dry years
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Post by grumble on Mar 14, 2021 10:20:22 GMT 10
Many years ago I went into a tool shop and asked for a drill that wasn't made in China. The salesman laughed in my face. You can't not buy Chinese if no other country on this planet produces anything. This is something i encounter more often then not very few people have core basic items in stock that are not made in china and that's because all the large corporations moved their manufacturing to china so its a no win situation Even reputable brands are either owned by Chinese parent companies or made in china its just the average person doesn't know it
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Post by grumble on Mar 7, 2021 13:07:15 GMT 10
Interesting comment re Chinese stuff. A mate of mine runs a agricultural machinery import business and farmers are now refusing to buy Chinese stuff. He is now looking at Indian gear, or Italian farm machinery as alternatives. I think there is backlash starting to happen against Chinese stuff, and its about time. I don't know what weapons will be used in the next war, but in the war after the next, surer than hell, they will be using spears. Chinese machinery has proven that it doesn't have the manufacturing quality (or even the physical weight to get the job done in the case of pay loaders) and the after sales service is usually terrible and parts are hard to get. Buyers have been burnt so are spending their money where they get value for it! Its a funny thing with the Chinese made stuff i mean they are the masters of copying everything but still make cheap junk and a good example of this is Caterpillar loaders are made in china especially the 972m series and i mean made and assembled in china whereas a 330f cat excavator is made in japan. you cant tell the difference in build quality between the machines so you would think the Chinese would be like ok this is how you make good gear
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Post by grumble on Mar 4, 2021 21:54:02 GMT 10
Given the relatively low showing for a giveaway, it might be a good move for Survival Storehouse to remove the Chinese made stuff from their catalog. If they're having trouble giving it away, that's a fair indicator that sales will be poorer than if they were stocking local rather than Chinese made food. Personally i don't really care where things come from anymore because so many things are a blend of products and produce from different sources and countries that unless i grow it myself or buy it directly from the source then i am only going off the label being truthful and well we know how it works I agree in principle as to what your saying about stocking local items rather than Chinese made food but it does come down to affordability sometimes its handy to have cheaper things like this to get people started until they can afford to buy the better items i can see some people getting started with these then building up to the better brands like "hunger buster' after they realize biscuits don't quite cut it for them I've had a few people comment on how they'd like to get survival food for extreme emergencies but its too expensive
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Post by grumble on Mar 4, 2021 9:53:54 GMT 10
I have been tossing up about the biscuits and if they are worth buying some to try or do they taste terrible and i want to see if my children will eat them because that's my main priority so i'd love the biscuits as a tester then if they are OK i will put an order into the store for a bunch of them
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Post by grumble on Mar 3, 2021 7:27:31 GMT 10
Sounds like when some honey companies got pinged here for putting sugar syrup (or a version of it) into honey to cut costs. It seemed to very quietly get pushed under the rug after a little bit, but I still won't buy certain brands as a result. You just can't trust 'em! Edit to add: I generally only buy honey from the local apiarists anyway, but if I have a moment of weakness and the kids are bugging me I'll get some from the store. Usually Beechworth honey only though! When you go shopping these days it really is buyer beware some times it quacks like a duck but it isn't a duck like most times maple syrup is actually Maple flavored syrup and its filler like in cheap honey is high fructose corn syrup funny story when you're in the US HFCS is in everything and you can taste it buy a coke and its nasty but you cross over the boarder in to mexico and the coke there tastes just like the classic coke in a glass bottle did back in the 80's and the food is free of HFCS so you don't get that nasty after taste. I've noticed that HFCS is slowly creeping into Australian products because of the companies being owned by large American parent companies so keep an eye out for that
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Post by grumble on Feb 27, 2021 13:44:03 GMT 10
grumble, not sure if it's where you are from, but you just described Townsville. Right down to the first class citizens who are untouchable by the law. No i live up in Cairns and its the same issue Townsville has huge problems and that probaly explains why a city that has heaps of good paying work and everything you can still buy a house there for under 200k
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Post by grumble on Feb 27, 2021 8:22:30 GMT 10
Yep. Why ban something you can make a revenue stream out of? That's why we still have firearms ownership (and smoking is still legal). Think of all the tax dollars generated by sales of guns, ammo, accessories, mandatory training, safes, range memberships, guided hunts, fuel and supplies for DIY hunting. It must add up to a fair bit. Yep Don't ban it just make it so there is a great deal of expensive administration, licensing and registration fees that it will pay gate most people and only those that really want them will bother going through the hoops and hurdles to get them so this way they end up prohibited by proxy rather than an actual 'ban '. They have used this method far more then people realize
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