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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Feb 11, 2018 14:24:31 GMT 10
Just be like america and just print as much cash as you want and pay off your loans! Ooops. sorry cancel that idea, just print the money and spend it on something else. That is why we have no inflation to speak of here. But packages get smaller and the price slowly creeps up while the contents go down. That is zero inflation the way politicians see it! Dumb as dog poo.
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Jan 22, 2018 6:52:53 GMT 10
If you have a regulator, inverter , solar panels and batteries it would be best to set it up where it gets the most amount of sun in your backyard. You have it so why not use it? This will ensure the batteries are charged for when you need them. Also if any faults develop then you will be aware of the problem and can fix it when you do not "need" your camping backup system. Any type of lead acid batteries do not like sitting and intermittent charging. Do not be scared of the talk about number of cycles for your batteries! And honestly when the agm's die get a set of trojan solar batteries. They have plante plate construction and last a lot longer if flooded lead acid is ok for you.
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Jan 22, 2018 6:45:49 GMT 10
Does not happen with the standalone 3 kw system we have here!
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Jan 22, 2018 6:43:59 GMT 10
Anywhere there has been a lot of timber burned is a good source of charcoal Rob! We collect our around the paddocks from burnt windrows and also gets heaps on roadside where large logs have been burnt by the council workers.
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Jan 7, 2018 10:39:41 GMT 10
Another good reason to leave china forever!
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Jan 7, 2018 7:37:58 GMT 10
Not too worried about radios myself. Just the shelter, meds and food situation.
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Jan 6, 2018 7:17:59 GMT 10
Stand alone solar producing 10-15kw a day so we got it covered!
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Jan 6, 2018 7:14:09 GMT 10
A had a couple of mates worked in army coms, but they are all dead now from cancer.
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Jan 6, 2018 6:57:41 GMT 10
The Roma gasfields west of Taroom have 100's of capped oil and gas wells. The light crude there is super pure and only needs a double filter to be used in diesel motors! Before some idiot opened his mouth it was being sold locally for 9 cents per liter pumped into bulk fuel trucks. Do not believe that this country has no light crude oil to use as it is just out and out lies. We carry enough fuel stored here for two years with normal usage not including used cooking oil stored for filtration and cutting with diesel. Was using it 50/50 with diesel years ago when fuel was $1.60 a liter plus. Basic useage I could stretch it out to 5 years.
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Jan 6, 2018 6:46:49 GMT 10
I never worried about the radio licences even when you needed one for UHF years ago! Just another tax grab.
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Oct 13, 2017 19:34:39 GMT 10
You can also whiz the fruit/berries and dehydrate the product. My dehydrator has curved plastic tray liners for this purpose. Effectively making leathers and these last 10-20 years in sensible storage and wrapped well in gladwrap. If I had blueberry wraps I am sure they would only last 1-4 weeks max
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Oct 13, 2017 19:23:05 GMT 10
I still have not worked out which one is more insane! Trump or the runt!
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Oct 13, 2017 19:13:04 GMT 10
I think mine is a harvest maid from new zuland. Does a good job and you can run 20-40 trays on it depending on your ceiling height.
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Jun 17, 2017 13:22:18 GMT 10
Keep out of the cities and crowded places is the safest bet. I know one bloke has a few blocked off concrete drains in isolated areas and he uses them for storage compartments! The way the local rural councils have been the last 20 years they would never be found as the neglect is unbelievable.
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Jun 17, 2017 13:18:01 GMT 10
Winter has been kinder! We have lettuce, beetroot for leaves, cabbage, spring onions, kiwi yams, garlic, kale, chillies and rocket. Snow peas are finally flowering as well. Bitter melons and new guinea butter beans are still producing too. Put about 1 tonne of rotted manure and old hay into the bottoms of the vege beds prior to planting out. Is a bit back breaking, but the veges grow well in winter and summer most years. The beds all have high organic material levels and are beautiful when rotary hoed ready for hilling and planting. I put the manure/muck under the topsoil to prevent plant burn caused by urine and fresh manure. Be pruning the grapes soon.
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Jun 17, 2017 13:09:03 GMT 10
I would like to try that with my acco truck! Perhaps the 16 tonnes empty may leave a bigger impression!
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on May 3, 2017 21:01:58 GMT 10
Most of our veges died this summer as the 41 deg plus heat for over a month was just too much. The underground artichokes, peanuts, chillies, chives, okra and pineapples survived fine. All other softer veges died off even the melon vines, potatoes and pumpkins frazelled!
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on May 3, 2017 20:55:47 GMT 10
You misunderstand what I am saying. My batteries are not stuffed! What I am saying is that even buggered batteries can be used as a buffer between your panels, and regs so as the inverter can still run refrigeration/freezers during the sunny daylight times! If the times comes that your batteries are toast then they will still be usable during daylight hours. Of course they will not have any storage capacity for use after dark. But at least you can still have frozen food! Safer to use salt in the water bottles if you have kids as the ethel glycol green is very attractive to little eyes. And there is no cure after ingestion! Better to be safe than very very sorry!
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Apr 23, 2017 7:11:27 GMT 10
You have to shop around to get batteries at the "right" price. I managed to pick up 12 x 1350 amp hour surrettes for $2,000! New old stock that had neglected and were "locked up with sulfation". It took days of charging (destroying 3 x 40amp 12 volt chargers in process) and fiddling, but I now have a good workable 2700 amp hour at 24 volt battery bank. They have been performing very well and run all our refrigeration (4 units) with ease. This also boosts our return from the grid tie feedin tarriff we get as well. So ergon actually helps us put money aside for further batteries in the future. Even with shagged batteries they can be used as buffers to accept power from solar and feed to inverts to run refrigeration during the day. So even if your batteries are toast you can have cooling during daylight hours. Of course this does not work so well during cloudy days. If you have freezers you need to pack the outer edges with plastic bottles of frozen water to give longer lasting cooling. The tesla power walls are not good value and will want to become a lot cheaper in the future. At present fla still is the best bang for buck and safer for solar newbies. Let us hope we get better batteries for home power usage sooner than later as things seem to be heating up quickly overseas!
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Apr 19, 2017 5:55:37 GMT 10
Cashless is a wish and I doubt will happen in my lifetime. I do not have a smart phone nor will I ever buy one again as I find them to be annoying. Plus no coverage over much of the area where we live as well. I withdrew $10 K ($10,000) from the nab in bundaberg a few weeks ago and the teller there said that most of the rural employers paid their workers with cash and larger cash withdrawls were common! We large discounts on goods and services for cash and it allows us to live better than if we ran a cheque account all the time or online banking. Try buying goods from farmers markets, farmers road stalls and the like with your paywave card! Or just be like a lot of the travelling greynomads (no offence Rob) and take the produce and not pay the farmer!
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