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Post by paranoia on Nov 9, 2016 8:45:46 GMT 10
yer grouse, thanks for that, ill take a more serious look at it shortly, if you snag one, can you throw up pics of it, i want to see how its stuck. cheers I'll try but will be difficult to get a photo showing anything of meaning. The snake is never really 'stuck' anywhere, it just cant find the hole to get out, reminicent of those oldschool cage mouse traps. we used to use these with some success up at my parents place and just sling them into the dam. I need to make a bunch more over the next few days as one really isnt enough.
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Post by paranoia on Nov 8, 2016 19:57:27 GMT 10
Its that time again, the wife saw a snake yesterday so I've had to pull my finger out and finally get around to making some traps. Thanks to token I decided to take a few photos and do a write up on how I make them.
You will need:
Tools - Scissors (use your wife's OLD sewing scissors, the ones you've already wrecked, apologised for and replaced), a spikey thingy, pliers and a screw driver
Materials - Wire (I use braided picture wire as its really flexible), hose clamps, aluminium screen mesh, PVC storm pipe
1) Cut a piece of mesh suitable for making a cone shape out of.
2) Make cone shape, use the pokey thingy to make holes in the mesh and sew it together with the wire so it holds its shape. One end should be slightly bigger than a snake head, the other slightly bigger than the storm pipe.
3) Stick cone in the pipe and cut slots down to the pipe.
It will look like this:
4) Clamp cone inside the pipe, trying to get the 'snake head' end of the cone as close to the radial centre as possible.
5) Cut out another square of mesh and clamp it to the other end. Trim excess mesh afterwards.
6) Admire your handy-work
7) Place in an appropriate spot and wait for a snake
All done!
FAQ.
1) No bait? Have found snakes to naturally go in there due to their sneaky nature...
2) I've caught a snake, now what? If you're compassionate, you can drive many miles... whisper sweet nothings into its ear asking it to never return and release it into nature. Otherwise you can put the trap in a barrel of water/stock trough till it stops moving, empty out the lifeless snake and repeat
3) How big does the pipe need to be? I use 100mm x what I found in the container, I think it was about 1m... Don't think it matters.
Would love to hear how others build them or any constructive abuse you may have!
Cheers, Para
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Post by paranoia on Nov 8, 2016 17:06:38 GMT 10
In my expirence even with my low poundage bow, you hit a rock or a tree, the arrow shatters if wood, bends if ally. Never used carbon fibre but cant see it reacting different. Dont shoot hard things.
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Post by paranoia on Nov 8, 2016 11:17:36 GMT 10
I'm all for Castle Law. The fact that the intruder turns away from me and starts to run when I emerge from my front door and find him trying to break in shouldn't prohibit me from catching him and tossing him over the railing and off the deck. The fact that he is fleeing shouldn't matter, especially when the local police claim can't even be bothered to investigate most thefts. Another beautiful aspect of the south australian 'home invasion' exception to reasonable proportionality. "What is required is that the defendant genuinely believed that the victim was comitting or had just committed a home invasion"
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Post by paranoia on Nov 8, 2016 9:59:43 GMT 10
You'll never hear it from the police but this is one area where South Australia is a great place to live. Back in 2003 the state labor government introduced a self defense act where a householder could use "whatever force they deem necessary" when confronted with a home invader. If you genuinely believe yourself or your family to be at risk you will avoid processcution. Criminal Law Consolidation (Self defense) amendment act 2003... Its not talked about much
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Post by paranoia on Nov 7, 2016 22:48:09 GMT 10
"Police seized the bow and arrow as part of their investigation". I thought the arrow was in some blokes ass? It's a bit like when there's a shooting and the police find "bullets" on the floor at the crime scene. The media are clueless. Whenever I hear someone tell me that guns should be completely illegal, I show them a picture of a whole cartridge and ask them to point to the bullet. Every one of them points to the brass. It's even funnier when I show them a picture of a 12g shot cartridge (and ask them to point to the bullet). They still point to the brass. The blind media are leading the blind public. People will always fear what they don't understand. My 5 year old has a very good concept of bullet, case, projectile & primer. She does a lot of reloading with me; decapping, trimming and sorting brass mostly.
My mother in law (anti-gun) had a bit of a moment when she found a 223 cartridge in my daughters room. My daughter laughed at her and said; "Silly grandma, its a dummy round... it has no primer or powder"... I was sooooo proud
Educate children, friends, family, neighbours... anyone you can. Offer to take people shooting. We do need to combat this or the 'guns should be completely illegal' opinion will rise more than it already has.
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Post by paranoia on Nov 7, 2016 22:18:42 GMT 10
All good! Its all "ammunition" I can use to convince the wife it was a sound purchase. She's much more interested in overlocker thread than anything that goes bang.
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Post by paranoia on Nov 7, 2016 21:32:43 GMT 10
"Police seized the bow and arrow as part of their investigation". I thought the arrow was in some blokes ass? It's a bit like when there's a shooting and the police find "bullets" on the floor at the crime scene. The media are clueless.
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Post by paranoia on Nov 7, 2016 21:21:11 GMT 10
When defending your life, you will always have two battles to fight. The assailant and the oppressor.
"My advice to people would be to comply with [the intruder], not to confront them, certainly not to engage them in a physical altercation, let them go and let us investigate," he said.
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Post by paranoia on Nov 7, 2016 21:07:19 GMT 10
So you've both got the same machine and are happy with it? Well that makes my life easy. Can probably swing $300 as there's plenty I want to do with it. Tomatoes; My wife does a lot of pickles and canning, not really my department... I just know I've spent a lot on the jars over the years and we've got a couple cupboards full of them! She sounded interested when I described your vacuum sealing the jars for fruits and nuts as she said she'd had to change a few of her recipes to suit the fact she has to boil them. One thing I'm really interested in vacuum sealing is ammunition. Have seen a lot of people on youtube with vacuum packed rounds and it looks like a really good solution to a problem I'd been thinking about for a while. O2/moisture absorber and they'll outlast me.
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Post by paranoia on Nov 7, 2016 18:58:48 GMT 10
I was reading somewhere that some of the bags coming out of China are poor quality, and that the quality can be very variable. I assume that as Mylar is a brand (isn't it?) all bags that are actually Mylar bags should be consistently good? I import a lot of engineering gear out of china and its problematic to say "the x out of china is bad quality" often there are many factories producing the same item and quality varies between factories. There are a lot of really high quality products coming out of china these days and it just comes down to knowing who to buy from and if dealing with a trading company making sure they understand you'll pay the extra 10c to get the quality product.
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Post by paranoia on Nov 7, 2016 18:50:09 GMT 10
Some vacuum bags are quite thin, but it is possible to get thick ones, minimising the chance of holes. I was looking at these www.thepackagingcentre.com.au/collections/vacuum-sealer-bags/products/channel-bags-250mm-x-350mm or similar. If you check your food stores often this won't be a problem anyway as it is very easy to see if the vacuum is gone - the package is no longer tight. You can't vacuum seal the Mylar with the standard vacuum sealer - that's what the oxygen absorbers are for. I would like some Mylar bags in order to compare, but I think for my purposes mostly I'll use the vacuum sealer bags - as that has worked well for me so far and I can rotate through most food in less than two years. If I decide Mylar will keep longer I'll put a few of each food item in Mylar for longer term, so not in my regular rotation, and possibly also use them for food that goes off quicker. Which vaccum sealer do you have? You happy with it? You mentioned you could hook it up to a ball jar which I really like the idea of as we already have plenty of them around.
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Post by paranoia on Nov 7, 2016 18:01:24 GMT 10
Why not vacuum seal Mylar bags? Best of both worlds. Fair point mate. So they're interchangable with standard vaccum bags, just with the extra strength and protection? I dont have a vaccum sealer yet and the price range is increadable... What sort of price should I be looking to pay and what sort of vaccum pressure should I be attempting to achieve... There seems to be a big spread to be sure. Can anyone reccomend an entry level vaccum sealer?
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Post by paranoia on Nov 7, 2016 16:40:57 GMT 10
So back to the OP, Mylar bags *probably* have a slight advantage for keeping out o2 over vaccum bags due to the aluminium layer and will keep out light. You still need to vaccum seal them I'm guessing? The light issue would be sorted by just keeping your bags in a bucket... So is there an angle I'm missing?
Looks like Joeys order is happening so I just want to wrap my head around this and see if its somthing I should get in on.
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Post by paranoia on Nov 7, 2016 11:05:57 GMT 10
^ What he said. There's a supplier in Victoria also, some mayonnaise jars have the same lid. 500ml jars are $1.50 for drinking straw jars at Kmart [most of mine are these now] I've had some really bad expirences with kmart glass. I had one of those immitation pyrex storage containers spontaneously combust... It just... Exploded. It was about 5m away from any person, empty... Just sitting on a table and BANG. Glass everywhere. I wouldnt believe it if I wasnt there. I now stick to genuine pyrex and ball brand products only.
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Post by paranoia on Nov 7, 2016 8:24:22 GMT 10
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Post by paranoia on Nov 6, 2016 21:53:17 GMT 10
Bit of talk of EROL over the last few days. A few expressed the fact they would stand up to an EROL government. Everywhere we look there seems to be more oppressive laws sneaking in restricting our freedoms. There's a time to speak and the time is now...
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Post by paranoia on Nov 5, 2016 20:47:46 GMT 10
Government backed currency is nothing but a story most people believe. When the narrator of that story declares it as worthless, it is. I have trouble believing that once the physical product is no longer backed by the government that people will continue to use it. Its no different than monopoly money at that point.
Talking specifically cashless EROL scenario, I don't see that this means food and water all of a sudden become an issue. You would expect that removing the paper currency you still have the opportunity to buy 'normal' things with electronic funds.
The real issue arises with suddenly illegal items or needing to grease some palms to get something done. You're not going to be able to pay your way around government regulation with a bucket of rice and some bottled water, those able to get anything done aren't going to be interested in the slightest.
You raise a good point about security Shiny but this is present in any black market scenario by default. You're trying to do untraceable things, with people willing to break the law, in places out of sight/mind... what could possibly go wrong?
So theres always this talk of the big SHTF event that collapses all systems at once for a long period of time. This idealized great equializer. I personally don't see it. I think there will always be people who avoid the big issues, those who are protected or have the wealth/connections to get out of dodge.
So from this perspective, there will always be haves and have nots. When gearing up for things to barter your biggest thing is, who are you bartering with? I feel that if there's something I REALLY need, its not going to be from the desperate starving guy down the road who would nearly kill for a bucket of rice. It'll be from a well connected, entrepreneurial type who knows the value of things and doesn't need my food preps.
So what are we all bartering for? Who are we bartering with? and will we really be able to get all we need with monopoly money or alcohol?
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Post by paranoia on Nov 5, 2016 17:13:35 GMT 10
Turns out I've been eating the stuff for years without knowing it existed.
It goes in her béchamel sauce, pesto, crackers and anything that wants a 'cheesy flavour'. I do like all those things she listed so it turns out I do like nutritional yeast?
For a parmesan cheese substitute you can put yeast flakes, sesame seeds and salt in a pestle and bash them.
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Post by paranoia on Nov 4, 2016 22:52:30 GMT 10
You're plucking my strings, token.
A lot of talk goes into bartering with precious metals post SHTF and it has flaws, many around divisibility and lack of widespread adoption. When you start talking 1984, cash free, there's a need for an underground currency this is where I feel PMs will shine.
Gold and silver has always been money, people have just forgotten. For a currency to work it needs to be difficult to produce, recognisable and small enough to carry/conceal.
We need a society that is free from government, taking control of our currency would be a good start.
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