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Post by SA Hunter on Jun 3, 2020 16:35:34 GMT 10
Inspired by tomatoes post in the chicken virus thread; So, What books or magazines have you read to help you prepare better? Have there been any videos, tv shows, documentaries or movies that have assisted you prepare better? Are there "go to" websites you visit for research or learning??? (Apart from here  Are there websites you subscribe to for information? If it helps you along, chances are they will be of help to others. |
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Post by spinifex on Jun 3, 2020 18:44:05 GMT 10
The early years (1920s to 60's) of any of the state agriculture journals are a gold mine for learning how stuff was done in the pre-tech/gadget/24-7 retail/easy driving era. All very practical stuff aimed at farmers who effectively lived 'off-grid' as a normal way of life.
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Post by kelabar on Jun 3, 2020 19:26:47 GMT 10
John Wiseman's SAS Survival Handbook is the first one I recommend to anyone. Good basic info and a great chapter on the psychology of survival IIRC. Any of the books/website stories on real-life crap situations. Leningrad, Sarajevo, Rwanda, etc. Especially relatively recent ones. There was a guy taken hostage by the Chinese out of Tibet back in the fifties. There is a book about that. Also "The Long Walk" about a trek through Siberia (that may not be the right title). That sort of thing. There are a heap of vehicle/motorbike forums out there with all the mechanical info you need to work on your own vehicles. Priceless, as well as saving you mechanic fees! As Spinifex says, any of the old-time 'how to do it' books are a gold mine. I've gotten several great ideas out of that sort of book. Grass Roots, Owner Builder, Australian Poultry magazines. I've bought quite a few of these. Good for ideas and info. Generally a web search will bring up some info. I just randomly tried "How to build a table" and it gave plenty of links and a few new ideas. Or "basic solar setup", etc. Follow links from there to get more detailed info relevant to your situation. Save any webpage in an archive format and put it on a DVD or USB. Print really useful stuff like conversion tables, user manuals, parts diagrams, etc. TV and movies less so but still useful because they bring up scenarios we would never think of and stir the mind to play "what if..." games. So if you ever are chased by a mimetic polyalloy robot from the future you know to keep firing at it until it denatures and then mix it into concrete. Simple really!  Or just ask here! |
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Post by pugs on Jun 11, 2020 21:07:48 GMT 10
We subscribe to grass roots magazine and usually keep the mags as they come in also bought the stories series of books from farming , chooks etc , etc as well as other small farming and reference book , the SAS survival book , same as Kelarbar .
Also the “ where there is no dr / dentist books and the drug description book that nurses use when training .
I isis ally read a few pages online and trawl through reviews then buy the hard copy and put in the reference library in the office.
The Ian Skennerton reference book are good for small arms as well as other gunsmithing books and Manuel’s too
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Post by SA Hunter on Jun 12, 2020 13:10:43 GMT 10
Just a few fav. ones;
Grass Roots magazine
Weekly Times Annual
Small farming books
Vegetable gardening books
Multiple web sites on just about any subject
You Tube videos
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Post by Tim Horton on Jun 13, 2020 15:26:22 GMT 10
Through the "Caribou Express and Grape Vine" .... The system of friends and neighbors who when they make a trip from one town to another will say drop this off to so and so, or pick up such and such for me.. The system works well.. Everyone benefits.
My MIL brings me some small farm magazines of several types, one being all manor of "homemade" farm things.. I love, love going through them and seeing what people have built, repaired, repurposed that is useful..
From some of the thing people have made in these publications, I have made drawings of useful implements and other thing that I have in my "good idea" note book..
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Post by Stealth on Jul 17, 2020 8:47:44 GMT 10
"The Weed Forager's Handbook" by Adam Grubb & Annie Raser-Rowland. It's a guide to edible and medicinal herbs in Australia. I found through reading it that my carefully cultivated plot of mallow weeds is useful as a spinach replacement, and that the sap from them is good for sore throats. Who knew? I can barely get spinach to take off in my clay-heavy soil, but this stuff grows like... Weeds.
The book has a bunch of common weeds that are edible and plentiful in suburban Australia as well as in the scrub so it's (in my opinion) even more useful than a bush tucker book.
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Post by dirtdiva on Jul 17, 2020 9:49:31 GMT 10
Ancient skills culled from interviews with mountain old-timers. Foxfire started as a class project at a Georgia high school — students interviewed neighbors and wrote a series of articles, which turned into a quarterly magazine and then a book, in 1972, with other books to follow soon after.
Volume 1: Vittles, log cabins, crafts, planting by signs
Volume 2: Edible plants, beekeeping, wagon making, weaving
Volume 3: Livestock, banjos, edible plants, butter churns*
Volume 4: Making knives, fiddles, cheese, traps, plows
Volume 5: Making iron and guns, blacksmithing, hunting
Volume 6: Making gourd banjos, shoes, toys and games*
Volume 7: Mountain religions, snake-handling, singing*
Volume 8: Black heritage, making pottery, tubesteak fighting
Volume 9: Herb cures, quilting, log cabins, good yarns*
Volume 10: Railroad lore, boardinghouses, Depression era applachia, chairmaking, whirligigs, snake canes, and gourd art
Volume 11: Plant use, preserving, cooking, hunting, fishing
Volume 12: Square dancing, Cherokee traditions, veterans' stories
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Post by Beno on Jul 17, 2020 9:52:55 GMT 10
The book has a bunch of common weeds that are edible and plentiful in suburban Australia as well as in the scrub so it's (in my opinion) even more useful than a bush tucker book. Very true. Bush tucker can be really hit and miss. Some of the local delicacies like macadamia in my area no longer set well. It could be the increase in pests and diseases from commercial crops bit the old bush nut is not reliable as a food source. Farmers friends or cobblers pegs are as reliable as the sun coming up just like many other weeds. |
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