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Post by frostbite on Mar 6, 2024 11:38:50 GMT 10
I’m going to create a Linkdin profile, saying I have a high level security clearance, contacts in govt and defence, and a penchant for hot blondes, and see how long it takes for the ladies to contact me.
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Post by frostbite on Mar 5, 2024 11:53:12 GMT 10
Has there ever been a shtf event when there wasn’t any warning? I can’t think of any. I’m sure Zuckerberg has a fuelled up private jet on standby 24/7
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Post by frostbite on Mar 5, 2024 9:07:18 GMT 10
These bunkers will become their graves WTSHTF and they run out of supplies/security etc. The fact of the matter is, will anyone else believe you ? He’s a smart guy. He’ll have the locals producing food for him and pay his security team in food and/or precious metals to keep them loyal.
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Post by frostbite on Mar 5, 2024 5:56:05 GMT 10
A ‘mammoth estate of 1359 acres’. Bwahaha. My Camp Carnage retreat was 1254 acres. I wouldn’t call it mammoth. The locals probably hate him for taking their land and for all his armed guards. He probably thinks he will be Lord Zuck and they his serfs if shtf.
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Post by frostbite on Mar 4, 2024 19:33:40 GMT 10
This is my 2 wheeled bugout cycle: and my daughter on her bug out cycle. About to carve up the local mountain pass.
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Post by frostbite on Mar 4, 2024 8:22:07 GMT 10
I hope that guy doesn’t consider himself a prepper. Using a grinder without safety glasses isn’t prepping (his little spectacles were worn very low and effectively useless whilst he was using that grinder).
prepping is less about machetes and hatchets and gas masks and more about not making stupid decisions.
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Post by frostbite on Mar 3, 2024 6:47:04 GMT 10
Slab $15000 including a full day with an excavator and a second 24m sq slab between the two containers. Shed kit $15,000 12m x 4m plus 12m x 2.5m verandah including 4 windows and 1 glass sliding door and roof insulation Erection. (giggle) $15500. Because nobody else was available to erect and wages were very high due to so many tradies working on Snowy 2. Insulation r4 earthwool $700 Steel stud perhaps $700 Vinyl flooring approx $700 including a few bottles of wine for the ladies who help lay it. Plasterboard and skirting including delivery $1400 ( I paid more to get the 1350mm wide sheets to save time and effort setting- 1 join instead of 2 each 2.7m wall) Electrical perhaps $300. 5 double PowerPoints and 5 batten lights. I did most of it myself with an electrician friend finishing it off for free.
I could have saved $15500 by erecting myself but Mrs wouldn’t let me, but she was happy for me to erect 24m x 12m x 5m she’d for my work wife around the same time.
All up about $50k.
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Post by frostbite on Mar 1, 2024 18:00:59 GMT 10
I have zero respect for an idiot who preaches climate change and wants the commoners to reduce their carbon footprint whilst he flies around the world in private jets.
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Post by frostbite on Mar 1, 2024 17:38:56 GMT 10
I have 9 pistols, soon to be 10. Do I need all of them? Absolutely. I currently have 5 pistol trainees and about to start a school kid doing pistol shooting as part of his Duke of Ed Award once NSW Dept of Education vett me. I might end up being a very busy boy.
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Post by frostbite on Mar 1, 2024 16:36:34 GMT 10
Spinifex, that last photo shows how I box around the window, creating a reveal. It doesn’t look plumb in that photo because I was in the process of dismantling the reveal and building another one, because I like my joins to be 100% or I redo it.
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Post by frostbite on Feb 25, 2024 15:32:44 GMT 10
When Mrs Frostbite wants something expensive she doesn’t book out the next few birthday gifts, she just stops running when I chase her around the house.
Last time it was a $2k eyelid tuck, this time it’s an $1800 Bettinsoli trap gun. God knows what I’m going to have to agree to when I want to buy a $45k Ducati V4 superbike. Probably the ironing for the next 10 years.
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Post by frostbite on Feb 24, 2024 8:44:28 GMT 10
NSW to make you need a planning approval to keep a caravan on your property for more than 6mths Labour, the party for the working class, looking after battling Aussies during a housing crisis they created by importing half a million immigrants. The sheep get the government they deserve. They keep voting for these idiots.
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Post by frostbite on Feb 23, 2024 18:47:17 GMT 10
I didn’t get an itemised account. I paid the concretor, he paid the excavator. I paid less than $15k by paying in cash. I had the crusher dust or whatever it’s called, vapour barrier and reo as well. I doubt it was laser levelled or compacted, but the slab was poured on rocky ground. There should be pics on my Building a retreat thread.
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Post by frostbite on Feb 23, 2024 17:43:15 GMT 10
My 12m x 6.5m slab, plus a second 6m x 4m slab ( 102 square metres) cost me $15k, including 2 days with an excavator to level the site (it was a big cut).
The concrete supply was 30 minutes from site.
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Post by frostbite on Feb 20, 2024 15:32:47 GMT 10
Iron radiates heat.
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Post by frostbite on Feb 20, 2024 15:27:54 GMT 10
Spent 2 days at the retreat with a friend who is an electrician. Wiring in new cabin now finished and I’ve started lining the external walls with R4 insulation. All the plasterboard arrives in just over a weeks time. I'm in early stages of a similar project on a slightly bigger scale. A few questions: Did you get the shed designed and built with windows already in place or retrofit them? Can you please put up a few pics of how those windows are fitted into walls/framing before the plasterboard is put on. How easy is it to use the steel framing system for lining out and putting in internal walls? (I've got plenty experience with timber but not steel and am wondering which way to go for doing my framing).
The windows came with the shed kit. Some shed manufacturers have limited size window selection. The windows are tec screwed or riveted to the outer corro wall of the shed. When I build the internal stud wall I make a window reveal out of DAR primed timber, to cover the gap between the window and the stud frame. The reveal screws to the stud frame and permits fitting of curtains and blinds. I use steel stud because it is termite proof and easier to use than timber. The bottom tracks fix to the slab with little expanding nails and the studs just click in. They aren’t load bearing so most of them aren’t even screw down. You can double the studs up at doorways to provide greater strength. They are easy to cut with hand tools, just measure, score each side and bend back and forth until it snaps. They are pre punched for services but my electrician said never run cables horizontally in walls.
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Post by frostbite on Feb 20, 2024 15:18:27 GMT 10
A few questions: Did you get the shed designed and built with windows already in place or retrofit them? Can you please put up a few pics of how those windows are fitted into walls/framing before the plasterboard is put on. How easy is it to use the steel framing system for lining out and putting in internal walls? (I've got plenty experience with timber but not steel and am wondering which way to go for doing my framing).
Mate forget plasterboard! Check this bloke out at 3.13 I wish I saw his YT Vids 30 years ago if they were around! Matter of fact check all his videos, there is some good stuff there re shed builds! That guy is doing pretty much the same as I have done, except he uses timber for his stud frame (will the termites eat it?) and 10mm mfd wall panelling (which I used in the lounge room of my main cabin). The problem with that panelling is cost ($100 per 1200 x 2400 sheet) and it doesn’t come in longer lengths, which means you will have joins every 2400 or 1200.
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Post by frostbite on Feb 20, 2024 15:10:20 GMT 10
We built my sisters house out of insulated refrigeration panels, just clip together, smooth inside and out, 150 mm thick, no painting and look good. No maintenance ever. Reasonably easy to install as they are quite light compared to their size. The outside is a bit too bland for her, so she is thinking about attaching some galv iron sheeting to spruce it up a bit. One tactical nuclear weapon can ruin your whole day. What supports the roof?
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