What can you tell us how to make that will help when SHTF.

[Dunerunner]

The Rocket Stove....

Thought about making one of these out of 4" square steel tubing Speedy Metals - 4" SQ {A} x 3.250" ID {B} x .375" Wall {C} Square Steel Tubing

[video]http://youtu.be/h4eUorrfsYM[/video]

 

[jjackffrost]

yea was looking into making one of those. Right now I have a half finished (half done for about 6 months) with an ammo can stove. real life keeps getting in the way of me finishing the project.

 

[jjackffrost]

Made Laundry soap today thought i would share

4 cups Water (boiling)
1 Bar of soap (grated)Fels natha
1/2 cups 20 mule team Borax
1/2 cups Washing Soda Arm & hammer
■Add finely grated bar soap to the boiling water and stir until soap is melted. You can keep on low heat until melted.
Add borax and washing soda Stir well until all is dissolved.
(Carful it will boil over if you do not watch it)
■Pour the soapy water mixture into a large, clean pail Stir well until all is dissolved.
■ add the rest of the 2 gallons of water, stir until well mixed.
■Cover pail let sit for 24 hours then brake up the gel and pour it into what ever contaner you want.
■ use 1/4 cup for each load of laundry. shake/Stir the soap each time you use it (will gel).

 

[theguncrank]

Palatable (if not fine) wine from foraged fruits and berries. Anyone that could rig a still to turn it into brandy?

 

[Father of four]

Cut/pull off a bunch of tall grass, weeds and/or green leafy branches. Lay them down in a pile 6 inches or more thick. Use this as a temporary bed. It will help insulate you from the cold ground.

 

[AMProducts]

Rendered fat:

Use as a soap, lubricant, food additive etc -

Take beef, lamb or pork fat chop it up into small pieces, put in a pot, add water about 4:1 fat/water ratio. Apply heat stirring periodically. The fat will liquify slowly and the fatty connective tissue will separate and float to the surface. Once all of the tissues have separated, pour the water/fat mixture through cheese cloth. Allow fat/water mix to cool and harden, once the fat is hard push a stick/straw/whatever through the fat to allow the water to escape and drain the fat.

If you are making soap, you may now take the fat, re-heat it. Dissolve Lye (sodium hydroxide) to a 5% solution in water. Slowly add lye taking time to allow the chemical reaction to occur between additions while stirring. Occasionally taste the soap (you don't have to eat it) when it starts to taste more like lye than it does like fat you are getting close to making soap.

Once soap is finished, pour it into bar molds (usually just a big tray, mom's brownie pan works) and let it set up and cure for a few hours, then slice into bars and let sit for a few weeks to let the chemical reactions finish.

Now you have lard/tallow soap. If you want to, you can add essential oils to the soap after saponification, let the soap cool a bit before you add the oil as otherwise it tends to scald and smell funny. Mint oil is an easy one that most people like.

 

[nwwoodsman]

Made Laundry soap today thought i would share ...........

My wife has been doing all our laundry with this same recipe for some time now. It's way way way cheaper than the store bought stuff. When I pick it up is cost about 5 bucks and last us about two months It'd be extremely cheap to stock up on and add to your preps

 

[powersbj]

Dig a hole in a hill and insert garbage can, presto a ghetto root cellar.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I can tell you learn a real world fighting system now before it's too late. Few will heed