What did you do today to prep?

CountryGent · Mar 4, 2018

@pdempsey1097, thanks. It sounds interesting to me too. I have no idea if it is good or unhelpful yet, but I will provide a review once read. I've found that, probably like most genre's, but maybe more so, the preparedness books are all over the map in quality.

Parenthetically, and I should say these lists are not exhaustive, but I have a couple review lists/posts here and here. They are old posts, but I am just passing them along in the off-chance they are some help. Cheers.

DRZ400S · Mar 4, 2018

I put in IED's around my house and have Zombies chained up to entire fence line.

GOG · Mar 4, 2018

DRZ400S said:
I put in IED's around my house and have Zombies chained up to entire fence line.

Goin' kind of light there aren't ya?

ATCclears · Mar 5, 2018

Over the past few months, I educated a coworker and helped her navigate the processes to get her WA State CPL, legally purchase a Glock 19, get some ammo and ancillary items, and get re-trained (she owned a pistol many moons ago).

notazombie · Mar 5, 2018

Drive 590 miles yesterday to bring this home. Hoping it makes for lighter work in maintaining the acreage.
Lost link

I've found that it's a bit of an odd duck. Only made for 1 year but shares parts with the Big Bear, 4-Moto, and Terra models. Has a manual transmission, reverse, hi/low range, locking rear diff, aux cooling fan, huge front rack, and a factory flatbed over that long rear swingarm. It's a bit of a project but the buy-in was right. Spent the last 22 years on a farm so I have plenty to set right.

Oathkeeper1775 · Mar 5, 2018

Busted caps; turned rocks into pea gravel, and used-up some 2nds and blems...

Picked up 4 food-grade 55 gallon barrels; $5.00 ea.

:s0115:

Timbertodd · Mar 7, 2018

Over the last week I put in 2 beds of peas and 2 beds beets and 1 bed of carrots. Yesterday I put in 3 blueberry bushes.

erwin643 · Mar 7, 2018

DRZ400S said:
I put in IED's around my house and have Zombies chained up to entire fence line.

Real funny. Are you prepping for anything real?
Since we're currently in the process of civilizational/societal collapse, you might want to look-up things like the 1972 MIT/Club of Rome Limits to Growth study, of which their "business as usual" scenario is still tracking accurately (we start hitting the wall... About now). Why do you think our society currently makes a big deal about fracking, when the reality is that conventional oil production has peaked? Or the fantasy that this culture keeps telling itself: That we're "going to Mars" (we're not, BTW)?

Just the melting of the Arcitc sea ice alone is worse than any scientific projections. In other words, if you have long-term storage food and we get an ice-free Arctic this summer or next (the first time in human history) You better run, not walk to the nearest Costco or WalMart for even more, due to the (current) self-reinforcing feedback loops that will accelerate. The ability to grow food in the Northern Hemisphere will be severely disrupted. 2010 was a dress rehearsal: It disrupted global food production and sparked the so-called "Arab Spring."

2010 Northern Hemisphere summer heat waves - Wikipedia

erwin643 · Mar 7, 2018

notazombie said:
Maybe. Hope I never need it.

Isn't that what preparedness is all about? Having one, and hopefully never needing it?

Otherwise, what's the point in having your out-in-the country doomstead? We live in the suburbs in a sustainable location where I have three different types of military wire obstacle, along with a bubblegumload of USGI sandbags, etc.

Oathkeeper1775 · Mar 8, 2018

HF comms with Columbia South Carolina on 20 meters.

SIG34 · Mar 9, 2018

Got seeds for summer planet farm and got my water filter set up for rain water collection.

ikemay · Mar 9, 2018

I bought a steel striker, char-cloth, flints. So far, I have successfully caught the char-cloth on fire with it. I have picked up two more steel strikers just to see how they compare to the inexpensive one I got.

Now, you may be asking yourself why I bought char-cloth when it is so easy to make? Good question ..... because I wanted to see what properly done char-cloth looked like. What I got is not so brittle that it falls apart and catches sparks and stays lit very well. I also tried it with my ferro rod and it was really nice. Now I know what good char-cloth looks like, now I can try my hand at making some. Probably might even make some char-punk-wood down the road.

Next, you might be asking yourself why I bought a striker steel when you can make them out of old files? Another excellent question. The reason for buying already made strikers is, I had read many reports of people who got old files, even well regarded ones for this purpose like Nicholson files. Problem seems to be, many of them are now made out of alloy and not true high carbon steel which is what you need. So, I decided to just skip the frustration part and get ones that work. Maybe later on, I will try my hand at making some.

Then possibly your final question might be, why did you buy flint? Well, it seems all the cool kids use (said in a snobby bad accent) English black flint ........ so I wanted to be cool and because those in the "know" say it works.

But mostly because I wanted something that I knew was supposed to work.

However, I will try using rocks I find around my place to see how they perform. Seems like they will be just fine.

So, that's what I did. Thanks for asking.

11Charlie · Mar 9, 2018

ikemay said:
So, that's what I did. Thanks for asking.

I don't recall asking!

ikemay · Mar 9, 2018

SKrueger said:
I don't recall asking!

Yooou! Why I oughta! Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!

OldTengu · Mar 9, 2018

Picked up a couple of these Cold Steel "axe gang" (that's apparently what the chinese characters mean) hand axes, and ordered some reciever blocks, as well as some budget friendly throwing knives. I'm a bit out of practice, but not long ago I was able to consistently hit something about the size of a fist from about 30 feet, and would like to return to that level. Same with hatchets.
PT and the usual jog as well. Cooking dinner. Also ordered some more AR tools.

The Heretic · Mar 10, 2018

OldTengu said:
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Picked up a couple of these Cold Steel "axe gang" (that's apparently what the chinese characters mean) hand axes, and ordered some reciever blocks, as well as some budget friendly throwing knives. I'm a bit out of practice, but not long ago I was able to consistently hit something about the size of a fist from about 30 feet, and would like to return to that level. Same with hatchets.
PT and the usual jog as well. Cooking dinner. Also ordered some more AR tools.

The Heretic · Mar 10, 2018

Mounted 3 five # fire extinguishers in the shop in strategic spots.

I have two left for the house, just not sure exactly where to mount them that they don't look ugly, are not in the way, and yet are convenient for handling fires.