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Weekly Preppers Thread

Posted on 08/28/2015 6:23:44 PM PDT by Kartographer

Haven't done one for a while and with all that is going on I though it would be a good idea to do a Weekly Prepper Thread, for posting tips, new products, good prep buys etc.....

“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger.

Underestimation can be fatal.”


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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Haven’t seen it. I’ll check it out. Thank you.


61 posted on 08/28/2015 7:31:58 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: pops88

I ate bugs during SERE. Didn’t like them, but they were calories that kept me going. Roger the canned tuna.

LOL.

L


62 posted on 08/28/2015 7:34:28 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Patriot Babe

I put mine in Mylar bags with an oxygen absorber. Should last 30 years that way.

They’ll probably last a year, if you don’t vacuum seal or put them in Mylar. After that, they’ll just be harder to cook. You could also freeze them.


63 posted on 08/28/2015 7:35:54 PM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: Kartographer

My thought is a weekly dedicated thread (like the gardening thread), and continue pinging the list on existing threads of interest.


64 posted on 08/28/2015 7:38:13 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: PA Engineer

“Sometimes when something is critical like water, I prep in four (well, spring, rain, ram pump).”

What’s a ram pump?

Got the well, but not a hand pump so still need electricity or propane for the generator. A creek is across the street, but it is seasonal and water would have to be hauled 100’ up hill.


65 posted on 08/28/2015 7:39:30 PM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: Kartographer

Take advantage of the $50 worth of free tuna Starkist must settle with its consumers. Cans of tuna in oil can be stored for many years and they also make great emergency candles. Google it.


66 posted on 08/28/2015 7:40:39 PM PDT by Musketeer
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To: Lurker

“For cheap food prep we have been putting back dried bulk beans. “

It takes a while to cook dry beans, doesn’t it? I know you soak them over night. My biggest concern is having the fuel to cook beans as long as needed. I love me some beans.


67 posted on 08/28/2015 7:41:46 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Kartographer
You all probably have discussed this before, so forgive me.

I watched my first videos on "Rocket Stoves", which can be made from a few $1.70 cinder blocks and one H-block.

Here is the 2 burner model.

These have an elbow which forms a chimney, and the air is "jetted" through due to the hot air rising and "sucking" in more oxygen rich air.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmDYUrVHPWc

With just a little bit of fuel, you have a very efficient and hot stove.

68 posted on 08/28/2015 7:42:19 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Jamestown1630

I just got mine about a year ago. I don’t know why it has to be so incredibly boring for something so useful! Studying for it was excruciating and I’m an engineer, so technical subjects are not foreign to me.


69 posted on 08/28/2015 7:42:35 PM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: Lurker
It is the first survival show that my husband liked enough to watch with me.

Ten men dropped off separately on Vancouver Island in the fall. They are alone with limited supplies and they have to do their own filming.

Last one out wins a half million.

70 posted on 08/28/2015 7:44:03 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Kartographer; CatherineofAragon; Old Sarge; All
A few weeks ago, I ordered four more filter elements for my Big Berkey water purifier - I had two filters and I kept bugging myself until I ordered more. There is a finger of a lake within a short walking distance and all that water kept telling me to get ready to filter it.

Kart, I have recipes I collected for easy bread making on the top of a stove (thinking one wouldn't have a working oven) and other easy recipes for desserts (like cobblers) on top of the stove and other easy meals to make on top of stove. Most of these recipes came from my researching old Indian recipes and early settler recipes. None are complicated as the idea was EASY and using ingredients one would have on hand in a prepper mode.

None require any ingredient that would be in a fridge since we wouldn't have a fridge. Indians and early settlers didn't have a fridge or oven.

I have thought of asking you if I could post some of these recipes when you put on a prepper thread. If that is okay with you, I will do it but right now I'm in Ohio in a hotel with my travel computer and the recipes are not on this little computer. I should be home by Sept. 12 and could start posting those around that time.

Let me know if I can do that.

As to your posting prepper threads, normalcy bias causes some people to deny anything could happen and prepper posts make them uncomfortable so some complain. Ignore those coplaints as you help many people and those are the ones you reach with the threads.

71 posted on 08/28/2015 7:45:43 PM PDT by Marcella (CRUZ; Prepping can save you life today.)
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To: SkyPilot

My Ammo Can Rocket Stove

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2914240/posts

Weekly Preppers Ping
Here are some pictures of my completed Ammo Can Rocket Stove.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2863465/posts


72 posted on 08/28/2015 7:45:45 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Marcella

Post AWAY! You always have good stuff Marcella!


73 posted on 08/28/2015 7:46:59 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Hardens Hollow

I’m doing pretty good on the regulation stuff; the metric system is killing me :-)

-JT


74 posted on 08/28/2015 7:48:01 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: Kartographer

“Coffee? That was 5 different backups.”
“One of the first rules of prepping is estentials FIRST!”

(I have eight ways to cook food.)


75 posted on 08/28/2015 7:50:56 PM PDT by Marcella (CRUZ; Prepping can save you life today.)
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To: Jamestown1630

My parents were both Hams (Amateur Extra), as well as 2 sisters (General Class). I felt rather shamed to get my General. I thought I’d never learn code. It took me forever until I discovered Code Quick software that pairs the sound with a pnuemonic/ word sound like “dog did it” for the letter “d.” I could finally hear the difference and learned all the code in something ridiculous like 2 days. I also reccommend Ham University which is now free. It was the best code software I found (I tried a lot!!) before code quick and is great for practice and also has test questions for the written test. I’m proud to say I had perfect copy when I took my code test.


76 posted on 08/28/2015 7:53:47 PM PDT by pops88 (Geek chick standing with Breitbart for truth)
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To: Kartographer

Start a thread as many times as you wish. They and you are most appreciated. As always, ignore the grumps.


77 posted on 08/28/2015 7:55:40 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: moovova

Good price - and free shipping!

How do you store yours? cI had some in a plastic bucket before I moved. I never noticed any deterioration of the bucket.

Half gallon mason jars would work with plastic lids, I guess.


78 posted on 08/28/2015 7:55:58 PM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: Kartographer

In addition, have athlete’s foot powder. Got two of the military ones years ago and some commercial product also.

Something else to consider - poison ivy scrub. Tech-Nu is the best I’ve seen. Pricey at $12-14, but if you get poison ivy, oak or sumac, you’l be glad you spent the money.


79 posted on 08/28/2015 8:01:26 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: moovova

“It takes a while to cook dry beans, doesn’t it? I know you soak them over night. My biggest concern is having the fuel to cook beans as long as needed. I love me some beans.”

I have a simple way to cook dry beans that is fast, using not much fuel. I don’t have that recipe with me as I’m on my small conputer and in Ohio. I’ll save your name and send that to you after Sept. 12.


80 posted on 08/28/2015 8:04:48 PM PDT by Marcella (CRUZ; Prepping can save you life today.)
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