[Kartographer]

For people who think that they will just boil their water:

7) Splitting firewood requires lots of tedious work.

Boiling also doesn't not remove a a whole host of contaminants. Save yourself time, labor and possible death look into any number of filters and gravity filtering systems, such as Berkey.

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

[goldstategop]

Living off the grid is possible but you have to be a hardy and self-reliant soul to do it.

Few people can or want to live without modern conveniences.

Hoofing it will be a vocation for a minority.

[vpintheak]

Splitting firewood is great exercise! I love doing it!

[Daffynition]

Property taxes are unavoidable. You'll never be truly invisible. Unless you can squat somewhere without being discovered.

This little place is totally off-grid ...but even modest property taxes must be paid annually. The *man* knows where you live.

[Twinkie]

Husband got a gas powered log splitter a few years ago.
It is great. He couldn’t get along without it at his age!

[steve86]

Just starting to install my second set of solar racks. Slow work in the 30s°F. Only a few tens of watts output right now while we’re fogged in and the sun so low but by June I’ll have more electrical power than I know what to do with (about 1,000 watts and 1,000 stored amp hrs).

[ResisTyr]

To read later. Thx

[Rebelbase]

Best off-grid log splitter I've seen:

[V K Lee]

Having purchased a smart TV this year along with a Ruku, we’ve found a number of you tube channels regarding living off the grid. Becky’s Homestead is one remembered right off the bat. The shows are interesting, very informative, and there is a lot to learn. DH has been viewing a number of solar heating options, Simple, DIY alternatives. I enjoy watching them as well. Becky is a 65 yo who lives alone, raises chickens, and has her garden. Look forward to seeing more of her lifestyle as the year progresses.

[PIF]

Unless you live near an old grown or second growth forest in the PacNW where old Doug Fir bark can be 3 or more inches thick - very dry, sometimes pitch laden - also called womens wood - breaks and crumbles easily - burns very hot and long - no need for paper of other tinder to start the fire - pitchy bark lights with a match.

[Faith65]

Thanks !
BOOKMARK FOR WEEKEND!

[Jotmo]

Realy?

Those things were all a surprise to them?

Did these people ever go camping...even once?

[central_va]

I almost live off the grid now. I have propane and wood for heat. I have my own well and septic.

The biggest problem is generating electricity. There really is no way to generate electricity quietly and efficiently yet. I can buy it for 10 cents/KWHr. That is hard to beat.

[Ditter]

I am OK with simplifying but these people are nuts. What about when they get old and become disabled? Who is going to chop their wood and haul their water? A sprained ankle will mean that one of them has to do the work of two. When they get old they have to move to town and who pays their bills then?

Better to live on a tropical island where you don't freeze in the winter, can fish for food and catch rainwater to drink. That would get very old too. Just wait for a hurricane to blow you away, that’ll help!

[SamAdams76]

I agree with most here. It's a little nutty to want to live "off the grid" in the modern world. If we have a SHTF event, we will adapt to it but why choose to live now like it already happened? That's pointless. It would be like putting yourself into a wheelchair so that you can be prepared just in case you actually need to be in a wheelchair. Makes no sense to me.

The American people have spent the past couple centuries specializing skills and improving the quality of life so that we can sit in a warm house in the middle of winter and read a book, instead of spending the whole day chopping wood, hunting your dinner, hauling water and doing the hundred other chores that needed to be done back in a log cabin on the prairie in 1815.

I've got acres of woodlands around my house and I can live off the land in my current house if I absolutely had to. I choose to wait until or if I absolutely have to. So in meantime pass me another beer, put a decent movie on Netflix, and check the temperature of the turkey in the oven. The turkey I got at the supermarket.