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A High Mobility 72 Hour Kit - Revised and Updated
02/05/2011 | Ward Dorrity

Posted on 02/05/2011 9:40:15 AM PST by Noumenon

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To: editor-surveyor

Pine cones are great for starting fires also.


81 posted on 02/06/2011 10:22:51 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

Actually, so are potato chips and fritos :0)


82 posted on 02/06/2011 11:00:09 AM PST by editor-surveyor (NOBAMA - 2012)
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To: editor-surveyor

Thanks for the additional information, but I’ll still pass on iodine related water treatment options.

Cryptosporidium is an issue with the surface water here and state-wide, I don’t feel comfortable with just iodine related treament - iodine + good filter might be a better choice.

In the end, everyone must made an informed choice based on their area.... and live with the results.


83 posted on 02/06/2011 2:24:07 PM PST by ASOC (What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
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To: Noumenon

Something I learned at Christmas, steel wool makes really good fire starters. You light it, blow on it and it is red hot before you know it and you can get several uses from it.


84 posted on 02/15/2011 9:41:16 PM PST by tiki
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To: Noumenon

Thank you for posting this. We have lots of little ones underfoot and the hubby and I have not gone through any SHTF scenarios. With him working out of the home, we definitely need to have a plan for what to do if we’re separated at the moment. I appreciate the reminder!


85 posted on 03/07/2011 3:57:36 PM PST by samiam1972 ("It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-Mother Teresa)
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To: Noumenon

Another bump


86 posted on 03/07/2011 4:13:43 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Noumenon

bump


87 posted on 03/07/2011 5:04:09 PM PST by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - It's only uncivil when someone on the right does it.- Laz)
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To: chooseascreennamepat
quick, easy and certain fire starter. Save your dryer lint! Yes! Dryer lint. Also save a few egg cartons of the paper variety. Get a block of paraffin (available at most grocery stores). Melt the paraffin in a can or pan. Place some lint in the sections of the egg carton. Pour paraffin in the section to cover the lint.

That idea's a keeper...

88 posted on 03/07/2011 5:11:58 PM PST by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - It's only uncivil when someone on the right does it.- Laz)
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To: Noumenon

I’d trade the wire cutter / lineman’s pliers for a pair of 10” curved-jaw vicegrips with the wire cutter at the base of the jaws. Preferrably a pair of them. They’ll cut through the chain link fence, and get you past a wide variety of fasteners in the bargain.


89 posted on 03/07/2011 5:15:58 PM PST by tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic

Good idea - thanks for the tip. I can see the practical applications for a pair of those.


90 posted on 03/07/2011 9:50:39 PM PST by Noumenon ("We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.")
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91 posted on 03/08/2011 3:40:09 PM PST by CottonBall
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To: Noumenon
I think I'll put together a modest kit and take a hike with it; There's a few miles of slightly rough woodland trail maintained by my development, but seemingly nobody uses it, so I'll put it to use. These are really good skills to have even without a SHTF scenario.

Obviously can't pack weapons though.

92 posted on 03/08/2011 5:48:18 PM PST by Celtic Cross (Some minds are like cement; thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
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To: Celtic Cross

That’s the ticket. It also pays to drive or walk your escape routes in your spare time. I’ve got several ways out of my work area. It helps that I’m less than a hundred yards or so away from an industrial area and a huge train yard.


93 posted on 03/08/2011 8:22:00 PM PST by Noumenon ("We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.")
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To: Noumenon

Bookmark


94 posted on 03/31/2011 1:27:43 PM PDT by TXLady
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To: TXLady

Hurricane Irene bump


95 posted on 08/26/2011 8:29:59 PM PDT by Noumenon (The only 'NO' a liberal understands is the one that arrives at muzzle velocity.)
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To: CottonBall

Please put me on it. Thanks...


96 posted on 08/26/2011 9:32:42 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: Noumenon

i would also add a couple rolls of hundred mile an hour tape.

very useful


97 posted on 08/26/2011 10:21:38 PM PDT by Leofl (I'm from Texas, we don't dial 9-11)
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To: RedCell

Another Irene bump...


98 posted on 08/26/2011 10:23:12 PM PDT by RedCell (Honor thy Father (9/6/07) - Semper Fi / "...it is their duty, to throw off such government...")
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b/m


99 posted on 08/26/2011 11:39:37 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: ansel12; Gritty

Ping.


100 posted on 01/20/2013 12:53:46 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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