Posted on 07/16/2010 11:33:58 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
What about installing an old fashioned hand pump? I used to use one when I was a kid - the only thing you HAVE to have is some water to use if you lose prime. You would feel a lot safer...
Dang! Is that legal? : ) What is it and how much does it cost?
From my limited personal experiences, and more extensive reading of the experiences of others, I think people will eat anything if they get hungry enough. I think I'd eat maggots long before I ever indulged in human flesh, and yet there are stories out there about people being driven to cannibalism in extreme circumstances. I mention maggots more because of their medical value...they can be very useful for maggot debridement therapy. It sounds medieval, but it's probably already used more commonly in modern medicine than most people want to think about.
Is there an old fashioned manual pump that will work on a deep well?
Sure, but on the continuity scale, I’d be eating rats long before I’d look into maggots and other bugs.
I’ve seen maggots used in wound debridement in Mexico, on the central mountains. Hell, even some US doctors use leeches to reduce bruising. Sometimes after cosmetic surgery.
You could make a digester for your waste products (they use them in some third world countries) to produce methane and get a natural gas generator that can be tuned to run on the gas. However, this is very low pressure gas so accumulating and storing it would be problematic.
Alternatively, you could ferment plant waste to make alcohol and use the alcohol to run the generator. Not suggesting moonshine here as making it requires a lot of valuable inputs (sugar and grains).
However, some sort of muscle-based solution (hand cranked rotary pump) would be probably be the most easily implemented.
Whatever the solution, make it one that you can fix using on-site tools and lay in a stock of spare parts to do the repairs when needed. Maybe stock a complete replacement system as water is one resource you can’t go without for long.
My 2 cents.
” Is there an old fashioned manual pump that will work on a deep well?”
I’m not sure - the ones we’ve found work on our local wells, but, admittedly, they’re not REAL deep...
It might be a good investment to get that 6-pack and a couple of pounds of hamburger and have the local plumber over for a barbecue/skull-session - if he hasn’t already thought the problem through, he should at least give you some ideas that would be suitable to your local conditions...
Yep and they will not be easily dissuaded if they are hungry too.
That is something many people who think "I have a gun and ammo, therefore I shall take food and water from everyone else" seem to forget.
Come after what I have, you will eat lead and swallow blood, and not be supping at my table and consuming my stores.
Wood gas seems to be a good solution.
Readily available fuel without storage issues and it’s almost immediately available.
Once you have the system built, you can run your generator in less than 15 minutes.
The Barret semi-auto comes in at around $10,000 for the kit (case, Swarovski scope, rifle, magazines, etc.).
#1 item most all people do: Fail to understand SHTF is not unlikely.
Good God man, thats funny.
Preparedness/Survival ping!
Bars of soap?
I have a piece of paper with one line printed out and placed upon my food strage items as a reminder of why I am prepping:
“The veneer of civilization is thin”
Hard to store a years supply of Lean Cuisines and Digiorno Pizzas.
What Bible are you reading? God commanded you to love your neighbor, not trade her like chattel. You may be severely disappointed at the end of your days.
ROTFLOL!
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