Posted on 04/22/2020 4:23:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
My neighbors hunt. They can survive in the forest, hills, lakes, and rivers, here in Indiana. They understand the world of nature, its vicissitudes and savagery. Appreciating its transcendent beauty and cadences, they also accept its fierce cruelties. They do not worship nature. They seek reconciliation with it that they may endure and protect their loved ones. They admire the natural world, its towering majesty and microscopic complexity, but they do not hold it on a pedestal, pristine, and viewed from a distance. Theirs’ is a realistic appraisal of nature and its vagaries, and what they require to survive.
Coming from the Bronx, I was acquainted with riding the subway or bus or navigating the busy and often treacherous streets of New York. There I learned to survive in the city, but I knew nothing of hunting, fishing, or surviving in nature. Coastal elites have disdain for those schooled in such things. They assume that food, water, and other necessities and amenities just appear. They lack awareness of the complex grids, structures, and platforms that maintain their comforts. The sources of the electricity that powers their computers and air-conditioning. The gasoline that fuels their cars. They do not appreciate those who make these daily, secular miracles possible, the commonplace wonders of modern, electronic civilization.
Many Hoosiers preserve food. Some steam or pressure can. Or dehydrate, pickle, freeze-dry, smoke, or salt items. Knowing how to farm, they cope with caterpillars, aphids, and cutworms and guard against hedgehogs, fungi, and lack of rain.
Some have gas tanks and generators. They have water filters, propane stoves, purifying tablets, first-aid kits, pick-up trucks, drills, hammers, and wrenches. They can repair a car, a machine, or a leaking pipe.
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As I recall my 68 GTO had “issues” with points but NOTHING like my Z1. I could put a brand new set of points in that thing, take it out and run it up to 10,000 RPM and come home and they would be cratered.
My Z1 made me an expert with a timing light. You could tune that thing up and it would run like a watch but one hard run in a “quarter mile” and you’d have to tune it up all over again. But THAT quarter mile was something. Out of the box on Regular Gasoline it would turn quarters in 11 seconds easy. Sometimes a good run, less.
I’ve got a 1979 Yamaha XS650 Special sitting in the garage. It WAS pre-electronics... and darn if I didn’t swap out the points and rotor for electronic ignition. I could always put it back...but it starts every time now. :-)
I also realized that in a “post-electronic” era...say after an EMP strike...a non-electronic vehicle would only be good for a short period of time. Once everybody realizes their vehicles don’t run because the electronics are fried, and you’re one of the few vehicles on the road...you’re just a target. You can use your vehicle for several days to collect whatever you need to collect...family, food, etc...then you have to park it unless it’s a real emergency.
In most localities, it is very difficult to “live off the land”.
Most armies “lived off the land” by plunder and pillage.
Agriculture became a “thing” for a reason.
Without manmade fertilizer, the carrying capacity of the earth, for people, drops by 75%.
Most electronics will work after an EMP strike. Most vehicles will probably work after an EMP strike.
The Day After is fiction.
Yep, my 1976 Scirocco had a bad habit of freezing the points if they were closed and I was playing the pumped up radio in the parking lot of wherever.
Thanks for posting.
That’s good news.
My dad’s first car was a Chevy and the oil filter was an option.
A car like that was made to be repaired by its owner.
I didn’t learn how to do front brakes until three weeks ago. Turned 51 last month.
Changed my rear differential fluid last night.
So glad I got the new Joe Biden (creeper). Makes getting under my truck easy.
“Then again, if it’s the original motor it’s coming out, getting re-built and updated. “
There are some drop in igniters that replace points and condenser but the distributor still looks stock from the outside.
Who knows, maybe he is. Why don’t you say “Hi Neighbor”
Well, It’s not that tough to survive for three weeks which what ‘Naked and Afraid’ is based on. The ones they pick just don’t know what they are doing.
Indians survived a tough life, but most of North America had very few people.
It’s easier to hunt and fish to get by when there is tons of fish and game and damn few living off it.
There’s also all kinds of game rules and laws and the rangers/LEOs that enforce them. Country boys, as well as city folk, still have to abide by the law.
Of course, a country who hunts in December and January will have more venison in the freezer than a city or country boy who doesn’t hunt.
But if push came to shove, and it was a choice between asking the government for food—without the promise of it— and starving, versus poaching, I would do the latter.
The deer that eat my vegetable garden and corn might be dinner, too. I’m intimately aware of their “out-of-season” habits, lays and runs.
Yes, and even with low populations, many people starved in winter. Cannibalism was fairly common.
900 DOHC, the only engine available in the first year, 1973. 85 hp at 8500 RPM and 500 pound curb weight. F-16 numbers.
Yep, I'm aware of those. Appreciate you mentioning it.
I’m not sure how hard you guys drove your vehicles “back in the day” ... I can recall maybe a handful of times I pushed my AMX hard. Maybe that’s why I didn’t have some of the issues others are saying they had on this thread? I dunno. It was a very long time ago now.
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