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- Tue Nov 19, 2024 8:35 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
- Replies: 596
- Views: 52470
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 11
Found out the unpleasant way this morning that my wax cotton jacket needs reproofing. Guess I know what preps I'm doing this weekend...
- Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:58 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: Straw Poll. How much food do you have in reserve? How well do you stock rotate?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 927
Re: Straw Poll. How much food do you have in reserve? How well do you stock rotate?
At a pinch we could go 3+ months based on reserves.
What we don't have, and I need to fix, is drinkable fluids reserves.
What we don't have, and I need to fix, is drinkable fluids reserves.
- Tue Oct 08, 2024 7:42 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Cash Storage Options
- Replies: 12
- Views: 626
Re: Cash Storage Options
On the general subject of safes, anyone got any experience / recommendations? There are several on Amazon, but I have my doubts about cheap electronic safes that are probably Chinese imports. As someone whose hobby is lock picking (purely for entertainment, honestly) I know how easy it is for some o...
- Sun Sep 22, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Mains Inverter.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 739
Re: Mains Inverter.
What is your definition of a prolonged power outage? And just your house or the area? I have an EcoFlow which will run the router and recharge my laptop. However, last time we had a local power outage, it took out Virgin Media and the local cell tower. So having a power supply was academic - couldn'...
- Sat Sep 14, 2024 9:27 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: Thinking about winter 24-25....
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2892
Re: Thinking about winter 24-25....
We eventually bit the bullet and got a new gas boiler. The old one was on its last legs. Logs for the wood burner now delivered and stashed. That's our primary heat source over the winter - easier than trying to heat the whole house, just have a couple of warm rooms. Definite nip in the air this mor...
- Mon Jul 15, 2024 5:43 pm
- Forum: Homes and Retreats
- Topic: Limits of domestic electricity distribution
- Replies: 2
- Views: 415
Limits of domestic electricity distribution
Hi, Does anyone know the specs of how electricity is distributed to domestic residences. Assume you have a terrace of houses on a road. Each house has a meter, and there is a service cable that connects from the house to the "mains". It's that "mains" cable I am interested in. Ho...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:46 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: Prepper -'lite' or full on survivalist
- Replies: 45
- Views: 6478
Re: Prepper -'lite' or full on survivalist
I would suggest that for most people in the UK, the best you could achieve is Prepper-lite. The option to bug out is not really an option. Certainly down here on South Coast, there is nowhere to bug out too - 10 miles outside of anywhere is pretty much 5 miles into somewhere else, if you get what I ...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Geiger Counters & Dosimeters
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2996
Re: Geiger Counters & Dosimeters
I have a GQ GMC500+. Have also used higher end, more professional kit in the past. It's ok as something to have in the house but I wouldn't rely on it for anything serious. Mine can connect to the internet and publish data to www.gmcmap.com. Lets me compare my background CPM to other devices in the ...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:56 am
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Getting rid of bamboo
- Replies: 3
- Views: 323
Getting rid of bamboo
Anyone got any experience of getting rid of bamboo? Made the mistake of putting some in a flower bed a few years back. Was told it was the clumping variety- they lied. Damned stuff is now popping up all over the place. Currently trying to cut it down to ground level then dig it out, but it's hard wo...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Powdered egg ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 765
Re: Powdered egg ?
Powdered eggs can last for years, provided you can remove all moisture and store in an anaerobic state. You can make your own, but it's messy and time consuming, so only worthwhile if you do it in bulk. Basically, you need to make an egg slurry, then dry it out slowly so you end up with a brittle ca...