What Preps are you doing this week

MiniMikey · Post by **MiniMikey** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 9:23 am

Well this week, aside from joining this site, I have been looking at basic bushcraft courses and believe i have found one in East Sussex which seems reasonable

only problem is they have stopped for winter

PreppingPingu · Post by **PreppingPingu** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 3:53 pm

Blackberry picking tomorrow, then doing stuff with what I've picked!

SooBee · Post by **SooBee** » Fri Sep 13, 2013 4:10 pm

Another load of damson and apple jelly done today. More damsons to pick tomorrow if dry enough.
Plum chutney coming up next. Must pick up some more vinegar so I can do some nice mint jelly with the apples.

Soobee

Post by **jansman** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 4:59 pm

We are still picking courgettes, runner beans, and now apples. My Daughter and I are picking and packing like mad. We wrap each one in news paper and lay them in stacking meat crates that I liberated from a supplier. That will keep us in apples 'til about February I reckon.

arnieh · Post by **arnieh** » Sat Sep 14, 2013 6:52 pm

Been working on the new store shed, all the outside work apart from the new door frame and rehanging of the newly strengthened door is now complete, though we do need yet another coat of preservative on all the walls. During the conversion work I found that the roof was letting water I have effected a repair and I will sort that one out next spring (new roof). Its not until you start this kind of project that you realise just how much timber and other building products cost. I am looking forward to getting the preps organised at last.

richardivryn · Post by **richardivryn** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 8:39 am

Converting the under stairs cobourd to store tins and jars, got shelves from machine mart whitch are good and strong.

Briggs · Post by **Briggs** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 12:21 pm

Oil boiler replaced with log boiler. A colon dash comma does not express the feeling I have right now. It's as if I've pulled a cloth bag over the head of a Saudi Oil Sheik and booted him squarely in the nuts. Twice.

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Arzosah · Post by **Arzosah** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 12:26 pm

I took a while to translate that, but I loved it

I've found a plan for a really, really simple basic rocket stove, much less faff than all the fireproof putty I've been futzing around with, and the differently sized drill bits I've bought. Plus a really simple instruction on that big down to earth blog about making an oil lamp. http://down---to---earth.blogspot.co.uk ... -lamp.html nearly 8 million visits can't be wrong (erm, quite a few of them are from me).

Briggs · Post by **Briggs** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 1:03 pm

Arzosah wrote:I took a while to translate that, but I loved it

I've found a plan for a really, really simple basic rocket stove, much less faff than all the fireproof putty I've been futzing around with, and the differently sized drill bits I've bought. Plus a really simple instruction on that big down to earth blog about making an oil lamp. http://down---to---earth.blogspot.co.uk ... -lamp.html nearly 8 million visits can't be wrong (erm, quite a few of them are from me).

My wife bought me a rocket stove for my birthday from DK Devon Blacksmith. It is heavy duty, built like a tank and it will probably outlive me. It's on YouTube. I'm all for making do and making myself but sometimes you have to concede someone's got the design just right.

For a great tutorial on making a tin can gassifying stove check YouTube for Yankeeprepper.

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Arzosah · Post by **Arzosah** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 4:03 pm

Ooh, I like the look of Devon Blacksmith's stuff

As for making do and making myself - for some things, no, but for other things, absolutely, and making the stoves I've made is a great way to learn skills and understand principles.

With wood gasification, I haven't researched the principles yet, so I wouldn't be just following instructions from anyone, no matter how knowledgeable they obviously are, like Yankee Prepper. No point doing it by rote.

My little alcohol stove, I found a design from a single can. The rocket stove I already made, I used perlite insulation, 4 tins construction, and fire cement, with an extra steel plate as the top, because I didn't do the right thing with the lid. And last night, I found a much simpler version of a rocket stove, based on an Ikea cutlery drainer, using a single can. YP's build looked as complex as my original rocket stove, so not the way to go for me.

But OMG, I have Devon Blacksmith envy

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