What Preps are you doing this week

[popgoestheweasel]

Hi there,

I haven't been on for a while and have spent the last week catching up on posts which has been great.

I am moving in a couple of weeks and my next prep is to install a wood burner into the house I am moving into. There is an open fireplace there at the moment.

I very much prefer the heat a wood burner gives out to radiators and obviously want an alternative heat source.

Expensive prep but worthwhile to me.

[pseudonym]

Hi there,

I haven't been on for a while and have spent the last week catching up on posts which has been great.

Welcome back

[popgoestheweasel]

Welcome back

Thank you

[Al_Shrew]

Thinking about alternate power (solar, wind etc) came across Nomad 7 from Goal Zero on sale on Amazon £47(ish). Any body got one? Would only be using it to charge up iPhone ( cut down on grid dependency a little and save a few pence too) could also couple it up with the battery pack.

[dazthechippy]

I'm getting all my medical preps together.

Been stockpiling things round the house for a bit and also been buying things like co codomol, paraceatamol other medicines and painkillers etc. So I'm bringing that all together in a big plastic storage box for inside the house and also compiling a grab bag of medicines and the like in a PLCE med pouch, bandages and first aid stuff that I can just grab if we have to PUFO in short order.

It's a real chore isnt sometimes isnt it as there's always something you've missed or more things you want -but you have to crack on and do it.

I was gonna bung in a couple of snap lights from my preps too but read on here recently that white ones are the best as they're the only colour blood is visible under - little tips like that always help...

[m4me]

I am yet to order my water storage as I had mentioned in another thread - but I have been exploring quality options to replace my existing random packages of supermarket bottled water.

In the meantime I have decided to order a drinksafe travel tap:

http://www.drinksafe-systems.co.uk/products.php

They seem to get quite good reviews but I will let you have my thoughts when it arrives!

[Arzosah]

It looks great, and it sounds great too, but I can't find any description of *how* it filters ... do you already have that info?

[m4me]

There is a technology page on that website but it's a bit vague. From what I can gather, the product filters water in two ways - 1. traditional physical filtering by way of micro purification which only allows water to pass through and 2. it's made of some type of chemical absorbing media to remove the nasties.

[vassili]

This week I have been braking down and sawing up pallets. I have an endless supply from some of the factories that I look after, it's rather time consuming but therapeutic and exercise. We have a solid fuel rayburn and wood burner so we get through a bit.
Swept both the chimneys, bedded down all the rhubarb plants, processed half a dozen of the cockerels.
Better half has been busy making lots of sweet chilli sauce, tomato and chilli jam, roasted tomato and pepper sauce and pickled eggs from this years pullets which are too small to sell.
The weekend will be rotovating a third of the Polly to get winter stuff going, and the same with some of the raised beds.

[vassili]

Today brought back another 12 pallets, then went back out and picked up a tonne of coal on a pallet, saved £20 on the delivery and about 75p per bag by buying in bulk, still came to £320 though
In case your wondering. My bov is a long wheel base high top 3.5 tonne boxer van that also provides us with accommodation when we travel, tight fisted, me,?