What preps are you doing this week? part 2.

[Stasher]

@Stasher you can never have too much Chocolate. Don't forget to rotate Daily

FIFY

What a relief!

Will obviously need to increase stocks to ensure daily rotation....................

[DustyDog]

Prepping for winter 2015, yeah i know it still is winter, (it snowed today up on Alston moor) but im thinking of when Dec comes around again, so finally with the previous snow melted, got my next 12 months wood fuel deliverd.

About twelve tons, i chainsaw and axe it myself, it should last between 14 and 18 months, depending on how cold it is, my 78 yr old mother-in-law lives with me and Mrs DD and feels the cold, so we do go through a fair bit.

[hobo]

Prepping for winter 2015, yeah i know it still is winter, (it snowed today up on Alston moor) but im thinking of when Dec comes around again, so finally with the previous snow melted, got my next 12 months wood fuel deliverd.

About twelve tons, i chainsaw and axe it myself, it should last between 14 and 18 months, depending on how cold it is, my 78 yr old mother-in-law lives with me and Mrs DD and feels the cold, so we do go through a fair bit.

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Just WOW!

[Decaff]

@Stasher you can never have too much Chocolate. Don't forget to rotate Daily

FIFY

What a relief!

Will obviously need to increase stocks to ensure daily rotation....................

I can only agree with this 100% lol @ too much chocolate?? Is that even possible??

[valderee]

Hi Dusty dog, gosh lots of work there to get on with, keep you warm too id imagine while doing it Good planning there for you and your family.

[Decaff]

Dusty, now that is what you call prepping!!! I'm very impressed that you have started to think of next winter already when I can barely think past next week at the moment way to go!

[DustyDog]

Well yes, it does seem strange to be thinking of next winter now, but of course the wood needs to season for a good while, so i will fill one of my wood bays (i have three) and that will get left until next Jan, the other two; get used in rotation, so i fill one as we use the other, so the logs can dry out as much as possible, and being a prepper.... i have a coal shed with about 50 discs in that ive had for about three years, enough for about a month, just in case.

Also cutting the wood doesnt seem like work, can be relaxing strangely.

[Stasher]

Well yes, it does seem strange to be thinking of next winter now, but of course the wood needs to season for a good while, so i will fill one of my wood bays (i have three) and that will get left until next Jan, the other two; get used in rotation, so i fill one as we use the other, so the logs can dry out as much as possible, and being a prepper.... i have a coal shed with about 50 discs in that ive had for about three years, enough for about a month, just in case.

Also cutting the wood doesnt seem like work, can be relaxing strangely.

Well impressed, I thought we were organised on the log front, but clearly we are rank amateurs. It must be deeply satisfying to have this under control so early in the year. Another box ticked off.....

[DustyDog]

You need to be on the ball for heating and cooking around here, we have three woodburners (multifuel) the biggest of the three we can cook on, it has an oven so if the juice goes off (no gas supply either) we can still cook and boil water etc, Alston is the highest market town in the country so it does tend to be colder and more prone to snow so it makes good prepping sense to have plenty of it, also i'm lucky enough to have somewhere for all that to sit for a few months too.

[OCDprepgirl]

I'm not sure if anyone else would count this as prepping but this week as well as adding to my stores etc, I'm faithfully sticking to my eating plan to lose weight. I'm counting this as I'm decreasing health implications of obesity (3.5 stone down, 2.5 to go!) and getting light enough to increase my cardiac fitness without my knees (messed up along with my hip in a motorbike accident) falling off