Bfree
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Bought solar lights and a manual 20 ton log splitter today for my bug out location. Im going manual for everything I possibly can if we loose electricity and the earth goes dark so hopefully I'll be ok if it does.
Ok . . .so far this week, have put up jars of peas, green beans, carrots, and mustard greens. For the freezer, blanched cauliflower. A local store had chicken on sale for 49 cents a pound so bought 20 lbs (my limit). Cooked and deboned, canned chicken and broth. Started milking another goat. Also started picking my red and russet potatoes from the garden.
What exactly is a 20 ton log splitter?Bought solar lights and a manual 20 ton log splitter today for my bug out location. Im going manual for everything I possibly can if we loose electricity and the earth goes dark so hopefully I'll be ok if it does.
If you heat with wood a log splitter is a good thing to have. A 20 ton log splitter would have a track you load the log into and a wedge that is forced into the log with the equivalent of 20 tons of force behind it.
So, in prepper speak: mowing the lawn is inspecting your property and ensuring nothing can sneak up on you; you showed your family a rendezvous point; the jet skis are an alternative water passage vessel and escape route. At the park did you light a fire? Go swimming? See, you did do something.WOW!!! I feel like such a slacker, all Ive done is mow the yard and take the family to the lake and played on the jet skis. I guess I need to get busy.....I at least watched on old episode of Doomsday Preppers, if that counts for anything.
Splitting wood is best done with a splitter, especially in the events we prepare for. Many people have been injured/killed chopping wood. Taking a bite out of your leg isn't fun now, imagine with no hospitals or medicine. Also, steel splinters can shear off your axe or wedge and if they enter your body, its bad. If they get into your bloodstream they will float to your heart, then its good bye.Ah I've just been choping with a hatchet and sledge hammer, most meals can be cooked on two foot long logs sections about 6 inches thick no problem. I've never heated during winter with wood, but I'm fixing to make a wood stove out of my old electric stove that I'm pulling out of the house today.
Started gutting it yesterday, I think with some duck work I can get it working, more research required though.
The hatchet is getting pretty damn dull now though
I don't really like the idea of using my current wood oven for space heating (as opposed to heating me) as I feel like the chimey just gets too damn hot for my wood roof. In an emergency sure, that is why I'm setting to stock my attic with logs over the summer, still a long way to go I figure I can add maybe 30 6 or so foot long sections this year which should be a good wood reserve beyond my wood pile.
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