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They are wired in parallel to keep the voltage at 12V, but provide added capacity. Ideally, I'd wire all 4 together, but because they aren't the same sizes I can't that. I may get a Perko boat switch so I can switch between banks. The battery banks can serve many purposes. They can be used directly for 12V power - hook up a cigarette lighter socket and you can power lot's of devices. They can be used to run my inverters, thereby providing quiet AC power for a wide range of devices They can also be used to jump start vehicles, replace dead car batteries, etc... Mainly, right now they are just a "I have them" item. I don't have solid plans for how to use them, I just have the capacity if I want it. I'm thinking of using these to power the AC inverters and run devices, then recharge them off my generator. That way, I run the generator for a while, then go on silent battery banks for my power needs. |
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Now thats how I want to be organized! Fight 4, you have provided excellent motovation! $20,000+ in all of the stuff you have for preps? wish you were my neighbor! I purchased n100 masks from the local safety supply company by the case. That's the best place to order in bulk. |
ok, I know we've probably covered this - Where do you get one and how much? R. |
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THey make them for 1.25" or 2". That's a 2" I forget the brand. VERY well made - most I've seen aren't. Here's the link - Etrailer.com |
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What name brand is the generator? |
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Hats off guys! laws! What will that little Honda gene run? How long? capacity? Where do you get your tubs of grain? The best I could find was here http://waltonfeed.com/ 50# bags for pretty cheap even with shipping, I was thinking maybe 4 each corn, hard red wheat, different beans etc for long term BO. Supplimenting with a garden, canning, yard birds, pigs and fruit trees. Damn nice preps! |
I maitain my own pool and all I add is enough acid to keep the PH balanced and liquid chlorine. Thats all I ever need to add. If needed, you can heat it and the chlorine will boil right off and it is ready to drink. Otherwise let it sit a few days and the chlorine comes out as well. No other chemicals to worry about. |
I put a lot of stuff in buckets around a month after that picture. Here's everything on the rack now.  Rice Red Beans Pinto Beans Oats Salt Sugar Flour R. |
NIce! Thanks for the link |
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Well, here are my old pics. http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1464/6114268/11939152/174979827.jpg http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1464/6114268/11939152/174983253.jpg http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1464/6114268/11939152/174981316.jpg http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1464/6114268/11939152/180934451.jpg Since moving up full-time to my place in the country, everythings a mess with having hauled up even more stuff. I hope to make some new pics up this fall. |
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For that little one on the corner lot? 
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Yes. And it doesn't have upgrades either. |
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The red barrels in the first picture all have hard red winter wheat. 300 pounds per barrel. Others have rye, oats, beans of all kinds, sugar, salt, yeast, rice, coffee, DE, boots, canning jar lids, Tang and lamon-aide drinks, gator-aid, baking soda, instant potatoes, 1yr of food in #10 cans, cake mixes, taco mixes, cholate and more. It's around 5K pounds of food. I haven't taken the new pics yet. I do those once all the new stuff is but away and everything is getting moved around. |
Of course if things get so bad that Americans start starving "the Man" is going to descend on that barn and confiscate all that food to feed 1000 people for about 2 days. THEN they'll still starve, as will you. But at least the socialists will feel smuggly that "we're all in this together, EQUALLY".  Oh, and if any lib-tard historian survives he'll use extant copies of the NYT to record your name forever in history as that "miserly neocon meanie who STOLE food from the People out of no doubt the worst movitations and thus got his just deserts when the People's Guardians reacquisitioned his ill-gotten hoard".   On the other hand...looking at that shelf unit with 12+ cases of ammo makes me think if historians ever record the forced confiscation it'll be on chapter 2 of "The one-man war". 
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Just curious, how long will all of that food keep? Do you guys with the larger stock piles use the older stuff and replace it with newer to keep from losing any of it? And lastly, not trying to bash anyone by any means, but what types of events are you prepping for? I'm assuming nothing related to natural disasters, Ive spent most my life in the most hurricane prone areas and in worst case have only ever needed a week's worth of food/supplies. If it got worse than that, Id simply leave until it was better. Any input is welcome, again not taking jabs at anyone just trying to understand. Thanks! |
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Some, but most of my stuff is essentially "lifetime" storage - Mountain House stores indefinitely.
Many kinds of trouble. AFAS leaving if it's more than a week, I'd suggest you take a serious look at New Orleans. Now picture a more widespread disaster. Leaving may not improve your situation Preparing for a week or two is good, and puts you far ahead of 98% of the sheep, but heck, as a kid we had a 2 week ice storm in Michigan. 2 weeks is very feasible. Parts of Virginia were without power for more than that a few years ago after a hurricane. |
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Here's a couple of pictures I took this morning while organizing: Fuel storage: Including a full 4-gal tank on the generator, I have storage capacity for 31.5 gallons of gasoline currently, plus five gallons of kerosene for our space heater, a gallon of Coleman fuel for my multi-fuel stove, and a quart of denatured alcohol for an improvised soda can stove which I use when hiking. I've also got 16oz of Sta-bil, plus all of my currently stored fuel has been stabilized as well.  This pantry represents approximately 75% of my stored food. It can't be seen in this photo, but there is another shelf above the level of the doorjamb with 12 gallons of bottled water stacked. At floor level I've got one five gallon bucket each of: Flour x 2 Rice Beans I've also got one case of MREs and two cases of HeaterMeals, which are kind of a civilian MRE, but tastier, with a 12oz drink included. Not pictured is more rice, pasta, spices, spaghetti sauce, and a bunch of odds-and-ends foods. I'll post more pics later if I can. |
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OK here are some... some storage for preps:  Doors opened, misc spare stuff, many knifes, portable power, medical stuff, candles, fire starters, lighting, spare flahlights etc.etc.  and some of the 24 bugout vehicles: 4 snowmobiles, kdx200, xr100r, 2-gopeds, vintage tm125 motocrosser, RD 350 burried behind spare Changfa and woodstove, Polaris ATV, 2-Skidoo MXZ 670's, vintage 1969 Polaris playmate, Vintage Snorunner, honda 50, Yamaha jt-1 all ready to go... VW bus, not yet ready.. 
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From my point of view, some of you all have some pretty insane collections. Here are my questions to you: 1) What do you plan to do with the mass quantities of food in 5 gallon buckets when it goes bad? That stuff lasts what, 5-10 years? Assuming that’s not your normal diet, what happens to it? Are you really dumping $5 grand every 10 years on freeze dried food? 2) How can you guys afford this? Granted, I am only two years out of college, but I make way more than the average American HOUSEHOLD income. I have no dependents, live with roommates, and have TONS of disposable income. On the contrary, most of you have families. Yet it looks like some of you have spent tens of thousands of dollars, if not more. There is no way I could afford preparations like that, even if I stopped saving and put every penny into it. At what point do you say “enough is enough,” and plan for more realistic things like old age and retirement? Are these preparations the result of ever-mounting debt? What about financial survival? I think it makes a lot more sense to devote time and effort to building SKILLS. People go buy 100 acres so they can “farm” when SHTF. But all it takes to feed a family of four is a garden of a few thousand square feet. I know, I’ve done it. Lots of people go buy a dozen AR15's, and I’m willing to bet they’ve never even fired half of them. Instead of storing thousands of gallons of potable water at an insane cost per gallon, why not buy a house with a well, or just live near a reliable stream and invest in a quality filter? People buy so much survival food that if they started eating it tomorrow, some of it would quite literally GO BAD before they got around to eating it. If you have 6 years of food that lasts for 5 years......you do the math. Finally, I’m all for stockpiling weapons and ammo. But who in their right mind needs what appears to be 50,000+ rounds? You said it yourself, you’re families of 2, 3, 6 – not a national guard unit. Is this in case they stop making ammo for the rest of time? Don’t you think if that happens that someone might see a few of your internet pictures and come knocking? INSTEAD, how about some silver bullion to trade to people for more likely things that you'll need, like a carpenter, plumber or doctor? How about some gold coins to trade to the guy down the street for a cow? Precious metals don't go bad, are easy to store and protect, and are readily converted to paper currency. AND, if you buy at the right time, you can also get a nice return on investment. There is definitely a lot to be said for planning for the "WHAT IF." But if you and all your resources always are focused on the what if, you can miss entirely the "RIGHT NOW." |
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It’s one thing to rotate jars of peanut butter and boxes of cereal. It’s another thing to rotate powered milk, butter and eggs and red wheat kernels as part of one’s daily diet. I most certainly wasn’t talking about the $20-40 a month people (or even the $200-400 a month people). There were pictures posted of collections that clearly cost tens of thousands of dollars. You don’t get to that point spending $20 at a month, or even $20 a DAY. As to water, it’s not hard to find a place near water. Having a well is not a mark of a wealthier person; often it’s the mark of a poorer person too far off the grid for city plumbing. My parents having a well and a special narrow bucket you can lower to the bottom sort of negates the need to store umpteen thousand gallons of water. As for me, I have a large creek behind my house. And I have a couple decent filters. You’re absolutely right, becoming obsessed and paranoid is very easy. There’s no line that you cross, but all of a sudden instead of having several packages of TP you have a room full. Most people assume that if its “TEOTWAWKI” that it’s that way forever. For those people, a basic economics class would be in order. People will learn new skills, people will start to specialize, you will see the division of labor, people will begin to barter, and all of a sudden the 4,000 pounds of grain you have stored in the basement won't seem so necessary. Even if you wiped out every thread of American government and destroyed every major American city, I doubt you would even need a year’s worth of supplies to sustain yourself before production and distribution of many things would be back up and running. People would continue to build trucks, others would manufacture foodstuffs and supplies, and yet others would buy those trucks and use them to haul those supplies. Soon enough life would be “normal” again. Regardless of how long it takes, the odds of someone needing to store enough food to support themselves for the REST OF TIME are nearly zero. |
Living with peace of mind right now is the goal to me. If you see situations like Katrina or the week long power outage in NY it is comforting to know that I don't have to leave my home during "stupid times". I can maintain power and food and water for some time without going out scrounging and being among looters and the welfare crowd whose checks and free everything wont be coming for a while. Most people live very close to the edge with very little disposable income, they are not prepared for a week let alone two or three. I agree with you that most SHTF scenarios are unlikely but I disagree with you that everything would be back to normal quickly. Take a drive through New Orleans and you will see how fast things don't happen. Econ 101 was a great class, but Real Life 101 will take a little longer to pass.  |
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They don't do any good sitting on shelves. I've got about 6 placed around the home |
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With all due respect, and certainly no malice intended: What's it to you? People make money. People spend money. These folks have chosen to invest in things that they feel are important... just like we all do. So what if a widespread calamity never occurs? I bet these folks will not be weeping "Damn! I stored all this stuff and I never got to use it. I should have bought a bass boat instead!" If a calamity does occur, there will be a few less families in line for the government dole. Again, no flame at all intended, but it seems a little odd to come into a survival forum and declare that people have insane collections. Are you the arbiter of what's sane? Stay Safe, AGreyMan |
You are making alot of assumptions and baseless comments about people you don't know. I'd suggest instead of trying to blast these folk, that you quiet down and learn from them. |
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My AR spare parts. Altogether cost me around $100, not including the buffer and mag followers, which I already had. I was inspired by F4YR's pictures earlier in this thread. I still need to get some Glock spare parts, and then I'll be happy. |
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