What did you do to Prep today?

Yup. Salt, pepper, spices, all are a good idea.
When the stores are closed you'll be in good shape for barter.
I have 50 lbs of brown unrefined salt from the farm srore.
It also has the trace elements that ae a big part of good health. A whole lot cheaper, I think it was $20.

Yer not right.

I was expecting her to pull out a butcher knife and chop it's head off. Looks like it's a pet. Odd.

You've gotta watch this, makes me wanna eat possum......

Some funny shit too.



Last Edited by HnryBwmn on 08/03/2012 04:00 AM

"Be sure to clean off all the excess fat or it'll smell like Devils' ass when you cook it"

Priceless.

Pig hunting in NZ, warning slightly graphic, the dogs kill their pigs:

What I consider a major part of prepping, teach the women (everybody) to shoot.
Don't forget ear protection.








See watcha started R2B? Yer a bad man.

Last Edited by HnryBwmn on 08/03/2012 04:38 AM

hey while agree wth you about recurves being the better
choice for many reasons

you dont need a bow press to repair a compound bow.

Military evacuations?

Thread: John Moore Reports that Military Bases Recieved Evacuation Orders


John Moore report, 08-03-2012,I listened to half of it and didn't get any evac info, another thread said at the end:



This however had quite a bit of interesting intel:



Last Edited by HnryBwmn on 08/04/2012 08:24 AM

I'm thinking of consolidating my Gardening and survival threads, what do you all think?

Last Edited by HnryBwmn on 08/04/2012 08:24 AM

Today, watered already, dried peppers, another quart or 1/2 bushel of green bells put up.
Cut another 1/2 bushel of bells, start canning maters. I have more to pick too.
Picked 4-6" cantelope yesterday and sent 2 of those and maters to GFs' family, girls are going shopping today so my help is not here.

Whatever became of those Japanese girls?
Afraid to work? Don't know how to garden or can?

Am I going to be the only person ready when SHTF?
Nobody doing anything?




Last Edited by HnryBwmn on 08/04/2012 06:00 PM

I'll be done with 21 quarts of stewed tomatoes at 11pm.
14 hour day doing that, plus picking.

Veni chili with the last 1 1/2 quarts. Yummie stuff.

I'm pooped.

I like the body armor in that last video. Good idea.
Lots of BBQ.

Your chainsaws won't be any good unless you reconfigure them to run on turpentine, and then you learn how to make your own turpentine from pine trees.

Salt is the real deal in prepping.

Once over-the-road shipping comes to a stop, people will find that they can grow/hunt their own food and dig wells for their own water, but they are fucked when it comes to procuring their own salt. As mankind's civilizations advanced away from the seashores and into the interiors of the continents, we never traveled any farther from a salt source than commerse and trade could bridge the gap. Once commerse and trade come to a stop, people will start dying of salt deprivation.

Everyone knows that:
You can't go more than three minutes without air.
You can't go more than three days without water.
You can't go more than three weeks without food.

But few realize that you can't go more than ONE week without salt.

Indeed? The spiritual "prepping", because that's the only thing that counts in the end.

That's OK because they've already envisioned a bullseye right between your eyes.

Just wondering if the OP has ever considered the fact that The Powers That Suck have taken note of everything he's done, and all of that effort will come to naught, in an instant. A prime candidate for a black bagging.

I'm working on a posting about this very subject, both from a human need for nutrition, for preserving food, and for barter post shtf.

In the interim while I prepare that article, one thing that all people should do is search google books for their state plus salt licks.

For example, in Missouri, salt licks were found and utilized in Howard County at Boone Lick. From there, an operation was developed and then shipped, probably via flatboats down river.

See:
[link to books.google.com]

There are several options, but rather than going into the methods of harvesting salt (and there are several), I'll be posting them over at my regular section in a few days.

It would be very wise to both have salt on hand and also to know where you might be able to acquire it later. Realize that salt has iodine in it too in order to prevent goiters. Iodine keeps the thyroid operating properly. Post-45, many people become hyper and then settle out hypothyroid. In a collapse without iodine sources (now from salt), then you'd see these conditions again in YOUNG people.

What little salt you had, you wouldn't ever trade it away, as it's very difficult to acquire.

Good points. Please give us a link to your "regular section" as I have no clue what that is.

I need more salt.

Last Edited by HnryBwmn on 08/06/2012 03:21 AM

I'm a small fish. They will do what they will do.

I promise a messy attempt to any who would try.

Thread: Last minute tips for parents when the SHTF (Page 15)
Last Minute Tips for Parents When the SHTF

It's not just for parents, but has several hundreds of pages of tips written over the course of a year which detail prepping ideas. Most of them deal with frontier skills.