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Here in the northwest, we have had an epically dry winter. This is a big deal because we normally get very very little rain in the summer, so irrigation is almost completely dependent on winter snow. Now, I am 'lucky' (it wasn't by accident) to be the first private property, that an irrigation...

Nothing you hopefully don't already know....but a good video to share with newbies contemplating 'the big one'

It occurs to me, on the recent them of prepping dying out, or possible being corrupted.....something we don't talk about is WHY survive? We prep so we can survive....we survive for.....what? Something that I notice in reading OLD survival material, is that survival was a means to the end. Not...

About 40 minutes ago I lost cell service. I noticed because I'm on call tonight....I checked downdetector.com and I see major spikes in outages across ALL cell carriers. Earlier today my phone app notified me an an X class solar flare... Check in.....if you can.....curious if it's as wide...

Well, maybe its insanity, maybe it's depression, maybe I just got bored....But I'm making an attempt at starting a youtube channel. It's going to be about.....all the stuff I do. So expect building, cooking, fighting, survivalism, adventures and mostly just trying to make the homestead work. Not...

I notice this place is almost a ghost town. So I went and checked back on survivalist forums, (MIBH) and its a tiny vestige of what it once was. So, is prepping dying lately? or prepping forums? or has everyone just moved somewhere else....and if so...where did everybody go?

I have always viewed fire as my biggest threat. I live on a wooded, steep hillside, bordering hundreds of square miles of wild-land. I have made extensive preparations, stucco buildings, sprinkler systems, etc. Some clearing of land, but not as much as I could as I view the uncleared land as...

My armor as it currently stands....everything hand forged but the mail: My newest weapon creations:

Just a random thought... I feel part of my entire outlook on prepping is dictated by experiences I've had, which cannot be easily 'learned' by most people. I have been shot, I have treated gunshots in others, I have handled more victims of fatal violence than I can remember. I have been so...

Turns out I'm making a thunder run to the south in a few weeks....from a couple hundred miles south of the Canadian border, to about 50 north from the Mexican border. Anyone from those parts wanna tell me what to expect? I haven't been down there in about fifteen years.

A reverse bladed Falchion I just finished:

The frost free standpipe I fill my household water tanks from....no longer back drains when shut off, and instead is freezing up. Today I pulled the top/spigot/handle part, pulled the rod, and replaced the plunger...(which was in bad shape) but it still won't drain. It doesn't leak...but the...

A long shot....but desperate so I figured I would ask the hive mind. 2004 Subaru, 270K on it. Blew the headgasket this summer, common enough thing for subarus. I pulled the engine, replaced the the HG. Put it all back together. Now the engine, which used to only use about a quart of oil per...

On the homestead, there is the boss and the worker. The boss is disappointed in how much the worker gets done each day. He thinks the worker is too slow, and everything always ends up costing more than he thinks it should. . He sees the worker make mistakes, he gets distracted and sometimes it...

The test subject: A 1998 Subaru Outback, my fourth line backup vehicle for my EDC outback. It was parked outside in summer of 2019, half a tank of regular ethanol fuel, battery vintage 2014. Not touched until yesterday. As you would suspect, battery stone dead, not enough voltage to even...

This: (without the kid and the minibike), its about 100 ft in front of you, because its on a curve you couldn't see it from further away. Because the base of the tree is in dense brush, you can't see if it was cut or uprooted or broken off by wind. This is a question I ask from time to time as...

Like many of you I imagine, I live in a place that is very naturally quiet. Sound is one of the best ways I have of monitoring my area, as the dense trees make it hard to see far, but I can hear everything for a long ways as there is very little background noise. If I hear a car, its a car on...

Due to disaster related government corruption, I've had a bit of a monetary windfall. Well, still in progress but its gone from "I could buy a new handgun money" to "Damn....I could really go shopping money" how far it will go, I have no idea. I'm taking it day by day, but I'm taking advantage...

One of my cats presented last week with two bumps in her skin, on her flanks. When I looked at them they looked like giant infect pimples. I figured she got stung or bit by something and they would heal up. But after a week they haven't gotten any better. Last night I was trying to put some...

While reading a book about likely considerations for future warfare, 'Out of the Mountains" I cam across an interesting quote that stuck with me in an otherwise somewhat dull book. "Security may be 10% of the problem, or 90% or anything between, but its always the FIRST 10% or FIRST 90% because...