It's a round, metal pile-driver with handles on each side.
After you drive it in, it isn't coming out without serious (tractor with hydraulics) effort, so pick a good spot, get a friend and a case of beer and tag-team pounding it in, and plan to commit to a good afternoon of hard work! Every now and then you might hit a big rock or run out of pipe before you find sand (had that happen in MN), but I would think it would be easy down in FL to drive a sand point. And **** the HOA, cut a hole in your basement floor in a closet or something where they cannot see it...
Thank you very much.
Cut a tree trunk in half and hollow it out and wrap it back around your hole with pipe till you need it in the future. My wifes granddad hid lots of food under a trap door covered with hay to make it look like a dung hill and survived the house to house searches for food by the partisans and communists after WWII. What they do not see does not hurt them. Set up a "PARTY" tent to disguise the drill of your well or driving of your well and then build a grill around it or disguise it well enough to not be recognised but quickly accessable if needed.
Please don't get me started. YouTube is rife with "Amateur Radio Experts"...licensed all of two yearsAnd some people think they are an expert in something because they posted a video on YouTube.
I absolutley love these ideas. Thank you.
Physically we almost have the ability to do the same thing. Your tear ducts are capable of changing the salt concentration in your tears; in fact there are three different types of tears with different compositions. Reflex tears, tears caused by irritation, are much saltier than emotional tears.It seems nature got there first; seagulls can drink sea water because they've got inbuilt filters; and if inventors could make and patent a simple device that emulates the process they'd become millionaires overnight..
From the net-
"The saltwater seagulls take in is absorbed and moves through their blood stream into a pair of salt glands above their eyes. The densely salty fluid that results is excreted from the nostrils and runs down grooves in the bill. Watch a gull at the coast, and you will see drops of this liquid appear on the tip of its bill. As the drop gets larger, the bird shakes its head to send the salt back to the ocean."
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I have thought about this in the context of a life boat, and a nasty (but possibly life-saving) idea occurs to me.
The problem is that salt is soluble in water (unlike poop), and when there is a solute in a solution, you have the potential for osmosis to occur. The poop dehydrates because it isn't soluble and because the body is "saltier" than the moisture in the poo causing osmosis to move water into the body. Once you put salt water up there, that becomes the side of the intestine wall with the higher concentration of solute and osmosis changes direction. It would dehydrate you quickly.
Everything you said makes perfect sense. My idea wasn't sufficiently thought out.
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Sounds good to me too, just need to plan a weekend before too long and get a good look around as to where would be a good place, where is firewood, where could you get into a cave, set a tent up, dig an outhouse and such other preps (before all is frozen and un-recognisable later) Cut a few trees down to dry for firewood, make a few notes where you could hide some traps and extra clothes or fuel and cooking stuff which the animals can not hurt, maybe in metal boxes. You know more than me anyway, just talking to myself.
The average sea water has 35g salt per liter, try it at home for a week and see what happens... Science strongly suggests that the Robertson story is a lie (or at least that part of the story is). Who is going to take one for the team and find out? Kevin? Propwash?Yup, the Robertson family did that to help stay alive during their 6-week drift in a small dinghy after their yacht sank in the Pacific..
Quote- "We couldn’t drink the water from the bottom of the boat. Mum, a nurse, said if we drank it it would make us ill. But she knew that there was one way we could take the fetid water without being sick – through our backsides. A thirsty man will do anything, so we created an enema system from the rungs of a metal boat ladder."
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/incredible-story-family-who-survived-7892289
That's not a bad idea. Except this would be a one way trip. The hike to the river would take us from our place at 5,000 feet over the ridge that's 7,500 feet, then almost straight down for 6,500 feet. The elevation at the river is about 1,000 to 1,500 feet. I don't think I could make the climb back up the mountain. There's an old mining road that goes from my place down to the river, but that's about a 60 mile hike down one of the steepest grades in the country and has as many curves as a can of worms.
My thoughts about leaving this place is only if we had to because fuel was no longer available to run our generator for pumping water. Our place is two miles off the county road through 3 gates. The gate on the county road is kept locked. The other 2 gates have electric (solar) openers and can be locked too if necessary. We're completely surrounded by National Forest lands and there is no other private land near us. We're about as private as one can get in the lower 48 any more. Our house is tucked away in a small valley surrounded by trees and can't be seen until the last corner on our driveway about 300 feet away.
I did more research, and you're correct. My idea wasn't sufficiently thought out or researched, and a salt water enema would worsen dehydration.
