What makes someone a REAL prepper?

[Pearl]

It doesn't look like steve_in_29 has logged into the forum since this thread started last Tuesday.

Time out? Or ????

 

[zoomzoom]

Time out? Or ????

No idea.

 

[Acdoctor]

Man y’all already ran off another one, LOL

 

[Cabin Fever]

The last thing I want to do is spend time hauling water to my place from a nearby lake, river, spring, etc. I challenge anyone who thinks hauling water is an option to lug a full 5-gallon jerry can a 1/4-mile. Then, think about doing that everyday.

 

[Pearl]

Man y’all already ran off another one, LOL

Pretty sure he's capable of making his own doom! He really seemed prepared to do so!!

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

The last thing I want to do is spend time hauling water to my place from a nearby lake, river, spring, etc. I challenge anyone who thinks hauling water is an option to lug a full 5-gallon jerry can a 1/4-mile. Then, think about doing that everyday.

That's why they invented wheels. Work smarter. Not harder.

 

[Cabin Fever]

That's why they invented wheels. Work smarter. Not harder.

So, toss the can in your wheelbarrow and tell me how much fun it is.

 

[zoomzoom]

So, toss the can in your wheelbarrow and tell me how much fun it is.

Or carry 2 cans, fill each half way and carry back. It's still 20 pounds per arm but a lot easier on the body than 40 pounds on one arm.
Myself, I'd grab that jeep in your avatar and go get 100 gallons at a time.

 

[montanabill]

Did shopping at two box stores yesterday. I realize not many people are real peppers but there are some folks out there that would be assets to a situation where there was water, food, shelter and defense available for them to utilize if they were accepted into the group.
Anyway as we were cruising the aisles stacking our cart with something besides TV dinners I noticed some of the other shoppers.....carts 1/4 full with sugar treats, energy drinks, pre made food trays etc etc. This was in a store that has some nice bulk food and bulk grains and such in dispensers to fill your bags with.
I also check out how people are dressed and their footgear.. flip flops and shorts is one thing in summer but not in the rocky mountains of montana where the temps have barely got up to freezing for the past month and there is snow on the ground. And a lot of folks have to drive a ways to get to this store...

Every once in a while we see a person or a young family shopping and they are reasonably dressed, have their heavy coats stacked in their shopping carts and everyone is wearing decent shoes or boots.. The kids are respectful and attentive and the parents respectful to each other and their children. Those are the people I would like to help out and band together with if things do truly go badly in our area.

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

So, toss the can in your wheelbarrow and tell me how much fun it is.

It isn't about fun but one can always dream.

The first third of my life was spent hauling water up from the creek. Dad built the house into a hill and we would tobaggan down that hill with an axe and buckets to the creek, chop a hole in the ice and bucket it back up. Steps were dug into the hill and those buckets went up one step at a time for 17 yrs. Same in summer only no fun with the toboggan.

Neighbors used to come to the creek with a horse and sledge to fill two 55 gal barrels. They lugged the water up the hill to fill the barrels. Eventually, wells got dug and the problem went away.

I've moved so much heavy stuff in wheelbarrows over my entire life time it wouldn't phase me a bit. There are wheelbarrows, carts, wagons, bicycles these days that we never had back when school was uphill both ways. At least one of them should be on the list of handy stuff to have around. There are so many solutions to these pretend scenarios.

I am an old bat now, still of strong back and weak mind, and I would/could still do it. I would find a better way. Others could as well, but it will just hurt a lot more. All that being said, a hand pump on a good well in the back yard is a very fine thing, indeed. I won't argue with that.

 

[Magus]

The last thing I want to do is spend time hauling water to my place from a nearby lake, river, spring, etc. I challenge anyone who thinks hauling water is an option to lug a full 5-gallon jerry can a 1/4-mile. Then, think about doing that everyday.

Geez, that brings back memories from my wood dump vacation! carrying water in a yoke is a B!
Man, I've gone to hell in three years!

 

[Magus]

It doesn't look like steve_in_29 has logged into the forum since this thread started last Tuesday.

Probably like a mall ninja that mouths off at a table full of Marines, he cringed to microscopic size.

 

[zoomzoom]

Probably like a mall ninja that mouths off at a table full of Marines, he cringed to microscopic size.

I'm a USMC veteran. Steve may be as well. The Marines have a somewhat significant base there.
https://www.29palms.marines.mil/
It's a very small town. It's military and entry point to Joshua Tree national park. Other then that... not much.

 

[joel]

The last thing I want to do is spend time hauling water to my place from a nearby lake, river, spring, etc. I challenge anyone who thinks hauling water is an option to lug a full 5-gallon jerry can a 1/4-mile. Then, think about doing that everyday.

I agree, but third world countries do it every day, Mr. Beast, the you tube Billionaire Just drill well for something like 500,000.00 people who had to drink dirty water.
We are so lucky here in North America.
You have snow & ice to melt in the winter, Cabin Fever.
I have to travel 1/4 to 1/2 mile, if my shallow well or pump stop working, to a creek.
No snow here in the past three years, got a little this year.

 

[Mountain trapper]

So, toss the can in your wheelbarrow and tell me how much fun it is.

No body ever said survival was going to be fun, but we'll all do what we have to do to survive.

 

[Supervisor42]

about that water thing....for me i dont want to live anywhere it rains less than 45 inches per year and can get some snow pack at times...my area can get as much as 80 inches a year.....results of that type rain...see map below...more people yes...but way more water per person . this map does not highlight all the great lakes which holds all that beautiful fresh water.

p.s. i mentioned this before...when mississippi river used as natural dividing line....east population is 170million...west population 140 million.


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Check out Louisiana on the water-map... (if you could see it )

 

[Mountain trapper]

I live in an area of 26 inches of precipitation per year, on a good year. Probably 95% of that comes in the form of snow. We have a good well that's 1/4 mile from the house. The well is too deep (650') to put a hand pump on it in an emergency. We have a spring fed pond also a 1/4 mile away and several springs about the same distance. We have a couple year round creeks about 3 miles away. Water would be a challenge between about June through October when our seasonal creeks go dry and we start getting snow again. We'll manage.

 

[joel]

I live in an area of 26 inches of precipitation per year, on a good year. Probably 95% of that comes in the form of snow. We have a good well that's 1/4 mile from the house. The well is too deep (650') to put a hand pump on it in an emergency. We have a spring fed pond also a 1/4 mile away and several springs about the same distance. We have a couple year round creeks about 3 miles away. Water would be a challenge between about June through October when our seasonal creeks go dry and we start getting snow again. We'll manage.

WOW, we get 40 to 50 here in S.C., more on the coast.

 

[Supervisor42]

I live in an area of 26 inches of precipitation per year, on a good year. Probably 95% of that comes in the form of snow. We have a good well that's 1/4 mile from the house. The well is too deep (650') to put a hand pump on it in an emergency. We have a spring fed pond also a 1/4 mile away and several springs about the same distance. We have a couple year round creeks about 3 miles away. Water would be a challenge between about June through October when our seasonal creeks go dry and we start getting snow again. We'll manage.

We manage to squeak by with our pitiful 70" per year.

The amount of rain that falls in Louisiana can range from less than 50 inches in the north to over 70 inches in the southeast.

Hint: 72" equals 6-feet!
It keeps the water-table full to the brim with here.
Example: If I go to plant a tree in the backyard, when I dig down 3', I hit water!
(sorry, the bragging will stop.)