What makes someone a REAL prepper?

[Weedygarden]

The list of 5 levels of preparedness comes from an LDS book. They want your email address to send it to you. It is not a small pdf. I printed it out many years ago and have it in a 3 ring binder.

https://www.ldsavow.com/preparedness-manual/

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

I'm pooched. I only have liver and onions and no way to cook it.

 

[zoomzoom]

I'm pooched. I only have liver and onions and no way to cook it.

Ummm, raw. I'd do it all day (except for the onions as they give me gas so limited at 2 meals).

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

Prepper problem solving 101:

Zoomzoom is coming to my house for SHTF. He gets a feed of raw onions an hour before meal times and produces enough methane to cook the liver and onions for the rest of us.

Does anyone have plans for burning methane on their list?

 

[Hardcalibres]

Does anyone have plans for burning methane on their list?

I am going to trap enough feral hogs to build my own barter town.

I just need a midget called "Master" to do the technical stuff.

 

[montanabill]

I am going to trap enough feral hogs to build my own barter town.

I just need a midget called "Master" to do the technical stuff.

Is aunty Entity going to be there?

 

[montanabill]

Prepper problem solving 101:

Zoomzoom is coming to my house for SHTF. He gets a feed of raw onions an hour before meal times and produces enough methane to cook the liver and onions for the rest of us.

Does anyone have plans for burning methane on their list?

I have some third world methane generator plans stashed...I am surrounded with fire wood but a methane powered tractor might be nice........

 

[Hardcalibres]

Is aunty Entity going to be there?

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I hope so. Her character was pretty cool.

I loved the ending where, rather than inflicting revenge on Max.......she just accepted there was no longer any point in that.....smiled and fare welled him.

Well....aint we a pair....raggedy man.......goodbye soldier.

Classic line right there.

 

[Weedygarden]

I hope so. Her character was pretty cool.

I loved the ending where, rather than inflicting revenge on Max.......she just accepted there was no longer any point in that.....smiled and fare welled him.





Classic line right there.

I have to watch that again. Its been years since I saw it.

 

[Cabin Fever]

I have some third world methane generator plans stashed...I am surrounded with fire wood but a methane powered tractor might be nice........

You cannot compress methane unless you have a very, VERY expensive compressor (and scrubber) set up. Otherwise, it would be a great idea.

 

[montanabill]

You cannot compress methane unless you have a very, VERY expensive compressor (and scrubber) set up. Otherwise, it would be a great idea.

How about a large low pressure gas bag on a lightweight trailer towed behind the small tractor.....

 

[Cabin Fever]

How about a large low pressure gas bag on a lightweight trailer towed behind the small tractor.....

I was a grad student on a methane production study. We used a manure digester on an actual farm. We fed the heated digester with swine manure. The methane produced was used to heat the digester. Excess methane was stored in a huge rubber balloon/bag about the size on a 2-car garage. The excess methane was used to run a large four cylinder electric generator. The generator emptied the stored methane in about 30 minutes. It took another day to refill the storage bag.

 

[montanabill]

I was a grad student on a methane production study. We used a manure digester on an actual farm. We fed the heated digester with swine manure. The methane produced was used to heat the digester. Excess methane was stored in a huge rubber balloon/bag about the size on a 2-car garage. The excess methane was used to run a large four cylinder electric generator. The generator emptied the stored methane in about 30 minutes. It took another day to refill the storage bag.

so how long would it have powered a small, inverter, one cylinder generator? Or a small simple mini tractor that could mow a field of grain...

 

[zoomzoom]

so how long would it have powered a small, inverter, one cylinder generator? Or a small simple mini tractor that could mow a field of grain...

Isn't making ethanol an easier solution? I've heard of kits to convert gas and diesel engines (not race car kits) to run on ethanol.

 

[Cabin Fever]

so how long would it have powered a small, inverter, one cylinder generator? Or a small simple mini tractor that could mow a field of grain...

That answer is above my pay grade.

 

[elkhound]

so how long would it have powered a small, inverter, one cylinder generator? Or a small simple mini tractor that could mow a field of grain...

dont know about here but in other countries they sell kits to do this...its the inground digester and everything.

way back in an issue of coutryside and small stock journal a guy wrote up article with pictures of his system. he used barrels to hold manures and used inner tubes to hold the gas and it was pipped into his kitchen for a single burner eye he cooked on.

 

[montanabill]

Way back in the 70's when mother earth news was a real how to magazine I would sit around in my geodesic dome and read about methane generators and uses....Or like the early settlers on the American prairie did...burn buffalo chips for heat and cooking.