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Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Thu Sep 16, 2010 5:59 pmby Nickelless
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:55 pmby Delawhere Jack
It takes SO LONG to LOAD.......
I LOVE this new forum host! And I've gotten used to the new color scheme -features - etc!
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Fri Sep 24, 2010 6:19 amby Nickelless
Delawhere Jack wrote:It takes SO LONG to LOAD.......
I LOVE this new forum host! And I've gotten used to the new color scheme -features - etc!
Well Jack, since the old forum is locked for new posts, would it be considered locked and loaded?
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Mon Sep 27, 2010 6:28 pmby Caridad
Candle and soap making. Laundress. Teacher. That's my current profession.
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Tue Sep 28, 2010 4:54 amby coppertone
Grew up hunting, fishing and gardening. Could be self sufficient in food with little warning. Never thought much of these skills until I realized that most of my friends don't have them.
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Tue Nov 30, 2010 11:01 pmby Caridad
this weekend is a soap making class, but, alas, i have no cash for it!
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:02 amby Caridad
i would rather have no class for the class than what happened to my family that weekend. every time i try to make time to learn a trade something happens. usually it's lack of cash. well this time my aunt's house burned down. my older aunt living with her died from the burns sustained in the fire. it was a long month, december. she died dec 2 and was finally put to rest dec 22. that day the heavens were opened up and weeping heavily! my aunt was 87 years old.
however, it was completely avoidable! the caretakers did not follow thru in making sure my aunt did not do something silly like sit on the bed with something lit!
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Wed Mar 16, 2011 9:03 pmby nero12345
I was at the library the other day and saw books on both candlemaking and soapmaking. Maybe a trip there will help learn the trades.
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Thu Apr 21, 2011 2:50 pmby brian0918
Check out the book "Dick's Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes: Or How They Did It in the 1870's" - a lot of very interesting content explaining how people did everything from candlemaking to woodworking to food preparation before the advent of modern technology.
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:20 amby moneydog
cattle farmer
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:07 pmby Rob72830
Moneydog, thats a funny sight. Planting cow seed in the dirt and watching the little calves shoot up towards the sun. I think you mean cattle ranching. I guess the skills I am learning is how to smelt PMs and can vegetables.
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:43 amby ardorlan
I am learning Ham Radio, I would also like to build ham radios but that will come later.
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Thu Sep 29, 2011 6:36 pmby frugi
well, I am a live auctioneer
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Thu Sep 29, 2011 7:10 pmby GTOJohn
brazing.
i have soft soldered and used my oxy/acetelyne torch for cutting only -
so,
thought it was time to learn how to braze.
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Fri Sep 30, 2011 2:04 amby Rob72830
I have hooked up a Harbor Freight solar panel kit for backup electricity, plan on getting one more when I have the money so I am learning about electricity. I also bought a second hand tiller for $25 and repaired it for about $80 giving me a means of working my spring garden so I can add to my food supply. Repairing it also saved me about $300 since I won't have to buy a new one. Next project is learning how to dehydrate and can food.
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Sat Oct 01, 2011 7:32 amby Nickelless
Rob72830 wrote:I have hooked up a Harbor Freight solar panel kit for backup electricity, plan on getting one more when I have the money so I am learning about electricity. I also bought a second hand tiller for $25 and repaired it for about $80 giving me a means of working my spring garden so I can add to my food supply. Repairing it also saved me about $300 since I won't have to buy a new one. Next project is learning how to dehydrate and can food.
Just curious, Rob, how much wattage in solar panels do you have? How much wattage would it take to run a furnace?
By the way, if you need help with food dehydration, just lemme know. I've done a little bit of dehydration myself. Too bad I haven't had time recently to give my 10 Nesco dehydrators much of a workout!
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Sat Oct 01, 2011 11:40 amby Mossy
frugi wrote:... anarchist's cookbook...
According to people I know who have been through actual courses related to military usage of improvised munitions, thatbook is not so good.
"Ball Milling Theory and Practice for the Amateur Pyrotechnician" by Lloyd Sponenburgh. The, and I mean
THE source of info for making black powder. See also "rec.pyro"
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Sat Oct 01, 2011 4:45 pmby frugi
i am no expert, and i don't do any meats, but i have an excalibur dehydrator, I asked for it one year from my mom for my birthday, had it now probably close to 10 years, still a champ of a machine. It is always on sale, I think it was $229.00 ten years ago, lol.
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Mon Nov 21, 2011 9:51 pmby baggerman
Teaching myself to blacksmith. Built a propane forge out of an old propane tank and am curretnly working on a couple of high carbon railroad spike knives.
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Sat May 11, 2013 12:59 amby Caridad
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Thu Jun 06, 2013 4:19 pmby zKott
This isn't necessarily a skill - but somewhat of a good idea to practice.
I regularly fill the gas tank in my truck several times a week. I try to never let my truck go below 3/4 of a tank of gas.
This way, if you ever have to bug out of town, you're ready to go on a moments notice. Throw a few additional gas cans along with your BOB in the bed and go.
Obviously assuming that you would even be able to drive on the roads etc etc..
Anyway - its better to be prepared. If shtf, gas stations will be dry within a day.
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Tue Nov 04, 2014 11:14 amby agnostic
Getting along with my wife....
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Tue Nov 04, 2014 11:23 amby reddirtcoins
agnostic wrote:Getting along with my wife....
getting along with my X-wife!!
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Wed Nov 05, 2014 2:47 amby Engineer
reddirtcoins wrote:agnostic wrote:Getting along with my wife....
getting along with my X-wife!!
Wife bartering.
Re: Beyond hoarding: What skills are you learning?
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Wed Nov 26, 2014 1:52 amby Nickelless
reddirtcoins wrote:agnostic wrote:Getting along with my wife....
getting along with my X-wife!!
Is she the star of "The Ex Files"?
