/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1406356
for you

>>380845
You act like they don't make tractors and tillers of all sizes.

Fridge inside of a fridge? Not sure if trolling or just stupid. The only thing the would get you some nice low temperatures is dry ice. Buy some.

>>380724
It depends. If we are talking about long term food supply, then yes everything should be in buckets or cans with the proper sealing methods. If we are talking about a 3 month supply of food in a pantry that is constantly rotated, then I don't see the problem with hamburger helper. After all people should stock what they eat. Prepping doesn't have to be eating healthy. Everyone should stock cookies and junk! Comfort food is needed during bad times.

>>380656
Monoculture has nothing to do with using a tractor. You can have a wide variety of crops and rotate them, while still using a tractor. It would be hard to have enough yield without one, especially without any livestock.

I never liked the idea of a bug-out-bag. People that have them think that they are going to live out some juvenile fantasy of living in the woods.

Keeping supplies around is a good idea, but there are very few scenarios where you are going to put on your backpack and live out of it for 3 days.

You are much better off having task based supplies, such as a winter car kit. Most resources should be kept for bugging-in. The number one disaster you should prepare for is a home fire.

>>380646
How can a modern farmer be even close to 100% self-sufficient?
Do you use a diesel tractor?

>>380565
There are plenty of examples in that thread of people canning their own food storage and having various bulk staples like rice. But yeah people tend to store stuff that's cheap and what they know they will eat. Hence: Mac n' cheese!

http://zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=45540
>Food Storage Porn!

Anyone have a recipe?
>inb4 not /ck

I think prepping is pretty cool. Especially when its used to prepare for things like hurricanes.

>>379889
Ummmm....what?

Whatever you do be sure to have an on off switch. Nothing worse than bright led case lights in a dark room.

Yes its dc.

>>371017
This image is from book "The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It". You may wish to remove it before you get a copyright violation.

Fuck you Pittsburgh nigger fag for stealing Turner shit. They make the greatest milk and their ice tea is legendary.

>>368660
I thought mead would taste like honey wine. In reality it just tastes like wine with no honey even in it.

>>368536
Yes, listen to obi wan. Mind what you have learned. Save you, it can.

Another benefit of a gallon container is you can fit a balloon over the top and poke a few small holes giving a nice release for the air.

I made some mead in a similar cheap fashion. Couple pieces of advice. Start with a gallon container in case its horrible. Use wine grade yeast, not bakers yeast. This improves the taste. Lastly you need to find a good method of separating the liquid from the crap and junk that floats to the bottom. I used coffee filters and boy were they slow and ineffective.

>>368487
This assumes a wood stove. No way 600 watts would allow heating the place.

For a small cabin you need at less 600 watts in solar panels. With that much you can run a heavy insulated dc chest freezer, lighting, and most things needed in your daily life. Everything would need to be low power though, ie. laptop not desktop, etc. I'm not sure on the battery calculation. Enough to store 8 hrs of solar power is 4800 watts. You will also need a backup generator like the 2000 watt Honda.

>>368481
To lift the giant tank of water and slowly lower it.

>>367614
Or he could just use a car jack.

If you aren't in a major hurry you should wait for the cubieboard. Faster than the pi, can run any type of Linux, and it includes sata. Not much more money either.