Friday, July 5, 2019

farm costs


FARM COSTS
Survivalists are little better than the general population when it comes to living in a fecal stew of their own illusions, delusions and misconceptions. We are almost as ignorant, just in different things. A “civilian” ( or, non-prepper ) thinks that food comes from a grocery store, granted, but how much better is a survivalist that confuses hardware with strategy? You know I'm talking to you, Semi ( -Auto ) Simians. I don't care what the cyclic action of your firearm is, hell, I enjoy the concept of belt fed armor vehicle mounted heavy machine guns to solve much of life's problems!
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Imagine how much better we would all be today if the Kill Dozer Dude had ventilated City Hall and its inhabitants with thousands of rounds of fifty cal, painting the stucco red. Perhaps the Zoning Police wouldn't act so selfishly creating their fiefdoms. People, and I'm sorry but that includes you and me ( and the only difference is you can try to become LESS stupid ), are retarded little chimps that only learn after being knocked up side the head with a Retard Be Cool stick. We are too spoiled with White People Problems and don't want the pain of true education.
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The problem with most people is they get a thought into their heads and then invest in it, then can't admit to failure. Some guy reads that semi-auto's are the only possible way to survive the apocalypse, invests a little time and a lot of money, buying into the idea to the point there is zero alternative. He'll have the jack booted thugs pry his semi out of his cold dead fingers, but far worse, he emulates the tactics of other semi users. Without the strategic or logistics necessary to back that up.
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I try to tell people, the ninety plus percent of folks with a semi, in a stressful situation, will simply panic and spray and pray. Well, you see, they themselves are special and different and part of the percentage that stays calm under fire and they would never waste ammunition. They know this because they want it to be true, without having tested themselves. I'm not saying they are wrong, just that the odds are very good that they aren't right. This is what I mean about folks having notions they refuse to believe false.
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I'm certainly not saying I'm any better. I'm jaded and cynical enough to see the worst in everyone, even myself. Luckily, I'm amused by it all, enough to want to stick around and view the Chinese Fire Drill that will be unfolding. You might know it as “a crap show, asses and elbows”. What could be more amusing that the bug-eyed look of surprise on a fresh corpse when reality finally showed itself after a lifetime of wishful thinking? And I just KNOW I'll have that same goofy ass look on my face. I take solace from the assured look on THEIR face when they realize they just got wheat and bolt actions. Ha!
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Whether semi-auto's or farming, the warning is the same. You MUST be aware of logistics. Not the modern idea of logistics as in, I'll use my $800 I-Phone to Amazon order crap ( I was an Apple user not because I was cool, but because of a little machine called a Mac, available long before Bill Gates knew what a computer mouse was used for. Once using Apple was doing nobody any good except the company stockholders, I quit that racket ). Logistics as in HOW you go from bare land to finished product.
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That means the infrastructures needing to be in place before you get to use any finished products. The biggest problem with homesteaders ( as in the Backwoods Home Magazine model, not necessarily the Backwoodsman Magazine model ) is that they believe the infrastructure used to enable them to farm will remain in place. They are little more than Free Riders. They know it is hard work to grow your own food, but only because they have to go work a real job to pay taxes for that infrastructure, which they aren't even aware of existing.
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Yeah, sorry there Spanky, but once the empire collapses you are no safer growing your own food compared to the ghetto hood shopping at the grocery store. And that is if you are even still farming, because a mortgage on a farm is worse than living in town ( just not a huge town ) with a closet full of freeze dried unicorn testicles. If you have to mortgage your food production, what is your Plan B after the foreclosure note gets taped to your door by the country Sheriff's deputy? I can't believe anyone thinks that needs any elaboration.
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If you DON'T have a mortgage, do you think you are any safer? Well, you are, technically. Right up until a bushwhacker pops a 22LR bullet smeared in his own rectal juices into your abdomen and you quickly die after taking the wrong fish meds ( besides, the bullet nicked an organ so you are hosed anyway ). Now, I see Little Johnny in the back there spasmodically waving his arm to answer this Fire Marshal Bill question of “What Would You Do?”. Tribe Up, Yo! Very GOOD, Little Johnny. Now, the question becomes, how?
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As soon as you need to start scaling up, you run into HUGE problems. I've talked before about the amount of food needed for even the smallest tribe. Think you can find a tribe that supplies itself? I'd wager you can't get a Fire Team together, let alone a tribe. You keep reading about how so many people identify as being preppers, but the numbers are grossly inflated if you apply real world Forrest Gump qualifiers. As in, “prepping is as prepping does”. They might WANT to be preppers, but they don't REALLY prep. I'll talk about that tomorrow, as well as how a tribe isn't enough ( the scaling up issue ).
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For now, I just want to introduce ( or, reintroduce if you knew of him already ) you to Eaton Rapids Joe's blogspot. I'm not JUST short stroking him because he mentions me on his roll call. He does a lot of good work, trying to get out of his cocoon and see the big picture around him. Read this great article HERE . The article is his fiction wrapping up, but don't let that bother you. This one stands on its own and is just an offshoot of what I'm starting to cover here. It gave me a LOT of food for thought. Okay, more tomorrow.
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( today's related Amazon link click here )
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note: a minion saved me from more dumb-assery.  I gave the wrong link for a charge controller-it was too small ( yesterdays article ).  12v times 7 amps is only good up to 84 watts.  Not 100.  Go with a 10 amp unit. 
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22 comments:

  1. I used to occasionally read that backwood’s home magazine. Then one time they posted a series of articles about some man-hating feminist that built her own log cabin with the aid of her mangina boy toy. Half of the article was about what a rotten shit her ex husband was, and men in general. Haven’t read it since.

    As far as tribing up goes, I think that it would be challenging in north America. Though you might have some success in the less densely populated states (i.e eastern Montana, Wyoming, The Dakota’s, etc). If you picked a small and isolated enough town, you might be able to get the whole town in on the action (Think in terms of a small 19th century town, in which the bad guy’s won’t get 5’ out of the bank doors with the payroll, without the entire town going all “Bernard Goetz” on their asses :D )

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    1. I don't know about ALL of N. America. Almost all the US is going to be close to impossible. Outside urban zones, Mexico and Canada will do much better. Sorry, I know it is a quibble. Pay me no mind.

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  2. 7 fat cows/ 7 skinny cows serial is good. I binged on multiple entries about week ago.
    If minions use your link, Lord Bison, they'll miss the "next episode" hyperlink, though.
    How many "episodes"? Somewhere north of thirty, I suppose. I don't think word count exceeds your typical Bison entry. So, no long "get comfy in reclining chair" type of read.

    Once the series "flips" to 7 skinny cows the scene description of "zombie" killing events does, unfortunately, become a bit rote. Otherwise, a good read.

    As regards food logistics. Two words. Sweet potatoes.
    Great nutrition, adaptable, high caloric value per acre.
    Best of all is scrounging zombies have ZERO idea what growing sweet 'taters look like. Most marauders would quickly recognize or learn what corn or wheat look like but I bet fewer than 1 in 100,000 would recognize "sweeties" growing at their feet. (same with peanuts).
    But if you really want to go "guerilla gardener" ...Jerusalem artichokes is your thing.

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    1. Two words: tater blight. I know, I know, any crop is in danger of parasites. Just saying grain remains king for a reason.

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    2. I have grown both regular potatoes (white and purple) and sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are harder to grow. I had problems with some underground rodents eating my sweet potatoes.

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    3. Tater farmer....not so much you had a rodent problem as you missed a protein opportunity :).
      Glass half full.

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  3. "Historically, we know what has happened when there is conflict between a traditional society and a progressive socialist movement that has or is in the process of gaining the reigns of power in government. Every progressive liberal socialist movement eventually goes full-on Pol Pot (Camboida). What should be a shock is that the United States is destined to be one such nation.

    We are in the middle of the very beginnings of this in the United States. When the American second civil war occurs, it will be an ideological genocide. Genocide can only happen once the citizens are disarmed.

    Today in America, these are the enemies…
    White people. Anyone who is friends with white people. Climate change deniers. Traditionally-minded people. Gun owners. People from a predominantly 'red' state.
    Religious people with the exception of Muslims. Heterosexual people and traditional marriages. Anyone or anything associated with traditional America.

    When the new progressive socialist government takes control, the first thing that can be expected is mass disarming of the populace. Then they hunt down and slaughter their opposition. Urban youth, armed with fully automatic weapons and RPG’s (and trucks) (given to them by the government) will burst forth and stream out of their protective enclaves. Enclaves where their ideology has been nurtured for decades (by the media, education and government) to hate one type or class of person.

    You will not know you are in danger until it is too late. Most of the men will be killed immediately. All of the women will be dehumanized, raped and sent off to 'collection centers'.

    Avoid the cities. (The regular military is usually used to guard and control the cities. All people of the hated group are killed in the cities.)

    Do not allow yourself and family to be disarmed. Hide your guns in three places; [1] Family house; easy to find. [2] Family hidden (hidden to everyone except family members), and [3] Hidden to everyone (including family members) but you. Only you know where the guns are. Tell no one."

    https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/what-the-progressive-liberals-have-in-store-for-conservatives/
    This is part 1 of 6 parts. It is excellent.

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    1. Damn, that does sound most excellent. On the way there now. Thank you.

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    2. I've never uderstood the hide ur guns mentality.
      Why hide them? when they come for u won't u need them?
      What are u gonna do tell them to wait a minute I have to go out back and dig my guns up.
      If your not gonna use them the very first time they come looking for them ur screwed anyway.

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    3. Right. They won't come for just the guns, but your guns and to put you on the train. Last chance to fight. Of course, back when that mantra started, it probably was JUST guns that were targeted. Hell, I knew cops that were burying AK's ( back when they were cheap ).

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    4. The idea is to have some guns readily available for immediate use. But what if they come in the middle of the night while you are asleep and take all your guns that you have in your house? What if they come to your house when you are somewhere else, for example outside farming or shopping? They take all the guns and ammo you have that are not hidden.

      You need to hide some of your guns and ammo in case they somehow get all of your non-hidden guns and ammo. It is a backup system, just in case things don't go as planned.

      Yes if you see them coming for you, then you take your non-hidden guns and shoot them. But as the article states sometimes you are caught off-guard. Please read the article.

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    5. Guilty not reading all the article. It bogged down a bit so I was looking at some of his other stuff. Got stuck on 80's movies, but then saw his UFO crap and that was the end for me.

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    6. A large-scale effort to confiscate weapons in the United States would fail in a number of days, unless there is a complete collapse of all communications--which would inhibit the spread of news of seizures taking place. In the event of seizures happening in the modern society, those seizing the weapons would be WILDLY outnumbered by those that own the weapons. If this were to happen, those seizing the weapons would naturally be targeted, in addition to every single member of their families and their entire support/logistics mechanism, from the places they live and work, to their parking lots, their grocery stores, their doctors, dentists, schools and utility providers. LEO's will rapidly get the blue flu once the first of them gets a round through the head in trying to follow orders. The US is different this way than any prior genocidal example. We are that fucking crazy to burn it all down, if it means that "we" will live and "they" will not.

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    7. Crazy enough to burn it all down? Yep. Both sides :)

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    1. Had a look at that dude’s blog. Sadly, I think that he’s really on to something there. You’re already starting to see much of what he’s talking about taking place already. The antifa terrorists have been brutalizing many folks in the big cities the entire time that Trump has been in power, and they do so with the full consent of the leftwing politicians of these cities, as the leo’s are told to stand down, or at the very least, always seem to be conveniently absent when it’s taking place. The thing is, no one’s doing anything about it. Scary stuff, because I don’t think what he’s describing here is too far off.

      Also, the part about the language used by the communists to dehumanize the opposition is spot on:

      “2016, USA
      Deplorables
      Racists
      Sexists
      Homophobes
      Xenophobes
      Islamophobes
      Irredeemables
      Nazis
      White Privilege”

      “What makes these derogatory blanket terms salient and potentially dangerous is that they were intentionally uttered publicly in front of an audience of admirers in 2016 by Hillary Clinton. And, when she uttered these words; words designed to minimize other Americans, and trivialize them, the crowd burst into clamorous applause.”

      Maybe Ghostsniper is on to something there, with his expat plan?

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    2. The good part is, this is an enemy easier to ID than the old North or South, or Papist/Protestant. Why? Because to be accepted, the Anti's ( anti-Deplorables ) must chant non-stop incantations of virtue signalling. They also cannot fake liking guns or other triggers. They paint their own target ( obviously, rats and other undercover vermin the exception ).

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  5. Guy on yesterdays comments section, I did a web search and it said PEX could only be exposed to UV rays for a maximum of 60 days. Could you explain again how the sun warms the water but doesn't degrade the piping?
    Thanks,
    Peace out

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    1. The part of sunlight is uv light, the same stuff that gives you a sunburn. PEX must have enough opacity to limit uv damage to the outer skin. That reduces the wall thickness of underrated plastic. Thinner wall means lower pressure capability.

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  6. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-05/seismologist-50-chance-another-major-quake-within-week-robust-aftershocks-continue

    Got Rice?

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    1. I want The Big One to hit California, but I also don't want those jagoffs immigrating over here. So I'm torn if I should root for the earthquake.

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