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Man this is good stuff to think about. 1admin your house solid. Steel studs and all. Great idea. Something i've been working on in my neck of the woods is cob.
Here is a scenario for you to ponder and prepare for(sure alot of you are already):
You get good land that is isolated and ideal for what you need, you have the ideal setup that you put together. Were talking fortified hearth and home and enough able bodied men and women to run and defend your homestead community. Somehow or another you get outnumbered and are forced to flee. Were talking the worst of the worst(save loss of your life and most of those you care about. Your whole operation is taken over despite your perfect ideal defensive position and plan along with a well prepared peolple to defend it. Now their is only time to grab your post bugout bugout set up. What is it? What will you have ready for starting over AGAIN in a world already gone to pieces. Keeping in mind this is a setup that will have to get you through until you can start from scratch and what you guys have on you. Do you have a secondary cache you can flee to to start over? Is it walking distance? Are you going to be able to defend agaist people along the way? what will you have ready to start over or assuming you are especially prepared, what will you carry to get you to backup setup? Keeping in mind what you have on you is what you will have to build with, to hunt with, to survive with.
The reason I bring this up is to suggest being observent about the natural resources around you and how to utilize them as best as possible. In my area clay is abundant, and cob is a clay sand straw mixture. This is something that exists in quite a few places, requires virtually no tools and the walls are as thick as you decide to make them. To make it even sweeter the ingredients are what your standing on. You can fortify the walls by placing stone in the center, and the system is so simple a child can help out(some cultures have songs for the children to dance to as they mix the ingredients up with their feet.). I only use cob as an example. I've been thinking it's a good idea to study the architecture of those who dwell where you dwell first or similar climate and see what they lived in for the backup backup plan.
Here is a scenario for you to ponder and prepare for(sure alot of you are already):
You get good land that is isolated and ideal for what you need, you have the ideal setup that you put together. Were talking fortified hearth and home and enough able bodied men and women to run and defend your homestead community. Somehow or another you get outnumbered and are forced to flee. Were talking the worst of the worst(save loss of your life and most of those you care about. Your whole operation is taken over despite your perfect ideal defensive position and plan along with a well prepared peolple to defend it. Now their is only time to grab your post bugout bugout set up. What is it? What will you have ready for starting over AGAIN in a world already gone to pieces. Keeping in mind this is a setup that will have to get you through until you can start from scratch and what you guys have on you. Do you have a secondary cache you can flee to to start over? Is it walking distance? Are you going to be able to defend agaist people along the way? what will you have ready to start over or assuming you are especially prepared, what will you carry to get you to backup setup? Keeping in mind what you have on you is what you will have to build with, to hunt with, to survive with.
The reason I bring this up is to suggest being observent about the natural resources around you and how to utilize them as best as possible. In my area clay is abundant, and cob is a clay sand straw mixture. This is something that exists in quite a few places, requires virtually no tools and the walls are as thick as you decide to make them. To make it even sweeter the ingredients are what your standing on. You can fortify the walls by placing stone in the center, and the system is so simple a child can help out(some cultures have songs for the children to dance to as they mix the ingredients up with their feet.). I only use cob as an example. I've been thinking it's a good idea to study the architecture of those who dwell where you dwell first or similar climate and see what they lived in for the backup backup plan.
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