What did you do this week to prepare?

[Benn Gleck]

My daughter and I dried 13 bags of frozen vegtables and put them in jars. As I write this she is in the process of baking two pie pumpkins so we can dry them for long term storage. This is an experiment that she was wanting to try after seeing it online.

[KirkMcquest]

I've been cutting wood to fill my woodshed for over a month, a little at a time. Well, my electric company came on my property to change a few poles. I asked what they did with the old ones and they told me that they just cut them up for firewood. BINGO!!

Apparently, only the butt ends are treated (tarred). These are cedar poles as dry as you could imagine. I cut up three of them over the weekend, split them, and stacked them. Its gonna be a warm winter.

[Klayton]

KirkMcquest CAREFUL!!! The bottoms may be tarred but the whole pole is usually chemically treated. Might not be the best thing to burn in a domicile. The lumber yard that makes telephone poles near my ex's house stacks the trees about 15-20 feet high, then (using a sprinkler style system) sprays them for 4-6 weeks with a highly concentrated chemical added water solution. Not to mention the chemical that is added to the water stinks to high heaven, no idea how anybody can live near that place. But definitiley a chemical added and allowed to slowly penetrate the wood before sending them off to be telephone poles...

Just be careful man. Goes without saying, those with any type of woodburning items should have smoke and CO detectors...

We use the "free" telephone poles, when we can get them, for free fence posts. You can sometimes get 5 solid posts from some of them, but normally just 4.

[Christian for Israel]

i smelted 500 lbs of wheel weights into ingots and cast a thousand .45 bullets. my reloading press is mounted to my computer desk so i'll be loading ammo while reading the forums this week.

[610Alpha]

@CFI thats a lot of bullets!! You must have one heck of a system setup to get 142/per day. All the molds that I have seen only can do a few at a time. Either you have a lot of molds or you're set up for mass production. Seriously though tell us more on how you can get so many done in a week.

I filled up 2 - 6 gallon water jugs. I have a total of 17 gallons on hand, about 4 days worth at the minimum.

[rvans]

Appleseed..................

[Buktoof]

Up to a 3 month supply of canned veggies/fruits/meat and went around to some of the local bakeries and have collected 11 five gallon buckets. Ordered some mylar and O2 absorbers should be here thursday. Got a library card with the intention on checking out Patriots but alas no copy so I guess ill have to buy it (since its highly regarded from the comments i have read). Worked 2 days of overtime so that I will have some ammo money come time for the gunshow on dec 4.

[WiseOwl]

Very very very limited budget as always.......bought 50 Shells of 2 3/4 7Pellet, a new Slingshot (in which I am getting very accurate), and Wally World had a nice Leatherman on Clearance for $10(because the packaging was opened I assume) as well as a Machete for $6...other than that, read more chapters in The Encyclopedia of Country Living and prayed.

[610Alpha]

@buktoof - your library probably can do an inter library loan from another library.

[ComputerGuy]

Let's see:

Ordered 2 more cases of MRE's
Ordered Mylar Bags and Oxygen absorbers
Bought 100 rounds of 12 gauge ball and buck 2 3/4 ammunition
Bought Night Vision Scope
Dried seeds and packed away

[Christian for Israel]

@CFI thats a lot of bullets!! You must have one heck of a system setup to get 142/per day. All the molds that I have seen only can do a few at a time. Either you have a lot of molds or you're set up for mass production. Seriously though tell us more on how you can get so many done in a week.

I filled up 2 - 6 gallon water jugs. I have a total of 17 gallons on hand, about 4 days worth at the minimum.

i don't understand your question, 142 what per day?

i cast my own using a 6 cavity mold and 20 lb melting pot. it takes 17 pours to get 102 bullets and that takes about 15 minutes. it takes another 15 minutes to refill the pot and get it melted so i can go again. that's 200/hr or about 5 hours total. casting a thousand over a weekend is a bit much, but when i get started i don't like to stop.

[Bourbon]

i don't understand your question, 142 what per day?

142 bullets a day.
1000 a week = 142 a day, more or less.

[ComputerGuy]

That is an awesome skill

[Christian for Israel]

why would i do so few at a time when i can put out 500 in just a few hours? in the winter (yeah, i still shoot, even in the snow) i put a thousand rounds through my EDC each month...more in the summer. if i didn't cast and load fairly quickly i'd NEVER get caught up.

it's not really that hard computerguy, i posted a basic casting tutorial, along with one on reloading, here in the gun forum.

here's a pic of me at the range a couple of winters ago. :D

[monkeybird]

Just moved all but 2 cases of long term storage to Florida. I never realized how much I actually had. It took 3 explorer fulls to get it all moved.