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- Wed Oct 01, 2014 8:32 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: Fall - Winter Preparations
- Replies: 24
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Re: Fall - Winter Preparations
Just bought winter tyres for car, bit early but needed new ones so just went for it, keeping going at the log store, reckon we got about eight months supply, building the food supply up too, living where we do, the highest market town in the country, you need a good supply of everything in winter, w...
- Fri Sep 26, 2014 9:10 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week
- Replies: 5086
- Views: 627615
Re: What Preps are you doing this week
Just done monthly Tesco/Aldi shop, four pack of beans, rice pudding, the usual tins of corned beef (corned beef is sooo amazing, huge shelf life, full of protein etc) pasta, mince, chopped toms, all going in prep basket number 2, these are just the extra supplies bought in to store away. Will be the...
- Fri Sep 26, 2014 7:54 am
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: The Black Stuff
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6602
Re: The Black Stuff
Aye, coal burns hotter than wood, only use if needed, hate putting oil Central heating on, cos it usually gets left on and oil cost so much, plus buying wood as we do, I get to play with my chainsaw.
- Thu Sep 25, 2014 7:50 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: The Black Stuff
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6602
Re: The Black Stuff
Have a few shovel fulls of coal, but have several tons of logs for our Esse woodburner and the other two woodburners we have, in winter i reckon around a ton per month usage, oh and we also have the other black stuff, oil, bloody expensive though compared to wood. We use wood because i can buy it in...
- Tue Sep 23, 2014 10:35 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week
- Replies: 5086
- Views: 627615
Re: What Preps are you doing this week
Always do Decaff, the great thing about tinned food is the huge shelf life it has, you can to an extent ignore best before dates. I'll build up a nice supply then start munching it to rotate the age. Must get some more meths and paraffin for the Tilley lamps too, while I remember, winter is coming, ...
- Mon Sep 22, 2014 3:42 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week
- Replies: 5086
- Views: 627615
Re: What Preps are you doing this week
Also planning my next Tesco shop, have got my first tinned food crate safely in shed, starting next one this week, the usual, plenty of corned beef, ham, beans, tuna etc. Tend to live off frozen (so if power goes i don't have tons of thawing food preps to eat quickly) and dried and fresh food during...
- Sun Sep 14, 2014 3:58 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: New EDC Torch review.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1618
New EDC Torch review.
Been after a new decent EDC torch for a while, read the reviews etc and decided on the Fenix PD35. So my views on this torch??? Amazing, this is the 2014 version, so it kicks out 960 lumens on full (turbo) setting, cant equate what that means in layman's terms, but for a comparison, my 2D cell led m...
- Thu Aug 28, 2014 7:48 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week
- Replies: 5086
- Views: 627615
Re: What Preps are you doing this week
Just slowly building up a supply of tinned and dried food, continuing with building up a supply of dried logs for the fire, and some more paraffin for the Tilley lamps in case of power cuts etc, batteries for torches etc.
- Sun Aug 24, 2014 3:18 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: Winter.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2414
Re: Winter.
Aye Jansman, if you believe old wives tales, this winter is supposed to be a hard one, according to local farmers, a good silage (it was) means a hard winter, bumper crop of Rowan berries, the same etc. Well, living in the highest market town in the country our winters are good anyway, so down to pr...
- Wed Aug 20, 2014 1:24 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Choosing a compound or recurve bow
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5599
Re: Choosing a compound or recurve bow
You really need to go to a Archery shop and try lots of different bows, i have a compound, 60lb draw weight, ok for me, but not the missus. Your missus may on the other hand be better with a compound, because of the 'let off' that a compound has, it makes holding the bow at full draw a hell of a lot...