What preps are you doing this week? Part 3.

[Yorkshire Andy]

looks like them little tea leaves get around we've had visitors to our garden too just recently. ive also got a large steel cabinet 6' x 3' in the back shed perfect for all the hand tools drills ect and 2 dogs make for a good alarm owe and the wife she,s scary too ....

I have been costing up a "van vault" and the like the beggers are not cheap anymore

https://www.tool-net.co.uk/p-310728/van ... oCD4rw_wcB

been keeping my eye out locally for a second hand one but not seen one turn up yet...


We have had a couple of attempts over the years at my parents but so far touch wood temping the law of sod No one has ever got "in" yes we had to borrow a grinder to remove the mangled padlock and hasp one morning but it held long enough to make them give up........
then a year or so later been woken by the flood light been shoved into the sky (straight into my bedroom window) and I watched with some initial amusement as they hid behind a bush till the light went off and they came back like they were out for a stroll and Just as they hoisted a cheap little jemmy ...

Lets just say they left VERY VERY rapidly when they realised they were been observed, along with the fright of seeing a boxer short wearing late teen / early 20's lunatic who was not amused and had the visual ability to potentially do them harm from the flat roof i was now stood on ..

they legged it over the back fence finding the spike strips then the sharp spikey hawthorn hedge at the other side (the attempt to subdue their own screams was rather funny)

After that a decent alarm was fitted and its never been tested since




My favourite prep for shed/ workshop security over the years has been my "patented" Bucket'O'Creat



basicly a old builders bucket with 2 old D locks and a large rawl eye set into a bucket of steel mesh and factory concrete (left overs from the cement mixer who laid our drive.. Its that hard hit it with a hammer it literally rings! You cant get bolt cutters round the d locks and rawleye in one go would need a minimum of 6 separate cuts to get it off the lock.. Must weight in excess of 30Kg and i struggle to lift it even using the motorbike lock as a handle before you throw in the added complexity of a bike been attached over the top of it by the d lock

[pseudonym]

Thanks all, just a day op to fit a stent so should be in and out.

[sethorly]

Best of luck with that pseudonym.

[PreppingPingu]

Thanks all, just a day op to fit a stent so should be in and out.

Wishing a speedy recovery!

[Jan Smits]

Yes they are only £1 locks no im not expecting them to put up Much of a fight...

Like slicing through butter with a hot knife. If it's any consolation there's £30 bike locks don't put up much fight either. You've got the visual deterrent, just keep the bolt cutters out of sight and hopefully the alarm will do the trick.

Don't know if watching tv counts as a prep. I saw a (short) list of recommendations for preppers and bought both boxsets of Survivors. Already made it through the new version, now on the 1975 one. Not going to change much of what I do, but whatever.

While I was away I found my wind-up gizmo fairly useful. I forgot to fully charge my phone before I left, but was able to keep it from going fully flat. I figured that a full charge would take three hours of hand-winding, which is beyond anyone's patience I think, but better than nothing. The torch on it was really bright and pretty useful though, and having a radio was a good move too.

Didn't get quite so far with the firesteel. After a couple of minutes of making sparks I decided I already had three ways of making fire and had better things to do. I'll have another go sometime.

[Deeps]

Yes they are only £1 locks no im not expecting them to put up Much of a fight...

Like slicing through butter with a hot knife. If it's any consolation there's £30 bike locks don't put up much fight either. You've got the visual deterrent, just keep the bolt cutters out of sight and hopefully the alarm will do the trick.

Don't know if watching tv counts as a prep. I saw a (short) list of recommendations for preppers and bought both boxsets of Survivors. Already made it through the new version, now on the 1975 one. Not going to change much of what I do, but whatever.

While I was away I found my wind-up gizmo fairly useful. I forgot to fully charge my phone before I left, but was able to keep it from going fully flat. I figured that a full charge would take three hours of hand-winding, which is beyond anyone's patience I think, but better than nothing. The torch on it was really bright and pretty useful though, and having a radio was a good move too.

Didn't get quite so far with the firesteel. After a couple of minutes of making sparks I decided I already had three ways of making fire and had better things to do. I'll have another go sometime.

Survivors is great, well the 70's version, the newer one was a bit 'meh'. The old one is very classist though, lots of earnest middle class types saving the day, if I mind right I think the baddies tended to have regional and working class accents. I loved it though, I had memories of it as a kid and got it on DVD a while back. I should probably give it another watch, its been a few years.

[Jan Smits]

I deliberately watched them that way round so I kind of enjoyed the new one without it 'spoiling' a classic. It's a bit DrWho in places, while the 1975 one I keep expecting to turn into a Hammer film.

Not so much practical advice, but it does allow me to think about a few things, like "why the h*ll do I live in a city"

[sethorly]

Got hold of a folding saw, some more compression dressings, a windup/usb lantern and a windup/usb/solar radio, and another fire steel. Wife starting to moan about expenditure.

[Deeps]

I deliberately watched them that way round so I kind of enjoyed the new one without it 'spoiling' a classic. It's a bit DrWho in places, while the 1975 one I keep expecting to turn into a Hammer film.

Not so much practical advice, but it does allow me to think about a few things, like "why the h*ll do I live in a city"

I've just remembered its got the worst pack of 'wild dogs' ever mustered. One of the earlier ones if I recall. Worth a watch just for that.

Got hold of a folding saw, some more compression dressings, a windup/usb lantern and a windup/usb/solar radio, and another fire steel. Wife starting to moan about expenditure.

Welcome to my world amigo, apparently cushions are absolutely vital though.

[junmist]

Did a prep(ok we need a happy jumping up and down emo) changed all the battery's in the torches yeahhhhhh. Just found out I need more soup (some one has been in the prep supply)and it wasn't me