Gerald O'Hara

I’m in NE South Dakota(45.46°N) and I’ve been trying for self sufficiency for years now. I am very interested in learning more about the climate tactics for the northern latitudes.
I’m unclear as to the actual time and date because it looks like someone favors a change.
Please advise as to exactly when this is going to happen.

RUST REMOVAL
1000 ml water
100 g. CITRIC ACID powder
40 g. SODIUM BICARBONATE
Add mild dish detergent

Mix in deep dish twice as deep deep as the item.
Leave from 1-24 hours
Rinse black deposits with runny water.
Harmless and environmentally safe

I just wrote a long review of the “Country Living Grain Mill” but it got swallowed by the program.
Pro:
1.  Strong recommendation. I’ve been using it for years now.
2. Easily converted to power
3. Modifications for grinding large grain and beans easily added.
Con:
1. Very spendy. I paid $700 for one as a wedding gift several years ago.

We had a rat problem for almost a year until we got a cat, now named Jasper. I had built rat bait stations out of 3” pvc pipe that nothing but rats and mice could get into. I even rotated the bait but it didn’t really deter them.
Rats are incredibly destructive and get into the house walls where the can hide and store whatever they steal from the supply room. They also like to destroy styrofoam insulation. They don’t eat it, they just turn it into a pile of little balls. And Even more annoying is that they appear to think that the insulation coats of electrical equipment wires are particularly tasty. They will eat down to the copper wire if they are not detected.

Jasper resolved the rat problem in less than a week.  Living on a remote farm there are always predators who kill chickens. We had a problem with a mink and found that rats had created a colony under our chickens coop. The rats would chew through the wood walls of the coop to steal the chicken feed and those holes provided the mink wit access to the chickens. We lost five hens in a single week.  
So since Jasper had never shown any aggressive behavior toward the chickens, we decided to put him in the chicken coop one  night as a guardian for the chickens.   The next morning, there was a dead rat under the feeder, but no loss of chickens. From then on, (after lining the floor where the wall meets it with 1/4” hardware cloth), we have been using Jasper as a guardian of the chickens. He goes in willingly every night and is let out when I come to feed and water the chickens in the morning. Since that time we’ve only lost chickens during the day( they are free ranging birds) because no predators want to mess with Jasper at night.

Leatherman is the way to go. I carry the SURGE model. It’s spendy, I admit but it’s a tool box in the space of a pocket knife and has features you could use frequently.It’s about 11 different tools that all fit in your pocket or on a belt (best option imho.)
The inside tools all lock to hold them from folding while you are working. AND it is made of good stainless steel so it is easy to keep clean and avoid rust when you get soaked in the rain etc.
There’s no day that I don’t use it. The accessory screw driver points that are available just can’t be beat because of the variable size and type of screws that you are liable to encounter.
One of the beautiful features of this piece is that the knife blades, the scissors and the file(or saw blade) all can be accessed without having to open it. The needle nose pliers are inside along with the screwdriver blades and can opener.
It’s THE MOST handy pocket/survival tool you’ll ever have.
And o yes, the knife blades are excellent performers.

A recent article about this stated that the ratio sequence was dependent on the cross sectional area (CSA) of the material in a “J” tube configuration.

It assumed that the CSA was the 1.  The height of the magazine (vertical section) was 2 x CSA; the burn chamber was 4x CSA and the heat riser was 6 x CSA. Given those figures, your heat riser would be 48”. However, I’ve not seen a combustion chamber 32” long.

In the original research by Larry Winiarski at the University in Wisconsin, the design was an “L” shape where the combustion chamber was 1 unit and the heat riser was 1.5-2 units (not necessarily based on the CSA). So, a 12” combustion chamber got a 18-24” heat riser. I’ve built several “L”shaped rocket stoves based on this figure and have had excellent results.

The efficiency of the insulation around the heat riser was of significant importance but without insulation, the ratio remained unchanged.

There has been significant research on this since then. Peter Vandenberg and the Wisners have contributed greatly as well as “Donkey”.  “J”tubes and modified “J”tube styles have come along since then and the “P” channel have improved the performance  greatly.  

I share the concerns regarding spacing of your project from ANY flammable surface. On the rocket stove I bought (Liberator), at the top of the “bell” can easily reach 600°F and I have photos to prove that. The one I built comes close to that. I can keep the temperature of the bell between 300 to 400°F in a large Quonset building with no insulation on the walls. The minimum distance from anything that hot should be greater than 30”(more iyam).

I just lost all nine of my birds yesterday. The description of neck eaten and head hanging by the spinal cord is vivid but that’s a mink or weasel. I saw a brown critter with a narrow tail in my machine shop a few days before the birds were all killed. I had “plugged all the holes in the floor but apparently the corner of the door was chewed away enough to permit access. You could only detect that faulty door from the inside.
It seems that no matter what you do, eventually a predator will find the one weakness in your security plan.
Fortunately, I hatched one pullet in early February and had put 11 eggs in the incubator yesterday morning morning before finding the massacre.
I wouldn’t have begrudged one bird to a hungry beast, but killing for sport makes me really angry.
Needless to say, no matter what you do, the odds are in favor of the predators.
I had moved all the birds to the coop from the chicken tractor that is completely covered with snow. Lotta good that did🤬
Cheers
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Did you do a control study with just the water alone? That would tell you the effects of the energy production contributed by the wood.

A neti pot usually holds a cup of water. (250 ml). I have always recommended (and used) 1/8 tsp sea salt NOT Repeat NOT iodized salt in warm tap water.  This gives you essentially the equivalent of what we call NORMAL SALINE.

Boiled water is just as good but it cannot/shouldn’t be over 100°F or you’ll be VERY UNCOMFORTABLE and immediately miserable.

Of course, adding LOCALLY PRODUCED HONEY to your diet will (in most cases) resolve your allergy issues in several weeks.

Hope this helps.
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Start with considering 5 essential categories:
1. Water- how and where to get it; how to make it safe (assuming you have a source)
2. Food: how and where to get it/produce it and store enough safely to last till the second growing season
3. Stay warm- this is a wide topic
   Shelter; fire/heat production; clothing
4. Morale/welfare/recreation- huge topic
5. Transportation/communications

You are writing as if you expect to be transported to some planet where no prior civilization exists. While that’s what happened here on earth multiple times, the likelihood of YOU being chosen for such a mission would seem somewhat remote. You aren’t heading out into the great unknown with only what you could carry in a covered wagon.

Think ahead here. All of this stuff already exists and the information about how to do ALL of this currently exists. Much of it you may even own currently.

ALWAYS USE WHAT YOU HAVE ON HAND FIRST BEFORE YOU GO LOOKING TO SPEND RESOURCES/MONEY TO GET SOMETHING.
Start by:
1.watching YouTube videos on the things you believe you need to learn.
2. gathering
A) books on how to do everything
B) tools to do everything  (hand tools first that don’t need power) garden tools; carpentry tools; kitchen tools; etc.
C) materials to be used ( or learn the process required to do things.

3) get to the place where you are going to do this. Without a place, you will simply fill your current home with stuff and not be able to use it!

“Start at the beginning, work to the end, and then stop!”

Frankly, to be perfectly honest, if you haven’t got all this well on the way before NOVEMBER 3,2020 I would predict that the odds of this dream of yours are essentially zero because it means you have no idea about what the dark forces are planning and have set int motion.

Perhaps you’re familiar with the story of “the wise and foolish virgins.” Well, from what things look like currently, the wedding guest is  here.

I hate to think about this but unless The Carpenter of Nazareth comes back REALLY SOON, we’re in for a really bumpy ride.

I would recommend you read:Revelation
It will explain what I’m telling you about.
I sincerely pray that you can get this all together immediately. You’ve waited too long already.

I fervently pray that I am wrong, but that’s not the horse where I’d put my $2
TMM
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