Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:09 am Post subject: Re: What are You doing right now for PO?
In reply to Perplexed, we had a "dump line" installed with our solar hot water system. All it is is a length of copper pipe that runs through eight feet of baseboard heater. The glycol runs through that before it gets into the heat exchanger. That way we can get rid of excess heat in the summer before it hits the tank. (that way the glycol doesn't get too hot even if we take off for a week or two) We have flat plate collectors, but those apricus would be better, if we lived in a place that didn't get so much snow. We get absolutely nothing when it's raining, but every sunny day we get our water heated for free. Even when it's been below freezing at night the water heats up to over 100 degrees on a sunny day!
Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 731 Location: northern California
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:08 am Post subject: Re: What are You doing right now for PO?
Just finished installing a new air compressor in the shed by the driveway, where the bicycles are stored. Had to underground 100 feet of electric line first, from the main cabin. Bought a nifty little Campbell-Hausfield 2 gallon compressor that can dial the pressure you want, like 40 lbs for the mtn bikes. It runs on about 6 amps, so our little off-grid power system can handle it with the 800 watt inverter. Since town is 15 miles away and our little hand pumps are a pain, this is a great tool for the homestead. It pressurizes to 140 psi so can be used for cleaning off small things like the chainsaw innards too. _________________ "When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."
Thomas Paine
Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 1008 Location: In the suburban sea of strangers
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject: Re: What are You doing right now for PO?
I have been googling the blogosphere for any discussions on highway expansion in my home state, and intruding into the discussions to introduce peak oil and the concept that peak oil implies peak vehicle miles traveled. Peak vehicle miles traveled means money spent on highway construction is money wasted.
And I have spent the last year and a half doing stuff about debt elimination, firearms, gardening, car independence, food water and heat supplies, etc, etc.
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:19 pm Post subject: Re: What are You doing right now for PO?
I'm doing the best I can to get away from using credit cards at all. I pay it off every month but using them leads to me spending more than I should.
Also I'm taking kickboxing classes, primarily as exercise but if I never need to defend myself in close combat, I can. This is the real thing, not the cardio kickboxing or Tae Bo.
I've been meaning to learn how to use assault rifles, just so if the time comes I won't be a spazz around a weapon.
I would do more practical things like learn how to raise food crops, make furniture, etc. but I'm in an apartment and space is a consideration. I live in a real-estate bubble area and I'm not about to take out a jumbo option ARM to pay $700,000 for a $250,000 house, so those skills will have to wait.
Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 1583 Location: Nez Perce Nation
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 7:05 pm Post subject: Re: What are You doing right now for PO?
Dredging our pond to expand and deepen it. This is so we can use it for irrigation and stock it with bass. _________________ "Modern Agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food."
-- Albert Bartlett
"It will be a dark time. But for those who survive, I suspect it will be rather exciting."
-- James Lovelock
Joined: Oct 15, 2005 Posts: 1561 Location: Portland, Oregon
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 7:14 pm Post subject: Re: What are You doing right now for PO?
Hey folks- hot tip here-
I just bought a metal roof for our house. I wanted to wait until mid to late summer to put it on but the roofer said that metal roof makers are raising their price 10-15% every couple months now so I had to get it right away to beat the price increase. Talk about inflation!
Same thing is happening for composite asphault shingle roofs. If you need a roof, or may need one 5-10 years from now- get it sooner that later. The price of these things are...wait for it...
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject: Re: What are You doing right now for PO?
I cut a truckload of wood today. It's going to be ready for next winter, which is a good thing, because I went to the oil dealer and they aren't selling oil for next winter yet. With the price going up every day it's getting scary. I think I will buy from another dealer if they don't do pre-buy very soon. _________________ Deep in the mud and slime of things, even there, something sings.
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:45 am Post subject: Re: What are You doing right now for PO?
Patched up the old VW for my wife to drive to work the rest of this year, so her gas cost went down. Collecting free concrete blocks to build a root cellar, probably next year. Too much on my plate right now. Still working when time allows on the LP cookstove installation. Traded off the aging Wheel Horse for a Case 446 Hydrive garden tractor, and made a sleeve hitch for it to use Brinley implements on the hydraulic lift. Plow does great! Could do an acre or so a day, if necessary. Looking for a disc for it, and ordered all the service manuals for it on EBay last night.
We have too much shop business to do much for us right now, spring rush fixing other people's farm stuff. But we got the gardens about all planted, nothing exotic, just salads, corn, beans, potatoes, carrots, etc. Tomato plants soon, and maybe some sweet potatoes when I find plants. We didn't have time to start plants ourself and the sunporch wasn't ready yet.
Waiting on the backhoe guy to terrace a 3rd garden plot and set our water collection tank for garden use. It's huge-8' dia x8' tall, 3,000 gallons. Missed collecting the spring rains, but it may help a bit if we get it in soon. _________________ Local fix-it guy..
Joined: Dec 25, 2005 Posts: 577 Location: Hillsboro, West Virginia
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 9:01 am Post subject: Re: What are You doing right now for PO?
waegari wrote:
There's some misconception going on about Europe in US PO quarters: this continent was not designed as some sort of safe haven for Americans running away from impending doom. PO is not just about the US, and the rest of the world would simply exist for offering refuge, consolement, cheap building plots and whatever. I'm sorry to say it like this: we, the rest of the world, are not waiting for a new form of US imperialism, be it by individuals.
The Jews are choosing the peoples by whom Europe is being colonized. Their list does not include Americans, of course. You are, however, tolerating that very form of colonization by Africans and by Arabs - and such people as those have a habit of creating violent organizations and widespread terrorism (which the Jews call "protests" in their media venues). If you had White Americans among you, you'd not have to worry about rising crime in your cities, nor would you need to fear that car-burning, city-wrecking ethnic violence would sweep across your country.
waegari wrote:
And heaven forbids, what such tendency by individuals might lead to in the political arena... Europe would not fancy the idea of the largest single consumer of fossil fuels (the US army) dropping by and seizing some lands for US citizens, if Congress so ruleth. You may think that the US will never invade its allies, but then you're wrong. On July 26, 2002 a certain GW Bush signed the so called Hague Invasion Act, which rules that my country, the Netherlands, may be invaded whenever US citizens face trial at the International Criminal Court. So there's a precedent, thanks to US Congress.
The US would not invade anybody to rescue any of the American "little people" (namely us unimportant Whites) from the legal machinery of another country. I was not aware of that Hague Invasion Act until you mentioned it, but I can tell you what it is for. It's an authorization to rescue Important People: Jewish bankers, and Jewish media bosses, and Certain Rich People (some of whom might actually be gentiles), and Some Of The Politicians & Military Leaders. Since it would be impolitic to specify these groups in the text of the legislation, it was left vague. But your country could put me on trial for, say, smoking pot (nevermind that it is legal in your country and nevermind that I was innocent because I don't smoke pot ever), and the US government would take no notice.
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