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partisan1911

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Did anyone watch this last night? I feel inadequate compared to what this guy can do! He rebuilt his truck so it would run off horse manure. I hope this show sticks around because it was pretty interesting.
 
I watched two episodes last night. Yes they are an interesting family. And the show is interesting.
 
Yep I caught it on at late night on History. This looks like a good one. This guy has a good noodle on his neck. I'm liking the idea of they show ya whats being done, and how. I like it.!! edgy :thumbup:
 
Had some interesting ideas, but the implementation was kind of bizarre. Like the one where he built the truck to run on wood chips, manure whatever. Well he was using a gas powered chipper to create the wood chips. Does that not seem a little odd. Possible lack of fuel was the reason to create the alternative fueled truck, yet he needed a gas powered machine to create the wood chips.

Second was the episode where he created the still and used a gas powered lawnmower to grind the corn up for the mash to be used in the still. Yet again, he relied on a fuel powered device to make alcohol. Seems to me if you are going to go all out you need to find alternative means to all of your sources not just the interesting ones.

Kind of like the guys that buy big powerful, expensive rifles yet done train or know how to properly use them if they were put into a SHTF situation.

Also, one last note about this show was the milk goat idea. They wanted an alternative to buying milk, so they got a milk goat. Well in the show it was made a point that the goat only produces milk when a kidd is suckling, so after the kidd is weaned off the milk, the nanny no longer produces milk. Again, does this not present a long term problem? It would only be a short term month or so solution. Seems a milk cow would have been a better long term idea.
 
The show was about Self-Reliance, and the fact that people no longer know how to provide themselves the basic essentials for sound living.

Not the world has ended, here we go together.
 
I saw part of the show, lost interest when I realized how my grandparents and my mother grew up in the country in Europe and that was the normal life style for many back then and it wasn't a big deal, just a way of life.

Go up into the hills in Appalachia and people are still livin' like this and it's not a hardship for them, again it's a way of life.
 
I don't think there are people in the Appalachia making thier trucks run on horse manure.

apocalypse pa-- just a name I guess

Enjoy the show, don't freak out about it. I found it pretty interesting
 
Some of it seemed "staged" to show how he could make some of the stuff, but would still need things like percussion caps even if he could make the bullets and black powder - ooops. It would still be better to own an AK47, stock pile ammo and have a reloader to use than defend only with a BP firearm.
 
partisan1911 said:
I don't think there are people in the Appalachia making thier trucks run on horse manure.

apocalypse pa-- just a name I guess

Enjoy the show, don't freak out about it. I found it pretty interesting
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My point was that they are the epitome of self reliance and they do it old school.

Everyone should read the Fox Fire series of books, they teach a lot of old school self reliance skills.
 
T. Erdelyi said:
Everyone should read the Fox Fire series of books, they teach a lot of old school self reliance skills.
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i have most of them, they were not easy to find, but that was before Amazon. haven't hunted for them recently to see ho available they are.

some good info in there, but i'm not especially concerned with how to make musical instruments from scratch.

dang, didn't know there were TWELVE of them now. latest one came out in '04
 
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