Show us what you got!!

robdsherlock

as above just out of curiosity and maybe give idea's to other people, if you can throw up pic's of your BOB,knives, survival gear &/or what ever you would keep for a survival situation or camping gear.

when i get home i will take photo's of mine and throw them up. its not complete but then again when is a BOB complete lol there is always stuff to add:D

colonel-yum-yum

And make sure you don't have geo-tagging if you want to keep your cache off the map!

krissovo

We have a thread for bug out bags here:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056435301

So bug out bag specifics should go there.

Here is my Survival tin that rarely leaves me:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=76294096&postcount=76

Here is my lightweight kit:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=76428239&postcount=85

robdsherlock

i dont really have a bag as such, just a stash of survival stuff for when the SHTF scenario comes about:D if mods want me to delete this topic and move my post elsewhere i have no problem with that:)

so here is my stash:D




my emergency fishing kit


my knives and sharpener's, small LED light, compas.


flint and magnesium fire starter, balliclava for hunting. also cotton coated in vaseline(excellent for catching fire and burns for a good 3-4min)


part of my first aid kit:thermometer,lots of antiseptic dissinfectant,plasters,cotton,bandages and 60 vitamin C 1000mg tabs(extreemly good for keeping imune system in top condition and other benefits)


rest of my first aid kit: solpadol for sore throat/infection, arcoxia 120mg(prescription anti-inflamatory), melcam 15mg (prescription anti-inflam), diaphene 75mg(month supply). basic first aid kit bought in aldi. also i have my medication for chronic pain i suffer, zydol 100mg tabs (synthetic opiate) and Lyrica 100mg (nerve pain)


my knives for skinning and gutting game


my survival knife(excellent knife and will be getting a second one soon)


machete for cutting up game cutting threw big bones ect... carbide and ceramic knife sharpener, diamond knife sharpener course,medium,fine,super fine.


flint and magnesium fire starter again


cotton balls and vaseline(excellent fire starter + cheap )

robdsherlock

everything i need for fishing in two small vitamin bottles and tin


another fishing set


balliclava for hunting and also keeps head and face warm hunting in winter months.


gloves, one thick warm set, one fingerless set and normal set.


overview of it all

robdsherlock

my food stash

CamperMan

robdsherlock... you really are prepared ;-)

Tabnabs

@robdsherlock, one thing that strikes me about your food supply (and combined with your "bug out" gear) is that it is heavily water dependant, but I see no water bottles and no way of getting clean drinking water? It may be something to consider (or you may already have that angle covered?).

bonniebede

@robdsherlock

Do you have a plan for rotating your food supply so it stays in date? How do you manage storage? Interesting topic to raise btw, thanks.

robdsherlock

CamperMan wrote: »

robdsherlock... you really are prepared ;-)

lol my girlfriend thinks so too, but i keep telling her there is more to get:D thankfully she doesn't think of me as a nut with all this stuff, she is quite understanding.
i also have use to a over and under shotgun but i aint taking pictures of that for obvious reasons.


@tabnabs,
yes you are correct, basicly everything is water dependant in there, i wouldn't call my water stash adaquate really for what i have, i just keep 6 2ltr bottles at all time while i use them for normal drinking. but that obviously wouldn't be enough for emergency.

that is something id like to address, also i have no way of making rain water or other water found to be drinkable, ie, purification tablets.
anyone know where and how much these would be??

kildare.17hmr

Water purifiction tabs are cheap enough and easy to ger, any camping shop will have em! If your in an area with water, rivers/streams all you need to do is boil it before using it.

bonniebede

robdsherlock wrote: »

that is something id like to address, also i have no way of making rain water or other water found to be drinkable, ie, purification tablets.
anyone know where and how much these would be??

Rain water colllection...quick solution a tarp or sheet of clean plastic, angle it so it drips into a container...
Longer term solution, rain water barrels on guttering.
(presuming you can't dig a well or have a stream of whatever.)

Purification...tablets widely available in camping out door shops and online...but these should not be used continuously for more that three months, and cautions around pregnant women too...so only a temporary solution. Milton sterilizing fluid can also be used for this, read instructions carefully!

Using a rain barrel with sand filter and hypogeal layer is a longer term solution.

Some here posted about a great little filtration device not cheap but would get you and family through the worst probably, till you were settled somewhere with a decent well

http://www.lifesaversystems.com/lifesaver-products/lifesaver-bottle

Its on my 'love to have' list.

robdsherlock

bonniebede wrote: »

@robdsherlock

Do you have a plan for rotating your food supply so it stays in date? How do you manage storage? Interesting topic to raise btw, thanks.

yup i just checked everything yesterday and replaced a few things with what was in my normal food cabinate in the kitchen.
i would check everything monthly or second month.
i think the main thing to do is mainly use stuff that you would normally buy on a weekly shopping, then you can replace stuff that may be out of date in a few months with the stuff just bought recently.

i keep them in bags in the spare room, i have dehuminifyer's(spl) in the bags too but, ideally i would like to get airtight boxes for them. and maybe oxygen soluble packets to put in with it too as oxygen is the biggest food spoiler.


its by no means finished and perfect but thats why i made this thread so maybe people can show what they have and other people point out things that might improve their stash of suggest things, i dono, just thought were all in this forum because we all want to be prepared for whatever is throwin at us and we all get advise from one another:)

robdsherlock

there is a shop near me actually, i may pop in and see if they have them.

sand filtration i have seen before too actually but would need boiling after too.

a river would be a pretty good cycle from me, maybe a 15min drive so the rain water barrel would prob be the better choice for me.

rain is fairly plentyfull here in this country lol

bonniebede

robdsherlock wrote: »

yup i just checked everything yesterday and replaced a few things with what was in my normal food cabinate in the kitchen.
i would check everything monthly or second month.
i think the main thing to do is mainly use stuff that you would normally buy on a weekly shopping, then you can replace stuff that may be out of date in a few months with the stuff just bought recently.

i keep them in bags in the spare room, i have dehuminifyer's(spl) in the bags too but, ideally i would like to get airtight boxes for them. and maybe oxygen soluble packets to put in with it too as oxygen is the biggest food spoiler.


its by no means finished and perfect but thats why i made this thread so maybe people can show what they have and other people point out things that might improve their stash of suggest things, i dono, just thought were all in this forum because we all want to be prepared for whatever is throwin at us and we all get advise from one another:)

Exactly right, thats what I love about this, I have picked up so many useful tips, or been made to think about things in other ways.:)

Airtight boxes... try googling suppliers of plastic food buckets, they can be useful

something like this

http://www.aicplasticpallets.com/ProductViewer.aspx?cat=70f13692-0fd9-416f-a63c-dcdf51132695&prod=16

and there are various techniques for stroing grain long term with CO2 yuo could consider.


With respect to multiplying what you already use, that is a sensible approach. One problem is however that there is no way I would eat a diet of tinned food or a grain based diet in normal circumstances... so there is a limited amount of overlap between my normal diet and my planned survival diet.Not that it contqains things I don't eat... like I do like porridge and include it in my prepping storage. but it is too high carb for my eating plan at the moment. Also things like sugar which have a great long shelf life will be very valuable as a calorie supplement, but for obvious reasons I try and limit my intake now.

I think the best part of my strategy is to try to grow the crops I do eat now, so that if I had to I would know how to do it, and have a seed bank to start from.

That includes growing potatoes, so that i build up a store of seed potatoes. I don;t eat spuds at the mo, but they are an obvious survival planting, but not if you don;t have seed.

robdsherlock

that would be very usefull thanks:)

i never thought of sugar!! one to add to the list:D
yes also some stuff i wouldn't be eating every week either and may go stale but the most of my food here are bought in aldi so replacing them aint too expensive.
the likes of canned food, most of the cans i looked at yesterday had expiry date of 2016, so still a while to go and i also would eat the canned fish fairly regulary.

last season i have grown my own veg garden but this year i havent, mainly because of my back, i have chronic back pain and it was really hard to do things. but i stuck it out for a year and was able to feed myself for a while off it so i was happy enough with that. if i had the choice i would do it again this year and try improve myself but that is not happening:(
also i did keep some seeds in case i ever need to restart it again:)

CamperMan

bonniebede wrote: »

Some here posted about a great little filtration device not cheap but would get you and family through the worst probably, till you were settled somewhere with a decent well

http://www.lifesaversystems.com/lifesaver-products/lifesaver-bottle

Its on my 'love to have' list.

nice but these are much cheaper Sport Berkey® Purification Bottle

colonel-yum-yum

Good tip on the sugar as it's always useful to have for both flavouring and keeping up calories. Another useful thing to keep is honey. I'm not it's biggest fan by a long stretch, but it's a lot healthier than sugar and, if stored correctly, has NO SHELF LIFE!
I read recently that honey was found in a pharaoh's tomb in Egypt that was roughly 300 years old and would still be perfectly edible and healthy.
Definitely keeping my eye out for one of those purification bottles, as my long-term plan is to collect rain water, but you never know where you might need to purify too.

In all honesty I have very little stocked up, but definitely find this forum great for ideas and inspiration on where to go.

Peetrik

@Robdsherlock I freaking love that machete!

I also like how you have 1 pack of Koka noodles in there for a special occasion, the post apocalyptic version of a bottle of champagne

CamperMan

here in Germany, you can get large 800 gram can of soup for 69 cent.. so we have plenty of them stocked up just in case ;-)

krissovo

CamperMan wrote: »

here in Germany, you can get large 800 gram can of soup for 69 cent.. so we have plenty of them stocked up just in case ;-)

Thats a interesting point, in Germany you can buy many 800g cans like goulash soup from even the smallest stores. I dont think I have seen a 800g can in Ireland in normal super markets.

baords dyslexic

krissovo wrote: »

Thats a interesting point, in Germany you can buy many 800g cans like goulash soup from even the smallest stores. I dont think I have seen a 800g can in Ireland in normal super markets.

Lidl normally have something along those lines but afaik bigger cans and much much more expensive. Tried one a while back for lunch, it was OK but not great and I decided that with the cost it wasn't a good item to stock up on as I could get more "calories" for less money and wouldn't really want to go eating them to keep a date rotation going.

CamperMan

krissovo wrote: »

Thats a interesting point, in Germany you can buy many 800g cans like goulash soup from even the smallest stores. I dont think I have seen a 800g can in Ireland in normal super markets.

I think they do 1600g cans here

baords dyslexic

Once again I was wrong, the cans are wider and shorter but are 500g - Pork Goulash.

Found it here http://www.lidl.ie/cps/rde/xchg/SID-4CB2A90B-20166111/lidl_ri_ie/hs.xsl/4182_18103.htm normally €2.99 can't work out when the offer I googled is/was?



Update:15/2/12 just noticed that this 2euro offer is on this week. Checked the best before dates on these and they were all xx/10/14 so good to store for at least 2 & half years.

whippetgood

omg. all i've got in prep is a chicken coop, 2 hens and an eggs recipe book!!!!

baords dyslexic

whippetgood wrote: »

omg. all i've got in prep is a chicken coop, 2 hens and an eggs recipe book!!!!

I can offer a free cockrel if you want to up your game a bit

ShadowFox

For food storage ive got about 4 weeks supply can make it last longer if i really need to No pictures as yet but here is the list

12 mixed boxes of breakfast cereal
20 liters of uht milk

40 mixed cans of mixed grill, all day breakfast, beans, peas, sweetcorn
Ive a large chest freezer with mince meat, bags of chicken breast peices, burgars, fish ect...
40 mixed packets of curry, pasta bake, soups, shepards pie

20 mixed packets of biscuts, crackers
tins of tuna chocolate spread jam
tea coffee (forgot the sugar until i seen this)
20 mixed 2lt Minerals
Junk food crisps chocolate ect
40 5lt bottles of water
3 55 gallon drums for rain water
Going to get some packets of scone / bread mix as they seem to have longer dates on them

baords dyslexic

grapeape wrote: »

For food storage ive got about 4 weeks supply can make it last longer if i really need to No pictures as yet but here is the list

12 mixed boxes of breakfast cereal
20 liters of uht milk

40 mixed cans of mixed grill, all day breakfast, beans, peas, sweetcorn
Ive a large chest freezer with mince meat, bags of chicken breast peices, burgars, fish ect...
40 mixed packets of curry, pasta bake, soups, shepards pie

20 mixed packets of biscuts, crackers
tins of tuna chocolate spread jam
tea coffee (forgot the sugar until i seen this)
20 mixed 2lt Minerals
JunkMorale boosting food crisps chocolate ect
40 5lt bottles of water
3 55 gallon drums for rain water
Going to get some packets of scone / bread mix as they seem to have longer dates on them

fyp

ShadowFox

baords dyslexic wrote: »

fyp

Dumb ass question whats fyp:o
Also making up some tool kits ie
pocket tool kit
pack tool kit
House tool kit
any ideas on these please

baords dyslexic

grapeape wrote: »

Dumb ass question whats fyp:o
Also making up some tool kits ie
pocket tool kit
pack tool kit
House tool kit
any ideas on these please

Sorry, fyp = fixed your post.

Trying to be funny doesn't always work

ShadowFox

baords dyslexic wrote: »

Sorry, fyp = fixed your post.

Trying to be funny doesn't always work

Nah im just dumb took me nearly an hour to figure out what fak was lol

baords dyslexic

grapeape wrote: »

Dumb ass question whats fyp:o
Also making up some tool kits ie
pocket tool kit
pack tool kit
House tool kit
any ideas on these please

Lidl have still got their 125piece tool kit for €59.99 that comes in its own plastic storage box. While its more of a mechnics (car) tool kit it has a lot of basics including some plumbing type tools and is very good quality for the money, a mate bought one a couple of years back and its still going strong. Good starting point for a house hold tool kit, add a hammer, hacksaw and woodsaw to cover a few more eventualities.

Grizzly 45

Folks,
Just my 2cents worth.In the long run you are better off buying LESS tools of better quality than alot of tools of shoddy quality.EG Lidil socket sets.
I wouldnt let them near anything like my car.Simple reason is the heat treating ,if at all there... In a socket can cause the steel to shatter under pressure and cause injury to you.When you get a set of extreme mashed knuckles off an engine block,etc you wil know what I mean,when a Lidil socket wrench ratchet mechanism failed on me once.:eek:

I wont buy anything now but Gedore,Sealy or Dargan for heavy work[which is what a car is going to be anyway] I've busted up too many screw heads with shoddy screwdrivers,that I spent over 50euros on a good set of screwdrivers.
Even hammers or saws or pliers,etc.
Nothing worse than cheap tools failing at a critical moment. "Vice grips " made in China /Pakistan are notorious for this.Worse they damage the item you are working on.:mad:
Buy a brand name that a pro uses who makes his/her living from their hand tools.None of them would be found dead with Lidil stuff.They will onlly buy the power tools because of the grauentee of replacement or for the "dump factor" IOW bought for a very rough job ,that if it is broken after the job.. dump it!
FWIW Id go to a motor factors and order the basic SEALEY[industry standard] DIY mechanics kit.
www.sealey.co.uk
Its about 80 /100 euros.But it is ,if you look after the stuff a once off life purchase.

Doc Ruby

Its a good point about quality Grizz but the last tools I bought in Lidl were Dutch made and sound quality.

Grizzly 45

That would be good to hear Doc...What were they??
I know their electrical tools can be product overruns,over stock from the likes of Bosch ,etc,rebranded under their Parkside brand.
Guess once bitten twice shy in my case.

Doc Ruby

Well generally I'm a believer in you get what you pay for, nobody spends the best part of €500 on a Caledonian Edge folding knife from Cold Steel (now a collectors item) without understanding that, but that's a core piece of kit. Knife, rope, firemaking equipment, everything else I can work out by myself.

With that said, I picked up a shovel and pitchfork from Lidl a while back and they've been doing trojan work so far. Likewise if you recall I put an end to a door a few weeks ago using a Lidl axe-hammer multitool, Dutch made and solid, which goes with the European brand. I suspected they might be overruns alright. I'm impressed with the value you can get from these items. Their hexi stoves were wobbly but I'd provisionally trust any load bearing tools they sell.

kildare.17hmr

Was lucky enough to put a nice tool kit together, KLANN and Gedore make up the most of it like screw drivers, pliers, half inch socket set and a few torx sets. Toped off with a couple of genuine vice grips and there is not much i cant do with it on the car and thats only limited by me. All kept in a stanley fatmax waterproof toolbox

ShadowFox

Ive picked up alot of the Workzone tools from Aldi hand and power now i dont use them daily or anything like it but they havent let me down as yet and they are alot cheaper than the main brands. If like myself you only do basic DIY id recommend them

ShadowFox

Also making up some tool kits ie
pocket tool kit
pack tool kit
House tool kit
any ideas on these please[/QUOTE]
What I ment by this was I want to make
an EDC tool kit
a BOB tool kit
and the house tool kit for when SHTF ie hand tools like the old hand drills and stuff like that back to basics kit

ShadowFox

This is a small tool kit i carry for airsoft
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19739587@N07/6898664314/in/photostream
just to give an idea of what i mean

baords dyslexic

grapeape wrote: »

Also making up some tool kits ie
pocket tool kit
pack tool kit
House tool kit
any ideas on these please

What I ment by this was I want to make
an EDC tool kit
a BOB tool kit
and the house tool kit for when SHTF ie hand tools like the old hand drills and stuff like that back to basics kit[/QUOTE]

How back to basics do you want to go with your SHTF kit? I keep a lot of stuff for green woodworking, like bill hooks, weird axes and even an adze but they won't help if you want to knock up some from of modified plumbing.

If you use tools now then just take a look at what you use power tools for and find suitable alternatives. Some examples

Router - Rebate plane and chisiels
Electric Screwdriver - Hand Brace - great torque
Electric Drill - Hand drill and Hand Brace
Angle grinder when used for cutting thin metal sheet - Tin snips, aircraft snips and or sheet metal nibbler.
Angle grinder used to cut thicker metal - hacksaw
Angle grinder used for grinding - files
etc

Grizzly 45

More importantly ..You have to PRACTISE alot with these old tools to be proficent with them.:),as well as keeping a supply of tools to maintain those tools.
IE tooth setters for a handsaw or crosscut.Would anyone know how to sharpen a crosscut or handsaw anymore ??That was a job in itself done by a "saw doctor"[Not the band from Galway!:)]
A specific lost skillset/profession with the advance of chainsaws and throwaway handsaws.:(

Deise Musashi

tooth setters for a handsaw or crosscut.Would anyone know how to sharpen a crosscut or handsaw anymore ??That was a job in itself done by a "saw doctor

Croppyboy of this parish knows how to restore old saws, as seen in this thread! Makes a lovely job of it.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=64958267

I could have a go with my file sets and a template, would be much easier with the proper kit though. Tooth cutter that can be set for tooth per inch and some tooth setting pliers, must keep an eye around car boot sales and farmers yards.

My auld lad was a building contractor all his life. Think he'd loan me his good tools? :eek:

His DeWalt kit is good and all, but a Big Yankee pump action screwdriver is pretty old school, and he won't be parted from it!
Cordless drivers and nail guns vs. 24oz. Stanley hammer and elbow grease.

One will still work even when there's no electric grid about...