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Showing posts with label living. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Meet the Aussie woman who hasn't spent a cent in two years
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Location:
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Basic Fraud - AUSTRALIA - THE CONCEALED COLONY.
As per the saying "The Truth Will Set Us Free"!
Please feel free to investigate and do your own due
diligence of our website - especially the documented evidence.
We have verified information concerning:
* How all the Prime Ministers and all the Politicians
appointed within Australia since 1919 have been invalid and their positions
illegal and that most of these politicians have known this fact, but hidden the
truth from the nation.
* Why every Australian Federal & State Politician,
Judge, Magistrate, Defence Force Personnel, Federal & State Police Officer,
Sheriff, Local Mayor have all been committing Treason against the Australian
people.
* Why the appointments of the past Governors-General
since 1919 have been invalid.
* Why Queen Elizabeth II has NO legal authority or power
over the government's of Australia, Canada or New Zealand (and in reality, very
little over Her own government).
* Why most of the Australian politicians and judges have
continued for decades to defraud the people of Australia.
* How the Australian Taxation Office has no legal
authority to collect taxes.
* Who really owns the Reserve Bank of Australia?
* Why the Australian Banking system is ripping off the
Australian people and deliberately profiteering from their financial misery.
* Why politicians in countries like Australia, love
complicated Tax Systems.
* What is a Debits Tax, what it would mean to the average
person and why the Government avoids discussing it?
As we will be continually updating our information, we
recommend that you constantly refer back to our website.
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Location:
Australia
Sunday, February 14, 2016
If or When TSHTF. Part Six. Going Bush. Gardening & Construction Tools.
Gardening and Construction Tools.
When moving out bush with a view to long term living you
need to have some idea in your head as to the type of area you are looking for.
You will need permanent water if possible, a creek or a river. This may also
supply reeds for shelter construction & other items. A cave would make a
great shelter or even a rock shelter, but if these are not available at your
water source then you will have to construct shelters.
These types of tools are generally bulky & heavy, but
they can also double as weapons if you have people to carry them. Helves, handles
& stails can be removed from the heads & the heads can be carried in a
pack if this is easier than carrying the complete tool. Think carefully about the
tools you will need. In a long term wilderness living situation you will need
to produce gardens & construct shelters.
Here is a list of tools that I have collected for this
purpose:
·
Felling axe
·
Small shovel
·
Small mattock/pick
·
Sickle or sword
·
Hoe
·
Auger
·
Gimlet
·
Pruning saw
This is what we call Cattail Pond. It is large & deep & is fed from a header stream. Cattails/Cumbungi provide food & materials for roofing, mat making, mulch for gardens & arrow shafts.
This is a small mattock/pick head made to be used with a short helve for one handed use. But you can make & fit a longer helve (handle).
Full sized 18th century style garden hoe.
Large auger for cutting holes & hammering in wooden pegs for securing beams together or just installing pegs.
An original 18th or 19th century pick.
Pruning saw. These are very efficient for cutting off tree limbs & for construction work. Easily carried if you construct a sheath, or just wrap & place in a pack.
18th century sickle for cutting reeds.
This is a small shovel head that I can easily carry in my pack & make & fit a handle when I reach my destination.
My hunting sword. A weapon & a useful tool for cutting reeds.
Left to right: My felling axe with a light head & a straight helve; two fascine knives or bill hooks; an adze; my half-axe which I occasionally carry tied to my pack, & my tomahawk which I carry in my belt at all times.
These are a small auger & gimlet that I made from two brace bits.
Above you can see how I hammered the ends with a ball peen hammer to secure the bits in the handles that I made.
Two original gimlets. In the 18th century these were used to make holes for nails so that the nails would not split the wood. Later they were still in use for making holes for wood screws. These can also be used to make holes for wooden pegs or for inserting wire for repairs or construction.
Seeds
You will need to take seeds with you so now is probably a good time to be collecting them. If they go out of date before use, replace them. You should have some idea of the area you will be travelling to, so purchase seeds for that climate. Following is a list of what we grow in the New England area:
·
Pumpkin/squash
·
Zucchini marrow
·
Silverbeet
·
Chard
·
Sunflowers
·
Corn
·
Potatoes
·
Tomatoes
·
Jerusalem Artichokes
You will never starve if you are growing Jerusalem
Artichokes. These are a root crop which last through winter & continue to grow
when warmer weather comes. They are related to the sunflower .
Jerusalem Artichoke tubers
This image showing my half-axe secured to my blanket roll by simply sliding the helve under the ties. I can carry the large auger in the same manner.
Saturday, February 13, 2016
If or When TSHTF Part Five. My choice of the best gun for long term wilderness living. The Muzzle-Loader.
Any muzzle-loader will give you an edge in long term wilderness living except the percussion lock. The percussion lock, also known as a caplock, requires fulminate of mercury caps for its ignition. This method is NOT sustainable. Tinderlocks & Matchlocks are good but they require a burning fuse at all times making you visible in the dark & the gun not so pleasurable to use as other later locks. The wheellock is good but does require Pyrite for its ignition & this is not always easy to find.
The flintlock requires a siliceous or igneous rock for ignition & this type of rock can be found in the bush if you know what you are looking for. I find the easiest way is to carry a fire steel with you & simply test the rocks you come across to see if they are hard enough to create sparks by striking the steel.
The flintlock requires a siliceous or igneous rock for ignition & this type of rock can be found in the bush if you know what you are looking for. I find the easiest way is to carry a fire steel with you & simply test the rocks you come across to see if they are hard enough to create sparks by striking the steel.
Above: This is English flint, a siliceous rock which can occasionally be found in coastal areas of Australia where English ships dumped their flint rock ballast before taking on a new cargo.
Above: This is agate which can be very common in places in Australia. Agate was used a lot in place of flint for flint & steel fire lighting. Agate is also a siliceous rock.
Above: This is quartz, very common in places & although it tends to fracture easily it is still a good rock to use for gun or fire lighting.
Above: Green chert.
http://www.aradon.com.au/green_chert.html;
Jasper.
This is obsidian, an igneous rock or volcanic rock.
Advantages of A Flintlock Muzzle-loader.
1) Ammo is less expensive than a modern equivalent caliber firearm.
2) The smoothbore is very versatile, being able to digest round ball, bird
shot, & buckshot, or any combination of two of these (can also use minies).
3) The fusil is lighter to carry than a modern equivalent sized gun.
4) You can vary the load if needs be.
5) The smoothbore will digest other projectiles besides lead.
6) Lead can be retrieved from downed game & remoulded with a simple
mould & lead ladle. This means that you can carry less lead, & more of
the lighter gunpowder.
7) You can make your own gunpowder.
8) You can use the lock to make fire without the need for gunpowder.
9) You can use gunpowder for gunpowder tinder fire lighting if needs be.
10) IF the lock should malfunction
(these are very robust & it is not likely) you can easily repair it if you
are carrying a few spare springs & a few simple tools.
11) If you do not have any spare parts & the lock malfunctions, you can
easily convert it to a tinderlock or matchlock & continue using it.
12) You do not need a reloader, brass shells, caps, or primers. The latter
have been known to break down in damp conditions or if they are stored for too
long.
13) Wadding for ball or shot is
available from natural plant materials or homemade leather or rawhide.
14) Less chance of being affected by future ammunition control legislation.
15) Gunpowder is easily obtainable providing you have a muzzle-loader
registered in your name regardless of caliber (only NSW is looking at this
legislation at present).
16) A .32 caliber flintlock rifle is more powerful than a .22 rimfire, less
expensive to feed, more accurate over a greater distance, able to take small
& medium sized game, & other than not being able to use shot (unless it
is smoothbore), it has all the attributes of the other flintlocks.
17) Damage from a .62 caliber-.75 caliber pistol or long arm is in the
extreme. Wounded prey is unlikely to escape.
18) By using buck & ball you are
unlikely to miss your target. This load is capable of taking out more than one
target.
19) There is less kick-back to a
muzzle-loading gun.
20) Antique Flintlock muzzle-loading
guns do not require a license, registration, or a permit to purchase in NSW
Australia.
My .62 caliber/20 gauge smoothbore flintlock fusil with a 42 inch barrel.
My .70 caliber smoothbore flintlock pistol.
My .32 caliber flintlock rifle.
If you have any modern breach-loading guns, & you have extra people to carry them, then I recommend taking them but keep them for self-defence ONLY. If you use them for hunting as well as protection, you will soon run out of ammunition.
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Location:
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If or When TSHTF Part Four. Primitive living/survival skills.
This is a basic list of skills for woodsrunners in our group. These are long term wilderness living/survival skills.
Woodsrunner’s
Skills.
This is a list
of basic skills in which I personally would expect an 18th century
woodsman or woods-woman to have some experience with in our group.
·
Flint &
steel fire lighting
·
Wet weather fire
lighting
·
Fire-bow fire
lighting
·
Flintlock fire
lighting
·
Flintlock use,
service & repair
·
Marksmanship
with either gun or bow.
·
Field dressing &
butchering game
·
Blade sharpening
·
Tomahawk
throwing
·
Making rawhide
·
Brain tanning
·
Primitive
shelter construction
·
How to stay warm
in winter with only one blanket
·
Cordage
manufacture
·
Moccasin
construction and repair
·
Sewing
·
Axe and tomahawk
helve making
·
Fishing
·
Hunting
·
Evasion
·
Tracking
·
Reading sign
·
Woods lore
·
Navigation
·
Primitive trap construction
& trapping
·
Open fire
cooking
·
Fireplace
construction
·
Clothing
manufacture
·
Drying meat
& other foods
·
Knowledge of
plant tinders & preparation
·
Knowledge of
native foods & preparation
·
Knowledge of
native plants in the area and their uses for other than tinder and food.
·
Scouting/Ranging.
·
Basic first aid.
·
Finding and
treating water.
·
General leather
work.
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Location:
Australia
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
The Survival Connection By Keith H. Burgess.
The Survival Connection By Keith H. Burgess.
I will tell you a little about our group, who we are and
what we do. Firstly we are an 18th century living history group,
called the New England Colonial Living History Group 1680-1760. I started this
group some 30 odd years ago, and we have an online presence in our official
forum. Living History is about interpreting and recreating past lifestyles, a little like Historical Re-enactment,
except that we do not generally put on displays for the public and we go into
the skills & equipment far deeper than the re-enactors do, and we emulate
common personas in everyday situations rather than just military as re-enactors
tend to do.
Part of our activities is Experimental Archaeology. That
is the using of equipment, clothing & foods to establish exactly how an
item was used. Sometimes this involves actually making that item. This can be
anything from making fire in a primitive or period manner, to building a ship
& sailing it on a trade route. Now there is another side that has been
added known as Experiential Archaeology, which is the continuing use of the
skills that we learn in experiments. We only wear period correct clothing, and
we only use period correct equipment.
Not so much in Australia’s colonial past, but more in the
New World colonial past, life was all about survival for those colonists who
chose to live in the wilderness. They had to find or make some of their own
tools, they had to often travel on foot to their destination carrying these
tools and other supplies. On the way and once there they had to deal with the
threat posed by natives and criminals. Everyone who was strong enough to hold
and aim a gun was expected to know how to shoot. Plus there were a host of
other skills needed to construct a dwelling, grow and hunt for food and to
complete certain chores.
Now it does not take a total genius to realise that the
above situation is very much in line with our needs as modern survivalists. All
the more so because modern equipment rarely teaches us anything other than this
is a throw-away society that we live in. Where as primitive equipment teaches
us much about flora, fauna and our environment. A typical example would be the
difference between using the “real” flint and steel method of fire lighting that
has been in use for hundreds of years, and using a ferocerium rod. Many people
do not learn about plant tinders when using the ferocerium rod, or the
difference between plant tinders and kindling. Making fire in the rain can be
difficult with a ferocerium rod, but not with a flint and steel. The skills
learnt by using the flint and steel extend to the making and use of the fire-bow,
flintlock fire lighting and reading glass fire lighting.
With the 18th century knapsack and contents I
carry, along with other simple tools, I can survive a lifetime in the
wilderness. Can a modern survivalist with what is considered mostly camping
equipment claim the same? I very much doubt it. So what we have in 18th
century living history is tried equipment and primitive skills. But it gives us
something else that is of the utmost importance in survival, and that is a
reasonable level of comfort. I will gladly admit that most of what I carry on
my person is for comfort and not necessarily required for my survival. I can
survive without carrying any equipment with me into a wilderness, but it is a
very hard life until one manages to make a collection of primitive tools to
make life easier, and even then we are talking about a Palaeolithic lifestyle.
By carrying 18th century equipment combined
with the period and primitive skills, I can at least guarantee that my level of
comfort will never drop below that level. Where as if I were to carry only
modern clothing and equipment, slowly over time as items failed to work or
broke and clothing wore out, I would be cast into a very primitive lifestyle
regardless of the skills I may have learnt over time. If I were using a modern
firearm it too may have ceased to function, or I may have simply run out of
ammunition. Those using modern compound bows would be no better off, as these
tools require special arrows, bow strings and parts.
However, do not think that I am totally against the use
of modern technology; I believe that if we are able to carry some modern items
as well as our period gear, then that would be an added advantage. The more
people you have, the more you can take with you, but if I have to leave
something behind, it will be the modern firearms etc that will in time break
down and constitute a lot of weight for little gain. Modern medicine is an
absolute must carry, despite what you may know about primitive methods and
herbal use. Regardless of what you carry, you must keep one thing in mind.
There must be a compromise between maximum self-reliance, and minimum weight.
If you have to leave the city or if you are forced from
your bush retreat, you will need to make the right choice of equipment the
first time. You may never get a chance to correct any mistakes, so choose
wisely. IF you are serious about preparing for survival, and for you this is
not just a game or a pastime, then you need to forget about looking like
someone in the military. The military always has relied on back-up supplies and
equipment. You, we, will NOT have that option. Whatever we take with us must be
practicle, hard wearing and last us the rest of our lives.
Our group's forum. Anyone is welcome to join. http://eighteenthcenturylivinghistory.freeforums.org/
My 18th Century Blog: http://woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com.au/
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Location:
Australia
Friday, February 13, 2015
WARNING !!! COAL SEAM GAS. An environmental Disaster & a Health Issue.
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dangers,
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farmers,
farming,
fracking,
life,
living,
pollution,
preppers,
prepping,
water supply
Location:
Australia
Monday, May 12, 2014
IMPORTANT ! If You Are Australian, TAKE ACTION NOW PLEASE.
Please go to the link & sign this petition.
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land,
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Location:
Australia
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
WATCH THIS! Max Igan - Deprogramming the Collective
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life,
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planet,
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Location:
Australia
Monday, September 30, 2013
Traps and Trapping. Figure 4 Trigger and the Cage Trap Part 2.
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