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Portable wood stove for emergency heat? In house, safe, possible?

My house doesn't have a fire place or a good place to set up a permanent wood burning furnace. We have a kerosene heater and a propane burner for cooking and heating but I was thinking about ways to...

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Campling/survival hygiene and day to day use of...

hydrogen-peroxide. For a while now I've been using little spray bottles of HP instead of hand-sanitizer. I just hate smelly stuff they sell in the stores, though the smell of HP has never bothered me....

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Interesting web site

A little high priced but some great ideas/items for edc Wazoo Survival Gear LLC

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Ranch EDC Bag.

This is a start of what I have. I'll add more later as I research what all is in the bag and provide any other information I can find on the specifics of an item. I have two of these, pretty much twins...

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Cast Iron Care

Preppers/ survivalist often say a must have is cast iron. My Mother only used cast iron. A pan can be used for cooking or as a weapon. So how do you care for your cast iron?

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BOOTS : All Things Boot Related Thread

Your feet are very important. Any hiker, mountain climber or military soldier will tell you about their favorite boots or preferred footwear. If you spend money on survival, and generally may not know...

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Just serve tea

The Tea Master And The Swordsman | Slanted Flying I shared this most excellently done short film with my students. Focus and commitment can not only take you a long way. It can take you all the way.

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Some thoughts about defending your retreat

Just some personal thoughts about our planning when it comes to preparing retreat defenses. Some will work, others maybe not as much, but just some thinking and possibly some motivation for the...

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Emergency power - for the beginner

Thought I would share what I have for emergency power. We have a small family, live in a city, normal sized house. This is not meant to last for weeks without power, but rather days. A few times I have...

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Gophermans Little Farm 2.0

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The Plague @ Yosemite

(CNN)Two dead squirrels, one shuttered campground in the heart of Yosemite National Park, and one devastating disease -- the plague. Less than two weeks after announcing that a child who camped at...

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Hi, my name is Mark. I am creating a survival tv series...

My email is at the bottom of the jpeg, attached. If you are interested in being involved then please feel free to email me. I look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Mark.

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Thoughts on load outs and equipage

This email from a friend. Some of you may recognize the writing style... I'm going to work with some assumptions. These are to form some parameters in which to work. I am going to assume that one does...

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The Group

I think we may need a new thread on the definition of the group. Not a militia, but armed and ready, defensive yet determined, etc...

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Low risk covert knife.

This is used by me so as to not abuse the fine blade BEAR made. Solid. It is a bit expensive for a clunker but it is strong and serves my purpose of cutting the thorny stems of the Cockle Burrs that...

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WOW WOW WOW Honey bee's

Last summer a neighbor gave me some bee equipment. I had toyed with the idea of ordering bee's but i didn't get around in time. This spring a saw a sale on some honey bee packages so i ordered them....

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You have one pair of boots

You have one pair of boots. You have to be on the move. Which boots do you choose?

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What Can't You Do?

So I was poking around and found this picture and it made me laugh at first, because I started on a stick-shift. It brought back memories of dad making me learn to start off on a gravel road, up hill,...

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a possible SHTF scenario (by Matthew Bracken)

A good read...makes you think about things (your preps, your BO plan, spare magazines, mounting shotguns to your truck...) Bracken: When The Music Stops – How America’s Cities May Explode In Violence...

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Freeze drier

My wife saw a freeze drier advertised in Backwoods Home and expressed interest in that machine and in freeze drying. There was a nice 3 part product review on that unit on another prepper blog website...

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