Yeah, even here, I bet most don't know why people used to say "Wood warms you twice"
I think its 4 at my place, 1 cut it down and in the truck/trailer. 2 off load split and stack it. 3 Move from outdoor stack to dry under deck shed. 4 move from shed to wood box inside.
Yeah, if SHTF ever. A lot of people are going to be in a world of hurt in literally days to a week.
Problem is most people have no idea how to do anything outside of their day to day life.
How many people have EVER made a campfire or even fire in a fireplace in their life (I mean Americans)?
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Most people aren't remotely self sufficient for most stuff in life. More rural people tend to be more self sufficient. That said, I have neighbors I know don't know the first thing on how to change the oil in their car, let alone fix anything that could be wrong with it. Know nothing about gardening. Can't do more than replace a lightbulb (they are asking for plumber recommendations when they have a broken faucet FFS).
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-- Robert Heinlein
Great quote
Thanks
Or three times depending on how far away you cut it...
Let me just drop this here...
Thanks. Part of my personality is that I've always wanted to know how to "do stuff"...lots of different stuff. That quote resonates very deeply for me. When you look back at the Founding Fathers, they were truly Renaissance Men, in the best sense of the term. I remember reading that John Adams went back at least 3 times in his life to read Plato's Republic in the original Greek!!
JoeR
Or four times when it’s a big tree. My dead ash was almost 30” at the base. Crap ton of work to quarter those rounds and haul them to the wood shed. Then split them. Then haul it to the back door wood shed when that one empties.
I go through about 3 cords a season in my wood boiler.
Even more if its ash
and then there is Elm. wind twisted trees are a crap ton of fun to split up too.
Wind twisted trees bind up even in a hydro splitter. The grain spins faster than the log will on the splitting ram. Then it just forcible dives the wedge through the grain. It can be a friggin mess.
Not as much about SHTF or a pack of zombies comming over the hill... its about being able to enjoy your hobby in a future where the supply and availability of ammo and components may be so severely restricted that its availability is severely unstable, prohibitively expensive, or just plain unobtainable. I hope to be able to shoot for another 25+ years and maybe leave a couple of boxes for the kids.
welder516;6200710[B said:]There is no real answer to that question IMHO .[/B]
Everyone has a different need , but if you ask me a minimum i would say 1K rounds
Or 500 rounds each caliber Edit . **