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cabingal3
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# Posted: 1 Feb 2011 11:22pm
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if u had to move out to your property tomorrow-what would u have to do to be able to live out there now?
what would u take with u if the economy failed and u lost your job and had to go now?
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Just
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# Posted: 2 Feb 2011 11:01am
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a friend
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Rob_O
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# Posted: 2 Feb 2011 05:33pm
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Quoting: cabingal3 if u had to move out to your property tomorrow-what would u have to do to be able to live out there now?
A lot. Everything, in fact
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MikeOnBike
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# Posted: 2 Feb 2011 05:40pm
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Quoting: Rob_O A lot. Everything, in fact
Same here. We have a lot of building to do. The amount of work to be done over the next five years is almost overwhelming.
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Rob_O
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# Posted: 2 Feb 2011 05:59pm
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Quoting: MikeOnBike Same here. We have a lot of building to do. The amount of work to be done over the next five years is almost overwhelming.
I'm meeting a guy from the local power company Friday to figure out what it's going to cost to take to grid power to my site. That should eat up this years budget.
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MikeOnBike
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# Posted: 2 Feb 2011 06:04pm
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Quoting: Rob_O grid power to my site
We are about 30 mi. from the grid. No option there. We will be pretty much all solar. Might toy with some wind. We use a generator for construction.
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nathanprincipe
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# Posted: 2 Feb 2011 08:03pm
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not sure I would want to, I love my cabin and camping, but I dont think its a lifestyle I would want 100% of the time. I would prob move back in with my parents! haha
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 2 Feb 2011 09:24pm
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Right now would be pretty hard; it's snowed in. We could snowshoe but there's not enough food there for an extended stay.
If the SHTF I'd say where our house is and hope the cabin is far enough off track that it is left alone. More here in the way of general goods, food, freezer of food, clothes, etc. We have solar electric that would be sufficient even if the grid went down.
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Borrego
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# Posted: 2 Feb 2011 09:57pm
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Like some have said, everything! We are in the process of building still and have nothing out there. Except our trailer and a couple of sheds...
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bugs
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# Posted: 3 Feb 2011 05:31pm
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I don't think a down turn in the economy, job loss etc would mean immediate leaving "home sweet home(??)" for the cabin/property. A person can usually see the "writing on the wall". Not like a natural disaster like a forest fire or tornado. Even those you often have a bit of warning. A pipeline explosion or other such thing would mean you have to be out NOW but people would be able to return to whatever is left.
That said... if we were to head out to live at our property and fend for ourselves we would first either move a small house on to the yard or build one by recycling some of the many old buildings in the area of our property. Even the lady wife and I could not remain sane long if we had to live full time in our little shed of a cabin.
We would take as much as we could and basic tools (reminiscent of the images of the dust bowl '30's). We would also take garden seeds, some of RnR's duel purpose chickens (coyotes have to eat too!!), buy some free range heritage pigs, buy a few cows (Aberdeen Angus are my fav's) and a couple of chore/riding horses from the next door neighbours and start subsistence farmin/livin.
No biggy.
I was raised on a subsistence farm. My brother in law essentially does the same thing now on 10 acres. You eat what you raise; have a big garden, raise some bees, even put in a few acres of wheat for flour, develop an orchard, have a few animals, harvest native fruits and game, spend some lazy days fishin'....... Hmmmmmm sounds more appealing then the way we live now.
Not as glamorous as the urbane Hollywood survivalists with their bunkers, camouflaged clothing, tons of canned goods and armed with every automatic weapon known to man (alas Reba etal in Tremors). But more realistic and should be sustainable for years.... Until of course the Hollywood survivalists run out of canned goods and climb out of their bunkers and shoot us because they are starving!!! Hee hee!
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squirrel
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# Posted: 3 Feb 2011 06:12pm
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Have to say we'd have to finish the cabin but if we have to be there all the time having time to do it wouldn't be an issue.(Looking better already) Iknow I could really enjoy being there with no phones no TV Yes that would be a blessing But I would want to have a way to be on the computer (Love the info you can find) I enjoy that got to take the hubby I'd be lost without him He's the other part of my heart and my dog .Food would be next and a gun or two so we could hunt. water is not an issue we have a creek and underground water I have 3 teenagers and at this stage I think i'd like to leave behind for a couple of years Just kidding They could come some has to fetch wood and the water haha
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SmlTxCabin
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# Posted: 4 Feb 2011 11:37pm
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I have my bedroom set up in my loft ready to go, my power is connected and on, but no water right now : ( But I know worst came to worst, I could move in tomorrow and be happy. My favorite times are spent in my cabin. I am itching to move in right now. I sold my RV that I was staying in already and it has helped finance some of my build and right now I am staying with my cousin until the water is connected. God willing...the water will be connected in the next month and a half and I will be in my cabin for good. I built it to live in. It will be my home, my refuge, and hopefully give me the ability not to be so reliant on a good paying job, which arent always so easy to find.
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