Bushcrafting, the weed addition: Bugout patch

beachball

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I had Pasta Sides for lunch that day. I need to add something next time to spice it up a little. At least I got the coffee stronger. I used grounds that day, as I forgot the instant.

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Did a lot of wilderness, and I like this thread. Interesting. A lot of freeze dried stuff out there, last time I took eggs out on a hike I placed them in a jar precracked and I would cook them the first morning. Along with fried bacon, all on first morning out. After that it was add water to dried foods, catch trout for fresh protein. Loved every moment rain or shine.
 

sandhill larry

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Did a lot of wilderness, and I like this thread. Interesting. A lot of freeze dried stuff out there, last time I took eggs out on a hike I placed them in a jar precracked and I would cook them the first morning. Along with fried bacon, all on first morning out. After that it was add water to dried foods, catch trout for fresh protein. Loved every moment rain or shine.
Glad you enjoyed the tread. I do a lot of bushcrafting and such. It's good cover for my growing as well as fun in it's own right.

The eggs were unplanned. I had done a little hiking the afternoon before and ran into my cousin who was headed back home to South Florida. She gave me the eggs. I cooked them the next morning pretty close to my camp, so I didn't have to carry them long. I have a plastic egg holder somewhere, but I like your idea of cracking them beforehand. I do mostly Rice Sides and Pasta Side when hiking. They are cheap and cook in a Ziplock in 7 or 8 minutes. And Spam Singles for protein. Also a big fan of peanut butter and honey. My problem right now is I eat hiking food when I'm not hiking. That damn Gorp is putting the weight back on that I worked so hard to lose.

I'm wanting to try to thru hike the AT, but I have two major impediments. A wife and a job. In the mean time, I'm going to do more section hiking on the Florida Trail near my place. Too much road walk for my taste, but it is close by.
 

sandhill larry

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I forgot to mention the free tent I got at one of my thrift stores last week. It is a 4-6 man dome tent with no poles. In good shape though, once I got all the beach sand out of it. I have used grapevines to hold up dome tents before. I will be on the lookout for the right sized vines when I'm in the woods next.
 

beachball

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Kudos, Up cycling is all good brother, I am into it in a big way, anything I can do to repurpose something into a more useful item I will do it. I was reading up on Cob Houses and there are some original designs out there. Use cement powder and local materials and you can do some creative shelter building either on a small scale or go big. Solar power, solar ovens, earth ovens, I can go on... and it all works at the grow too, turn unuseable green waste into worm castings...
 

sandhill larry

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Kudos, Up cycling is all good brother, I am into it in a big way, anything I can do to repurpose something into a more useful item I will do it. I was reading up on Cob Houses and there are some original designs out there. Use cement powder and local materials and you can do some creative shelter building either on a small scale or go big. Solar power, solar ovens, earth ovens, I can go on... and it all works at the grow too, turn unuseable green waste into worm castings...
We sold my old house to the wife's cousin. We've had months to get all our crap, but we waited until she was ready to get started on the redo before actually getting much done. I also worked on getting hog panels down from the old cow pen. We've been out of the cow business for 10 years or so, and all that shit is grown up big time. Still lots of work to do.

I love the old rusted tin, but the wife doesn't care for it at the house. That frees me up to upgrade my camp. There is a big area of sun nearby that would be well suited to solar heating/cooking, but I don't want to do anything to draw attention right now. I love working with cob. I've got to break up my not so rockety rocket stoves and try again. If I do get started on a new camp, I put in one there.
 

beachball

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Good luck in all your endeavors. I have a project coming up and will be doing a lot of camping until i can either build or purchase a comfortable shelter. We are going off grid in the Sierra. Very exciting for me and the missus, we have been wanting to leave urban sprawl :wall:and everything that comes with it. It is not healthy, physically or mentally. Change is coming in a big way for us and we could not be more happy about it:clap:. The prospect of independence is the best. We have our whole lives in front of us and I know I have more years behind me than I have in front of me. But the years coming are the ones that are most important and I intend to squeeze out every drop of happiness I can. Be happy it is what counts.(:
 

sandhill larry

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Good luck in all your endeavors. I have a project coming up and will be doing a lot of camping until i can either build or purchase a comfortable shelter. We are going off grid in the Sierra. Very exciting for me and the missus, we have been wanting to leave urban sprawl :wall:and everything that comes with it. It is not healthy, physically or mentally. Change is coming in a big way for us and we could not be more happy about it:clap:. The prospect of independence is the best. We have our whole lives in front of us and I know I have more years behind me than I have in front of me. But the years coming are the ones that are most important and I intend to squeeze out every drop of happiness I can. Be happy it is what counts.(:
Good luck. That will be a job of work, but well worth it. Just be careful. If you don't use chainsaws, backhoes, and other equipment often, it is easy to screw up. I'm prone to screwups, so I try to stay away from power tools that can rip a leg off in a second. My problem is I don't have enough time to do all the things I want to get done with human powered tools.

I lived in town {pop. 2.5K} for 15-16 years. Never really cared for it. Spent all my days on the farm, just coming back to town in time for work or supper. We've been back on the farm for 12 years or so. I complain about the 5-6 cars that come by while I'm in the garden for the morning.

We have a regular story and a half stick frame house. Would love to go underground. Or at least a berm built house with Styrofoam above ground. The wife says she is done moving, so I always say, if our house ever burns down, we are going to. . . . She said if our house ever does really burn down, I'm coming looking for you.
 

beachball

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She sounds familiar LOL . Funny i just walked in with two new chains for my chainsaw when i read your post. All those home styles are great alternatives to the status quo. Saw a few berm / basement type homes in the Midwest when I was a kid. They always were fascinating to me. Some looked like a standard roof on top of the ground. We will have solar and wind for power, some propane too no doubt, looked at everything from Tee Pees on and I was impressed on how big a teepee a guy can buy. But tents and wind do not mix.
 

sandhill larry

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She sounds familiar LOL . Funny i just walked in with two new chains for my chainsaw when i read your post. All those home styles are great alternatives to the status quo. Saw a few berm / basement type homes in the Midwest when I was a kid. They always were fascinating to me. Some looked like a standard roof on top of the ground. We will have solar and wind for power, some propane too no doubt, looked at everything from Tee Pees on and I was impressed on how big a teepee a guy can buy. But tents and wind do not mix.
I used to work in a small foam plant, so I have always had a soft spot for the foam blocks. They lock into the one below them with holes and pegs. Each row of blocks get a section of rebar, then is filled with concrete.
 

beachball

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That is GREAT! I like that a lot. Do you blow on Shot Crete or apply stucco to the exterior? I drove a transit mixer for a number of years. I have seen a lot of styles of construction and have not done one of those. Although i slurried a heck of a lot of cinder block walls. Miles of them. Many homes built in Malibu prior to 1999 have my mud in their footings, drives and walks. Olivia Newton John, a great singer and even nicer individual is just one of them. She and then husband Matt treated all the men and women on their jobs as equals, and I was sure to be offered a refreshment when I arrived. She would come out with a tray of glasses and iced tea at the ready. Many celebs are asses, Danny DiVitto being one, he raised all kinds of hell as we were building a beachfront property that was going to block his view, he had tried stopping the project more than once and if we started a concrete pump or made any noise before 8am we were in for Danny Crap and a visit from the law.
I know that foam is a great building material. The court house facade in Ft. Worth Texas is made of it. Very decorative and nice.
 

sandhill larry

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That is GREAT! I like that a lot. Do you blow on Shot Crete or apply stucco to the exterior? I drove a transit mixer for a number of years. I have seen a lot of styles of construction and have not done one of those. Although i slurried a heck of a lot of cinder block walls. Miles of them. Many homes built in Malibu prior to 1999 have my mud in their footings, drives and walks. Olivia Newton John, a great singer and even nicer individual is just one of them. She and then husband Matt treated all the men and women on their jobs as equals, and I was sure to be offered a refreshment when I arrived. She would come out with a tray of glasses and iced tea at the ready. Many celebs are asses, Danny DiVitto being one, he raised all kinds of hell as we were building a beachfront property that was going to block his view, he had tried stopping the project more than once and if we started a concrete pump or made any noise before 8am we were in for Danny Crap and a visit from the law.
I know that foam is a great building material. The court house facade in Ft. Worth Texas is made of it. Very decorative and nice.
Most use the stucco. We didn't make the interlocking blocks where I worked. We made big 8-10 foot blocks then cut them down for insulation and packing for shipping. I was just the truck driver, but ended up doing a lot of cutting too. We had tables with jigs built for all the different ways of cutting up a block. You cut it with hot wires. You take an arc welder and run wires where you want the cuts. We sold a lot of blocks to folks doing concrete work. They would pour around foam shaped like the opening, then when the concrete had cured, they would melt the foam with a cup of gas.

My 2nd BIL did concrete work in the Colorado mountains. Some of the houses were so close to the edge of mountains, they had to carry the mud up in buckets. Him and all his brothers were in really good shape.

I've never had any dealing with celebs. But my cousin was an actress who was in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Jerry Lewis. She said he was a real bastard.
 

beachball

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Most use the stucco. We didn't make the interlocking blocks where I worked. We made big 8-10 foot blocks then cut them down for insulation and packing for shipping. I was just the truck driver, but ended up doing a lot of cutting too. We had tables with jigs built for all the different ways of cutting up a block. You cut it with hot wires. You take an arc welder and run wires where you want the cuts. We sold a lot of blocks to folks doing concrete work. They would pour around foam shaped like the opening, then when the concrete had cured, they would melt the foam with a cup of gas.

My 2nd BIL did concrete work in the Colorado mountains. Some of the houses were so close to the edge of mountains, they had to carry the mud up in buckets. Him and all his brothers were in really good shape.

I've never had any dealing with celebs. But my cousin was an actress who was in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Jerry Lewis. She said he was a real bastard.
Wow that is very interesting and some what coincedental, the first time I ever saw men carrying concrete in 5 gallon buckets for footings was in 1971, Breckenridge Colorado. Back breaking hard work. Yep them celebs can be DICKS. A friend had a microphone of his stolen by Van Morrison, (1969) and now he wants $200 bucks for the cheap seats at his shows. I would not give him 2 cents. And would not go if he paid me 200 bucks.
 

sandhill larry

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Wow that is very interesting and some what coincedental, the first time I ever saw men carrying concrete in 5 gallon buckets for footings was in 1971, Breckenridge Colorado. Back breaking hard work. Yep them celebs can be DICKS. A friend had a microphone of his stolen by Van Morrison, (1969) and now he wants $200 bucks for the cheap seats at his shows. I would not give him 2 cents. And would not go if he paid me 200 bucks.
Sister married into that family in 74-75. They were in Boulder. Hauling mud up mountains all day, playing rock and roll all night. I had some good times out there. They moved to Florida in 79. The BIL was in a kick ass band, but all the married folks ended up sleeping around and the band imploded, along with 3 marriages. Him and Sister went back to the mountains, just not together.

I've always been a big fan of Van the Man. I hate hearing he is a dick. I go to about one show a year, and the tickets are always in the 20-30 buck range.
 

beachball

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Sister married into that family in 74-75. They were in Boulder. Hauling mud up mountains all day, playing rock and roll all night. I had some good times out there. They moved to Florida in 79. The BIL was in a kick ass band, but all the married folks ended up sleeping around and the band imploded, along with 3 marriages. Him and Sister went back to the mountains, just not together.

I've always been a big fan of Van the Man. I hate hearing he is a dick. I go to about one show a year, and the tickets are always in the 20-30 buck range.
I thought the band named "Them" was one of the best of that genre and Van was in there singing "Gloria". I would still have that vinyl LP but my friends father, after warning us to "Turn that Shit Down" and we did not, came in and tore it off the turn table and hit it against the spindle, shattering it to pieces. Thats when LP'S were brittle. Ahhh the mis-spent days of my youth..
 

sandhill larry

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Them were a lot like the Band in that they were a big influence on everyone that came right after them. The Band was the band for Dylan when his old band quite on him. They were supposed to go down south, specifically to Dallas. This was right after BD went electric and was having all sorts of death threats. I forget who said it, but one of the guys said, "they killed Kennedy, and they liked him. We are not going to Dallas."
 

beachball

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Them were a lot like the Band in that they were a big influence on everyone that came right after them. The Band were the band for Dylan when his old band quite on him. They were supposed to go down south, specifically to Dallas. This was right after BD went electric and was having all sorts of death threats. I forget who said it, but one of the guys said, "they killed Kennedy, and they liked him. We are not going to Dallas."
I remember the Band very well, I enjoyed them immensely and was saddened to here of Levon Helms passing. Album BIG PINK. Incredible talent in that band, also the Mussel Shoals Rhythm Section had horns that could not be beat. Another band I enjoyed was Lowell George and Little Feat. Spanish Moon comes to mind. Southern Rock N Roll is historic. My all time favs...Allman Bros.
 

sandhill larry

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I remember the Band very well, I enjoyed them immensely and was saddened to here of Levon Helms passing. Album BIG PINK. Incredible talent in that band, also the Mussel Shoals Rhythm Section had horns that could not be beat. Another band I enjoyed was Lowell George and Little Feat. Spanish Moon comes to mind. Southern Rock N Roll is historic. My all time favs...Allman Bros.
Yea, I saw the Brothers twice. Once ABB and once the GAB. Greg's band was by far the better of the two shows. But it was in a small bar in Norfolk Va. Really close up and personal.

I have lots of Little Feat CD's, but never saw them play. I like Dixie Chicken best I guess, but they are kind of like the Dead in that they started a long time ago, and just never stopped putting out music.

 
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