Survivalist Webinars

I received my copy of Survivalist magazine a couple of days ago. This is issue #5.. It is the
one with my first article for Survivalist in it. My article is the one about Surviving Martial
Law. Even without the bias of having my article printed in this issue, I think the magazine is
very good. There is a lot of information to be gleaned in Survivalist. There are articles about
suturing, surviving an EMP event Some great stuff about collapse investing and the lights
going out. There is also some great articles about essential oils for your medical kit,
survival gold and silver and an interview with James Wesley Rawles.

The survivalist.com webinar was a new experience for me, though I had been on Prepper
Podcast a couple of times being a guest on radio is still new for me. I was supposed to talk
about how to find and set up your homestead. Sometimes, however, it is hard to stay on
topic. I am terrible at managing the alotted time that I am supposed to be on air. I tend to go
on with details about one aspect of my topic or I will assume that everyone knows what I
mean when I use terminology that is specific to my topic. For example, in one interview I
mentioned that an expedient forge's firebox can be made to hold fire and coals better by
lining the inside of the box with clinkers. Very fortunately, Ed Corcoran, the host, let me
know to explain exactly what I mean. During the webinar, I was beginning with the most
important aspect of finding your homestead, which is making sure you have at least a couple
of sources of water.I was going on about water when a caller brought up the topic of
evacuation and whether a smaller, fuel efficient vehicle would make a superior evacuation
vehicle. I said that I didn't think so. Your vehicle must have 4 wheel drive and clearance for
off road use in case roads are impassable. You'll have to haul some equipment, not just a
bug-out bag, but a chainsaw, wench, gas/oil mix and bar oil for the saw, angle grinder, power
inverter, axe, shovel, matix, plus all of the tools and emergency items for your vehicle and
extra food, firearms and ammunition, clothes and anything else you may wish to haul with
you to your retreat. After you've made it to your retreat your vehicle will be your
workhorse. It will haul firewood, equipment, building material and possibly farm animals and
feed.

Another reason to depend on a heavier vehicle for your evacuation vehicle is because that
heavier vehicle can get you out of situations than a lighter, fuel efficient vehicle could. For
example, I gather my own firewood for heating my home. My area has some pretty steep
terrain and sometimes when I saw down a dead tree it rolls down hill. Instead of sawing the
tree to length down hill and hauling the logs uphill I use a chain and my truck to pull the tree
up to the road where I saw the tree into logs and load them into the truck. In an evacuation
you may be faced with a situation where a tree has fallen across a road or abandaned
vehicles or wreckage may be blocking the road. A heavier vehicle can handle most such
situations when pulling such obsticals from the road. While fuel is important to get you from
the disaster area to your retreat, you should rely on extra fuel cans to haul with you in your
vehicle to increase your range as you do not know what you may have to go through to get
to your destination.

Unfortunately, in the course of the conversation all of those points didn't come out as I
explained them here. On the radio, you just can't spend all of the time you need on a single
point.

There were other good points to the webinar as well. I'll cover one or two more next time.
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