Unchained Preppers
Off Topic/ B.S. => General Off Topic => Topic started by: sledge on May 10, 2012, 03:51:40 PM
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What do you think about this story?
"The 40-year-old oil company employee and filmmaker from Anchorage will move to the mostly uninhabited Latouche Island in Alaska's Prince William Sound at the end of May, completing a dream he's been contemplating for 17 years.
Baird will build a 12x12 shed to shelter him from the elements, and he plans to hunt and fish and fend off an occasional black bear during his sojourn to the Alaska wilderness."
Alaska man plans year on uninhabited island
http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20120510/US.Off.the.Grid/?cid=hero_media (http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20120510/US.Off.the.Grid/?cid=hero_media)
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I'd like to do that. More power to him.
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I wish him the best of luck but like Walker says all it takes is one minor fuckup and you're pushing up daisies.
What worries me is the word "shed."
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I wish him the best of luck but like Walker says all it takes is one minor fuckup and you're pushing up daisies.
What worries me is the word "shed."
Yeah, I know what you're saying. Something about the words "shed" and "bear" don't seem to fit together.
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Right after my brother and I bought our BOL property we had a 12'x20' shed delivered.
Once delivered we insulated the shed and put up walls which we later pained white. Then installed 4 bunks which were fastened to the wall with hinges so they could be raised when no being used.
We then built a counter on the south side with a sink that when emptied the dish water ran down a pipe through the floor. We also installed a foot pump for water. The pump was hooked up to 5 gallon jugs in the winter and a rain barrel outside during the non freezing months. On the counter we put a cast iron 3 burner propane stove with bottle outside. Laid a carpet that we got from a neighbor who was throwing it out and installed a Four Dog wood stove.
Last we installed a solar panel outside on the south wall and a battery monitor inside; with three deep cycle batteries, five 12volt florescent lights and a radio hooked up to Sirius radio.
We lived in that cabin for weeks on end even when it was zero or less outside.
So it can be done. :))
PS: Socks helped during those single digit days to plug up the gaps around the door (s). [URL=http://www.smileyvault.co
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Like JMac is say, I'm more worried about the cold then the bears.
But is sounds like you sailors put together a pretty slick little cabin.
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I wish him the best of luck but like Walker says all it takes is one minor fuckup and you're pushing up daisies.
What worries me is the word "shed."
Me too, "Shed" leave me a little bit worried as well. Another thing is that you have to be a pro and I mean be fully trained and know your crap unless you've just been doing it your entire life anyway. Like for a city slicker, like that Christopher McCandless kid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McCandless (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McCandless) and one little mistake, like eating the wrong plant or berries and you're dead on your own. Especially with nobody to check on you for weeks. It doesn't take long for something to kill you out in the wild. Its a hell of a lot different than playing Oregon Trail on your computer. Unless a person has been doing this their whole life sense childhood, or they have taken extensive outdoor survival training, this should not be attempted at all. Me, I would at least like one or two other capable people with me, in case of some sort of trouble. At least they might could drag your ass out of their until you could get to civilization or a plane, and get you some help. Not to mention security against bears I don't know if there are any wolves out there, either.