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    Here is a wealth of information. If the links are broken just go to 4shared and type the file name. It is free and have downloaded many files to thumb drives and disk.

    Skills and Trades: [link to www.4shared.com]
    Communications
    Trade Skills
    Homesteading and Pioneering
    Blacksmithing
    Engineering and Manufacturing
    Fuel
    Human Resources and Management
    Tools
    Science and Chemistry

    Construction and Shelter: [link to www.4shared.com]
    Greenhouse
    Shelter Basics
    Fallout Shelter
    Farm Buildings
    Above Ground Shelter
    Camp and Outdoors Construction
    Shelter Operations
    Storage
    Advanced Shelter
    Underground Shelter

    Medical: [link to www.4shared.com]
    Surgery
    Full Guides
    Preventative and Plans
    Natural Medicine
    Female Medicine
    General Medicine
    Sicknesses
    First Aid and Combat Medicine
    Drugs
    Pediatric Surgery and Medicine
    Dental
    Poison Radiation and Biological
    Maritime Medicine

    Food and Water Part 1: [link to www.4shared.com]
    Farming and Gardening

    Food and Water Part 2: [link to www.4shared.com]
    Storage Sanitation and Preparation
    Hunting and Trapping
    Finding Food
    Cooking
    Fishing
    Alcohol
    Implements

    Smuggling, Caching and Scrounging: [link to www.4shared.com]

    Survival, Security and Travel: [link to www.4shared.com]
    Survival Guides
    Nuclear
    Secure Travel
    EMP
    Wilderness
    Security
    Chemical and Biological
    Evasion and Resistance
    Psychology
    Weather

    Field Manuals and Military Handbooks: [link to www.4shared.com]
    Tactics
    Dealing With The Military
    Nuclear Biological Chemical
    Terrain and Maps
     
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    In my former line of work, I still have a bunch of manuals I was issued, that are not practical as survival guides...for example,unless you've got access to a Lear jet, this won't do much good.
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    However this one is in my bug out bag...USAF Survival Training Manual
    600 pages covering:

    first aid for illness and injury.
    finding your way without a map.
    building a fire.
    finding food and water.
    using ropes and tying knots.
    mountain survival.
    concealment techniques.
    signaling for help.
    survival at sea.
    building shelters.
    animal tracking.
    predicting the weather.

    and much more...

    Free to download-
    http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/USAF-Survival-Manual-644.pdf
     
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    An emergency water filtration system that I suggest every house have.

    [video=youtube;pKZovzy5hu0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKZovzy5hu0[/video]
     
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    Toefoot Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    More great resources and website, copy and paste: http://paleoprepping.com/ebooks/

    Titles and subjects covered in above ebooks website and free to download:

    General Survival
    3 Day Emergency Preps
    72 Hour Supplies
    All Hazard Preparedness Workbook
    Common Sense Guide To Being Prepared
    Compact Survival Kit
    Complete Worst Case Scenario
    Disaster Handbook
    Emergency Preparedness Checklist
    Emergency Preparedness Manual
    Emergency Supplies Checklist
    FEMA – Are You Ready?
    FRC Preparedness Handbook
    How to Prepare for Any Disaster
    LA Fire Department Emergency Preparedness
    Mini Urban Survival Kit
    National Security Emergencies
    Ragnar’s Urban Survival
    Surviving in the City

    Communication
    Bass Pro Shop Radio Guide
    Best Buy FRS Radio Guide
    Disaster Communications
    Disaster Communications 2
    Hams to the Rescue
    How to Buy a Two Way Radio
    Radio Amateur’s Handbook
    Radio Info
    Reconnecting After Disaster
    Shortwave Radio 101
    Shortwave Radio Handbook
    Survival Communication 101
    Survival Communications Primer

    Cook Books
    Belgian Cook Book
    Cloud City Cookbook
    Genesee Valley Cookbook
    Kenton Cookbook
    Modern Women of America Cookbook
    Most For Your Money
    Native American Health Recipes
    Pleasantville Cook Book
    Riverside Recipe Book
    Second Parish Cookbook
    Vegetarian Cook Book
    Westminster Cook Book

    Cooking Methods
    Base Camp Trail Stove
    Bush Fungus Stove
    Double Drum Sawdust Stove
    Emergency Bread
    Food Bucket Stove
    Rocket Stove
    Sawdust Burning Stove

    Energy, Fire, Light
    Biodiesel Safety
    Bow Drill
    Cheat Solar Power
    Choosing a Back Up Generator
    Emergency Power Options
    Fighting Fire
    Fire by Can
    Generator Sizing WP
    Getting Started In Solar
    Homemade Windmills
    How Much Is Enough
    Making Charcoal
    Power Outage Checklist
    Solar Power
    Solar Water Heater
    SunWize RVkits specsheet
    Tinder Fungus
    Water Proof Matches

    Food and Storage
    3 Month Supply Of Food
    Emergency Food and Water
    Emergency Food for Babies
    Emergency Preparedness Food
    Family Food Storage
    Food Storage for 1 Year
    Food Storage for Survival
    Food Storage Guide
    Food Storage in the Home
    Food Storage and Rodents
    Get Ready Now
    Grain Dehuller
    Grain Thresher
    Grains And Legumes
    Growing and Harvesting Wheat
    Hand Operated Winnower
    Improvised Grain Mill
    Keeping Food Safe to Eat
    Mylar Bag Sealing Methods
    One Year Emergency Food Supply
    Peddle Operated Grain Mill
    Plant Identification
    Preserving Vegetables
    Shelf Life of Food Storage
    Stocking Food
    Stocking For Small Spaces
    Storage of Wheat
    Survival Food Storage
    TACDA Emergency Food and Water
    Vacuum Packing Seed

    Gardening
    A Better Way to Gardening
    Amateur Garden
    Building a Hydroponic Garden
    Container Gardening 1
    Container Gardening 2
    Container Gardening Vegetables
    Growing Container Vegetables
    Growing Mini Gardens
    Growing Sweet Corn
    Growing Vegetables at Home
    Growing Vegetables Basics
    Growing Vegetables from Seed
    Growing Vegetables in Containers
    Keeping Food Safe in an Emergency
    NC State – Growing Vegetables
    NC State – Home Vegetables
    Raised Bed Gardening
    Short Season Vegetable Gardening
    SM Space Gardening
    Small Plastic Greenhouses
    Start a Small Garden
    Start a Vegetable Garden
    Start Garden Transplants
    Vegetable Gardening Encyclopedia

    Health, Medical, Sanitation
    Animal Bites First Aid
    Base Campe Hygiene and Health
    Blisters First Aid
    Burns First Aid
    CPR Instructions
    Diabetes Disaster Guidelines
    Edible Medicinal Plants
    Emergency War Surgery
    First Aid For Soldiers
    Isolation Planning
    Mass Casualty Planning
    Medical Emergencies
    Medical NBC Battlebook
    Survival Medicine
    Survival Wilderness Medicine
    Using Safe Burial Practices
    Wilderness Med Kit

    Nuclear, Biological, Chemical
    CBR Nuclear War Survival
    Chemical Emergencies
    EMP Commission 7MB
    EMP Executive Report
    Fallout Protection
    FEMA CBR Nuclear War Survival
    FEMA Nuclear Survival
    Nuclear War Survival Skills
    Nuclear Weapons Effects
    Radiological Defense Preparedness
    SM-12f Home Fallout Shelter
    Threat to U.S. from an EMP Attack
    What if Nuclear War is Imminent

    Official Manuals
    Canada CD Notebook
    Canada CD Operations
    Canada CD Public Information
    FM 3-06 Urban Combat
    FM 3-3-1 Nuclear Contamination
    FM 3-4 NBC Protection
    FM 3-5 NBC Decontamination
    FM 3-9 Chemical/Biological
    FM 3-11-4 Mulitiservice Tactics
    FM 4-02 Nuclear Casualties
    FM 4-25-11
    FM 5-20 Camouflage
    FM 7 NBC Field Handbook
    FM 8-50 Bandaging
    FM 8-284 Treatment of Casualties
    FM 21-10 Field Hygeine
    FM 21-11 First Aid for Soldiers
    FM 21-75 Combat Skills
    FM 21-76 Survival Manual
    FM 21-150 Combatives
    FM 90-10-1 Combat
    US Army Dairy
    United States Marine Survival
    US Marine Corps MCRP 3-02F
    US Marine Corps MSVX.02.01

    Self Defense, Weapons
    Choosing a Weapon
    Citizen’s Homeland Defense Guide I
    Citizen’s Homeland Defense Guide II
    FN High Capacity 45
    G&A SR9
    Glock Versus M1911
    Homeland Defense 45
    Military Operations On Urbanized Terrain
    Smith & Wesson Sigma SW9VE
    Springfield XD Review
    Ruger SR9
    Stag Review
    Survival Guns
    Survival Weapons
    Tactical Ready Guide

    Shelter
    Basement Shelter
    Build a Fallout Shelter
    Build a Shelter
    Home Shelter Above Ground
    Home Shelter Outside Concrete
    Shelter Management Handbook
    Shelters
    Survival Wilderness Shelter Types
    Taking Shelter
    Wilderness Shelter Types

    Water
    Emergency Disinfection of Water
    Emergency Water Purification
    Priming the Berkey Filter
    Purification Of Water On A Small_Scale
    Purify Water in an Emergency
    Solar Photovotaics
    Solar Water Heater
    Water Survival Course
    Water Treatment
    Wind Machine for Pumping Water

    Miscellaneous
    Art and Science of Dumpster Diving
    BOB Survival Kit
    Bug Out Bag
    Bug Out Vehicle Basics
    Desert Survival
    Earthquake Preparedness Guide
    Earthquake Tips
    Get Out Of Dodge
    Handbook of Knots and Splices
    How to Avoid Getting Lost
    How To Find Your Way
    Knots For Camping Climbing Utility
    Pioneering Knots and Lashings
    Poisonous Plants
    Wilderness Survival Techniques
    Winter Survival
    Winter Survival In Your Car
     
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    Excellent thread and good to see some of us are trying to be ready for a possibility of the grid going down, looks like I will not be alone when the dust settles.
    There are a lot of sources out there for those preping and I noticed the increase in magazines now available for people interested in survival if the ballon goes up. Obviously some believe in the thought that it is better to be prepared and never need it than to need to have been been prepared and did nothing to ensure that they and their family survives whatever may come. Personally I believe something will happen and it is why I have been preping for years now and still have a long way to go.
    I will add my own links and suggestions when I have some more time, but as I said it is good to see some people are interested in the topic.
    Be Well, Be Prepared.
     
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    So is there a website or sites that go into USAF basic training courses?
     
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    Great thread, Toefoot. :beer:

    The link to your Army Survival Guide (FM 21-76) is dead, so I thought I'd post this PDF version here:
    http://www.pssurvival.com/ps/military_fms/fm_21-76_us_army_survival_manual_2006.pdf

    Or one can but it at Amazon:
    http://www.amazon.com/US-Army-Survival-Manual-21-76/dp/0967512395


    Storey's publishes a lot of fine homesteading books for folks doing the "practical prepper" thing at home. The Basic Country Skills and
    Country Wisdom & Know-How books are good over-all references:

    http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...s=Storey's+guide&rh=n:283155,k:Storey's+guide


    There are a lot of great "prepper" shows on TV these days. I don't buy into the doomsday scenario stuff, but one can learn a lot from Doomsday Preppers.

    Perhaps, my favorite show of this genre is "Hillybilly Blood", which runs on Destination America:
    http://www.destinationamerica.com/tv-shows/hillbilly-blood

    Those guys come up with some truly ingenious tricks to create stuff made from natural and/or found materials (I think there's more to that Eugene character than the producers are letting on). The most amazing project was the wood burning gasifier that can be hooked to a generator to create electricity (Season 2 Episode 10 "Hillbilly Prepper"):
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=ELxWuyRvh6QFk

    Be prepared. Words to live by.
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    I need to get busy and post more info. Have a great garden this year and canning season is coming quick.
     
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    We've had an excellent growing season here in Virginia, too.

    When it comes to preparedness, my wife and I have broken it down into short and long term projects. The first thing we did when we moved on to our spread in the boonies was buy a 14kW stand-by whole home generator that is hooked-up to a 500 gal. propane tank. Since we're located on the remotest fringes of the electrical grid and there are no gas lines out here, it's necessary to be prepared for power outages that can last anywhere up to 2 weeks. We already had a 8kW portable generator, but there are several major shortcomings to relying on a smaller gas-powered unit.

    Long-term, we've been working at making the land productive. The first thing we did was start planting fruit and nut trees and berry shrubs. After that we broke ground on vegetable and herb gardens (we also have quite a few fruits, veggies and herbs growing in containers). Simultaneously, we built a large compost bin to support the soil in the gardens.

    The best prep I ever saw on Doomsday Preppers was a simple, practical prep on a plot of land that was capable of generating enough food (plant and animal) for a couple to live on indefinitely (much as our ancestors did on their farms). They should have gotten a higher score than they did, but what got them knocked down was the lack of defensive fortifications on the property. However, given the fact that they were located in a remote mountainous area in Virginia the likelihood of attack is pretty low.
     
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    If you're working on raising the sustainability of the land you're on, perhaps the most valuable resource you can turn to is your local cooperative extension office. The best part of this service is that you can get an agricultural expert to come out to your place and talk with you about what will work best on your property and its soil conditions and how to improve what you've got. The next best thing is the information that the coop extensions provide on-line, such as this library of free publications provided to the public by Virginia Tech:

    http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/

    As you can see, they cover just about every subject and project one will encounter in the process of establishing a plot of land that can supplement or sustain your basic needs.
     
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    Outstanding setup and thinking. How long have you been working the land Talon?

    As for the wife and I we will be selling our land and house here in Colorado within a few years and purchasing in N. Arkansas (Water, good soil, plenty of trees and a well in the Beaver lake region) and basically doing the same as you (7-10 acres). We should have enough profit from the sale along with our savings and retirement pensions to bring our paradise to realization of being dirty foot hippies on steroids until we kick the bucket.

    Our family have been gray preppers for almost 18 years but being career Army kept us limited until I retired and could make real coinage in my current field.

    Love the idea of having a 14kw tied in with conventional and non conventional resources. Our plan is to make it sustainable and workable with age consideration. Being 52 now will not be the same at 67 so we have planning with that in mind.

    Agree with your short and long term goals. Nothing better than making a pie or syrup from fruit on your land or canning from the garden and not worrying about the grid.

     
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    We've only been at it for two years, Toefoot, and one of the greatest and most time-consuming obstacles we have encountered is re-clearing the land. It had been cleared many decades ago, but the previous owner let it fall into disrepair so much of it got overrun by gum saplings and poison ivy - both of which are extremely invasive and can take years to completely eradicate. This has required me to spend an inordinate amount of time and heavy labor hacking and pulling up stumps, cutting the "mother" trunks of the poison ivy and then spraying Crossbow on the shoots that spread through the ground from them. In fact, I spent most of our first year dealing with those tasks while my wife began the less laborious work in the gardens.

    Awesome plan. Are you moving to the Ozarks by any chance?

    You're wise to consider your age and current income in your considerations - those factors have figured prominently in our own planning. All of the stuff that requires heavy physical labor and/or considerable monetary expense are on our list of things that have to get done in the immediate to near future. On top of that, you have to take care of things like planting fruit and nut trees right away since many of them will take years to become fully productive. To make a long story short, we're front-loading all the hard work and expenses now so we won't have to deal with them later when we're older and on a fixed income. It's all common sense, but it helps to have an organized, manageable plan that takes all of these things into consideration.

    That's for sure. My wife and I hope to make our own adult beverages one day, too. ;)

    One of the things I've been grappling with (mid-term project) is how to minimize our reliance on the grid. Building a fireplace has enabled us to cut down on our consumption of propane, but supplementing our electrical needs is a more involved question. I have a friend in Hawaii who went solar and is completely off the electrical grid now. I'm exploring that and wind power - we may be able to utilize both - but I've got a lot of homework to do before we can even determine whether or not it will be worth all the effort and expense.
     
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    When you deploy in the USAF, the 10-100 is your Bible...the Airman's Manual.
    Below is the 2004 edition. Not sure of it's applicability to survivalism, well some chapters are relevant I suppose. Anyway...when we deployed, we're issued this, and the pages on mine are dog eared from the many times I've referenced them.

    http://www.phsource.us/PH/PHT/afman10-100.pdf
     
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    The area I am interested in is in the War Eagle Mill area and Eureka Springs to the N. East, beautiful area with little population:

    https://maps.google.com/maps?es_sm=...a=X&ei=mJfzU97YC9L5oASV2YK4Aw&ved=0CHsQ_BIwDQ

    zoom out the map a bit and and go earth mode and you will see all the resources available for the area.

    Man you have put a lot of effort into clearing. Are you holding down a full time job on top of all the work? Nice you have a wife that is also a partner in the venture. We are being very picky when it comes to selecting the property to avoid massive effort and cost on our part. I learned many things doing that here in Colorado.


     
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    On the American Pressure Cooker on the site seems to be wrong information about the number of pints and quarts it holds. Unless things changed in last 5 years mine only holds 14 qt.s. We haven't done pints but they stack 3 levels instead of 2.
     
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