How To Build a 3 Drum Rain Collection System Did you know the average roof collects 600 gallons of water for ever inch of rainfall? There are laws in many states now that do limit both what you can use caught water and how much you can catch before the state will intervene. …
DIY a Simple Net The featured video shows us how to DIY a simple net. This may not seem like an important tool in today’s world. But if you think of the uses in a post SHTF survival situation you will realize how important making one could become. It can be used as a gill net …
DIY Portable Solar Power Unit Electricity is a modern convenience that we have become very accustom to having and it tends to be a bit inconvenient when we are without it. Being able to produce your own power during an outage, an off the grid haven, while bugging out, or even just camping is a …
50 Ways To Be More Self-Reliant No one should wait to begin to be self reliant until a crisis. By then it’s really to late. Learning those skills now and getting your finances and preps in order now will be crucial to making it through a SHTF situation. A SHTF event doesn’t have to be a …
Beer or Soda Can Camp Stove One issue with camping, hiking or even traveling in your vehicle is preparing food without big bulky gear. There are a lot of DIY and store bought camp stoves out there but this one is incredibly easy to make, very fuel efficient and very small and easy to carry or …
DIY Faraday Cages What are faraday cages? Why would you need one? What electronics can it protect? How would you build one and can you improvise one? There are a number of different ideas on the subject, Less about the effects of the EMP or even the cause because in today’s political arena we are all …
Convert a Lawn Mower into a Generator (Parts 1 & 2) This easy DIY lawnmower to a generator is easy and could power your home in an emergency I saw this and had to share this awesome idea. If we find ourselves in a SHTF/survival situation and the grid goes down we could make this relatively …
Planting Guide – (Per Person) How many seeds/plants do you need to plant if you want to feed your family fresh produce during the growing season, and can enough to last the rest of the year? The planting guide below gives you a good idea of how much of each plant/seed you will need per person, as …
Difficulties Taking Yourself Off Grid The majority of us are tired of being at the mercy of the big power companies with their outrageous rates and frequent outages. It is the dream of many to not only take their own homes off the grid but to actually sell their excess power back to the big corporate company. Making …
DIY 1000 Watt Wind Turbine We built a 1000 watt wind turbine to help charge the battery bank that powers our offgrid home. It’s a permanent magnet alternator, generating 3 phase ac, rectified to dc, and fed to a charge controller. The magnets spin with the wind, the coils are fixed, so no brushes or …
