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 …
State Rainwater Harvesting Laws Is your state one of the states with legislated laws on how much, when , or what you can harvest rainwater for? At this time none of the states ban rain barrel collection of rain water for personal use… but should something provided by nature that falls upon your …
DIY Bio Water Filter This is a great project to have at home for that just in case moment. Bio-filters, a Great Alternative ,Another option, instead of buying expensive commercial filters and stockpiling them, is to build a bio-filter. This simple filtering system is used worldwide to purify water for drinking. While it may not get …
2 DIY Flower Pot Smokers Not only is smoked meat delicious, but smoking has been a method of preserving meat with out refrigeration for generations. You can purchase a large or small home smokers and change the flavor of the meat with the wood you use. But why spend that kind of money when you can …
DIY Septic Systems (2 links) FIRST AND FOREMOST BE AWARE OF YOUR LOCAL LAWS IN YOUR PARTICULAR AREA. This septic systems could be illegal and come with some major fines for use in some areas. It is not intended to handle large amounts of sewage. More of a temporary bug out solution until when and …
DIY Small Diameter Well Having clean water available in any situation is obviously ideal. If you live where there is no well nearby and there is SHTF event you may find yourself out of water. Believe me you get thirsty quicker than you think. This is a perfect DIY project something I feel sure we all could …
DIY Chispito Wind Generator Plans Sooner or later one way or another we are all going to go off the grid eventually. It might be by choice to cut utility bills, or required because the grid is down long term. Either way wind power is a really viable option because in almost every location has at …
Making Reflector Oven Bread Wheat, flour, cattail, or rice based bread and pastries could quickly become stables in our post SHTF diets. Knowing how to prepare and bake them under primitive circumstances will be a valued skill and one we can practice on during hunting trips, camping trips, back yard bbq’s Too see how …
Shingles & Siding From Soda or Beer Cans A unique and very useful way to recycle and reuse aluminum cans. In the featured article, they are using the aluminum shingles on a chicken coop but with the proper insulation and installation they could be a viable alternative for other purposes. Personally If you have an …
