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13 Skills for Mountain State Prepper
d3nni5:
Working on my skills for 13 Skills. Quick entry today to get started, will detail things a little more.
1.) CCW: Training complete, application submitted.
2.) Archery: Bought the kid a bow, girlfreind and I are next.
3.) Dehydrating: On track, veggies, beef jerky both turning out goode.
4.) Marksmenship: Appleseed finished, no rifleman patch yet.
5.) Food Storage: Goal 6 months, have maybe 4 months.
6.) Fitness: Not sure how this is a skill, but added it. Want to bike a 30 mile round trip. 15 miles is about my limit now.
7.) Fishing: Want to hone my fly fishing, something I have put down for about 5 years or more.
8.) Gardening: Trying to get a Three Sisters garden in this year.
9.) Beer Making: Skill not started.
10.) Knife Making: Skill not started.
11.) First Aid: Skill not started.
12.) Water Catchment: Skill not started.
13.) Barbering: Straight razor shaving, skill not started.
d3nni5:
did a 15 mile bike ride today, part of my fitness goal. legs feel like jello.
d3nni5:
CCW Complete!
See posts here..
http://thesurvivalpodcast.com/forum/index.php?topic=42471.0
d3nni5:
So, I brushed up on some electrical skills this past weekend. For the last two years I have been running my pool filter from a long (and expensive) 10 gauge extension cord. I always had to pick it up when mowing the yard, and it never stayed in the outlet because of its weight.
I had bought the materials to do this over a year ago, and finally decided to get to it this past weekend.
I started by digging a ditch about 45 feet long, pulling out way too many rocks, it took the most time in this project. To be extra safe, I used both UL Listed under ground feeder cable (10 gauge) and 3/4" conduit. I bought an all weather electric box with a GFCI outlet.
I was debating about placing the outlet box up on the deck itself, but felt it would be in too much of a "splash zone", so I set a post out about 3 feet, and mounted up the box there.
I put it all together. You may notice the outlet i used here is NOT the GFCI outlet, that is because I have one already on the upstream side of the circut, so it would be redundant, and I've had issues wiring these fault outlets together on the same circut.
I was channeling my father throughout the work (he was an electrician by trade and taught me a lot). The thing I'm proudest of is that I managed to get the sod back into the ground with very little grass dying off.
defib:
Hello from Wyoming County neighbor...good to see another Mountaineer on here. Your electrical work looks really good from what I can tell. I did some wiring for a temporary solar panel system install last summer but it didn't turn out anywhere close to that clean and neat. My hat is off to you sir. I did learn a lot about solar systems though if you ever need any help.
Take care,
Keith
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