Posted on 10/12/2015 8:47:34 PM PDT by Kartographer
“one have any thought on electric bicycles?”
You can modify an existing bike with a motor, battery and controller. With the correct combination you can go 50 MPH for 50+ miles.
A good link:
http://www.largoscooters.com/go-hubkits.html
I’m with you.
Here’s a man that ‘gets it’!
Its a get away! Not long term transportation. You can pedal it you can push it you can that it places you couldn’t take a motorcycle and it isn’t going to make a lot of noise to attract zombies. If you lived in a city and need a get away to your country BOL it would sure beat walking.
The basic idea of a SHTF dirt bike or dual purpose bike is a good one. Have even considered buying one myself. It wouldn’t need to be this fancy...just good, reliable transportation.
Sorry, you’re right, of course.
When the Zombie Apocalypse arrives, I’ll buy one.
No you won’t. ;-)
Depends on the shape of the bucket.
A well casing is at least 6 inches in diameter. A 5 inch diameter pipe holds about 1 gallon per foot so a 5 foot plastic pipe, fitted with a one way valve on the bottom, will lift 5 gallons per cycle.
Deeper wells have the pump below the level of the liquid. A simple piston with a flapper valve will work. Deeps wells for domestic water are typically operated with submersible pumps. Rather than draw (or suck) the water up the pipe, they push it up, and don't have the limitation associated with water being "pushed up" by the atmosphere.
There are a number of factors involved including where the water table lies, the diameter of the casing, the depth of the plunger, the quality of the hand pump (they did wear out), etc. This is why you need enough priming water to fill the casing enough to draw up the water. You could tell when someone installed a hand pump and they had no catch basin that they didn’t know what they were doing because they wasted their priming water and/or never had any water on hand for the start of the day.
We had two hand pump wells and a couple of windmill wells for livestock. Kids today have no idea how handpumps work, but even back in the 50s when the city relatives stopped by, they were always amazed by pumping water by hand. It was one of the first things they wanted to do when visiting and to drink from a copper cup. I wish I had that cup to remind me of the hundreds of times I had to pump water. LOL
When the plunger is in the water, then it is lifting rather than "drawing," and the limit on the lift is whatever strength you have - or at least you aren't limited by the power of suction. The type of hand pump you are talking about had the business end underground, so it is basically lifting, not sucking. wiki has a pretty good summary, and notes that a certain type of hand pump can be used on a well where the water level is up to 80 meters (about 260 feet) deep.
You forgot solitare.
Pedal-drive as well. Maybe a bit heavy, but heavy duty, to be sure.
Walking is slow. Speed may save your life.
You said ‘speed’ in a conversation involving a moped. You are a truly gifted comedian ;)
Slow enough to attract predators, and slow enough to not outrun them. Packed-up dogs, bears, bullets and assorted other creatures of killing you first.
It’s faster than walking.
Because nothing says ‘rapid transit’ more than a 50CC model aircraft engine carrying a 200 pound dude, an AR, a few dozen clips of ammo, a sleeping bag, pup tent/survival gear and food/water/scrounged gasoline.
Hussien Bolt cowers in fear at the shame he feels.
I’ll go with ‘Horse’.
There’s a reason horses were replaced.
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