Posted on 10/27/2022 6:53:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The solar chainsaws in Germany have the finest engineering!
I have both.
Bought an electric one for a specific purpose.
The battery operated ones are, actually, pretty impressive.
Adequate for what most “amatuers” use them for.
Maybe they can get some firewood from Ukraine?
The novel “One Second After” is about an EMP strike on the USA and the aftermath for ordinary folks. It doesn’t take long for marauding gangs to form and take what they want from the weaker citizens. Then the marauding gangs turn on each other in increasingly violent warfare. Total civilizational collapse is not a pretty sight.
> Total civilizational collapse is not a pretty sight. <
Yes. Your next-door neighbor might be the nicest guy in the world. But let his children go without any food for a week or two. Then he’ll kill you for that apple in your hand.
The solution is obviously not to let things get that bad in the first place. But for the first time in our history we are being led by a group of arrogant and clueless children. 2024 can’t come soon enough.
Uncle Porter burnt the furniture to keep from freezing in the winter of ‘36 in TN…pre Greta/dementia jo…
There is a much larger pool of sheepdogs in American areas where gardening and prepping are not unusual, than murderous wolves.
The truly bad guys are probably already known and disliked and if things became so post-apocalyptic that killing became functionally semi-legal, then the bad guys would be facing unleashed individual and organized sheepdogs that would love to be able to kill bad guys for being threats to the good people.
Sheepdogs from all walks of life are held in check because of the law, that is why the drug dealers and violent bullies can appear to have regular citizens cowed, but if the law controlling the good guys collapses then countless good guys would love to unleash their suppressed frontier justice on the stupid dorks that bully them in ‘peacetime’.
Remember that gun laws only disarm the law-abiding, but if the system collapses the law-abiding will enthusiastically start enforcing their own traditional law and sense of order, and the riff-raff that appear so brave and dominant now would be in many cases dealt with rather quickly and would largely be in terror to see how quickly veterans and hunters, and self-controlled good guys of all types switch to order imposers with the will to put down rabid dogs.
When the community is against you and there is no outside force to control the community, then you better control your threatening impulses or run for your life.
in the capital of Moldova
s/b
in the capital of Russian-occupied Moldova
The winter will be fun if there are fuel shortages or exceptionally expensive prices among those new communities of their very own imported teens who hail from very warm countries
For anyone who needs it, here is an article on rocket mass heaters: https://insteading.com/blog/rocket-mass-heaters/
The photos show heaters that are fancier than most of the ones I’ve seen, but the basic idea is the same. Use small-diameter fuel such as twigs, and run the smoke through in a way that captures most of the heat and radiates it to you slowly. That allows you to heat the same space with less fuel, and allows you to gather firewood with pruning shears instead of a chainsaw.
I’ve seen some that were basically a large wooden box built around a horizontal chimney, and then the box was filled with pea gravel.
Also, if firewood is hard to come by, there are alternatives. Dry corn cobs make decent firewood. The disks of a sunflower burn like charcoal briquettes. I’m sure there are others, I’m still experimenting.
Moldova is known to have short pleasant winters. ......climate of Moldova is moderately continental, characterized by relatively ‘mild winters’ with little snow....The coldest month of the year in Moldova is January, with an average low of 24°F and high of 34°F....the most snow in Moldova is January, with an average snowfall of 4.5 inches.
Photos of those heaters at your link are great!
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