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Homesteading: Living Off The Grid
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2018-11-28 at 8:47 PM UTC1) Would you consider doing it?
2) Do you believe that you could do it?
3) What kinds of things would you take with you?
4) Where would you set up your homestead?
5) Would you live alone or with somepne else?
6) What gives you confidence that you could live a homesteading life? -
2018-11-28 at 8:49 PM UTCOn the 8th day God said,
"ctrl+p"
And cupocheer appeared -
2018-11-28 at 9:27 PM UTCYes. Yes. Survivorman types of things. Southwestern Colorado. Alone. My confidence is derived from my love of the land.
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2018-11-28 at 9:29 PM UTCThats the best kinda living.
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2018-11-28 at 9:49 PM UTCI'd buy some land in the desert, set up an array of solar panels to a battery bank and basically have unlimited power. Bury some shipping containers for insulation and put a greenhouse and swimming pool up top.
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2018-11-28 at 9:52 PM UTC1) Would you consider doing it?
YES
2) Do you believe that you could do it?
YES
3) What kinds of things would you take with you?
BOOKS, TOOLS, LOTS OF TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
4) Where would you set up your homestead?
HIGH GROUND
5) Would you live alone or with somepne else?
EITHER WOULD BE FINE
6) What gives you confidence that you could live a homesteading life?
MY EXTENSIVE PRIMITIVE CAMPING EXPERIENCE VIA YEARS OF WATCHING YOUTUBE VIDEOS ON ITThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-11-28 at 10:33 PM UTC
Originally posted by cupocheer 1) Would you consider doing it?
Yes
2) Do you believe that you could do it?
Yes
3) What kinds of things would you take with you?
Season appropriate clothing, modicom of household necessaries, tools (saws, hammers, planes, plumb bob, nails, hasps, rasps etc etc etc)
4) Where would you set up your homestead?
Definitely wooded mountain near fresh water supply.
5) Would you live alone or with somepne else?
Either
6) What gives you confidence that you could live a homesteading life?
Desire, knowledge, experience, will.
1) secure the land
2) lay in something like pallet boards (above perma frost) and erect a heavyduty military canvas tent.
3) install cast iron stove (heating&cooking)
4) line tent floor with heavy berber carpet over 4" subfloor, add rugs, line walls with carpet
5) construct exhaust for stove
6) locate rock basin near water supply and construct stone well house for refrigeration
7) cut 80-100 pine trees to cure for 1 year (turning regularly)
8) clear new ground for vegetable gardens
9) build storm/vegetable cellar into hillside
10) after several seasons of observation construct latrine
11) construct lean-to over tent to protect roof from climate changes and protect fire wood
12) cut and stack firewood cords
Phase 2: Plant gardens
Construct cabin
Build fireplace
Work gardens
Hunt
Fish
Process foods -
2018-11-28 at 10:38 PM UTCThat sounds like a whole lot of work. Maybe ill just keep selling drugs and living at Motel 6.
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2018-11-28 at 10:40 PM UTCHomesteading sounds a lot like being in prison, except no one feeds you.
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2018-11-28 at 10:55 PM UTCI've done it all before living alone innawoods when I was 20 years old
Food, Clothes, Medicine -
2018-11-28 at 11:04 PM UTCThe most freedom one could ever experience?
It does require work but I definitely know how.
These.days, Ghost, I would prefer the gardens were settled in, the cabin was built, and the fire wood cut and stacked. My rocker, lap blanket and book were at hand and the man I love sharing my space? -
2018-11-28 at 11:10 PM UTCLife off the grid is peaceful, you only worry about staying warm at night and keeping fed during the day.
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2018-11-28 at 11:16 PM UTCDid you know that two bodies sleeping together in the nude produces a lot of heat?
Have you ever been out in the 'wilderness' In the winter and when you got up the camp fire from the night before was frozen over and you had to pee on it enough to get it started in order to make coffee? -
2018-11-28 at 11:30 PM UTCWhenever my fire would go out I would usually be naked and it would be totally dark and I'd restart the wood stove with isopropyl alcohol and a hairspray flamthrower.
I'm surprised I never blew myself up.
Oh wait. -
2018-11-29 at 2 AM UTC
Originally posted by cupocheer 1) secure the land
2) lay in something like pallet boards (above perma frost) and erect a heavyduty military canvas tent.
3) install cast iron stove (heating&cooking)
4) line tent floor with heavy berber carpet over 4" subfloor, add rugs, line walls with carpet
5) construct exhaust for stove
6) locate rock basin near water supply and construct stone well house for refrigeration
7) cut 80-100 pine trees to cure for 1 year (turning regularly)
8) clear new ground for vegetable gardens
9) build storm/vegetable cellar into hillside
10) after several seasons of observation construct latrine
11) construct lean-to over tent to protect roof from climate changes and protect fire wood
12) cut and stack firewood cords
Phase 2: Plant gardens
Construct cabin
Build fireplace
Work gardens
Hunt
Fish
Process foods
You can just score the base of a tree and leave it standing and it will die and cure. Do this for next years firewood as well. -
2018-11-29 at 3:17 AM UTC1) Would you consider doing it?
yes
2) Do you believe that you could do it?
Oh, yes, most certainly.
3) What kinds of things would you take with you?
Things I'd need… like a canoe, fishing poles, flint, bow/arrow, hides/warm clothing, and other necessities, like lots and lots of bear traps!! to keep the bears from getting to close… cuz they smell you, and you is nothing but a fleshy tender morsel to them. lol.
Of course, all the aforementioned would be if my father didn't already have such things… but I'm sure he does. My dad started building a self- sustaining cabin years ago in northern Minnasota- boundary water country. This is where my father trekked with a canoe to hunt every year and brought home his kill for us to eat.
4) Where would you set up your homestead?
Northern Minnesota/Canada boarder-ish where my father's land/cabin is now.
5) Would you live alone or with someone else?
With someone. preferably a Manly-man who would know how/could live like such.
6) What gives you confidence that you could live a homesteading life?
I'm Native American. My Chippewa/Ojibwe ancestors have been doing so for centuries or since 1640 or so. -
2018-11-29 at 3:19 AM UTC
Originally posted by cupocheer Did you know that two bodies sleeping together in the nude produces a lot of heat?
Have you ever been out in the 'wilderness' In the winter and when you got up the camp fire from the night before was frozen over and you had to pee on it enough to get it started in order to make coffee?
I'm not convinced you've ever seen a campfire. Or pee. You know pee isn't flammable, right? -
2018-11-29 at 3:21 AM UTCI'm sticking with the grid.
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2018-11-29 at 3:21 AM UTC🤣😂
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2018-11-29 at 3:22 AM UTCGGG, do you feel that perhaps cup of cheer is fabricating all of this for her own amusement?
