Hi! We are Nick & Lisa Meissner and we live deep in the mountains with our young family. We think it's a really bad idea to depend on huge corporations or government entities for your basic necessities of life (like water, heat, and food)! We're also Christians and believe this kind of dependence will be used to control everyone as part of the end times.
That's why we have dedicated our lives to helping as many people as possible become as independent as possible for these basic necessities. The time has come to step up to the plate for each of our families, so they are never again faced with being at the mercy of the government or corporate entities for their ability to survive. Once we've done that, we can be part of the solution for others by preparing to share.
So come along with us and make our journey your own...Let's do this thing!
I agree that it's important to "practice" being without power even when you are NOT without it... when we purchased our home in the country, we also bought a generator just in case the power were to go out... well, it DID go out for an extended amount of time in the WINTER!!! We got the generator out which, had been stored in the shed with a tank of gas and battery... BUT guess what?? It didn't work!! It was brand new and had only been started up twice just to see how it worked. but then it sat for several years... unfortunately many of the parts had rusted in areas that were not that visible... later the small engine repair guy said it was worthless! cheaper to start over.
In a serious financial crisis... perhaps going back to the "old days' where bartering is a manner of exchange that works better than cash... having skills or products like veggies, fruit, nuts, or maybe fuel like wood for warming or cooking... water? I know a lot of folks that do not have access to pure water. Money has been "programmed" into us as the only thing to TRADE.. maybe it's time to think outside the box????
My Dad used to say, yes, land is valuable, (they’re not making any more land). This video definitely is one of wisdom. My personal expression is when I am faithful in my returning to the Lord what is His, I don’t need to worry re: finances. God bless you dear people. ❤ you.
I think that Land is a better investment than the stock market. Even if you have to pay it off with interest… Raw land can very well gain way more than what you pay for it including interest…
Agreed that land *can* be a better investment. But you have to be careful. With the prices sky high like they are in many areas right now, it's very easy to end up with the value being less than what you paid in a year or two. But still, it's "real estate" so it's still going to be worth something.
@@TheReadyLife Exactly! I have been looking around the country for land that is not quite as expensive. There is some still available and in smaller pieces so that it would be easier to buy and sell than larger and expensive pieces…
I've been using Stabil for a few decades. My 2 cycle Oil I put in gas for my chainsaw has stabil in it. I had a two gallon gas can of chainsaw gas that sat for several years and when I found it and used it in my weed eater, it ran fine. For two years now, I fill my gas cans with NON ETHANOL GAS ONLY and treat it with Stabil. Today is 8/28/24.
I've been trying to use the Florida GIS for about a month now. It just times out or keeps "loading". On the other link, for Well Surveillance, I can look up an address and it shows me on the map with an address popup box over the spot but I can't get any info farther than seeing the location of the home. It's frustrating.
How to find out if there is an adequate water source other than well? How to find out if the property is connected to the sewer system/grid? (And maybe for later, a podcast on how to deal with no sewage if SHTF? Or, no water from the public system?
Another element I use regularly, is the elevation-measuring abilities of GoogleEarth. Good for quantifying slope data for water systems, solar exposure, etc. Their linear-distance-measuring tools are quite useful also.
Very cool. I've been wanting to implement this kind of system for a while now. I'm not sure I would trust it for a vacation but only one way to find out! 😂 Thank you!
The Lord has given you a serious gift to convey a message to others - I will definitely share this video with others - It brings light to the word democracy and what politicians are trying to push off on the public in these times -
Got a quote from Simplepump, and asked them how much water per stroke of the pump. Answer: a little over 1/2 cup. So, getting a gallon of water is going to take awhile at that rate. Is this a pretty typical flow rate for a hand pump?
That would be the 100L cylinder which is the smallest one (in terms of ounces per stroke). That cylinder is what is used for the deepest water levels, so my guess is that your water level is fairly deep. If that's the case, it may be your only option. But just remember that because you aren't pump much per stroke, that makes the effort per stroke less, which means you may be able to pump faster and without tiring as much. If you were pumping at a rate of one stroke every 2 seconds (which is feasible if the amount of effort is low), that would work out to roughly 1 gallon per minute. Not awesome, but far better than the alternative (no water)! If your static water level isn't super deep and you are willing to put out more effort per stroke in exchange for more water per stroke, you may be able to step up to the 125L cylinder with 8.5 ounces per stroke. But you'd want to look at their stroke effort chart and chat with them about it first to make sure it isn't going to be too difficult to pump.
First thing, I want to make sure you realize we're talking static water level, not depth of well. If you missed that part, I describe it on the video. Depth of well doesn't affect a hand pump, only the water level. If you're static water level is deeper than 325', a hand pump isn't going to be a good option. So you'd probably want to put in a very reliable solar system with battery backup that is capable of powering an efficient water pump. We have some episodes on that as well here. The other option, if you have a well that has no pump at all in it, is a well bucket (could be made out of PVC pipe with a flap valve in the bottom). With that, you can go as deep as you want, as long as the valve doesn't leak.
You made comments on electric stoves - i do most of my cooking on a electric hot plate - When i was a kid if i was struck by a cotton mouth i would put spoon of a berry extract in my mouth and did not swallow it - Our gums will absorb the concentrated extracts from the black berrys - it neutralized the snake venum - my hand on knee would still swell a few days but the pain only lasted a little while - As a kid belt makers paid us in silver dollars for large poison snakes - We had the antidote for bites so it wasnt a big deal - if your picking black berrys - pick the ones on the groung first till you have a mouth full - if there wasp in a bush and your hand is stung several times put a hand full of black berrys in your mouth and chew them but try not to swallow them, in 5 to 10 minutes the stinging pain will be gone- the berrys nutralize the venom - If your making berry extract and you make it on a electric stove the magnetic field will nutralize the polyphenols in the extract - In that case its useless - store bougt blackberrys are radiated so they are of little to no value - My grate grandfather was a drugust and blackberry extracts were used for all kinds of bites - Comfrey extract is the only thingi know that works for poison spider bites - also for dogs struck on the snout -
I'm not a drinker but if your unsure of using extracts for severe bites the way the strength of an extract was tested - a none drinker would sip about one or two shots ( ozs) of whisky - If the extract juice is cooked down to 25 to 33% of its original.volume - If a 1/2 oz is swizzled in the mouth for 10 minutes with out swallowing - with in that 10 minutes if the extract is of the right strength you will become completely sober in that ten minutes - The extract should be water bath canned in small jars after your sure of it's strength - Carrots and spinach can also be used - also carrot extract was spoon fed to sick children on the may flower and they recovered -
Also with extracts there enemy is electrical fields - so you will want to store any canned jars away from any electrical appliances - A phone or monitor creates NIE that's a negative ion effect - John Nash Ott cought on to the NIE effect in the late 1970s and early 1980s - You can research him - In the early 1900s druggest learned that if extracts that were made on a electric burner, those extracts had no medicinal values - In the end always make medicinal extracts on a fire not an electric burner - The military during one of the gulf wars preheated field provisions in microwave oven - troops came down with malnutrition - The microwaves neutralized the polyphenols in the food - induction cookers do the same - If you use a electric stove cook at a low heat setting or use a 500 watt hot plate Amazon has them - I use them and gas out side Today they know far more - In my case I'll just test what I have now and then - It's easy enough to test it with alcohol - if you know some one in law enforcement that has a breathalyzer in a unit - You can blow in it and if it shows your sober the extract is good - You can also put dark chocolate between your gum and cheek and let it resolve with out swallowing - in ten minutes you can blow in a breathalyzer and it will show you are sober - With chocolate you have.to store it with oxygen absorbers and in a good vacuum ( dry charged) - Electrical fields or air in time will brake down the polyphenols in chocolate - At that point the bars become powder and others than eating them for taste it has no medicinal value if it become powder -
With deep water wells you will need a tublar drop bucket or.a jack pump - Many jack pumps have a option of being manually operated if needed - All the old wind mills in the south west were set up on jack pumps - before electric submersible pumps were used - jack pumps were hooked up to electric motors or engines - There more efficent than submersible pumps - During droughts water tables on well water tables can drop quite a bit - Two times in my life i was cought in a spot were we were out of fresh water - if you ever experienced that your no longer the same - Make water your first priority -
I live by my self and dont have to be comcerned about the volume of water im pumping - also i live in a single story house - Im on the grid but living in a rural area power outages are often - I use a water saver Shower head - i have my pump cut in at 7 psi and cut out at 11 psi - Also i use a 12 volt DC submersable pump - i only supply it with 4 volts so instead of it pumping 4 gallons a minute it only pumps one gallon a minute - DC motors require the same energy to start as they do to run - In my case mine only draws 25 watts when its running - I do have a regular 1 HP AC pump that i need when using pressure washers ect - Im thinking about going.with an inverter pump - As for the fausets ect in a house when there operated on low pressure they very rarely fail - From what ive seen DC water pumps do not last as long as AC water pumps do - As for expantion tanks every one has them where i live - they seem to last about 20 yrs on average - If your using a washing machine or dish washer they require regular house hold water pressure -
Im no former or gardner - my dad wrote a trade magazines about agriculture at diffrent times - so im just conveying what i rembere hearing him talk about - The old farmers at time dusted there gardens with wood ash - What they found was insects and parasites when they in gested the wood ash caused there stomach to gas as it nutralized the stomach acids - Bugs and parisites can not pass gas or belch - so there stomach explodes killing them - The same thing was true for mice the old mixed sweet flower and wood ashes together it causes there stomach to gas as the alkalinity of the wood ashes nutralizes there stomach acid - you can find mice and field mice squealing in ahouse unable to move as there stomach swells - Ive seen that before - today you can just mix equal parts of baking soda to jiffy mix and put it out for mice - It does not harm squirrels or other animals - thats how rat poison works - The othere i often heard the old time farmers talk about was the first crop went to the bugs - Grains often have natural pestasides that kill off bugs - one of them is lectins - there like sharp pieces of broken glass when the bugs ate up the grains they died befor laying the next generation of eggs - So for 5 yrs or so the farmers next crops were bug free - At times as a kid i would ride with my dad as he went and visited farmers and aga centers to gather articals to write about - Im just repeating what i remember hearing as a kid - I do know jiffy and banking soda does work, ive used it for yrs - People ought to read as much as they can find on baking soda - the health benefits are incredable -
No, I don't do that. I think I've seen somewhere that certain DC appliances may not like the voltage getting as high as it does during equalizing, but I've never experienced any issues with it. And as far as AC appliances, the voltage for them stays the same since the inverter is putting out 120 volts regardless of what the battery voltage is.
If you have a well and it is your private well (not a community-owned well), then yes, you can put a hand pump on it as long as it meets the criteria for a hand pump (static water level less than 325', well casing preferably 6" but often possible with 4"), etc. If you are in a subdivision, my guess is that you probably do not have your own private well. But if your subdivision was on the outskirts of town when it was built and the lots are larger (like 1+ acres), then perhaps you do?
Its not hard at all to wash clothes by hand - I don't use a scrub board - what I do is I put my clothing in a tub of warm or hot water - I let my clothing soak some - then as I take each piece of clothing out the tub - I lay it on a table and rub any soiled areas with a bar of laundry soap - Then I scrub that area with a brush first then say rest of the pants or shirt - I found that to be far easier than a scrub board - also a lot faster - I also don't miss any spots of grease on my work shirts or pants - I use one of those Manuel washing funnels to rinse the soap and soil out the clothing - I don't ring the clothing out - if you ring them out and hang them up to dry they dry stiff - I hang them out in the evening and the water runs out them during the night - In the morning it will be as if they were rung out and will start drying - Once there dry they won't be stiff - Washing machines don't clean real dirty clothing that well compared to the way I do it - Also when you manually wash and hang to dry clothing will last 10 to 20 times longer - machines brake the fibers up - One bar of Zote laundry bar soap will last me a long long time -
I'll add this when washing clothing by hand with blue jeans use a slightly stiff. brush that will go down in the fibers of clothing - with softer clothing use a softer brush - Also if clothing is not heavenly soiled you can just put them in warm or hot water with laundry soap and push up and down with a hand wash funnel - The antique brass hand wash funnels don't work as well as the new plastic ones do - Another is never leave a fire on under a pot with clothing in it - after the water is hot if it's a wood fire scatter it or put it out - or turn the gas off - The heat on the bottom of the pot will fade coloring and destroy fiber - In my case I just fill a pot with hot water off my hot water heater - Yrs ago I asked the Lord for wisdom - it often comes from failure - I filled a old cast iron bath tub with soap and water and built a fire under it - the boiling water did resolve the dirt and grease and most of the color in my clothing and ruined my Dicky's T-shirts lol - So always put the fire out under a tub or pot
I have been using a blue plastic Lehman's non electric hard ware store Washer Plunger - I've used the plunger for over 20 yrs now - when I bought mine they came with a wood handle that did rot put over time - I found a brush used to scrub campers with a ridged aluminum handle and put it on the washer funnel and cut it shorter with a hacksaw - it's served me well over the yrs - I was tired of fixing or replacing washing machines and dryers over the yrs & it's just not that hard to wash clothing by hand - When my dad was a kid in the early 1900s it was the responsibility of each of the 10 family members to wash there own clothing - There mother his mother over saw the house chores -
I live in the deep South - my grandfather was born around 1880s when just about no one had electricity - My dad was born in 1912 - by 1900 my grandfather was working on engines and generators in town power plants and rural home light plants - Were I live at REA did not string power lines till about 1960 or so - those that had electricity in there homes had 6 volt or 32 volts DC in there home - With 6 volts they only could run lights, fans, and a radio - With the 32 volt farm light plant there were appliances sold in rural town that were 32 volts DC - fridges, electric pressure cookers ect - any appliances sold that ran on 120 volts AC was also sold in the 32 volts DC version - Most ran there house off a bank of battery's for 6 days and charged there battery's all day on Friday every week - Were I live at most burned wood as there primary heat up till 1990 or so - I still heat with wood and heat my hot water with wood -
That is fascinating! I had no idea! Never knew that running DC appliances was a thing before the AC grid came along. I guess we are going full circle with our off grid homes, although we are able to make our own AC. But we do have some DC appliances available, for instance we have a DC refrigerator. More efficient than the AC counterparts. Also, I've never heard of 32 volts being used, so that was really interesting to hear. Nowadays, it's either 12, 24, or 48 volts. Thanks again for sharing.
Yes my grandfather worked on rural home light plants for yrs - The house battery's were just large.high. Capacity two volt cells - Generally they were sized as to were the house would run off the battery's for 6 days and a DC generator was ran all day Friday to fully charge the batterys - There was a junior farm or rural light plant - it was 2, 6 or 12 volts and used a 150 watt 2 cycle generator - they had a limited amount of appliances they could use - They did make mechanical rotary brush converters and inverters to step up to a higher voltage - A converter was intermittent DC and could boost voltages from 6. 12 or 32 volts to 110 intermittent DC - those were very common - I see the vibrator type and mecanical brush type on ebay at times - A motor/ generator type was an inverter and generated pure sign wave 120/240 AC - the AC hd almost no IF it was cleaner than the best solidstate. Inverters today - Borns often had fluorescent lights and needed 110 internment DC or AC - I'll send more on a second text
My dad was a writer publisher and I was groomed to be a publisher - I went my grandfather and some of my uncle's route of power production an radio communications - there are well know writes that go back 500 yrs in my family on my dad's side - it's easy for me to share by words - If you look up farm or rural light plants and small rural town light plants - you will find tons of study's and write ups going back to the 1880s or so at the start of the conception of hybrid systems - You tube does have much info on 32 volt systems at all - you can find referbishing 32 volt belt drive fridges and freezers - also 6 volt and 32 volt farm radios - Many of those radios had Short. Wave bands - during WW2 there were live short wave broad cast via short wave at every battle line in Europe and the Pacific 24 hrs a day - you can here recordings of those broad cast on you tube - I grew up listening to SW radio - I still listen to SW - Many in that time were rural dwellers and used DC power - so much of America was listening to what was going on at the battle fronts as they stood on the word of God for the safety of there son's in different Campanian's -
I have read many comments on the net about were or how did 32 volts DC come to be a common voltage that was used in rural areas - Rail road mail cars were the first to use electric lights in there mail cars - Then the rail roads started lighting there passenger cars and locomotives with electric lights - Passenger cars had generators mounted. on there wheels - they had brushes that would shift to change the polarity of the generator with the direction that the passenger car traveled - Also it you look at pictures of old steam locomotives behind the stack is a rounded box - those were generally 32 volt DC 3000 watt steam turbine generators - when the passenger cars were at a stand still they were supplied power from the locomotive - The rail road found that 32 volts would travel some distance with out a major voltage drop - so the standard DC voltage for rail road cars and depot's became 32 volts in small town depot's were there was no 110 volts - the depot's had generators also to charge battery's - The passenger cars had a bank of Edison cell battery's - many refered to them as railroad battery's - Those were nickel-iron battery's - and we're in use from 1901 or so till about 1960 in railroad passenger cars - They can be 100% discharged to flat and 100% charged - there not damaged by over discharging or over charging - The down side is there very electrically inefficient and will self discharge in days - Sail boats and beach front homes used iron battery's because they used wind turbines for power - With Iron battery the plates have to be removed and scrubbed every 7 yrs then a new alkaline solution is added - During WW2 many used wood ash alkaline water for electrolyte solution in iron battery's when the plates had to be scrubbed - it's called demosing - They loose capacity in cold weather but are un harmed in freezing weather no matter the state of charge - they have a indefinite service life - you can see some 100 yr old iron battery's on you tube still in service - It took to much fuel to charge them in regular hybrid use were a gas or oil burning engines was used for charging - also they have to be charged almost daily - With wind the current is inconstant and sulfates lead battery's - so iron battery's were. used : 6 volt systems were the most commonly used on wind - Primarily for radios - The rail road made 32 volts the industry standard
One addition to the generator I suggest is a battery maintainer, that way the battery used to start the generator isn't dead when you need to crank it on. Maintainers are pretty cheap and good insurance.
We had terrible problems with the well at our last house, it had a very low recovery rate but was 1,000 feet deep with a static level of about 20 feet so we had plenty of reserve as long as we didn't even dream about irrigation. One trick I used to figure out what the current water level was was to drop an ice cube down the pipe and time how long it took to splash down. That method seemed pretty non-invasive.
Just a quick reference; we have a Marey Gas 10 Flow GA10FLP tankless water heater. It has one 'D' cell to spark the burner. Installed almost 3 years ago, still on the original battery. Our Stove came from Cabin Deport in Canada as an off-grid stove, propane, no power cord. It also uses a 'D' cell for the sparker and is also on the original battery. Only thing I might re-think is the water heater is a little skittish with the water flow. Our water system is on a pressure tank 20 - 40 psi which I think is at the low end of the water heater's sensor; I don't know if the flow 5 might have been a better choice but I never investigated. I could just kick up the heat a little before the water flow was insufficient but it turned out to be perfect just above minimum.
I would add to explore solar ovens. Works well for cooking, baking, and dehydrating. The downside is that it only works when the sun is out, but otherwise a great back up option, and in the summer you can cook outside without having to heat the house.
That was in reference to wood heat, because as long as you have timber on your property, you are growing your own fuel for heat and can harvest those trees if needed. If you don’t have a lot of land, it’s a good idea to source firewood from national forests (with a permit) or another source so you save your limited amount of trees for when it’s really needed and also for the privacy they bring to your property.
@@TheReadyLife Oh ok, thank you for the clarification. I thought you may have been referring to growing corn or some other vegetable and then using it as fuel.
One of the hardest things I ran into recently was trying to help someone in a traditional suburban home who was financially forced to live without any utilities. This is a common experience for societies such as ours that are experiencing widespread employment or inflation issues.
This video was so encouraging for a 90 yr. old. We know challenging times are nearly upon us and I pray to hidden in His arms. Thank you, precious family. 🙏
To reduce the heat factor we use shade cloth over our cold frames all summer and find no downside to the plant growth or harvest. But a big difference in plant health.
Awesome idea! I’m sure that would help, especially on sunny days when the ambient temp isn’t high. And I can see how it would help with plant health as the weather gets too hot.
High temperatures with plants. After about 90° F plants change from photosynthesis to photorespiration. They start converting proteins into ammonium and sugars. Spider mites are attracted to and feed on ammonium in your plants. Apply a foliar application of molasses to feed the plant the sugar it is missing from photosynthesis so it can convert the ammonium back to proteins. If it is not a heat issue, than your plants might be deficient in one or more of the required minerals for photosynthesis. Minerals needed are: magnesium, iron, manganese, nitrogen, and phosphorus. The minerals in molasses might be enough to supply the deficient or foliar feed them. God bless.
We have the largest black bear population in the world in eastern NC, in terms of both numbers and size. Though we don't have any grizzlies. I've had a blackie in the 600-lb range sighted on my land, in the woods out back, and had a maybe 350-pounder walk out of the woods across the road and through the side yard early one morning a couple of years ago. They sometimes top 800 lbs around here. And they do attack people, though it's rare. A friend had one to charge at her in her back yard about 12 years ago; she barely made it inside her back door ahead of it. The bear had been fighting with her dog, then turned its attention to her, since she was standing on her back deck yelling at her dog to get away from the bear, and screaming at the bear to leave her dog alone. (As if it was going to listen! But she didn't know what else to do.) So I carry a Glock 10mm pistol loaded with hard cast rounds when I'm back near the woods, walking the dogs or using the tractor to do some bush hogging; with aggressive bears and also coywolves in mind. (Almost lost a dog to a pair of them a few years back.) Or maybe a S&W .460 magnum revolver if I'm working in the woods themselves. Hope I never have to use either one!
Here are my bear story. I have an apple tree in my garden. It was the first year to have a good crop of around 30 apples. So. on Friday I determined they were ready to pick an decided I would pick them Sunday. Sunday morning I went out to do the picking and there was not a single apple on the tree. The fence was broken down and there was scat on the ground. That evening we were coming home and our headlights picked up the Bear in my yard. He took off when he saw us. The next evening he was near to the same place but I had my shotgun and placed a shot of 0ff to the left of his location and that really scared him off. The next morning Jan told me to look out the living room window. There he was laying on his back. He had pulled the bird feeder down and was enjoying bird seed. I took my shotgun and sneaked out the front door and went around the corner. He saw me and took off and when he was fifty or so feet I gave him a shot in the rear end. Never saw him come back. John
I agree that a dog is a great help on the homestead. However, for hiking and camping in the wilderness, there is significant evidence that a majority of bear attacks on humans occur with a dog involved. Yes, do a podcast on gophers!
Except that idea as written in the constitution is to keep the government out of religion not religion out of government. The idea was co-opted by anti-Christian factions nearly a century ago. Our current government certainly does promote religion--a secular humanistic one that does not follow the Ten Commandants. It does, however, celebrate murder (the unborn and elderly), and selective enforcement of laws, as well as most other non-Christian morals. Our country was founded on Christian principles and cannot survive without them.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts here! I understand where you are coming from and I agree about the “religion” that is currently being promoted by the government. Evolution and other things require just as much faith or more than Christianity and the government should stay out of that as well. And I very much agree about the atrocities being committed against the unborn. Those are matters that the civil government has jurisdiction over and it should be stopping the killing of innocents whomever they may be. The point we are trying to make is that there are certain things the government has no jurisdiction over, such as our relation to God. No government has the right to force the religion of the majority on its people. Without those safeguards, we could just as easily have the government enforcing Islam or any other religion as soon as it becomes a majority religion in an area. Dangerous precedent. These are some of the principles we tried to describe in this episode, so if you didn’t get a chance to listen all the way, I’d encourage you to do so. Thanks again!
