Anyone getting stocked up on food etc just in case?

brixham

Saw this and thought of you lot !
www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Man-grew-drugs-impending-world-chaos/article-1991425-detail/article.html
No it isn't me !

Asheron

brixham wrote: »

Saw this and thought of you lot !
www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Man-grew-drugs-impending-world-chaos/article-1991425-detail/article.html
No it isn't me !

he's right about this...

"When the economy breaks down and oil shoots through the roof there's going to be no transport to take food anywhere."

:rotfl:

marklv

sb44 wrote: »

Has anyone started to stock up on basic foodstuffs etc in case they or their partners are made redundant?

I think I read somewhere that you were best to have enough dry/tinned foodstuffs in for up to 6 months (not so much frozen in case we start having power cuts).

The last time we stocked up was in 1982-83 when we thought WW3 would start.

MrEnglish

Worth getting sola panels now?

You can get a grand a year tax free selling back to the grid and no electric bills.

Its the gov giving money to the rich again, everyone who can afford sola panels getting another grand a year tax free.

lostinrates

I've already told dopester, but this morning we went to get some tack out of our tack trunks and we've had rats or mice in. The damage included a pair (actually two pairs, because it was a set for a double bridle) or reins I'd bought for myself and they were still wrapped up never used Growl. Door is now open for the cats to get in there. I might very well consider a terrier today

dopester

Yes lir, you've really got my sympathy for the damage they've caused your possessions. Quite £costly damage too, and like I replied, it seems most household insurance policies don't cover damage to your possessions by pests.

Hayley Parsons, the chief executive of GoCompare.com, says: "It often comes down to the individual policy, but as a general rule there will be no cover under a standard home insurance policy for the removal of pests or the damage caused by them."

I've trapped/killed 5 mice and haven't heard of seen signs of any others. I did quite a bit of research before deciding how to deal with the problem.. There are humane traps which I was tempted to go for... but you then have to release them a good distance away else they can find their way back. I couldn't be sure how effective the humane traps were either.

After reading that cats and dogs can be very cruel to mice that catch, playing and hurting with them for ages in fear, before killing them - I ruled that out. Glue traps look especially cruel if you don't check them regularly and release the mouse... leaving it to just be trapped and die from weakness and starvation. Poison also had drawbacks and didn't look a nice way to die.

Mice are incontinent and carry disease. The fact they could chew through our electrical wires which run very close and around to they'd established themselves means I wanted them out, even if that meant using lethal force. I don't think any of the mice I've trapped suffered prolonged pain. All look like instant kills in the trap (with neck and spines broken).

I bought a selection of different traps, but it was only the "Trapper Mini Rex Extra Strength" ones which had any success in trapping them. I didn't enjoy doing it - but for me it had to be done.



They also do the Rex version for Rats.

lostinrates

dopester wrote: »

After reading that cats and dogs can be very cruel to mice that catch, playing and hurting with them for ages in fear, before killing them - I ruled that out. Glue traps look especially cruel if you don't check them regularly and release the mouse... leaving it to just be trapped and die from weakness and starvation. Poison also had drawbacks and didn't look a nice way to die.
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My experience has been that cats are horrifically cruel but dogs are very quick. But to a degree nature is cruel, and the food chain/predation is natural.

It would be good if we could give everything birth control!

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

MrEnglish wrote: »

Has anyone here actually caught gutted and eaten an animal?
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Yes.

We both hunt and fish.

I'm fairly proficient at taking down a deer from long distance with a scoped rifle. And I'm quite sure the local Bunny and Bird populations think of Mrs McT with all the fondness of Myra Hindley.

Mrs McT is from fine farming stock, from the days when farmers killed and prepared their own meat, so is usually the one doing the gutting and butchering. She's frighteningly efficient at it. And I'm reliably informed she can peel and butcher a pig or sheep in less than 10 minutes. Which I'm told is very good. A cow or full size red deer apparently takes a bit longer though....

She also grows more food in the garden than we can eat usually, and my kitchen window currently has a crop of peppers growing in it. And I'm regularly reminded that if we just bought a bit of farmland, we'd never need to buy food again......

Handy woman to have around, is Mrs McT. Particularly if the revolution comes, and we all end up in some sort of Asheron inspired post industrial apocalyptic nightmare where the baked beans brigade rule the world and the sheeple all perish.

Although I rather suspect the local game population are hoping that the economy doesn't implode, society continues just fine, and Mrs McT can therefore spend most of her weekends enjoying Spa days and Cocktails rather than Survivalism and Camping....;)

Davesnave

brixham wrote: »

No it isn't me !

Nor me. However, I'm sure if he'd been up here, in the quiet heartlands, rather than down in the South Hams, he'd have stood more of a chance in all repects. I'm not expecting too many food riots in Winkleigh, or petrol hijacking in Nomansland....

...Hang on though; as I mentioned on another thread, we had some serious sheep rustling here last month. Could be someone building up a stock of wool and meat. I wonder what dried mutton is like? Don't think I want to find out anytime soon! :eek:

brixham

Davesnave wrote: »

Nor me. However, I'm sure if he'd been up here, in the quiet heartlands, rather than down in the South Hams, he'd have stood more of a chance in all repects. I'm not expecting too many food riots in Winkleigh, or petrol hijacking in Nomansland....

Loved one of the comments at the bottom about where we would congregate to start this riot.
When I was a kid we would all hang out at the back of Wollies (not a lot happens down here OK ) but I can see a slight flaw in this plan.