Literature Resources and Helpful Links

[Grumpy Old Man]

OK mods, if this is in the wrong place let me know.

I came into 10 2Gb thumb drives from a friend who requested that I share my pdfs and links with him. No problem. So yesterday afternoon I was copying on to one of the thumbs for him and thought I'd include some links for him.

So, after posting in the SHTF laundry thread, I thought I would kick off a new thread of free resources for literature and the like.

So, here's my first link from Drum-Runners.com; a site that has many useful manuals and books available for free download. I highly recommend the LDS Preparedness Manual for its detailed checklists and food storage advice.

Drum-Runners.com (http://drum-runners.survivaltimes.info/)

[RedJohn]

Very nice link.

[bacpacker]

GOM wow what a site. I've been spending some time there and it's going to take a while to even look through it all. Tons of information. Thanks for the link.

[Grumpy Old Man]

Okay all here's another one chock full of info and links.

Compendium of Useful Information (http://www.energyconservationinfo.org/compendium.htm)

This is another great resource.

[Grumpy Old Man]

I forgot to add that this compendium contains links to many different websites as well as downloadable pdfs. It is a work in progress and Bob (the guy who updates it) welcomes input as to new topics and new information. It is freeware, so to speak. The websites cover a wide variety of philosophical orientation, so be warned beforehand, but the information on the skillsets is still valid. Many of the topics cover 3rd world type situations and technologies.

[bacpacker]

Thanks GOM

[RedJohn]

Very good job Grumpy.

[tantalshooter]

Thanks Grumpy! Very nice of you to share

[Grumpy Old Man]

Okay folks here is a third link. This is grandpappy's index of how to survive hard times. He has some very interesting info on drug expiration dates, food preservation methods, and other practical topics. As with my previous 2 links, I urge you all to look at what is presented, take what you need and leave the rest, so to speak. No one place has everything you need, but you can put together a very good survival library by taking from each site. grumpy

[Grumpy Old Man]

Don't know what I did, but I messed up the last post. Here is the link Index of How to Survive Hard Times - by Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E. - Grandpappy (http://www.grandpappy.info/indexhar.htm).
As with all these links, not everything will be applicable or of interest to you. Take what you need and leave the rest, so to speak. With these 3 links you can get a good head start on a preparedness library. Grumpy

[Grumpy Old Man]

And another site. This one details different animal tracks complete with pictures, descriptions and comparisons. It covers birds, amphibians, reptiles as well as mammals.

Beartracker's Animal Tracks Den (http://www.bear-tracker.com/)

This guy also does classes at Dirt Time if you all are familiar with that.

[beginner]

Curious what a nuke blast zone would look like in your area? Go to this site, enter your city, select the size of nuke and presto! You can also change wind direction to see where the fallout will blow...

Ground Zero II | Carloslabs (http://www.carloslabs.com/node/20)

[bacpacker]

Very nice site. Good detail on there.

[Grumpy Old Man]

Another one I have is cd3wd. This is primarily for third world countries. It is a huge download, 18G, but a 5 cd set is available for $20. That is the route I chose.
www.cd3wd.com - alexweir1949@gmail.com - cd3wd - High Quality Technical Development Info for the Third World - and the SEEV fraud-proof voting system for the Third World - last updated 2011/03 (http://www.cd3wd.com/INDEX.HTM)

[Grumpy Old Man]

How to make your own laundry soap

Homemade Laundry Soap (http://www.homemadelaundrysoap.net/)

[Grumpy Old Man]

This is a very interesting link. I think Bacpacker will probably like this as it deals with the "old ways".

The Food Timeline: history notes--Colonial America and 17th & 18th century France (http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcolonial.html#colonialstorage)

[helomech]

Great links thanks.

[bacpacker]

Yes I do. Thanks grumpy. I'm at work now but will read this in detail later. Looks to be some useful stuff in it as well as some history which I love.

[dragon5126]

Excellent thread GOM! I tip my hat to you!

[Grumpy Old Man]

Just trying to help us all learn more, but I'm glad you like it!

[dragon5126]

Teaching and learning go hand in hand, but all too often a "thank you" is forgotten for the teacher. We cant let that happen here.

[Grumpy Old Man]

BTT! Stig and red John could we make this thread a sticky so that all our info links are in one place? I saw that bacpacker has some links that would go well here. Also, newer members may be unaware of this thread with all its links. TIA Grumpy

[bacpacker]

I concur!

[mitunnelrat]

Since its literature resources and such I've moved and stuck it here in the media center. That should also help us keep the number of stickies in any one forum down.

[bacpacker]

Thanks MIR, thanks for taking care of that. Good work.

[Optimist]

That's a good site. I'll add it to the list I use. For me, Scribd (http://www.scribd.com/) is a go-to site when I'm after documentation. Their list of books, particularly the pre-1920s books on trapping and woodcraft, is impressive, and they keep getting more stuff all the time. There are also a tremendous number of firearms related titles available.

[Grumpy Old Man]

Many thanks MITRat!

[Sniper-T]

Wow! I can't believe after all this time, I've missed this thread. And a sticky yet! Colour me red!

Grumpy, Know I know why you comment that You already have the info on some of the threads I\ve posted on... you and I peruse the same sites! lol

You do have a couple of new ones to me, and tomorrow I'll see if I can add a few that I have that aren't mentioned. Or just mentioned in passing in other threads!

:)

[mitunnelrat]

You're welcome guys.

Sniper, they're thanking me because it just got stuck a short time ago. It was further down the index in GD for a time.

[Taz Baby]

Wow just saw this. Boy do I have a lot of researh to do when I get real internet and not have to use it on my phone. Love this thread. Thank you so much.

[Sniper-T]

With all the talk lately about firewood and stoves; I thought I'd add this link in here:

Wood Stoves, Gas Stoves, Fireplaces, Cookstoves and Barbecues (http://www.chimneysweeponline.com/)

check out the Library, amazing comilation of resourse material

[Grumpy Old Man]

EPA link on purifying water including using pool shock

http://water.epa.gov/aboutow/ogwdw/upload/2006_09_14_faq_fs_emergency-disinfection-drinkingwater-2006.pdf

[Taz Baby]

Here is a list of some good books on survival and stuff. This is just a list, you can decide what you need and take it from there.

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Dangerous Plants and Animals
Food and Water
Shelter
soup bible
Survival - FM 21-76 Supplemental Photos and Diagrams
(Ebook - Pdf) Survival - Vegetable Oil-Fueled Cook Stove.pdf
(Ebook - Survival) - How To Make Emergency Gas Masks.pdf
(ebook) - Survival - Tracking Techniques.txt.pdf
(Ebook) - Survival - Wound Closure Manual.pdf
(ebook) - The Secret Of Picking Locks Is That It's Easy.pdf
(ebook) Survival A Complete Handbook of Nature Cures.pdf
(Ebooks) Survival - South African Special Forces.pdf
[Combat Survival Weapons Improvised] J David Truby - Zips Pipes And Pens.pdf
[Combat Survival Weapons Improvised] Knuckle Gun.pdf
11 Steps to Survival - Canada Emergency Measurses Organization.pdf
13 - Lock Picking & Master Keying.pdf
2006 Seattle Urban Survival Story featuring Cody Lundin.flv
Aids to Survival.pdf
Be Your Own Bodyguard - Peaceful Paths.pdf
Book - Secrets Of Lock Picking --- The EyeQ Team.pdf
Brown Tom The Social General Strike Anarchy Anarchism Syndicalism Revolution.pdf
Bushcraft (Canadian Scout Manual) - PO 403.pdf
Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping.pdf
Captain Dave's Survival Guide.pdf
Citizen's Homeland Defense Guide I - The Art of Survival.pdf
Citizen's Homeland Defense Guide II - The Art of Survival.pdf
Civil Preparedness Guide - FEMA 1-10.pdf
cody lundin - when all hell breaks loose google book.html
Combat Survival and Evasion.pdf
Common Sense Guide to Being Prepared - Time Magazine.pdf
Desert Emergency Survival Basics.pdf
Disaster Survival- How to Catch and Eat a Rat.flv
Disinfecting After the Flood.doc
DIY - Survival - how to build a solar food dehydrater.pdf
Don't Leave Home Without Your Brain.txt
eBook - Survival - 100 Ways To Disappear And Live Free.pdf
eBook - Survival - Homemade Soap.txt
Ebook - Underworld Survival Guide Steal This Book(Banned By Us In The 70's)- Very Useful.pdf
Ebook - Wild Edible Plants.pdf
Edible And Medicinal Plants (US Army Field Survival Manual 21 - 76 Appendix B).pdf
Emergency Survival Safety Preparations - Food And Water In An Emergency.pdf
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Self-Reliance.pdf
Essential Underground Handbook (P M L Publishing).pdf
Extension Agent's Handbook for Emergency Preparation and Response.doc
FEMA Home Fallout Survival Shelter Plan H-12-1 WW Construction Guide.pdf
Fieldcraft - B-GL-392-009-FP-001.pdf
Free_Hot_Tips_on_Survival_by_Ex-Green_Beret_Don_Paul.pdf
Handbook_of_Knots_&_Splices_-_Charles_Gibson.pdf
How to kill, Spy & Other Survival Skills.pdf
How to Prepare for Any Disaster.pdf
Injurious Plants GTA 08-05-055.pdf
Jose Arguelles - Survival Guide for the Road to 2012.pdf
Military Manuals - The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook.pdf
Mormon Emergency Preperation.pdf
National Security Emergencies.pdf
newtech-mag- Home Power Magazine 109 Extract - p12 Off Grid Living in the City.pdf
Ninja Book - Room Entry-Lock Picking Techniques.pdf
Ninjutsu - Survival - Secret Guide To Making Ninja Weapons Part2.pdf
Out-of-Home Defense.txt
Pioneering Knots and Lashings.pdf
Providence Cooperative Survival FAQ - Threat Analysis.txt
Ray Mears - Outdoor Survival Book.pdf
Risks & hazards - A State by State Guide - FEMA196.pdf
Special Forces Caching Techniques - TC 31-29A.pdf
Summaries of Soviet Civil Defense Research Reports - FEMA RR-27.pdf
Survival - Book Of Tricks And Traps.pdf
Survival - Gardening - Planning A Home Or Farm Vegetable Garden.pdf
Survival - Homemade Solar Cells.pdf
Survival - MCRP 3-02F FM 21-76.pdf
survival cooking.PDF
Survival Evasion and Recovery - MCRP 3-02H.pdf
Survival Wilderness Medicine Course.pdf
Survival_Bible_-_Richard_Perron.zip
Survival_Library.zip
Survival_Manual_(PDB).zip
Survival-E-Book-Collection.rar
Tappan,_Mel_-_Tappan_on_Survival.zip
The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving - John Hoffman.pdf
The Complete Outdoorsman's Handbook - A Guide To Outdoor Living And Wilderness Survival.pdf
The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook - Piven and Bordenicht.pdf
Tom Brown Jr 1980 - The Search - text - Kilroy.pdf
Tom Brown Jr 1988 - The Vision - text - Kilroy.pdf
Tom Brown jr. - Friedvolle Krieger der Wildnis.pdf
Tom Brown Jr-TheTracker - Kilroy.pdf
torrent advise for fair sharing.txt
Urban Survival - Douglas Bell.html
Us Army - Survival, Evasion, And Recovery (2007) Fm 3-50.3.pdf
US ARMY FM 21-76 ch13 - Desert Survival.pdf
US Marine Corps MWTC Summer Survival Course Handbook - MSVX.02.01.pdf
USMC Water Survival Course Handbook.pdf
When Technology Fails - A Manual for Self Reliance and Planetary Survival.pdf
Wilderness Survival Techniques And Tips.pdf
Winter Survival Course Handbook.pdf
You Will Survive Doomsday - Bruce Beach (file version 2).pdf
You Will Survive Doomsday - Bruce Beach.pdf
Your Basement Fallout Shelter - Blueprint For Survival No 1.pdf
Zombie Survival Guide, The - Complete Protection From The Living Dead.pdf

[bacpacker]

Holy crap thats a ton of info. I'll givr the file finder as well. Sounds like it makes things quick and easy.

[Taz Baby]

yes it does. I just found it last night and I love it.

[Sniper-T]

don't remember this one being in here...

http://www.fema.gov/pdf/areyouready/areyouready_full.pdf

[Grumpy Old Man]

Link to the new LDS Preparedness Manual. This one is roughly 1/3 larger than the last one I downloaded. They will ask you for an e-mail address, though. As a lapsed RLDS, now an Anglican, it didn't bother me as I have a couple of close friends who still number among the faithful. YMMV.

Another Voice of Warning: Prep Manual - General (http://www.ldsavow.com/PrepManualGeneral.html)

[bacpacker]

Good find Grumpy.

[bacpacker]

I just found this and thought it had some good info. Worth sharing for sure.

http://ia700404.us.archive.org/16/items/cu31924089480218/cu31924089480218.pdf

Here is one good bit that could well be useful long term.

"At the Ozarks Sustainability Festival on May 20, we talked with many folks who shared memories of rain barrels, cisterns and drawing well water with a bucket as a child, usually on grandpa and grandma’s farm. Some said they’d never like to have to rely again on those old methods of getting water. But, at least they knew how it was done. It seems we have lost much practical knowledge in the last 50 or so years because we thought we no longer needed it.

My 1909 book of household discoveries reveals how to make homemade water filters, another lost art. The instructions are quite basic as everyone had a rain barrel back then and presumably knew how to clean the water. Now, more than 100 years later, I am thankful the authors had the foresight to preserve their knowledge for us, and pointed out that rainwater collected in barrels from a roof is a necessity in some locations, but also is “often more wholesome for drinking purposes than hard water.”

The “wholesome” observation applies to plants, too. I noticed during our recent 6-week dry spell here in the Ozarks that I was only able to keep my garden plants alive with the water hose. Then, after a 2-hour shower this morning, the plants miraculously came to life – vibrant, green and THRIVING.

The old household book says the following instructions yield a cheap and easy way to make a filter just as good as a patent filter costing 10 times as much:

“Take a new vinegar barrel or an oak tub that has never been used, either a full cask or half size. Stand it on end raised on brick or stone from the ground. Insert a faucet near the bottom. Make a tight false bottom 3 or 4 inches from the bottom of the cask. Perforate this with small gimlet holes, and cover it with a piece of clean white canvas.

“Place on this false bottom a layer of clean pebbles 3 or 4 inches in thickness; next, a layer of clean washed sand and gravel; then coarsely granulated charcoal about the size of small peas. Charcoal made from hard marble is the best.

“After putting in a half bushel or so, pound it down firmly. Then put in more until the tub is filled within 1 foot of the top. Add a 3-inch layer of pebbles; and throw over the top a piece of canvas as a strainer. This canvas strainer can be removed and washed occasionally and the cask can be dumped out, pebbles cleansed and charcoal renewed every spring and fall, or once a year may be sufficient.

“This filter may be set in the cellar and used only for drinking water. Or it may be used in time of drought for filtering stagnant water, which would otherwise be unpalatable, for the use of stock. This also makes a good cider filter for the purpose of making vinegar. The cider should first be passed through cheese cloth to remove all coarser particles.

“Or a small cheap filter may be made from a flower pot. A fine sponge may be inserted in the hole and the pot filled about as directed for the above filter. It may be placed in the top of a jar, which will receive the filtered water.

“Or a valuable substitute for charcoal in the above filters is sponge iron obtained by burning finely divided iron ore with charcoal. This can be obtained in the locality of iron mines or smelting furnaces. This is much more powerful than charcoal, and is said to completely purify contaminated water.”

I’d like to say we’ve built such a filter, but the truth is that we have a Berkey on the kitchen counter. Still, I’m hanging onto this old book. I have a feeling we’re going to need it."


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[Sniper-T]

here's a great page, some of you might already be a supporter, but for others it is a great reference to use against the Anti's arguments:

http://www.gunbanfacts.com/

I also have a 100+ page .pdf along similar lines, but more in depth... but I can't attach it

[Grumpy Old Man]

Another one for the sticky.

http://www.pssurvival.com/

[bacpacker]

This thread has set idle for a bit, time to bring it back around. I just ran across this link on another site. There appears to be several good titles. Worth taking a long look at IMO.

http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/yourturf4/classiccamping.htm

- - - Updated - - -

Here is another book I ran across.

http://archive.org/stream/bookofcamping00verrrich#page/n5/mode/2up

[bacpacker]

Here is a new site I crossed tonight. I really like the title and at a quick glance appears to have some good info to refer to.

http://knowledgeweighsnothing.com/


And a link with lots of Wilderness Survival information.

http://theswordoffire.com/?page_id=232

[Grumpy Old Man]

I'll add a few

http://jubilee101.com/subscription/

http://www.lighthousesurvival.com/Free-Survival-Library_ep_44.html?referer=mailid:52

[bacpacker]

Really good links Grumpy. Tons o info.

[ElevenBravo]

TTT Thread rox!

EB

[bacpacker]

Here is a new site (to me) I ran across tonight. Looks like there is a bunch of good info on a wide variety of topics on here.

http://www.judyofthewoods.net/

[bacpacker]

Here is another site I found. I like some of the recipes and juices they mention. I also found some natural health remedies in it.

http://healthy-homemakers.com/

[Del461]

Great stuff

[2die4]

http://www.livinggreenandfrugally.com/free-ebooks/ Lot of great free e books covering a variety of subjects.