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Living off the Grid
    #25416291 - 08/27/18 07:45 AM (5 years, 6 months ago)

Anyone here ever just taken a dip from greater society and decided to live in the wilds?

How'd it go?


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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: Sildara]
    #25416315 - 08/27/18 08:01 AM (5 years, 6 months ago)

Like, I gotta do my laundry by hand?

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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: Buster_Brown]
    #25416767 - 08/27/18 12:41 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

I thought about it around 8 years ago when I got fired from my job. I was just going to go with my dog and live in the mountains. I was thinking either CA or TN. Then my buddy wanted to move to CA and grow weed. He bailed on me and left me renting a house by myself when I already had 1 in IL. I never talked to him again.

I then almost became a Buddhist monk but the dude told me I would have to get rid of my dog. Fuck that.

Now I could easily go live off the land or deal with this bullshit society that I don't agree with.

If you want to live in the wilderness find a place with lots of oak trees. You can easily live off of acorns. There are tons and can be stored for long periods.

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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: ds442]
    #25416800 - 08/27/18 12:59 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

I think a 100 pound dog would need something like 8 ounces of fish per day, or it's equivalent.

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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: Buster_Brown]
    #25421104 - 08/29/18 10:12 AM (5 years, 6 months ago)

It would definitely make it harder with a dog. She eats almost anything though and only weighs 45 lbs. I was going to bring my shotgun and a ton of shells to start. I have studied survival techniques a bit. How to make a bow and start fires. I was going to get a book with the edible plants in the area I would go. Much rather have some meat though. I hate fish but would eat it if I had to. I am a pretty good fisherman.

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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: ds442]
    #25447837 - 09/09/18 02:16 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

You would either hunt and gather or make a small homestead. Chickens, corn, potatoes, onions, and huntable game. Maybe goats or pigs too. Something like that.


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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: XUL]
    #25452373 - 09/11/18 01:26 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

i would do a bunch of bushcrafting and overnights before you jump in. watch into the wild. going unprepared can end very badly

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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: Psilocamel]
    #25452410 - 09/11/18 01:45 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

Truth.

It's hard to go into the "wild" these days. Every plot of land is owned, unless in Canada or Alaska. One interesting bit is that buying large tracts if unrestricted land is relatively cheap. Of course it depends on the state and location.

I am trying to move on some land in the Appalachian mountains. In a way, you can buy your own unrestricted "frontier."

Am just going to drop a 5,000 dollar trailer on the edge near the road. Eventually clear farmland and make way to the ridge to drop a second trailer. Rent the last one out.


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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: Psilocamel]
    #25452415 - 09/11/18 01:46 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

Been meaning to check it out for a while - watching in now (just heard Pearl Jam so i'm a happy human) looks pretty dope so far.


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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: XUL]
    #25454125 - 09/12/18 05:19 AM (5 years, 6 months ago)

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I am trying to move on some land in the Appalachian mountains.




We did that; Bulldozed a road to the building site near a spring, rocked it, then built a log cabin from a kit. The people we sold it to ran in the electric, drilled the well and installed the septic.

At the moment I'm purchasing some remote land in Florida and am considering building a Cob structure from 1 part cement to 4 parts sand  (stucco mix) using barbwire as the longitudinal stabilizer, only it is labor intensive.

I did the foundation for the log cabin the same way by mixing clay with cement (without the barbwire) into 2' square forms fabricated from used roofing tin; when tapped with a hammer the foundation rang like a bell.

Edited by Buster_Brown (09/12/18 05:48 AM)

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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: Buster_Brown]
    #25454350 - 09/12/18 08:28 AM (5 years, 6 months ago)

How was your experience building a cabin from a kit? I have been looking at them, but I know nothing about constructing houses.


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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: XUL]
    #25454470 - 09/12/18 09:43 AM (5 years, 6 months ago)

It was wonderfully easy. Using a generator we drilled a few holes in the light 8x8 pine logs and nailed them into the preceding log. Windows came with it but the sub floor was extra, we had to buy that and the roofing material, and we modified the roof to achieve an upper level.

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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: Buster_Brown]
    #25454644 - 09/12/18 11:09 AM (5 years, 6 months ago)

What cabin kit company did you use?


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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: XUL]
    #25454837 - 09/12/18 12:39 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

I forget, we traded a houseboat for it, I believe they were out of Arkansas.

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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: Buster_Brown]
    #25464751 - 09/16/18 02:25 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

Saving up for a homestead in Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, or Nevada.

Still a long ways away but it's a must for my family.

I'd love to move up to the App mountains. Especially the family land in Tennessee. It's just too crowded on the East Coast. But the Ga & Tn mountains will forever have a place in my heart. And I'll always come back to hunt and fish.

Edited by MoonFarmer (09/16/18 02:29 PM)

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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: MoonFarmer]
    #25464839 - 09/16/18 02:53 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

As far as I know the wildlife is better in Oregon

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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: Buster_Brown]
    #25464856 - 09/16/18 03:03 PM (5 years, 6 months ago)

Deer, bear, and trout is all I'm after.


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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: MoonFarmer]
    #25466867 - 09/17/18 10:43 AM (5 years, 6 months ago)

I ran from the law for 5 years in the 90's. I lived in the wilderness for months at a time. I learned how to flyfish, eat mushrooms, gather berries, and learned the plants. I had no real shelter though so I spent the winters in eugene staying on couches and sometimes renting a room. It was rough but I wouldn't trade it.

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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: XUL]
    #25466875 - 09/17/18 10:47 AM (5 years, 6 months ago)

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Truth.

It's hard to go into the "wild" these days. Every plot of land is owned, unless in Canada or Alaska. One interesting bit is that buying large tracts if unrestricted land is relatively cheap. Of course it depends on the state and location.

I am trying to move on some land in the Appalachian mountains. In a way, you can buy your own unrestricted "frontier."

Am just going to drop a 5,000 dollar trailer on the edge near the road. Eventually clear farmland and make way to the ridge to drop a second trailer. Rent the last one out.



False. Almost every state has land you can live on, especially here in the west. I can literally drive away if I wanted to, and live at the most beautiful primitive campsites the world has to offer. BLM and Nat forest allows 14 day stay then you have to move and repeat if you want indefinitely. I could do this the rest of my life and not even see all of oregon, much less california, nevada, and arizona.

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Re: Living off the Grid [Re: passifloracaerulea]
    #25466987 - 09/17/18 11:53 AM (5 years, 6 months ago)

Did you carry a rifle for game? An ax?


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