I'm currently thinking that wife and I turn turtle and stop leaving the farm almost entirely in about two weeks. Aside from utilities like electric and internet, we need almost nothing from outside, and what we do can be delivered by UPS.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1229771628839608330 …
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3/ or I could do runs to the local gas station in a face mask and with a spray bottle of bleach, and spray down the pump before I touch it to fill my 5 gallon cans of diesel and gas
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4/ yep! had already considered that!https://twitter.com/Starbasessd/status/1229774606585810944 …
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5/ meh I have investigated biodiesel extensively, and am not a fan. You propose that - in the SHTF pandemic scenario - I leave the farm to visit restaurants and load a tank with used fryer grease? Also, I live in a cold climate, and >>>https://twitter.com/Starbasessd/status/1229775917301583877 …
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6/ I ALREADY have problems with conventional petrodiesel gelling on not-atypical ~ 0° F winter mornings, to the point where I have had to use a heat gun to melt frozen diesel out of the fuel filter to start the tractor. If SHTF so hard that diesel deliveries stop...
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7/ OK, but, dude, you've just volunteered me for your plan where instead of (a) whipping out my credit card, and (b) ordering delivery of 250 gallons of diesel I instead (a) turn 5 acres of pasture to corn (b) buy corn harvesting equipment (c) buy ...https://twitter.com/Starbasessd/status/1229779113050877957 …
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8/ I'm sure that this is all very simple and easy to someone vicariously LARPing / remote fapping to the idea, but !@# IS HARD, yo. Logging enough firewood to keep the house heated is hard, and has a noticeable infrastructure pyramid. >>>
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9/ I need a chainsaw, chaps, helmet, felling wedges, stocks of bar oil, 5 gallon can for 25:1 mix, 2 stroke engine oil, chainsaw files, tractor, logging choker chain, cargo chain, spare chainsaw chains, spare bar, Oregon chainsaw chain power sharpener for when errors accumulate
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10/ ...and then to maintain the tractor I need spare filters, filter wrenches, grease gun, case of grease, spare air filters, heat gun to melt out diesel wax on cold morning, tire irons, MIG welder (bucket wears and cracks), spare rolls of MIG wire, spare tank of Argon/CO2 gas
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11/ and to get the hay in I need the sidecut mower, tedder, side rake, baler, and then I need spare rolls of twine for the baler, plus WD-40 to tweak the knotting arms, and ... And to store all of this I need space and cover. I can barely handle the infrastructure pyramid now
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12/ And when someone proposes jacking the whole pyramid up 20 feet and adding two new floors underneath, the surface area that the pyramid covers grows by 2x or 4x, and the annual labor by the same amount. "Grow your own biodiesel" is INSANELY hard.
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