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Swabbie Robbie's avatar

This article made me think about the old steam powered farm tractors and stationary engines. Nothing electronic about them. There are clubs that preserve and run them at get-togethers. In my area in Wisconsin I attended these a number of times Think about the stationary steam driven engines that powered lines of pulleys to run wood tools like planers, drill presses, table saws, lathes, and band saws. The same could be used to run large electric motors.

Part of my prepping for contingencies has always included hand tools saws hand drills, wood planes as well as axes and wood mauls. In my house I have always collected books on how to do things.

I also have some Faraday bags for electronics. I always keep at least one laptop computer in one bag, and back up (expansion) drives with all my important documents such as excel spreadsheets of our book keeping, and family documents such as old photos and videos in.

I have two bicycles: one is an e-bike mountain bike style, the other is an older steel frame road bike. I the event of an EMP, I am sure the e-bike's electronics would be worthless but I could take that stuff and the battery off and still have a 21 speed mountain bike.

We never know what can happen so it is best to have contingencies in as many areas as we can.

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J. J Williams's avatar

My grandad (on my father's side) worked on the train turntables in south Liverpool during WW2 as he was too old to fight (he was an ex-WW1 royal engineer).

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