As some of our readers know my wife and I have moved to an undisclosed location to begin the process of setting up a survival retreat.
Structures in place
include:
1 House (Had to be removed
due to lack of care by past owners).
2 One room cabins
2 Old outhouses See
Pictures
1 Pump house same size as
cabins
1 Powder house (Where they
used to keep explosives). VIDEO
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1 Large storage
trailer
1 Gold ore crusher mill
(Large building). PICTURES AND VIDEO
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1 Gold mine 60
entrances/mine shafts we know about so far. SEE
VIDEOS
1 Thirty two foot RV, which
me and my wife are living in temporary. PICTURES
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Solar Panel battery charging
set up and generator. See pictures and
videos
The property is 40 acres in
a remote area with a massive amount of old scrap and garbage requiring removal.
This included:
Take a video tour around the
property during the clean up phase. VIDEO
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2 Mining buckets. ( 1 Went
as scrap and other is a keeper). SEE
PICTURES
43 Old cars and trucks (Went
as scrap and gone besides one). PICTURES AVALABLE OR WATCH VIDEOS A BEING
REMOVED BY BULLDOZER
19 Old campers/trailers (We
have removed them all) SEE
VIDEOS
9 Generators, 4 large Kilowatt gens, 5 motor home size(We are going to sell them). PICTURES AVALABLE
11 truck trailers (Caretaker
is going to sell them). PICTURES
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4 Large Air compressors (We
are going to sell them). PICTURES
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7 Snowmobiles (Went as scrap
and gone). PICTURES
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1 Snow transport mobile
(Went as scrap and gone). PICTURES
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2 Mining cars (We are going
to sell them). PICTURES
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2 Boats (We are going to
sell them). PICTURES
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1 “twenty two bulldozer”
(Went as scrap and gone). PICTURES
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1 Backhoe (We are keeping
it). PICTURES
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1 grader (We are keeping
it). PICTURES
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1 Big tractor pull along
roller. (Went as scrap and gone). PICTURES
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1 Naval ordnance
magnetometer with radar (We are going to sell it).
5 Boat trailers (Caretaker
is going to sell them).
7 truck rails (Went as scrap
and gone).
20 wood burning stoves (Will
be taken away soon). PICTURES
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8 diesel tanks including one
that was taken off a train car (Went as scrap, gone). SEE VIDEOS
Water pumps (Are being taken
apart for copper scrap). PICTURES
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Motors (Are being taken
apart for copper scrap). PICTURES
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11 Water tanks, some large
and small. (3 scraped, trailer tanker for sale). PICTURES
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Hundreds of Transformers
(Are being taken apart for copper scrap). PICTURES
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Hundreds of Tires (Few
hundred scraped and others will be used for earthbound shelter in the future).
Over 40 mattresses (They
were bunt during burning season last year).
1 Klein (Keeping). PICTURES
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27 sinks and toilets
(Caretaker is going to sell the ones not scraped).
Hundreds of pulleys (Scraped
many and keeping good ones). PICTURES
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6 “10 ton hoists (We are
going to sell them). PICTURES
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Hundreds of air and oil
filters new in boxes (We are going to sell them and scraped older ones). PICTURES
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1 Beer keg
(Scrap)
Thousands of light bulbs and
flourlessant bulbs (We are going to sell them). PICTURES
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Thousands of pipes and
fittings of all sizes. (Scraped many, keeping some and selling rest). PICTURES
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Thousands of tools axes,
hammers pliers, screwdrivers, ect. (Scraped bad ones and kept the good ones). PICTURES
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Hundreds of thousands of
large and small boxes of screws and nails in boxes and coffee cans. Tons of nuts
and bolts, wall sockets and switches. (Have scraped many and are keeping some,
selling the rest).
You might be asking why
would someone want a property with so much junk on it for a survival retreat.
Read on to really find out where the saying “one mans trash is another mans
gold” because I am not going to pull any punches by holding back any of the
amounts made from the junk in hardcore real dollars.
Furthermore why would you
not want a property with such a massive survival structure in place already?
Remember also this property has a gold mine on it that has been producing gold
from the turn of the entire century. For security reasons I will not give
details of the date the mine started, but what I will tell you is that it is
older then any known living person. Read on to get an idea of all the
possibilities and what is happening.
First off lets start out
with the clean up.
My dad has had a caretaker
(A family friend A.K.A. Robert) dealing with the clean up for the past year. The
process has not been easy for many reasons. The main one being that we had to
wait a year for the pervious owners to remove what items they wanted to keep
from the back 20 acres and have only been able to clean up the front 20 acres.
Since there is a large
amount of just about everything all over the place here, this created the
problem of needing to go through most of the items and explore the property.
Then there were the deciding
factors of what to keep, what to get rid of, and what to scrap and what to sell
off. Pretty much what was decided came down to if we can use it “then keep it”,
can we use it in the future in time of crisis “then keep it”, can we sell it or
trade it “then keep it”.
You really have to think
into the future of what possible crisis could arise and will this item be usual.
Include the possible social aspects involved in a crisis, like think of all the
friends you will make if you have a extra Jenny (A.K.A. generator) or two that
can power a small town. An item like that could dismiss a angry group or even a
mob people in a major crisis instantly. Or what if it comes down to hardcore
bartering in a crisis were a few extra items may save you or your family from a
early demise if the you can’t reach a agreement with the other party. Remember that having something to barter
with can get you out of trouble as fast as you have gotten into it in most cases
and if you can solve a good part or all of crisis for a group of people that
could possibly cause you or your family harm then you defuse the situation or
even buy you a great deal of time before you have to deal with them
again.
Another added issue was the
fact that this property does have a working gold mine on it and a gold ore
crusher mill. This created a need to make sure that there were no dangers left
from operations in the past. This included the possibility of there being
explosives around the property. There might have been left over cyanide (used to
extract microscopic gold from crushed gold ore) or large amounts of liquid
mercury, which is also used to extract smaller gold.
More elements to the
situation included we did not know the location of the mineshafts throughout the
property and needed to be discover them for safety and security reasons.
I have been working on this
story over a month now since it keeps taking new twists and turns day by day and
I have to keep adding details or expanding the entire scope of it. The amount of
mine entrances and shafts that we know about now has topped 60 thats including
ones that no longer have direct access to mine.
The mine is in the process
of being opened to allow processing of gold ore. We are exploring the tunnels
and shafts for storing goods and equipment. This is a delicate process, since we
have to make sure the walls are structurally safe and selecting our storage
areas. And also selecting our in mine survive retreat areas for safety and
protection. Really now we have the option of hiding entire trucks from view and
even having a entire retreat underground with our surface retreat.
It also helps that within a
few months we will be set up for processing ore, which is going to be another
source of income on top of all this for my dad.
I have tried to include as
many pictures as possible where it would not compromise our security. And this
is taking a great deal of time by itself since I have collected over 1100 photos
and videos and just trying to structure them on web pages is very time
consuming.
The scrappers have come and
gone cleaning the place up pretty good and my dad is smiling all the way to the
bank with a $9,100 check from just the scrap steel they have taken away. Not bad
considering that we wanted most of this stuff off the property. What the
scrappers do is tear it all down load it on trucks and haul it all off for you
then you get a check for it. My dad thought he was going to have to pay to get
the trash taken off. Last year it cost him an arm and leg to have a bunch of the
trailers removed, this included hiring people we trusted and renting trailer
truck bins to put it in then to be hauled off.
Why pay to have the work
done when scrap steel is going for $240.00 a ton here and the scrapping
companies will pay you $75.00 a ton and they will do all the work of getting it
out for you. I don’t think that is a bad deal. They make money and you make
money and they take the garage you want to get rid of. So it’s a win win
situation.
The scrappers made a great
deal more from it since their take after paying off my dad was $31,000. This
opens up some great possibilities towards funding for a survival retreat if you
took the steel in yourself.
If you have a semi trailer
or a large truck you can make some serious money that you could put back into
the retreat or just hide away. Just by taking in your scrap steel to the scrap
buyer. Look around your area and ask around who gives the best price for steel
or look it up on the web.
The saying is true one man’s
garbage is another man’s treasure.
Before the scrappers came we
were pulling out anything that had copper in it on the retreat since we figured
that it might be worth while to turn that it ourselves since copper is going for
$4.00 a pound and we have a lot of it here. We are talking about wire from the
old trailers, copper piping, transformers, wire in water pumps and motors. The
caretaker has all ready taken in a load of copper wire that he burnt the rubber
off in a fire and he received over $970.00 for the little bit he turned in. (My
personal option here) Before you try and burn the rubber off the wire, please
make sure to check with you scrapping or recycling outfit before burning it
because some places refuse to take it or they will give you a lot less for the
copper since it is burnt. It is a pain in the but stripping wire all the way to
copper. But I have found a easy way with a splice tool I made and I will make a
you tube video in the future about how to make one. So keep a eye on our youtube
page http://www.youtube.com/survivalebooks.
I have included some
pictures below of some transformers, motors, water pumps being stripped down and
a few pictures of the large amount of wire we were able to get out from the
steel scrap before it went. Those are included below.
Hundreds of Transformers
(Are being taken apart for copper scrap). PICTURES
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Water pumps and wire (Are
being taken apart for copper scrap). PICTURES
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Motors and wire (Are being
taken apart for copper scrap). PICTURES
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It is not really hard to
figure out how to peel transformers and take apart the frozen motors to get at
the copper wire, but it takes some work to do it and you need a sledgehammer,
wire cutters, and a screwdriver. So the average reader understands I learned to
do this all on the fly (by trait I am a computer systems engineer and mostly
build websites). So I just did what worked best to get the copper out. A piece
of advice is get a good pair of gloves since wire will tend to cut up your hands
after you cut it and peel it away.
I have gotten out over 350
pounds copper so far, not including the all the copper piping I stripped from
the old trailers, that is not bad money for the work.
Here is some news on the Underground Structure Of the Gold Mine Survival Retreat
The next steps we are taking
at this moment with the gold mine survival retreat is to seal the mineshafts we
don’t need with concrete then putting over a layer of dirt and so we can plant
natural brush that will blend then into the environment. Some of this includes
caving in some old tunnels on purpose. We are not just dismissing the tunnels
use some are storage being craved in at a certain areas to create storage areas
that we don’t not want connected to the main underground level of the survival
retreat. We don’t want all of our stored goods placed in one area just in case
of discovery. By having more then one tunnel for storing goods add more security
to the retreat and our piece of mind. So security reasons I will not go into how
many of these storage areas we are creating or what kind of entrance system we
are using to conceal them. In other we are not putting our eggs all in one
basket.
We have decided on
incorporating a electronic alarm system for the storage areas by using thick
steels pipes to protect the wiring in side, because we are collapsing a great
amount of rock/dirt on these steel pipes and want the wires to be protected
during this process. We have caved in one of the tunnels using this method with
no loss of connectivity from either side.
There was also some thought
put into the possibility of flooding in the underground structure of the
survival retreat, so for just a precaution we are setting up three very large
water pumps, that will pump out through a number of locations. Mainly just in
case of rains or snow melting down to fast. Plus this adds a amount security in
case one of the entrances is discovered and someone might try to drown us out
using water if we are inside the underground survival retreat structure. This is
not very likely to happen since it would take a small lake to fill up the
underground survival retreat. Just so you get a idea of how much water it would
take see the SEE
VIDEOS of one of the entrances.
This writing about our
survival retreat is starting to become extremely large so I am going to have to
update it in sections in the future because there is too much to write still and
plus it is a major ongoing project.
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