Survival Groups
Survival Groups
Purpose
The purpose of this article is discuss how people can work together to achieve a desired goal.
Objective
Instead of talking about all the the different types of survival groups, lets talk about how people can work together to achieve a desired goal.
Shared resources
One example of a survival prep was a bar-b-q pit that I supplied for a buddy of mine. My buddy needed a wood burning pit, and I worked in a welding shop. Over the course of a few months I cut out sections of plate steel and brought the steel to my buddies house. Once everything was ready, the pit was put together and welded up. The end result was a pit with a side fire box that had a cooking surface about 3 feet long and 18 inches wide.
To build up a stockpile of wood, I found a guy that needed some oak trees cut. We worked out a deal that my buddy and I would cut the trees down, and we kept all of the oak trees. Once everything was over, we had about a cord of oak firewood.
With the firewood and the pit, my buddy and his family had a way to cook. Here it is 10 years later and we are still cooking on that pit.
I worked in a welding shop, my buddy needed a way to cook, working together we achieved the desired goal.
Back in 2008 a local timber company cut some oak trees on the deer lease that I am a member of. Some of the members of my group and I got several truckloads of good red oak for the bar-b-q pit.
It would have been almost impossible and very unsafe for me to cut the firewood by myself, so members of the group teamed up and worked together.
The firewood that we cut in a single weekend lasted around 2 years. the wood that we cut was mostly used in my bar-b-q pit, and one of the group members got some wood for his fireplace.
the harvested wood was stored at 2 different locations – 1 place is where the family had easy access to it, the other place was at the bug out location.
Working as a team
When the members of my group were reloading, we would buy bullets, brass and primers in bulk. Instead of buying bullets in boxes of 100, we would buy a case of 5,000 bullets. We would then pick a weekend and spend a Saturday running the progressive reloading presses. One press was an RCBS Rock Chucker with a piggyback II, the other press was a Lee progressive press.
On the reloading day, our group would have 3 people working together as a team – 2 people operating the presses and a 3rd person that kept the powder hoppers filled up, and the press operators stocked with bullets and brass.
During a reloading session, we decided to see how many 9mm we could reload in 1 hour. Between 2 progressive presses and 1 support person, we reloaded 1,000 rounds of 9mm in 1 hour.
Community Effort
In 2010 as the price of food started to inch up, my family decided to plant a community garden. In a group effort we tilled the ground, made the rows, spread the fertilizer, planted the potatoes, planted the squash, zucchini and snap beans.
When the time came to harvest the crops, everyone that helped plant the garden was there to help out.
The first that was harvested were the potatoes, then the snap beans and finally the squash. We did not get a lot of rainfall in 2010, so the garden did not produce like it should have.
Even with the lack of rain we still got a good bit of potatoes and snap beans.
Shared Goals
With so many different types of survivalist out there, its important to find people who share the same goals.
Examples:
Survivalist who plan for an overthrow of the US governmnet
Survivalist who try to live off the grid
Survivalist who plan for events like Y2K and 2012
When forming relationships with other survivalist, its important to find people who have the same goals as you. If your goal is to survive an outbreak of a new disease, you would not want to team up with militant survivalist.
The best relationships are formed with people who share a common goal.
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