Front Porch Friday 7/29/2022 Go bag introduction

 

"Should the need arise being prepared is better than the needless suffering of the choice not too"

            In this past Front porch Friday we introduced the go bag series and some of the variations of bags to be able to handle various disasters should they arise. In this blog I will be breaking down the first bottle I showed and some of the detailed components as well as some of the functions. 

This bottled was put together for the need if for some reason I had to leave my vehicle or go-bag behind I would be able to get home and carry a minimum amount of gear, this is helpful should you find yourself in a civil disrest situation and or other reason I don't want to stand out. 

The battle bottle with black cover on it 

  Let me introduce you once again to the Battle Bottle from Iron Infidel it is a 2 liter stainless steel bottle that comes with a neat camo carrier or if your savvy like me you buy the 2 cover version to switch up. Pictured above is it in the black camo pattern. the bottle is perfect if the event only lasts a few hours, way too little to use your 72 hour bag. The bottle above filled with the water and gear weighs about 10 pounds, fits in between the seats of your car and provides you with a few hours of  operating window  without breaking out your 72 hour go bag.  Let's unload our bottle and  see what has worked well for me. 

How the Bottle is packed

    From top left here are the contents: 

1. Compass map reader* 

2. Water key  (to refill the bottle) 

3. Sharpie Marker 

4. Snack 

5. Snap lights (Green)* 

6. Flashlight (Mini Goose Neck)  

7. Ferro Rod 

8. Knife 

9.  Magnifying glass 

10. Bottle with cover 

* ( comes in a multi pack that can be broke into Additional  Go- Kits) 

For the most part I have everything I need should  any emergency arise or if I decide I don't want to drive I have a quick solution that I can just throw into a car and go without tasking the driver with a bulky bag or taking up precious room in their car. Almost all of this stuff can be found on amazon but I have included a link to the battle bottle. How you put it together is for you to decide, I just wanted to show you what has worked well for me. If you have any questions just write in the comments below and I will cover them in another blog post. 

Link to the bottle: (and no I am not affiliated with them just a really happy customer) 

This is for the 2 cover 1 bottle set. https://ironinfidel.com/collections/battle-bottles/products/battle-bottle-ocp-and-ocp-black

Video To this Blog: 

The MPV (Multi purpose vehicle build): An introduction

 

"All People Bring Joy, Some when they come-

others when they leave, however all people bring joy" 

        For the better part of my storm spotter/ volunteer career I have owned and driven a few Dodge Grand caravans such as my recent 2006 one pictured below. Some o f the nice things about it were  that we had plenty of room for gear, people, and it made a great road trip vehicle. Form a storm spotter perspective it wasn't too bad (the NWS uses these) but three of the major downfalls was one, it was a giant wind sail. Second it lacked the mobility in the snow (it became stuck twice last winter). Finally it lacked the ability to be upgraded  and outfitted wit some of the necessary items needed to be able to storm spot properly. Besides storm spotting I wanted a vehicle that should a snow storm or disaster happen I wouldn't be stuck. .

The old faithful  Caravan 

With the Beginning demise of the caravan we began to look for a better alternative and I wanted a JEEP, one of the setbacks was cost with some of the base models ranging from 15k to over 35k it just wasn't the ideal financial  choice, but to no avail I was blessed to find a 1998 Jeep Wrangler TJ Sport for under 10k which while it needs work, it provides a great build platform and still comes in under the lowest priced model we looked at. 

The New MPV 

Over the course of this fall and next spring we will be doing a lot of upgrades and doing videos on some of the upgrades and why we chose some of the upgrades for our vehicle. 

 

The reason we are calling this our multi purpose vehicle is simple it will provide us a vehicle that will do some of these functions. 

Everyday Driver: Now you know the basic reason for this to essentially go to work, to the store, and do everyday tasks without the need to be worried about getting stuck in the snow or not having the capability to do everyday tasks due to other situations that may arise. 

Storm Spotter Vehicle: Being a local storm spotter /chaser I don't plan on driving 100's of miles a week and the smaller footprint saves gas money and makes the vehicle less susceptible to high winds, wet roads, and debris laden roads. Also another thing is we rarely get super severe thunderstorms that produce F4-5 tornadoes, most of our threat comes from winter weather and lake effect snow so the 4 wheel drive is a excellent choice for our adaptation of the vehicle for this purpose. 

Disaster response vehicle: Going hand in hand with storm spotting, we were in the need for a vehicle that will enable us to help should we need to help others in need. Some of the things we may come upon is pulling vehicles out of snow or trees off of vehicles in the event such things are needed. 

Camping/ Bug Out vehicle: Should the need to evacuate arise, we want to be able to evacuate and or get out of Dodge we want to adapt this vehicle with our gear and do it quickly and efficiently. By using the Jeep as a camping vehicle we will be able to test load and evaluate it well before we ever have to use it. 

Conclusion: This vehicle build is going to be a fun family project and we want you to come along on our journey as we build it. If you have jeep parts, are a mechanic, have a shop, and or just want to be a patron and help with the build just message me here on blogger. I want to thank you for reading my blog and remember God is still in control, until next time take care. 

 

    

 

Welcome

 

            I want to welcome you to our blog today, by this being the first post I just wanted to give you some background and somethings to expect. First this is our journey into a semi- off grid life, with the way the world is today it is a comfort knowing that most of the time we are not affected by disruptions as we  have and are continuing to build our life around self sufficiency. With disruptions in food, power and other commercial supply chains it just makes sense. The second is in our name Wave outdoors and tactical, it is a combination of all  our names and will be our future business name as we begin an outdoors store in the future. Now I know by now you are wondering about how this all will tie together? Well it is simple, this blog right now supplements  our YouTube Channel (See Intro video at the bottom of the page) by adding content that we either can't fit in the video, going in depth on a topic we do a video on , or just providing another outlet for our content we create. In the future it will tie into helping promote our business, helping educate others on common sense disaster preparedness, and hopefully inspiring others to live healthier, learn a new skill and to go outside and enjoy a semi off grid life as well.

Here are a few things you can expect from us: 

Gardening and growing your own food

Camping, hunting and fishing trips 

Archery

Ham radio and emergency communications

Common sense disaster preparedness 

Gear Reviews

Special project builds

Along with so much more...…

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