How will you defend your shtf location?

[HDR]

My 2 biggest things would be:
1) Early warning devices. (ya gotta sleep sometime)
2) Protection from incoming rounds.

First I'd assess the terrain or whatever it is I am defending; divide it into sectors.

Are you set on those items now?

After a soldier "graduates" training; he is assigned to a unit and to keep on training.. lol My point is military training is both long and thorough; so "it" is bred into infantrymen.

Small backhoe, it's mine. We are working on the 74HP Bobcat and ther is a dump trailer in my yard... The next door neighbor has a small dozer. The boss 17 miles away is looking at medium size trackhoes and I still want a dragline...

My neighbor has a Kubota; he had an older JD and the Kubota is new so it is his "love." I know you understand... He gardens and the terrain is steep here; he is terracing the slope to expand the garden.

We wish someone with a big CAT dozer would move in... lol

[recon]

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[El Laton Caliente]

My neighbor has a Kubota; he had an older JD and the Kubota is new so it is his "love." I know you understand... He gardens and the terrain is steep here; he is terracing the slope to expand the garden.

We wish someone with a big CAT dozer would move in... lol

My boss' neighbor buys, refurbishes and sells late model heavy equipment so at any given time he has half a dozen pieces or more at his place. The boss got rid of the Cat 12 motor grader, Cat 235 trackhoe and the D6, he/we just didn't have the trucks & trailers to move it around even both having the small freightliners. The big stuff had to have a low boy trailer in the 35 ton to 45 ton range and the truck to pull it. The 235 hydraulic pump is $9K and I can buy one for my backhoe for $900. Equipment up in that size range requires a lot of support and a LOT of fuel and maintenance. The smaller stuff we are working with can be hauled easily and farm tractor size hydraulics are readily available and MUCH cheaper.

To paraphase Bill Jordan, the best equipment you can have is what is parked in the yard when you need it....

I'm on top of a hill also with 60+ foot drops in 100 to 200 yards on three sides. The wife is wanting "retaining walls" put in... lol...

[HDR]

I'm on top of a hill also with 60+ foot drops in 100 to 200 yards on three sides. The wife is wanting "retaining walls" put in... lol...

Retaining walls terraformed in?? lol

Here it is steep on three sides for a few hundred yards. Friendliest angle 59 degrees measured by a surveyor. In Spring and summer to the East is impregnable unless one is immune to poison oak. lol

The road in is the ridge line. Not a road to skid off in winter. It is laid back and pretty here so that was the motivator.



The dish washing view. lol

[sglenn]

I'm with the "heads on sticks" guy.

[slamfire51]

Where are you HDR?

[HDR]

Western NC.



Cameras don't show depth well..

[El Laton Caliente]

That is a lot more of a drop off than I have. For the large view though I have lake on three sides. Take out a few bridges and the 150 miles to a large city is more like 200+... with limited access.

[Broondog]

i will defend my location with every fiber of my being, for it is my home.

if that is inadequate then i shall die and pass on my stores to the victor.

[ubersoldate]

As I have said a zillion times, I do not think any home is protected when there is someone with a molitov coctail out there trying to get ya.
But there are a few things that would work to better my odds.
That and as posted above, using nature to defend you is the key.
If they are at the door, then it isnt going to be pretty.



1- Get to know my neighbors who own property around us, set up a communication of sorts. Power in numbers, and I would think that helping one another in a bad situation would really work against a group of people who decided to take on one house.

2- Fell a few trees on the only road in.

Keep the house as far from view from the road as possible by using natural tree trimming, or lack of!


The rest is pretty much up to my dog hearing people coming up the hill.
Animals come in handy in such situations.

Looking down my driveway.

Looking out the back door.

[btcave]

1- Get to know my neighbors who own property around us...

...The rest is pretty much up to my dog hearing people coming up the hill.
Animals come in handy in such situations....

This.

[HDR]

That is a lot more of a drop off than I have. For the large view though I have lake on three sides. Take out a few bridges and the 150 miles to a large city is more like 200+... with limited access.

Skidding off the road here is not wise.

Urban is about 100 miles from here. Same situation with a bridge; however taking it out would require a bunch of C4.

The rest is pretty much up to my dog hearing people coming up the hill.
Animals come in handy in such situations.

Yup, dorgs can hear over 200 times better than the average human.

Keep the house as far from view from the road as possible by using natural tree trimming, or lack of!

As clearing fields of fire would mean the house could be visible from a distance this can be a conflict of interests. lol

Welcome to no people living..

[HDR]

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Is the book any good?

I was an 11B so it was beat into my brain same as any other 11B. lol