33 Awesome DiY Projects for Preppers

by Todd Walker

DiY skills may one day turn a tinkering hobby into life-saving knowledge. Turning book knowledge into useful stuff takes initiative.

You have to start somewhere.

Below you’ll find a slew (33 counts as a slew, right?) of ideas to help you on your journey to self-reliance and preparedness. Most will take only a few minutes and minimal skills. Others require hours and sweat equity. Doers of the Stuff don’t mind. It’s just what we do.

Let’s get started Doing the Stuff:

1. Cigar Fishing Kit
2. Drinking Straw Sewing Kit
3. The 5 Minute Tin Olive Oil Lamp
4. Fletching Arrows Duct Tape
5. A DIY Fire Bow On Training Wheels
6. Get Your Gut In Shape: Down and Dirty Sauerkraut
7. Pemmican: Bread of the Wilderness
8. Camouflage Your Rifle DIY Style
9. Arm Pit Probiotics and DiY Deodorant
10. Dirt Road Girl Compost Tumbler
11. Rendering Tallow for Cooking and 12 Other Uses
12. Camouflaging DiY Rain Barrels for Front Yard Gardens
13. Go Herbal: Putting Together Your Go-To Herbal Medicine Kit
14. Ollas: Ancient Low Tech and Low Cost Sub-Surface Irrigation System
15. DiY Fire Starter in a Drinking Straw
16. Todd’s Tomato Ladders: No More Lame Cages
17. Do It Yourself Survival – PART 1 – Low Cost DIY Projects for Preppers
18. Clever Storage Idea For Old DVD Containers
19. Making a “Honey-Do” Bench from a Cedar Tree with Pioneer Tools
20. Healthy Household: Homemade Medical Kits
21. A DiY Farmhouse Table, DRG’s Grocery Bag, and Chair Planter
22. Running on Empty: Siphoning Gas without Sucking
23. A DiY Survival Sling Shot with Big Game Capabilities
24. Deconstructing My Adjustable Paracord Rifle Sling…Just for You
25. Physical Preparedness: Practical Performance for Real-World Survival (Doing the stuff in natures gym)
26. Vertical Spine Shelves for Small Spaces
27. DiY Pallet Garden Fence and 100 Year Old Windows
28. The Dirt on Moving Raised Beds to Full Sun
29. Coffee Can Hobo Stove
30. HOW TO BUILD A ROCKET STOVE TO IMPRESS THE BOYS 😉
31. Lighten Your BOB: Pack The Alpha Tent
32. DIY Preparedness: Ed’s Red Bore Cleaner Recipe
33. Arming Yourself for the Zombie Apocalypse: How to Build the Ultimate Survival Shotgun

I know y’all have more to add to this list. Drop us a line about your DiY projects and ideas in the comments (with links if you have them) and add value to our community!

Keep doing the stuff,

Todd

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The Most Important Piece of Furniture in Your House

by Todd Walker

I had hoped to get this project finished last weekend. With out-of-town family coming in yesterday, Dirt Road Girl gave me the nudge I needed.

Why is your kitchen table the most important piece of furniture in your house?

Here’s what Caroline Cooper had to say about this project two weeks ago:

“In my opinion, the kitchen table is the most important piece of furniture in a household. It is the place that family and friends share their meals and their lives. The kitchen table can be the place of home industry where the household produces goods rather than just consuming. The household table was once the center of activity for food storage preparation, crafting, and other forms of paid work. The kitchen table used to be the place for teaching our children, but that use has gone out of style, or has been regulated by the state out of existence.”

This is the last picture y’all saw of the table assembled, but unfinished.

 

All it needed was stain and 3 coats of sealer applied. That process took more time than actually building the table. DRG picked out a stain that would give it a weathered look. After testing it on a scrap piece of wood, we decided against it. It had a blue tint to it. Not our style.

After two more trips to the box store, we settled on the color pictured below:

The most important piece of furniture in our house

Getting it into the house was the challenge. With a combination of dollies, ramps, and one blood blister, DRG and I moved it to its proper place. We used an incline plane to navigate steps – and save energy and back pain. My daddy taught me to work smarter, not harder.

I estimate a total of 15 hours to complete this project from the first saw cut to the last brush of polyurethane. We invested a total of $150.00 in materials. The finished product is a priceless family heirloom.

Last night we broke bread for the first time on our new family table with DRG’s cousin and wife we haven’t seen in years. Caroline, you’re right. We spent the whole evening catching up around the most important piece of furniture in our house. Lots of great memories will be created on and around our simple, rustic, functional farmhouse table.

To learn more about building one yourself, click here.

Do you have any DiY Preparedness Projects you’d like to learn about? Drop us a line in the comments or email us and we’ll get busy with a tutorial. In the meantime, check out the other preparedness projects on our DiY Projects page. Ideas are always welcome.

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