Bugout & Ready for War Trucks

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RandyMarionCDJR

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With the world kind of going to well.... lets just say a rough place. The question has popped up all throughout America and even in my own home, "Are we prepared when s*** really hits the fan?" Of course, being prepared is subjective to the individual but some like to go the extra mile & not only have food stored but also prefer their home & vehicle be "war ready". I was checking out what some people had decided to do to make sure they were ready for the potential upcoming "apocalypse" and here are some photos/videos I found.

Has anyone here seen what's going on with the world & begun prepping for the worst? Are you prepping your vehicle, home, or both?

Lets see those Bug Out trucks!

Are you ready to bug out?

How to EMP proof your truck.

Green Beret Mike Glover GoRig Bug Out Truck

Truck Gear Panel Build In Truck Bed - This seems useful regardless of your "Bug Out" status

This guy claims this is the "Foundation" for any Bug Out build

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Interesting on the EMP Shield. If they have the tech to essentially "grounding out" an EMP blast that's pretty cool.

If I was doing a bug out vehicle, I would get a 2 1/2ton 6x6 (Duece and Half) with the multi-fuel hypercycle engine and set one of those up. I still want to get one. That or a M52A2 (M39 series) 5 ton with the multi-fuel engine. Pretty much burn anything flammable in it.
 

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i like the idea of a bug out vehicle but probably won't make it far. In a SHTF situation that I bet all bridges will be gone and a lot of fuel will be used up with no one to bring more. Best to bug in and wait it out a year all big city's will be a war zone
 

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A emp blast is a distinct possibility, my bug out vehicle is an old enduro bike with points. Can't imagine relying on a computer-controlled vehicle.
 

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If it's as good as or better than Jed Eckert's stepside Chevy, you should be fine...at least in a conventional war. Might have to take a leak in the radiator, though.

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If there's an EMP, every one of our fancy trucks will be driveway queens. I used to be in a theoretically survivable during a nuke exchange military unit. Our old, Ford 9000 semis did not have one transistor except the AM radio so an EMP would not keep you from **** of Dodge. Those hunks of junk could only hit 65 mph downhill. The Freightliners that replaced them only had a computer for the ABS...and the radio. If that got fried, you still had the basic air brakes. That little box on your battery in the YT video will be too slow to shunt the energy going through the system. Better to have shielding and a Faraday Cage to keep the EMP from the wiring and transistors in the first place.

Of course, if you are near a nuke target, like say a weapons plant or I-25 from Great Falls to Albuquerque, you'll be toast anyway. Most of us will have no warning before the blinding flash of light. If you do get a warning, first you need distance from ground zero to avoid the big boom, then you need to get out of the downwind cone to avoid the fallout carried by the prevailing winds.
 

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Not sure why anyone would want to survive "the worst" or apocalypse scenario. Your fancy truck would be useless in a fairly short time and what is there remaining worth living through? You gonna live in a bunker for the rest of your life? Roam the nuclear-devastated wasteland looking for something to eat trying not to die from radiation? If it comes down to a Red Dawn scenario....yeah, I'm ready to hunker down and fight it out with any enemy stupid enough to invade (I could form a sizeable and well-armed military unit with just dudes in my neighborhood). A nuclear holocaust...I kind of hope I'm close to ground zero.
 

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Not sure why anyone would want to survive "the worst" or apocalypse scenario. Your fancy truck would be useless in a fairly short time and what is there remaining worth living through? You gonna live in a bunker for the rest of your life? Roam the nuclear-devastated wasteland looking for something to eat trying not to die from radiation? If it comes down to a Red Dawn scenario....yeah, I'm ready to hunker down and fight it out with any enemy stupid enough to invade (I could form a sizeable and well-armed military unit with just dudes in my neighborhood). A nuclear holocaust...I kind of hope I'm close to ground zero.
Most likely scenario is the kind of apocalypse going on in Sri Lanka right now, it’s about to hit the fan. I feel for those citizens of what was once a prosperous and highly educated country. Just watch… if you can find the coverage.
 

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Not sure why anyone would want to survive "the worst" or apocalypse scenario. Your fancy truck would be useless in a fairly short time and what is there remaining worth living through? You gonna live in a bunker for the rest of your life? Roam the nuclear-devastated wasteland looking for something to eat trying not to die from radiation? If it comes down to a Red Dawn scenario....yeah, I'm ready to hunker down and fight it out with any enemy stupid enough to invade (I could form a sizeable and well-armed military unit with just dudes in my neighborhood). A nuclear holocaust...I kind of hope I'm close to ground zero.

i am in the same boat. Nuclear would be bad i dont think anyone would survive it would be world ending i think. Not one person prepping could account for that much devastation.
average home in the united states only has 33 days worth of food stored lol. even red dawn situation lots will die or go to government camps not many will be driving around.
 

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You guys are off topic, start a new thread with your nuke, end of the world, BS
 

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united we stand dividend we are falling. China is silent. We are self destructing. No need to prep, I'm so close to ATL that all should be vaporized. Much of the news could be a distraction as we are invaded from the south. ok back to the sunnyside.
 

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united we stand dividend we are falling. China is silent. We are self destructing. No need to prep, I'm so close to ATL that all should be vaporized. Much of the news could be a distraction as we are invaded from the south. ok back to the sunnyside.
I live right in between two major military bases. I figure both will be gone in the first round of whatever happens, so I'll be toast right off the bat.

I've always been curious about all these doomsday preppers. What would you want to survive for? There is a theory that the world is only two weeks away from going back to the caveman times. Meaning if there is a major world-wide event it would only take about two weeks before it's total chaos. Imagine if there was a massive EMP, or asteroid, or nuclear war. No electricity, no food deliveries (grocery stores), no transportation, no fuel...within two weeks it would be Mad Max out there.
 

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I live right in between two major military bases. I figure both will be gone in the first round of whatever happens, so I'll be toast right off the bat.

I've always been curious about all these doomsday preppers. What would you want to survive for?

You never wanted to see the thunder dome in person?
 

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If it's as good as or better than Jed Eckert's stepside Chevy, you should be fine...at least in a conventional war. Might have to take a leak in the radiator, though.

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If there's an EMP, every one of our fancy trucks will be driveway queens. I used to be in a theoretically survivable during a nuke exchange military unit. Our old, Ford 9000 semis did not have one transistor except the AM radio so an EMP would not keep you from **** of Dodge. Those hunks of junk could only hit 65 mph downhill. The Freightliners that replaced them only had a computer for the ABS...and the radio. If that got fried, you still had the basic air brakes. That little box on your battery in the YT video will be too slow to shunt the energy going through the system. Better to have shielding and a Faraday Cage to keep the EMP from the wiring and transistors in the first place.

Of course, if you are near a nuke target, like say a weapons plant or I-25 from Great Falls to Albuquerque, you'll be toast anyway. Most of us will have no warning before the blinding flash of light. If you do get a warning, first you need distance from ground zero to avoid the big boom, then you need to get out of the downwind cone to avoid the fallout carried by the prevailing winds.
Wolverines!!
 

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"an EMP would not keep you from **** of Dodge"

LOL! The Google police doesn't like G*T*F*O.
 
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If it's as good as or better than Jed Eckert's stepside Chevy, you should be fine...at least in a conventional war. Might have to take a leak in the radiator, though.

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If there's an EMP, every one of our fancy trucks will be driveway queens. I used to be in a theoretically survivable during a nuke exchange military unit. Our old, Ford 9000 semis did not have one transistor except the AM radio so an EMP would not keep you from **** of Dodge. Those hunks of junk could only hit 65 mph downhill. The Freightliners that replaced them only had a computer for the ABS...and the radio. If that got fried, you still had the basic air brakes. That little box on your battery in the YT video will be too slow to shunt the energy going through the system. Better to have shielding and a Faraday Cage to keep the EMP from the wiring and transistors in the first place.

Of course, if you are near a nuke target, like say a weapons plant or I-25 from Great Falls to Albuquerque, you'll be toast anyway. Most of us will have no warning before the blinding flash of light. If you do get a warning, first you need distance from ground zero to avoid the big boom, then you need to get out of the downwind cone to avoid the fallout carried by the prevailing winds.
Wondering what scenarios our war gaming military peeps are running right now. An EMP seems plausible but if Putin lights one of those off - either in Europe or over North America - would we (US/NATO) go full nuclear in response? Chilling any way you dice it.

Much more worried here and now about diesel fuel supply. Ag - farmers, ranchers and everything between them and the grocery store - almost totally dependent on diesel to run ag machinery & trucks to bring us food. What ever happened to biodiesel anyway? Not enough $$ in it for Big Oil? Inquiring minds want to know...

BTW there is enough old iron in our junkyards - and enough grease monkeys and wrench twirlers - for us to cobble some transport together post EMP. A friend who survived Pol Pot (after watching his family murdered) has a good recipe for cooking up fuel from plastic milk jugs; kept the two stroke scooters used by him, one sister and a few pals to escape to Vietnam going as they fled for their lives. Where there's a will there's a way if we do manage to avoid a nuclear apocalypse.
 
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