No Such Thing as a Fair Fight
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Derek Price
Derek Price lives in Bear Grass, North Carolina, where he runs Deadwood—a Wild West theme park open to all ages.
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Welcome to Deadwood
Derek Price has made his amusement park ‘Deadwood’ a secret prepping fortress. Instead of spending the profits on a lavish lifestyle, the Prices use ticket sales to prepare for a solar flare that Derek fears will wipe out modern technology and bring society back to the days of the Wild West.
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Cannon Compound
Derek Price plans to defend his compound with 18th century cannons.
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Defending Deadwood
Derek Price and his family get ready to defend Deadwood in a mock raid to see if they are ready to defend themselves and the park against the intruders they fear might show up after an apocalyptic event.
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Brent
Brent is a businessman on the East Coast of Florida. He has 10 kids, ages 8 to 41 years old. During the Y2K scare in 1999 Brent started prepping and stockpiling food, water and weapons.
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Constructing a Castle
To protect his family, he is building the ultimate bug-out fortress—a medieval castle. His fortress is located on a remote 200-acre plot of land in the Blue Ridge Mountains, 1500 feet above sea level.
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Building a Windmill
Some of Brent's children put up a windmill for power. Brent and his kids travel down from Florida and prepare the castle for an EMP.
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Castle Power
Brent and his son are putting up a windmill to harness wind power for the castle.
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Wind Power
Brent helps his kids secure a windmill in the ground just outside of the castle's gates.
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Solar Power
Brent is installing a solar panel array with the help of his children. His 10 kids are all competing to someday run their father’s legacy and take over the throne.
A few suggestions:
Brent: Your Castle:
If you haven’t thought about this,your castle construction is an inexpensive and perfect time to install aFaraday cage into the framing. You whole castle will be EMP free.
Derek: Your Cannon:
Thecannon fuse goes into the hole about half way to the bottom of the bore BEFOREyou add the power charge. It will fire every time. (This is ONLY for standardlight-able fuses). If you load your powder in a bag, put your fuse in at thesame depth after the powder bag, but make a hole for the fuse with anon-sparking pin. Use brass, wood, or plastic, a little smaller than the fusehole.
Derek: Your Steel Trap Door:
Thatheavy trap door is very nice, but if a cylinder hose, bracket, piston cup,fitting, or weld failed, it could fall and hurt somebody bad. If interested,you can easily make a hydraulic closer. You'll need a hydraulic cylinder, (2)90 degree hydraulic fittings and a hydraulic hose. This device will adjust justlike a closer on a storm door. The cylinders can be small, but they have tohave the required length to open the door fully, like your current cylinder. 2cylinders will work better than one, but try 1 first.
Mosthydraulic cylinders have a FLOW VALVE at each end to adjust acceleration anddeceleration. They are technically called cushion valves. It's an adjustingscrew with a lock nut. Look for them when you buy your cylinders. *Use onlyHydraulic rated parts. Air fittings will fit, but will fail and that will ringyour bell good!
Completelyfill the cylinder with oil and purge all the air out like brake lines on a car.Install the fittings. Hook up one hose fitting with a short hydraulic hose.with one end disconnected and elevated, top off the hose and cylinder withnon-freezing oil and connect it so it's a closed loop. The less air, thebetter. Bleed it by slightly loosening the hose fittings one at a time and push& pull on the shaft. Then you will need to add oil to the other end. Youwill get good at this eventually.
Weldcylinder brackets to the trap door, attach cylinders and adjust decel valves toclose slow (hard) and open fast (easy). The valves are designed to be one-way.In the opposite direction, they free flow. One valve should be wide open tostart. It doesn't matter which valve you adjust first, but work with the samevalve on both cylinders if you use 2. Use that wide open flow valve to adjustthe opposite direction.
Glad to help.