Top 10 Apocalypse Vehicles (4K)

hi folks Canadian prepper here so today we're gonna float different ways to transport yourself and your stuff in the case of a lights-out situation we're gonna talk about the most practical to the most obscure modes of commuting post Grid down event so let's get to it [Music] so there's many considerations for grid down transportation among these are things like fuel practicality accessibility cost ease of maintenance durability loudness and also the capability in terms of towing capacity payload and off-road abilities as well as the weather and the climate that you're in are obviously going to be factors that you're gonna have to consider when trying to make a plan for grid down commuting now in 99% of short-term emergency scenarios your current vehicle or mode of transport is going to suffice unless of course you rely on public transportation then you're gonna want to consider one of the options we talked about today but for most people in anything less than a Mad Max scenario your own vehicle will suffice making sure that your gas tank is always somewhere between half and full especially in the winter time is one of the best ways to be proactive from an emergency prepared to standpoint the last position you want to put yourself in is one of the frantic melee that's gonna take place at the many gas stations where you're gonna be waiting hours on end and the gas may even run out before you get there try to have the legally allowable amount of fuel stored on hand taking into account of course the shelf-life of the various fuels that you may have to use in your vehicle gasoline of course has a relatively short life span of six months unless you use fuel stabilizers these are going to prevent degradation and maintain the combust ability of the gasoline if used properly these can extend the life of your gasoline for up to two years but it should be noted that the older your gasoline is the harder it is gonna be on your engine so you want to rotate this stuff out frequently gasoline with a high ethanol content has a much shorter life span of approximately three months many in the preparedness community prefer to use diesel over gasoline for a variety of reasons firstly it has a slightly longer shelf life than gasoline of up to a year without the use of fuel stable diesel engines at least the older ones could be modified to use fuels like vegetable oil unfortunately the newer diesel engines due to electrical regulation and more computers being used to regulate the engine they're gonna be more sensitive to these more obscure fuel types than older diesel engines would be so it's recommended that if you are looking to build a mad max-style vehicle that can run on anything then you're probably gonna want to get something pre-2005 these all just may be in greater abundance after a clap scenario because the most sought-out form of fuel is going to be gasoline and that is gonna run out very quick most people don't have diesel engines unless you're talking about semis and heavy equipment and a lot of those vehicles and machinery are not gonna be utilized after a grid down event so there will be fuel to scavenge not only from them but there probably will be an abundance of fuel much more than gasoline now with regards to preparing for an electromagnetic pulse because the likelihood of a scenario like that is so small and because only 5 to 10% of vehicles are gonna be permanently disabled as a result of it it's my personal choice not to base my entire grid down vehicle strategy on that one possible event if that is something that is of concern to you then you're definitely gonna favor the more traditional and analogue modes of commuting that we're gonna talk about today now the one mode of transport that everybody should have in their arsenal because it's so cheap to do so is a bike it requires no fuel it's quiet they're small they're agile they're relatively cheap of course you can obviously spend a lot of money on bikes nowadays but generally speaking you can find a used bike on Craigslist for 10 to 20 dollars they're practical you're gonna use it everyday especially a few on exercise if you want to run the dog it's a simple design so you don't have to be a mechanic to understand how to fix them the only limiting factor of course is gonna be the tires a good pair of mountain bike tires with thicker tread can last you up to 3,000 miles that's a lot of pedaling when you think about it however if you are using it with great frequency in a prolonged grid down situation you're definitely going to want to have extra tires or the very least extra tubes on hand in various parts that would help you fix things like the drivetrain now the cons of a bike are pretty obvious they're relatively slow of course compared to a car you can only carry so much weight on them mind you if you have a trailer you can pull a lot more but it's still gonna require a lot of calories so it's gonna require a lot of energy human power of course and ultimately you may in fact run out of parts but there's no reason not to have a bike now the next evolution is an e bike and ebikes are arguably the best form of post collapse vehicle that you can get there potentially much quieter than normal bikes there's an obvious advantage of course in that they require less energy than an electric vehicle even though of course you do have a smaller payload and you can't tow as much you can of course recharge them so they're renewable and many of these lithium batteries can be charged 1,000 to 2,000 times in some cases most of the batteries are of small enough capacity that they can be charged within a reasonable timeframe so a 40 amp hour battery which is pretty large in terms of e bikes will charge with relative ease under a couple hundred watt solar panels throughout the course of a day hunting ebikes like this one here called the mule may be ideal for preparedness because they're built very rugged they're built to take a lot of abuse these environments of course better replicate what you might find in a grid down situation the good thing about an e-bike is that even if the electrical components fail you can still use it as a bike for most of the bikes that you can find on the market you can spend up to ten thousand dollars on the tapas knotch e bike there is out there and especially if you want to add extra batteries you can extend your range of course by just backpacking a few batteries you can get several hundred miles of range out of an e-bike if you do it right but of course there is gonna be a limited lifespan of those batteries you can only charge them so many times but realistically a thousand charge cycles unless you're using that bike to its limit every day is going to last you at least a decade now electric vehicles the pros of those of course is that they're very low maintenance there's less moving parts they are very high performance machines they're in quiet and that could be a huge object factor especially at night when sounds can be heard from long distances it's difficult to hear when an electric vehicle is on when you're right next to it but you can hear most combustion engines from miles away especially at night the cons as of 2019 is that there are still very expensive and considered luxury vehicles at least the electric vehicles that a person would want like the Tesla's and they also consume very large amounts of electricity that would require a very large solar installation and it would require you to have a lot of surplus power that you weren't using to power all the other essential things on your off-grid homestead but one thing that you need to keep in mind is that you don't necessarily need to charge the vehicle to full everyday even if you are only trickle charging it with several kilowatt hours of power every day you could probably get as much energy as you needed depending on how much you were driving in the case of an economic crisis where you had gas prices skyrocketing and you had a solar installation you could foreseeably have a relatively unlimited mode of transportation now a lot of people will talk about electromagnetic pulse and how these vehicles are gonna be much more vulnerable to event like that of course this would be a very rare event even though a coronal mass ejection event like the Carrington event is ultimately inevitable events like that are not going to affect the circuitry of a vehicle and in the off chance of ww3 scenario we're gonna have a lot bigger problems nuclear power plants being one of them then worried about our eby's not running now this next alternative may ultimately be the only alternative on a long enough time line after a grid down event and that is the use of animals horses mules donkeys even camels in some parts of the world have obvious benefits because they basically run on grass so the fuel is cheap and it's pretty much everywhere although they are going to need a grazing territory which is going to require land which you're going to have to of course protect and of course to see them through the winter you're going to have to have many many bales of hay to provide them energy this of course is going require a lot of labor to harvest harvesting your own food is one thing harvesting some for your animals is another which is not to say that there's not wild horses who subsist in winter climates and are able to still find vegetation to eat during those times but wild horses of course can go wherever they want and you are going to want to tame that horse the great thing about horses of course is they are basically all-terrain vehicles horses being animals are also good early warning signs they can alert you of danger long before you might notice it they can carry relatively large loads they can be bred they can be sold and of course it's the only vehicle that you can eat if it fails you now some of the cons of course is that like with any living thing there is potential for health problems horse is gonna leave a lot more sign and scat so it's gonna be harder to cover your tracks and keeping a domesticated horse alive wouldn't be an easy task it would require a lot of work as previously indicated and the last downside is that they're gonna be very costly and if you don't know anything about horses before the collapse chances are that lack of knowledge will carry over post collapse but if you do know somebody who has horses keep them in mind as a possible post collapse Ally even if they're not a prepper you can help them and maybe they can help you now for some more unconventional methods there's thousands of miles of train tracks within North America they are everywhere and they permeate every crevice of the continent there used to be these things called hanne-liebe rail trolleys that were basically man-powered single train cars and they would allow you to go between eight to 15 miles per hour with minimal effort or at least a lot less effort than it would take you to ride a bike because the rails are more efficient way of moving Freight because there's not as much friction that's why trains are four times more efficient than any other form of moving large amounts of goods from one place to another the problem of course with this is that after a lights-out scenario there's gonna be a lot of abandoned trains on train tracks even in the old days when there were a thousand these when they were building the railroads most of these hand trolleys were meant to transport people between two points which were say twenty miles away and every 20 miles there'd be a different set of hand trolleys but even if it was a good idea you'd have a hard time finding one of these but the idea is there and train tracks in the very least could still potentially be used by your own vehicle if there is congestion and total gridlock after a grid down event probably one of the most dangerous forms of post collapse transport would have to be a hot air balloon now hot air balloons were the first mechanisms used in air combat back in the eighteenth century and their role was primarily for reconnaissance purposes there was in sin dairy balloons and I'm sure there was some other capacity that they were used in a combative sense but by and large it was for recon these balloons they can achieve fairly impressive speeds as fast as the wind will allow the fastest ever recorded was 245 miles per hour and could travel for thousands of miles on one tank now they were able to use these in the 18th century because the weaponry back then was not sophisticated enough to shoot it down today that would be another story and the obvious downside of course is that it is going to require fuel to use the balloons that don't use helium use propane and propane has a very long shelf life I should add there are some vehicles that do run on propane although they are very rare but that would be an ideal vehicle because of the stability of the fuel over a long period of time now another mode of transport would be by boat I said before that rivers are nature's roads unfortunately they typically are one-way roads yes you can paddle upstream but it's gonna be highly inefficient but when you can go with the current that's one of the best ways to travel it can be very quiet you can use a sail to harvest the convective energy and you can carry as large of a load as your boat will allow it was with boats and by rivers that a lot of industrial work was done especially here in Canada with respect to logging in the pre industrialised era the cons of course is that you will be a literal sitting duck it's very hard to conceal yourself when you're on a water rivers are one way and of course there's the issue of those pesky pirates another alternative which is often floated around is wood gasps of course there probably will be plentiful fuel in wooded areas of course you will have to cut that fuel down so just because you have a Wood gasification vehicle doesn't mean the work is done not even close you have to go and harvest all of that wood which is incredibly time-consuming and takes a lot of energy it takes a lot of tools and it can potentially be quite dangerous the problem with wood gas is number one they require that you build one that may be an easy task for people who are mechanically adept but for most people good luck it's going to require lots of wood to use it's potentially more volatile substance it produces carbon monoxide and the wood gas is gonna create a tar residue that is gonna eventually clog up and wear down your engine so it's really only a short-term solution unless you plan on taking apart and cleaning all the aspects of your engine every few months now some Preppers have converted their cars to run on vegetable oil I personally don't think that this is the most practical solution simply because of the fact that vegetable oil is potentially calories that you can use to cook and if we're talking about a prolonged grade down situation where you would require something like vegetable oil to run a vehicle then chances are calories are gonna be in short supply also I understand the reasoning for having a vehicle like this while the grid is up while this substance may be disposed of anyways you might as well recycle it and get some mileage out of it now obviously there's gonna be a lot of places where you could scavenge this type of stuff like in restaurants but I think some people over exaggerate the significance of that kind of conversion it's nice to have a diesel for the possibility of being able to do that but then again I think if we're talking about long term electric vehicles or livestock are the way to go now lastly and this is probably among the most practical is handcarts game carts things like the mono Walker like I've reviewed on this channel before sleds trouble was as they're traditionally called and even shopping carts for urban areas these are all great man portable ways to port large amounts of gear and in some cases like in the case of the mana Walker you can even do this over land obviously they're gonna be slow going if they're gonna require a lot of energy especially if you're going uphill but it's an option now things like dirt bikes and quads they're gonna be very noisy of course they're gonna run on gasoline they're now electric variants of both of those things coming to market so that may be something that you want to look into I personally can't wait for Evy four-wheelers to become a thing or Evie bikes there are electric motorcycles already but they haven't really had their day in the Sun yet so let me know in the comments section what's your preferred mode of post grid down transport is going to be maybe it's something that I failed to talk about today maybe you want to share your thoughts on some of the methods that I discussed in this video I made a couple other videos that are similar to this so I'm going to post it in the end cards here one is on electric vehicles and one is on four-by-fours and trucks weighing the pros and cons of SUVs versus trucks and why I personally went with the truck if you liked the video give it a thumbs up and feel free to subscribe thanks for watching Canadian prepper oh the best way to support this youtube channel is to support yourself by gearing up through Canadian preparedness comm or bug out roll CA premium quality gear at the best possible price using the incredibly secure and easy-to-use Shopify platform we offer free shipping to the United States for orders over $200 USD and free shipping to Canada over $75 so support the channel by supporting yourself

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Length: 17min 11sec (1031 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 18 2019