MurphyGuy
It just needs a bigger hammer
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ROFLMAO.. I'm chuckling because you sound like me.I am in the country. My peaceful idyllic homestead would turn into a FOB. I got a list of folks based on relationships and skill sets.
Firewood stacked in IBC totes make a dandy hesco barrier replacement. Hoping the tractor still works. Samuel Colt didn’t make men equal, that honor belongs to front end loaders and pallet forks.
I take IBC totes, pull out the plastic tank, then cut off the front and back of the cage leaving only two walls. Then I take the part I cut off and bolt it to the top to hold the walls rigid. We stack firewood in them. Each tote cage holds about a facecord of wood.
My tractor has a bucket and forks. I store the firewood way out back and just bring up four or five pallets to the back porch when it gets cold each year.
While they would certainly provide ballistic protection, I'm not so sure I would want to be behind one if someone was shooting at me with a centerfire rifle. Wood is not THAT great at stopping bullets... I suspect if you shoot at one enough, some will get through.
We store about 10,000 feed bags. They're 30 inches long, 18 wide and 4 inches thick and made of the same material (polypropylene) as regular military sandbags. As a bonus, the printing on them also helps with UV protection. Tested one out in the sun for 4 years and it held up great. I also have a device that fills 8 of them at the same time by using the loader on the tractor. On top of that, we also have a couple hundred open-top style 55 gallon drums.. two staggered rows of those filled with dirt and even a 50bmg has no chance.. I tested it.
Our tractor has no electronics to fail and we store about 400 gallons of diesel (fuel heating oil). I also have about 300 gallons of food grade mineral oil that I collect from the factory that gives me the drums. Each drum has about a gallon or two left in it and I save it. Tractor runs great on the stuff. I mix it 4 parts fuel oil, 1 part mineral oil, and then add a coffee cup of biodiesel for extra lubricity.
Our home is all brick so most rounds short of a 338 aren't going to get through anyhow.