| > Actually, I know alot more about this than you do. So you say. > Do you think you could make a plow or use it, supposing you had a mule to go with it? What, another one? We used oxen and draught horses rather than mules. > you think just anyone could construct or procure a plow in the Mad Max wastelands, I live in Australia, I know where many working old ploughs are - most of the farms here still have them on display - there are several on this very property. > Now we're back to "can you make a rope? Sure - been there, down that, have you? Look, this is getting dull - I'm 70, I grew up in a remote location, my father, still alive, born in 1935, fed his family as a child while his father was away at war - I've often spent months in remote areas. In the event of the collapse of the modern US tech sphere some humans will get by, others will not. |
That's not even counting those who can keep old Farmall tractors running on whatever they have laying around. It's not the greatest, but it's functional, and a mechanical horse is way more powerful than a real one - and even then, real ones are still quite capable of supporting more than subsistence.