Survival Gardening When There is No Gas, A Vintage “Ro Ho”
“Survival Doc” demonstrates a “Ro Ho,” a vintage gardening tool which he purchased from an estate sale and restored. Vintage gardening and farming equipment which require no gas to operate will come in handy during a survival or disaster situation when there is no available gasoline or a gasoline shortage.
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Totally Awesome Informational Video..
sbjennings99
December 27, 2011 at 3:45 pm
Awesome! beats the heck out of a manual hoe.
yec1JF
December 27, 2011 at 3:55 pm
That thing works awesome! I have been actively searching for usable stuff like this and buying every thing I can. If it’s only a few dollars, I don’t even mind having multiple, or even many of the same tool that I think others would need/be looking for in an emergency. Garden & hand tools, lanterns, flashlights, radios, gas & wood stoves, wire, PVC, fencing, barbed wire, tarps, plastic sheeting, etc.
Our city has begun to allow bow hunting of deer in town to reduce the intrusion. Look into it.
FrontCortex
December 27, 2011 at 4:05 pm
@wakeuptodnwo Yes, deer are vegetarians and so their manure is safe. I would not till fresh dog, cat, human or pig manure directly into my soil Anyway, with such a small amount it probably wouldn’t matter that much any way.
thenewsurvivalist
December 27, 2011 at 4:50 pm
just adapt to no-till gardening
a10fjet
December 27, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Install a fuel cutoff to prevent gas from developing varnish during storage. Sta-bil works but removing all fuel completely by shutting off valve and running tiller until it shuts off is considered a better way for long term reliable operation. Also the old wives tale of old fuel going bad is not true, it forms varnish in fine parts in carburetor parts which is the main problem of hard starting. Old fuel if poured into a working motor will start just as well as fresh fuel.
googlesbitch
December 27, 2011 at 5:40 pm
@thenewsurvivalist Hey have you looked into permaculture, food forests, or aquaponics systems? I would love to hear your voice on these topics. Thanks for your awesomeness and keep up the good work! Your friend and happy subscriber -TS
TruthSmack
December 27, 2011 at 6:10 pm
We need to get back to more of a bartering money system and get away from the spell that the federal reserve is producing. We need to grow organic non-gmo foods in our backyards and neighborhoods. We need to quit spending our energy for the military industrial complex to make governments weapons, instead we should use this energy for clean nonflourided water. Secret societies should be banned from all positions of power and authority. Criminals run the world, put them in their jails! -OneLove!
TruthSmack
December 27, 2011 at 6:36 pm
excuse my spelling i meant to say $2000.00 for that tiller doc and i will be down the road to the farm that was selling that old school tiller you made my day also never seen one untill the other day then bam you show me how to use it
godshiredgun1
December 27, 2011 at 7:04 pm
thank you doc!! i wonderd what that was i seen one just thursday 2 days agao at a garage sale at a farm down the road i knew it was for the garden just not exectly no i will be back down there to see if its still around hey doc i belive that is a husky tiller (husqvarna) that is close to 200 bucks they are nice i am considering dare i say it the honda equilivant great tillers all the way around honda just made theires a little wider
godshiredgun1
December 27, 2011 at 7:26 pm
@wakeuptodnwo That’s what I looked like at the time!
TacticalCitySlicker
December 27, 2011 at 7:56 pm
@kymopar This tiller was not made to run on ethanol. In fact the 10% they put in our gasoline ate up the rubber diaphragm in the carburetor and I had to replace it with another more ethanol friendly just to burn our regular gas. I don’t think it would run at all on pure ethanol. Ethanol is not machine friendly at all. Another problem with ethanol is that it requires more energy to make than it produces. Bio-diesel is a much better option but it also requires a different type of engine (diesel.)
thenewsurvivalist
December 27, 2011 at 8:11 pm
In a survival situation those deer will never make it to your garden LOL.
myastroflight
December 27, 2011 at 8:16 pm
my best estate sale buy was 5 gallons of paraffin lamp oil for 2 bucks!
TacticalCitySlicker
December 27, 2011 at 9:08 pm
@aranelinya Absolutely
Iwillbedurnd
December 27, 2011 at 9:43 pm
Watching this video I remembered a thought I was having last night as I was falling asleep. Motion sprayers. I paused the video and ordered a couple of those motion sensor water sprayers to protect my chewed up trees.
Apart from a couple weeks each year (deer season) I hate deer. There’s plenty of woods and fields around me yet they have to eat the few leaves from my baby trees and bite the branches off as if they are trying to keep them from growing or something.
buckstarchaser
December 27, 2011 at 10:34 pm
similar to mine, features wise. I paid about 700 new and no regrets at all — saves me a lot of work with huge returns
japierce15
December 27, 2011 at 11:08 pm
Watching this video I remembered a thought I was having last night as I was falling asleep. I paused the video and ordered a couple of those motion sensor water sprayers to protect my chewed up trees.
Apart from a couple weeks each year (deer season) I hate deer. There’s plenty of woods and fields around me yet they have to eat the few leaves from my baby trees and bite the branches off as if they are trying to keep them from growing or something.
buckstarchaser
December 28, 2011 at 12:02 am
@aranelinya Oddly this law was enacted right after WWII. Go figure.
Iwillbedurnd
December 28, 2011 at 12:51 am
could a person make enough enathol for a tiller??..will moth balls get rid of deer?
kymopar
December 28, 2011 at 1:30 am
@Iwillbedurnd If everyone did this here there would be little concern about the food supply.
aranelinya
December 28, 2011 at 1:35 am
What are these gas powered tools of which you speak? I do it all by hand. About a half acre.
aranelinya
December 28, 2011 at 1:53 am
That was nice of the deer to fertilize you bean plants lol
NWOIS666
December 28, 2011 at 1:56 am
ive got an old points tiller and will keep some gasoline around with stable in it just incase….i only use about 5 gallons a year…
centervilletn
December 28, 2011 at 2:10 am
wow 125 dollars great bargain…
glasseverywhere
December 28, 2011 at 2:51 am