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Bonesaw21 |
Barricading Yourself
Mar 25 2011, 9:16 AM EDT
How would you barricade yourself if you decide to Bug-In?First your need to scavange for wood, sheet metal etc. Then evaluate your furniture (do I really need this table?) If you dont then its added to the barricade. Make sure to have an ecape or exit incase the zombie break down your barricades or raiders for that matter. The exit could also be easly used for going out for supplies. Barricade yourself by barricadeing the ground floor first.Lock all doors and windows before you start. Then if you have any building materials left, barricade the 2nd floor, zombies shouldnt be able to get past the 2nd floor even if they pile up. Back to the first floor. Make sure there is a heavy item or peice of furniture nearby every door, and use the rest to renforce the ground floor,. 8 out of 8 found this valuable. Do you?
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JunkCollector |
1. RE: Barricading Yourself
Mar 25 2011, 10:29 AM EDT
Easily done, I have 20 sheets of 3/4 inch ply wood, pre-cut 2X4's, and 300 4 inch screws. Also ply wood covers for both doors, and 2X4 braces for both doors (internal). I always have two batteries charged or charging for my drill. It would take me no more than a hour to cover everything and lock it down. If your scavenging for wood, nails, and what ever that means your not prepared. Do you find this valuable? |
x-wolfhunter |
2. RE: Barricading Yourself
Mar 25 2011, 6:54 PM EDT
My 'barricading plan' is to:1) Lock all doors and windows 2) Board up all windows that can be accessible by the ground 3) Put heavy furniture near all doors I will just keep the doors locked and keep my keys on me at all times. Zombies can't bust through my doors. No matter what they do. They may mash their hands to a bloody pulp on it, but it won't budge. And with the door locked, they can't accidentally open it. In the case of raiders, I will hurriedly pile up the furniture in front of the doors and go upstairs, watching them from the unboarded windows up there. That way I can quickly take cover if I need to, or alternatively fire back. Zombies won't pile up high enough to access my unboarded windows. And in the case they did, they wouldn't be able to get in that way either. Remember, zombies are just messed up humans. They may not feel pain, but they don't get any excess strength from it. Do you find this valuable? |
Avtomat_Kalashnikova |
3. RE: Barricading Yourself
Mar 28 2011, 4:47 PM EDT
Not so much. "Regular" humans can only consciously access approximately 10% of their strength at any given time. Zombies MIGHT be able to access all of it at once, consciously. Humans can only do this in a life or death situation like a 500 lb rock being on you...you lift that sh!t off, but you can't do that normally.
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Bonesaw21 |
4. RE: Barricading Yourself
Mar 28 2011, 7:23 PM EDT
Thank you Avto. this was my first time making a wiki part. Plus on that note, the zombies cant feel pain to thay can mash there hand to a bloody pulp and continue pounding on the door, weakening it every blow
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brandon_a_boyer |
5. RE: Barricading Yourself
Mar 28 2011, 8:28 PM EDT
Honestly that depends on the door material.If it's a wood, or Aluminum door yes, but not steel. All steels have a load that they can be submitted to cyclically that they can basically withstand forever. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
sthomas1312 |
6. RE: Barricading Yourself
Mar 28 2011, 9:38 PM EDT
another good thing I have thought living in SoFla are hurricane shutters
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Bonesaw21 |
7. RE: Barricading Yourself
Mar 28 2011, 9:47 PM EDT
I just thought of this, Zombies dont always use doors, they may just pound on the walls lol
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SovietPrince |
8. RE: Barricading Yourself
Mar 31 2011, 11:08 AM EDT
"I just thought of this, Zombies dont always use doors, they may just pound on the walls lol"with that said, as junk collector properly posted.. if you were prepared for barricading, now what? Make sure your food/water stocks are good.. know how to ration food to last the longest. Oh, and begin formulating various escape plans, for every situation. Door magically blows open.. windows open up wall collapses.. etc. Do you find this valuable? |
saint357. |
9. RE: Barricading Yourself
Mar 31 2011, 8:52 PM EDT
on the topic of zombies using 100 percent of their strength you have to remember there's a reason we only use 10% in are daily lives. and that reason is that are muscles would tear apart practically disintegrate if we used their full potential all the time. so a few minuets of a zombie using all its strength and it would tear every tendon and muscle its arms at least if not its whole body. let also remember that what ever is driving a zombie is not natural, i always thought of it as a puppet with its strings being pulled. it just wont walk right no mater how good the puppet master. what i'm trying to say is that with their flesh already rotting and their most notable lack of coordination combined with the stress of using 100% percent strength their bodies would fall apart with in hours of their Resurrection. that maybe why we always see them shuffling and how they never really go into a frenzy until after they have their hands on you. its a survival mechanism. in my opinion why they maybe able to use 100% strength i don't think they'll be using it to break down your door, most likely they'll just throw their limp body's against it and save a hundred percent until they got their rotting hands around your neck. that's just my thoughts on it though and something I've never seen discuss so feel free to tell me if you think i got anything wrong. but with all that i had to say it never hurts to add a little extra barricade. better safe then sorry
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SovietPrince |
10. RE: Barricading Yourself
Mar 31 2011, 10:03 PM EDT
"on the topic of zombies using 100 percent of their strength you have to remember there's a reason we only use 10% in are daily lives. and that reason is that are muscles would tear apart practically disintegrate if we used their full potential all the time. "One would think that such a viral organism would be able to keep its host from damaging itself to the point of nonrepair. unless zombies also have a regenerative factor.. maybe not decaying flesh... lol. One can only imagine. But he is right. even a normal human would become weak and injured. With the traditional zombie, they just dont stop My question is, how are they maintaining themselves? Not once... hell, I'm gonna write a thread about this.. one sec... http://www.zombiesurvivalwiki.com/thread/4536073/Energy+Consumption+of+the+Undead there. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
deep_sea_diver |
11. RE: Barricading Yourself
Apr 3 2011, 7:30 AM EDT
heavy earth moving equipment, and several operators could reshape a field, into a hasty fort in a short time. With a hasty earthen wall in place, Masons could work constantly on fortified structures. Plan for expansion as more people join the colony.While the fuel holds out, make the most of heavy equipment, it could be a long siege. Good luck on Z day Do you find this valuable? |
marksman52 |
12. RE: Barricading Yourself
Apr 4 2011, 9:35 PM EDT
No offense or anything but this is common sense
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JunkCollector |
13. RE: Barricading Yourself
Apr 4 2011, 9:55 PM EDT
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"with that said, as junk collector properly posted..I live alone so I have enough food and water for over 6 months. I have escape routs by parking my van by the back door, and my Jeep by the front. I also have a window in the bed room that is large enough to get out of. My furnace is on wheels (I rigged it to be able to stash stuff behind it). It also has a long gas hose and electrical wiring. I push up the vent pipe, and roll it out into the hallway, then I can remove the steel grating and climb out the 4' wide vent in the floor. The vent leads under the trailer to the cement block craw space. which has a door on each end of the trailer. I can also bust out four windows with my rifle to get out of. This summer I am going to install a chain link fence around my property, to keep the roaming dogs out of my yard and for a barricade to slow down thieves, zombies, or sales people. Do you find this valuable? |
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x-wolfhunter |
14. RE: Barricading Yourself
Apr 7 2011, 1:29 PM EDT
"Thank you Avto. this was my first time making a wiki part. Plus on that note, the zombies cant feel pain to thay can mash there hand to a bloody pulp and continue pounding on the door, weakening it every blow"My door isn't wood. It's very tough stuff. The zombies won't get in. Do you find this valuable? |
Ready_For_Z-Day |
15. RE: Barricading Yourself
Apr 7 2011, 4:29 PM EDT
Living above ground. A large treehouse could be better than a panic room. Unless the zombies are hollywood zombies.... But in a treehouse you can farm, not get skin conditions due to lack of sunlight, ect.
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SovietPrince |
16. RE: Barricading Yourself
Apr 7 2011, 4:37 PM EDT
"Living above ground. A large treehouse could be better than a panic room. Unless the zombies are hollywood zombies.... But in a treehouse you can farm, not get skin conditions due to lack of sunlight, ect."how exactly would you farm in a treehouse? Just wondering.. i've never heard that connection between the two ideas... Do you find this valuable? |
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Ready_For_Z-Day |
17. RE: Barricading Yourself
Apr 7 2011, 5:12 PM EDT
Not large-scale farming, but I have a large treehouse and a whole platform with some potted vegetables/herbs and a few aloe vera plants. I guess "Gardening" would've been a better way to put it...Oh well.
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divinehex |
18. RE: Barricading Yourself
Apr 9 2011, 4:53 AM EDT
Ha ha, I'm going to be locking all my doors, reinforcing them with wood, metal, plastic and anything else I can find, and also enforcing the hinges. Then I'm going to start work on the windows, Also, I'm going to have at least 2 escape roots, one will probably be a trapdoor, that opens into my shed (I have 2 in my back-yard, which I will probably keep some weapons in, they also hava dirtbikes in them, and everything I need to maintain them, making them a perfect escape route), also I will be putting up wooden/metal stakes or spears around my house, so if a bunch on zombies try to charge, or swarm or otherwise attack en-masse, then they will get impaled on the stakes, taking down a part of my problem...As for raiders, I am planning to set traps for the ZED, but they will have warnings for humans (assuming that the Zed can't read...) but also I am going to make it seem like there are a lot of people, when in reality it will probably only be me, and possibly one or two people who I know can handle a gun, also I am going to try to set up ties with other survivors, so that they won't raid me, also maybe If I am raided, I will have someplace to go... Do you find this valuable? |
PedroAsani |
19. RE: Barricading Yourself
Apr 9 2011, 5:46 AM EDT
"How would you barricade yourself if you decide to Bug-In?Why scavenge? Plan now, and have your barricade material to hand when you need it. Invest in storm shutters. Good for hurricanes, good for keeping out burglars, lowers home insurance premiums, good against zombies. 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
