What (if anything) do you plan to stockpile for Brexit?

What changes can we make to our lives to deal with the economic and energy crises ahead? Have you already started making preparations? Got tips to share?

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vtsnowedin wrote:If your using an electric saw you will find it doubly important to keep it razor sharp. Avoid cutting any wood that has been dragged through the dirt and certainly never let it touch the ground at the end of a cut. I've found a" Dremel "rotary tool makes sharpening quick and easy and you can get stones to fit any pitch (size ) chain.
Indeed! Important not just because if the lower power output compared to a petrol saw, but also for battery life. Same is true for a petrol saw of course, but you don't notice how much extra fuel you pour in in the same way as you notice the lights on the battery indicator dropping...
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I believe it comes down to a minute spent filing saves two minutes sawing.
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mikepepler wrote:
vtsnowedin wrote:If your using an electric saw you will find it doubly important to keep it razor sharp. Avoid cutting any wood that has been dragged through the dirt and certainly never let it touch the ground at the end of a cut. I've found a" Dremel "rotary tool makes sharpening quick and easy and you can get stones to fit any pitch (size ) chain.
Indeed! Important not just because if the lower power output compared to a petrol saw, but also for battery life. Same is true for a petrol saw of course, but you don't notice how much extra fuel you pour in in the same way as you notice the lights on the battery indicator dropping...
Very well put.
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I am stocking up on American Bourbon whiskey, not due to Brexit but because an estimated 45,000 barrels of the product have been destroyed in a huge warehouse fire in the USA.

Price rises and shortages seem probable.

I don't even like it ! but two regular visitors do enjoy it.
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adam2 wrote:I am stocking up on American Bourbon whiskey, not due to Brexit but because an estimated 45,000 barrels of the product have been destroyed in a huge warehouse fire in the USA.

Price rises and shortages seem probable.

I don't even like it ! but two regular visitors do enjoy it.
That is only 2.6% of Kentucky's yearly production so considering how long they age it in barrels I doubt you will see much effect to price or supply. One of the cheaper brands so perhaps a boost to the small batch top end producers.
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I'm partial to Wild Turkey, but JB does nothing for me - except a bad head.
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fuzzy wrote:I'm partial to Wild Turkey, but JB does nothing for me - except a bad head.
For bourbon and branch and other mixed drinks I like Jack Daniel's "Old No. 7" But for sippin whiskey or straight shots its" Makers mark" or "Knob Creek". But compared to my beer consumption the whiskey inventory is of little consequence.
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