Where has it gone?

If it is found, make it a sticky. Pity it's a mammoth read. 

Thanks jobsworth- believe it or not, I've not seen it myself yet!! Got the mag but haven't ventured inside it yet. 

Well worth it though nuggy. I Agree that it should be a sticky! I asked for it. Whether we like it or not, the ability to stay off grid and be completely comfortably is here and we should encourage folk to do it and not pull off the grid. In the winter, yes, I agree it can be a little more difficult but even in winter it has its place.

Bugs or any of the Mods! Do you know when this thread might be back or have I missed something? I would have thought that a thread could have been transferred back for us to use by now! 

Several important stickies seem to have disappeared. I went back to page ten which was over a year and could not find it and I imagine there would have been new posts in that time. Rochelle says there is a migration issue which we are assured they are working on but why it should be affecting just stickies I don't know. Its possible that the thread might need starting again and that can always be made sticky. However if the old one comes to light we could only have one sticky on the subject. Perhaps best to wait a week or two just to see if they actually reappears?

David

To be slightly controversial.  The how to survive thread....  Had probably got to long anyway and served to frighten those people who want to try it for a couple of nights. 

For a weekend in the summer  away I maintain.  You don't need the following. 

Safefill Bottle

Solar Panel

Multiple Batteries

LED lights

You do need a battery in reasonable condition and the ability not to have the TV switched on 24/7.

I agree boff. - for a couple of days you could survive on a battery - but I wouldn't want to. That is - take the van out for 2 days and hope that the battery is up to it. If the thread doesn't appear soon a new one should be started. Call me cynical but a thread that was steering people to look at non EHU caravanning as a real alternative being 'lost' seems to play very well with the CC who have invested massively in EHUs. 

Merve

Given that that you seem to accept that perhaps the old thread was getting a bit long and I expect its going to be some time before Admin are going to have time to search through to find the old stickies, yours included would you like to start a new thread and I will make it sticky?

David

Merve:   The list I posted was deliberate it is the equipment I have that enables me to go for longer periods off ehu.  

My point was and is that for a short period in the summer months you don't actually need any of it.  So the investment required is basically nothing.   To go your route although the pay off is huge.  The initial investment is also large and frankly in my opinion, if people believe that they need all that kit and cost  just to try non ehu, then they simply aren't going to  try it.  

I have been on sites where there have been short power cuts.  The sound and sight of people running around like headless chickens, is both very funny and very sad at the same time. I got a caravan after caravaning as a child thirty years ago.   We bought the caravan with very little research so the adoption of ehu largely passsed me by.  So I approached t from the point of view of never knowing that the you actually needed an ehu.

I want to encourage people to go off ehu but I don't necessarily think that telling them to spend hundreds or even thousands of ££££'s is the best way of doing it.

This section of the forum is easier t check for 'migration' of posts than some others because there are not that many posts, but it appears that on most sections the posts with replies only go back as far as mid-2016 with just one or two posts from 2015 and then a huge gap in dates until early 2013 - but none of the posts dated earlier than about March 2016 have any replies whatsoever.

At one time 'googling' a particular thread title lead you to that thread - not it just takes you to the main page of Club Together.  Googling was, in the old forum days, the easiest way to find a 'lost' thread.