Antifreeze

[Mistwalker]

With us going into the cold season, in the ever evolving madness that is the year 2020, I drew on some very harsh lessons from the madnesses I experienced in my youth as an orphan on the streets in 1980 through 1984. In hopes of producing material that may help someone out there survive their own unexpected twist of fate one long cold winter night should they find themselves there, more easily than I survived the ones that came my way.

https://fiddlebackforge.com/blogs/articles/antifreeze

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[SneezySky]

helpful and practical! thanks for sharing the article. i'm thankful to not have to endure the cold as you've described. i'm glad that you were able to move past that phase of struggle in life.

 

[varga49]

With us going into the cold season, in the ever evolving madness that is the year 2020, I drew on some very harsh lessons from the madnesses I experienced in my youth as an orphan on the streets in 1980 through 1984. In hopes of producing material that may help someone out there survive their own unexpected twist of fate one long cold winter night should they find themselves there, more easily than I survived the ones that came my way.

https://fiddlebackforge.com/blogs/articles/antifreeze

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As Always, another great read!??

 

[RIP Dequincy Jynxie]

makes me think of old Shackleton books I've loved reading, where they get down drinking methylated spirits...

good 'ole days

 

[Rufus Magnus]

Good article , liked the blue Bugout ,mine is carried more often then anything else !!!

 

[Mistwalker]

helpful and practical! thanks for sharing the article. i'm thankful to not have to endure the cold as you've described. i'm glad that you were able to move past that phase of struggle in life.

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm glad I did too, and glad I don't have to go through it long or often anymore being here in Tennessee, having spent so much of my childhood in south Florida, and in the south in general, I was not prepared for some of the harsh lessons I learned in a winter in St Louis when i was just wandering the country at 16 after I found myself on the streets. I didn't stay up north for long, just long enough to experience severe frostbite and gangrene, almost lose some toes, and see a couple of other homeless people who had died of hypothermia. Some lessons i've never forgotten.

As Always, another great read!??

Thank you Douglas!! The question marks are a little confusing, but the exclamation point is first, so I'm going to take it as encouraging and just go with it

makes me think of old Shackleton books I've loved reading, where they get down drinking methylated spirits...

good 'ole days

I read part of the Endurance Expedition years ago. I've seen people on the streets drink rubbing alcohol, I think I'll just skip the methylated spirits... lol.

Good article , liked the blue Bugout ,mine is carried more often then anything else !!!

Thanks Rufus, I'm glad you liked it! I like the Bugout. I bought it last spring for a trip to the Guld Coast with a lady friend. I wanted something light for shorts/beach carry. I've been carrying it a lot ever since. I prefer more colorful knives for EDC carry. After writing for Tactical Knives and Tactical Weapons Magazines for several years doing tests and evals, then working for TOPS Knives and the RMJ tactical doing research and product development, I am mostly burned out on black knives and sheaths as an edc thing. I still carry some of them during some of my work days/nights, but not usually as just every day carry stuff anymore.

 

[Rufus Magnus]

Was lucky with my Bugout , heavy discount at local gunshop a great lite duty folder!!!

 

[Mistwalker]

Was lucky with my Bugout , heavy discount at local gunshop a great lite duty folder!!!

I don't recall what I gave for mine. I just wanted a a lock that works well left handed and the axis lock does. Definitely a great little daily user. that I could forget was there just going by weight. Which was part of why I got it. Sometimes in my work it gets clipped in places other than normal pockets, like in the waist of running pants that don't have pockets. I've been following Gibbs' rule #9 longer than there has been a Gibbs lol.