do you think you know how to survive?

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This is something the educated call an experiment, Citori. Actually, crystal clear ice is easy to get in nature during the winter, at least where there is much water around. So called black ice and most icicles for example.
 
Originally posted by vikingswordsman
actually, the inner bark is right. its that little green layer right underneath. you can boil this inner bark and crink it like tea or eat it raw. but it aint the cones that you eat. its something else lets see who can guess it.
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When you say "inner bark" do you mean the cambium or the floam?
 
Originally posted by MelancholyMutt
How do you get money to get something to eat, on a saturday early morning in NYC. You haven't a penny in your pocket No robbing people, no begging and no digging in garbage...
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Easy cheese,
I got to a bar, pick up a chick, if I am really hungry a fat ugly one will do. Then I take her back to her place, if she is really big she can keep me warm in the winter and I'll have shade in the summer.

After I am done doing the deed, I'll raid her fridge, or if I do my job right, she'll be begging to make me breakfast.

Of course, this is only hypothetical, 'cuz I would never go to a big city, and am too ugly and have no social skills to pick up babes. But if I was good looking and a smooth talker it would be a good plan.

I guess right now, I'll hit on chicks until they throw money at me to leave them alone. That may get me thrown in jail though, but I gues I'd get a free meal either way.


BTW "Griz"
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

You are a true woodsman.
 
Originally posted by ajrand
This is something the educated call an experiment, Citori. Actually, crystal clear ice is easy to get in nature during the winter, at least where there is much water around. So called black ice and most icicles for example.
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Seeing as it's been 19 degrees F here in NYC for a week, we've got a bit of ice around. So, I went outside today to take a look around. I did find a few icicles, and they were clear, but in absolutely no shape to contentrate beams of light. I did have fun though, chucking them at my dog and having him catch them in midair.

I also tried to chip some ice off the concrete till a police officer drove by and tried to arrest me for trying to damage the city street. After he cuffed me, and took my knife, I explained that I wanted some ice off the street. He noticed that I was chipping away at ice, and that my knife only had a 3 inch blade, he said something about hating paperwork and let me go. He said I could come by the station and pick up the knife, but I said just to chuck it (I knew the chinese POS would come in handy). I got myself a big chunk of ice, but it was jagged, grainy like sand, and packed with bubbles and specks of dirt.

I molded it as best I could and set up some tinder. I shone the light as best I could when the same cop drove by again and stopped near me. He rolled down the window and yelled out that I had better not be trying to set stuff on fire, or he was gonna get out and make me wish I was never born.

Well, there, experiment done... conclusion...trying to start a fire with ice can get you arrested.
 
Jeez, Mutt, you need to move. With LEO's like that around, no wonder you're melancholy. Can't believe the fascist ***** took your throw down. I'm glad you and your dog had a bit of fun though.

I'm gonna try initial shaping using the side of a concrete block followed by hand shaping. If one could locate the correct shape in a bowl, much of the work would be done by nature. If I even get smoke off charred cotton I'll be surprised, but what the heck, gotta spend my time doing something!

To get really clean ice you chip it out of frozen bodies of water. Even if the top 2 or 3 feet are cloudy, the ice down close to the liquid part of the lake is almost always crystal clear. Course we get a lot of ice around here.

If you glue a 3" cube of steel to the road in a strategic spot with some good epoxy it will greatly enhance your income from hubcaps. Try to choose a spot where they are easy for you to collect, but a real pain for the donors to retrieve. The process is capitalism at its finest. There is always at least one customer for every unit produced. Good money in used hubcaps.
 
Originally posted by ajrand
Jeez, Mutt, you need to move. With LEO's like that around, no wonder you're melancholy. Can't believe the fascist ***** took your throw down.
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Actually, it didn't really happen... I was just making up a story...;)
 
oh boy... this is turning into one of those 'funniest thread' thread :D

btw, if you ever try that trick in LA, I doubt it'll work cuz the water here is FILLED with chlorine, bleech, zinc, rust, lime etc. etc. and no ice will be sparkle clear

anyway, this is some funny stuff and I want to learn more about this intriguing aspect of extreme survival (and of those extreme fights he had when he was a young lad...)

Mak
 
Originally posted by sharpasacircle

btw, if you ever try that trick in LA, I doubt it'll work cuz the water here is FILLED with chlorine, bleech, zinc, rust, lime etc. etc. and no ice will be sparkle clear


Mak
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You don't need to make a fire in LA to survive... it don't get any colder than like 60 degrees...

What you should carry is the Gucci personal survival kit, aka wallet with a wad of hundreds in it and half a dozen platinum cards. It will take care of all your woes.

You need fire from ice? you walk into a trendy bar and have the bartender make you one of them tropical drinks with flames coming out of them.
 
EVERY outdoorsman should know..........

How do you make fire from ice???

Said the Australian aborigine "you just ask for a box of matches when you pay for the bag of ice"
 
i feel like buying you guys some lighters...

i bet some of you WOULD get arrested...

i've always loved burning things...

fire has a very hypnotic effect on me...can't stop watching it...
 
howdy you do all. yes the young spruce tips or a branch when still green can be eaten raw or boiled for tea. mutt, wait till you get lost in teh woods someday this will come in handy when your starved and cant get anything to eat. heres another question.


how can you tell the difference between a male moose and a female moose?
 
i need to rearrange my question a bit.

after the antlers have been shed how do you tell the difference between a male moose and a female moose?
 
Originally posted by vikingswordsman
mutt, wait till you get lost in teh woods someday this will come in handy when your starved and cant get anything to eat.
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I've been in the woods before and I've had no problems...
Furthermore, I know how to use a map and compass so I don't get lost in the woods.
 
i wouldn't care...i'd just eat the moose...i'd get someone to gut it for me...since i've never slaughtered an animal before...ehehe...
and i'd roast it on a fire i started with my windmill stormproof lighter...doesn't get much use other than lighting up the bunsen burner in the lab...
 
Originally posted by MelancholyMutt
You don't need to make a fire in LA to survive... it don't get any colder than like 60 degrees...
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You're right, I forgot about that one :) its 60 degrees as I speak right now, and will reach 70 today.

And to answer the moose question, and to second what Point44 said, who cares what sex the moose is; as long as its dead, and edible, does it really matter in a survival situation? Oh yea, you'll need a fire roasting first... back to the ice eh...

Mak

Edited to add: Please dont take the "eh" part too seriously, it just kind of popped into my head. I'll take it off if you guys tell me to.
 
this wasnt a question to do with surviving if your lost. but it is about surviving cause if you shoot a sow moose youll end up in jail nad have a big fine to pay. but since nobody seems to know the answer the answer is that the bull moose has one big yoke under the chin. whereas the sow moose has 2 skinny little dangling things that i dont know the name of.



next question: when its cloudy out and you dont have the sun, a compass, or a map. how do you find north?
 
Rub a needle against a leather belt or your hand and float it on something in water. Acts like a compass
 
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