Hi all,
Some of you may remember last Febuary, I posted some pics about making a survival camp I made. What I did that day was I left home and went for a hike. Here is the twist I acted as if I had gotten turned around or what ever you want to call it. I was lost. With just the cloths on my back and my shoulder bag that I keep my survival kit/ woods roaming kit. Well I acted like I was lost and decided to make a survival camp to spend the night as if I really had to. If you have not every done one of these. Take the time and make one up and stay the night in it. The more you do this the easyer and better you will get at it. Well I made a leanto that day and used my AMK heet sheet for the shelter I gathered wood for my fire the normal stuff you would do if you were going to make a camp for the night if you had too.
Here are some pics of it.
This is the pic of it all set up.
Here is a pic that I took about 3:30 am.
I used my coat as a blanket and for my insulation I gathered up enough dried grass that gave me a good several inches of insulation form the cold ground. With my fire and all I was pretty comfy through the night.
After I did that AMK heet sheet Survival camp, I decided that having a AMK heet sheet is better than nothing, BUT LOL I decided to start carrying a real shelter. Like my military poncho, along with the AMK HEET sheet. If it had been raining or snowing I would have made a different shelter. A open leanto with that type of little shelter sucks when it is raining or snowing.
OK fast forward a few months and I went back to that area to help my nephew when he was repairing some fence. I decided to go and see if that heet sheet was still up. It was but it had a few holes in it.
Fast forward again a few months. Today I am kathy went to that old campsite and when we got there this is what it looked like.
It was down and out for the count LOL.
kathy and I wanted to have a fire, a weenie roast and heat up some water for coco and just spend the day relaxing enjoying the outdoors.
I started to split some kindling up with my One Zero knife for are soon to be fire.
It has rained a some hear lately and everything was damp. So I spilt some wood up and then made some fuzz sticks.
When I do my fire lays I will put down 2 peaces parallel with a 4" or 5" gap between them and they are about a 2 thick or so. Then I will put on 3 or 4 cross peaces like in this pic.
Then I will put my fuzz sticks on the cross peaces.
Then I will put my small split kindling around and tepee style against the fuzz sticks like in this pic.
Now here is where I did things and do things differently, I normally use cotton and pj mix to light my fires , but I will wrap some cotton and pj mix around a stick and make a longer type match.
I carry in my pocket and severel other places containers that hold the cotton and pj mix with a firesteel rod in there too. But today I decided to use a different firestarter tinder to light the fuzz sticks and then the rest of my wood on fire.
Last night I was looking through one of my survival books and came across the many ways to start a fire. Out of the many ways that you can start a fire one of them is with Steel wool. If you have never tried this get some and try it out it really is a cool way to get a fire going.
Well I have not started a fire with steel wool in about 15 years. Why I do not know I just have not LOL.
Just like with the wrapping some cotton around one of the spilt sticks I split up when I started to split wood up in the beginning for the fire i was going to have. With triple 000 steel wool if you tease it up and then lightly wrap some around a stick
and then then set the stick down and grab your firesteel and strike it so that the sparks will land on the firesteel Now once you see that it is lit grab that stick and start blowing on it and it will start to glow red hot
To be continued,
Bryan
Some of you may remember last Febuary, I posted some pics about making a survival camp I made. What I did that day was I left home and went for a hike. Here is the twist I acted as if I had gotten turned around or what ever you want to call it. I was lost. With just the cloths on my back and my shoulder bag that I keep my survival kit/ woods roaming kit. Well I acted like I was lost and decided to make a survival camp to spend the night as if I really had to. If you have not every done one of these. Take the time and make one up and stay the night in it. The more you do this the easyer and better you will get at it. Well I made a leanto that day and used my AMK heet sheet for the shelter I gathered wood for my fire the normal stuff you would do if you were going to make a camp for the night if you had too.
Here are some pics of it.
This is the pic of it all set up.
Here is a pic that I took about 3:30 am.
I used my coat as a blanket and for my insulation I gathered up enough dried grass that gave me a good several inches of insulation form the cold ground. With my fire and all I was pretty comfy through the night.
After I did that AMK heet sheet Survival camp, I decided that having a AMK heet sheet is better than nothing, BUT LOL I decided to start carrying a real shelter. Like my military poncho, along with the AMK HEET sheet. If it had been raining or snowing I would have made a different shelter. A open leanto with that type of little shelter sucks when it is raining or snowing.
OK fast forward a few months and I went back to that area to help my nephew when he was repairing some fence. I decided to go and see if that heet sheet was still up. It was but it had a few holes in it.
Fast forward again a few months. Today I am kathy went to that old campsite and when we got there this is what it looked like.
It was down and out for the count LOL.
kathy and I wanted to have a fire, a weenie roast and heat up some water for coco and just spend the day relaxing enjoying the outdoors.
I started to split some kindling up with my One Zero knife for are soon to be fire.
It has rained a some hear lately and everything was damp. So I spilt some wood up and then made some fuzz sticks.
When I do my fire lays I will put down 2 peaces parallel with a 4" or 5" gap between them and they are about a 2 thick or so. Then I will put on 3 or 4 cross peaces like in this pic.
Then I will put my fuzz sticks on the cross peaces.
Then I will put my small split kindling around and tepee style against the fuzz sticks like in this pic.
Now here is where I did things and do things differently, I normally use cotton and pj mix to light my fires , but I will wrap some cotton and pj mix around a stick and make a longer type match.
I carry in my pocket and severel other places containers that hold the cotton and pj mix with a firesteel rod in there too. But today I decided to use a different firestarter tinder to light the fuzz sticks and then the rest of my wood on fire.
Last night I was looking through one of my survival books and came across the many ways to start a fire. Out of the many ways that you can start a fire one of them is with Steel wool. If you have never tried this get some and try it out it really is a cool way to get a fire going.
Well I have not started a fire with steel wool in about 15 years. Why I do not know I just have not LOL.
Just like with the wrapping some cotton around one of the spilt sticks I split up when I started to split wood up in the beginning for the fire i was going to have. With triple 000 steel wool if you tease it up and then lightly wrap some around a stick
and then then set the stick down and grab your firesteel and strike it so that the sparks will land on the firesteel Now once you see that it is lit grab that stick and start blowing on it and it will start to glow red hot
To be continued,
Bryan
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