Survive! Skills, Tips, Tricks and How to's

Don't have any photos for you guys but a helpful tip for anyone in a winter survival situation in a worst case scenario with minimal supplies is to use your knife you chunk out a piece of very clear highly transparent ice. Afterwards, use your knife to cut out a rough circular shape at least 5 inches in diameter. Then using the heat from your hands to melt the ice try to sculpt it into a convex magnifying glass shape as best as you can. If done right you can use this much the same way you would a magnifying glass and focus sunlight to start a fire, or just burn snow fleas lol
 
redwood22 said:
The thing that is never in a lot of kits but always useful is Chapstick. If you have chapped lips it sucks, and there isn't an easy way to fix it. Plus it can double as a fire starter
Click to expand...

Redwood, please share how you start a fire with chapstick. Haven't heard that one yet.
 
Anttheknee said:
Redwood, please share how you start a fire with chapstick. Haven't heard that one yet.
Click to expand...

Not s much a starter, but a source of fuel, much like wax to a wick.
Mush it together with cotton ball, pice of cotton, etc.

Think "rag torch".
 
robgmn said:
Not s much a starter, but a source of fuel, much like wax to a wick.
Mush it together with cotton ball, pice of cotton, etc.

Think "rag torch".
Click to expand...

You can also make a candle out of it. You need a cotton ball to make the wick. Roll it and apply some of the chap stick, then make a hole in the middle of your chap stick and there you go. Be careful not to melt the plastic container. Chap stick can also be used to seal minor scrapes and cuts, BUT nothing deep.
 
robgmn said:
Not s much a starter, but a source of fuel, much like wax to a wick.
Mush it together with cotton ball, pice of cotton, etc.

Think "rag torch".
Click to expand...

Ok, I gotcha now. That's what I figured but thought I'd ask in case there was some other method that I may have missed.
 
Anttheknee said:
Don't have any photos for you guys but a helpful tip for anyone in a winter survival situation in a worst case scenario with minimal supplies is to use your knife you chunk out a piece of very clear highly transparent ice. Afterwards, use your knife to cut out a rough circular shape at least 5 inches in diameter. Then using the heat from your hands to melt the ice try to sculpt it into a convex magnifying glass shape as best as you can. If done right you can use this much the same way you would a magnifying glass and focus sunlight to start a fire, or just burn snow fleas lol
Click to expand...

This is what I normally do in winter, it cuts down on bulky things in my pack like ferro rods and bics...............

It's nice seeing all your posts lately. Welcome Antho.... I mean Anttheknee :D
 
Silver Needle said:
This is what I normally do in winter, it cuts down on bulky things in my pack like ferro rods and bics...............

It's nice seeing all your posts lately. Welcome Antho.... I mean Anttheknee :D
Click to expand...

Thank you Sir! I appreciate the welcome! And Anthony would be fine also :) I have taken great interest in Survive! knives recently. Just ordered my first one the other day (A GSO 12) and I currently have a GSO 4.1 in a UPS package waiting for me at my door when I get home. Very excited about that! I ordered it from the Production knives section. Guy's designs are, in my humble opinion, exactly what a survival knife should be. I haven't found anything that seems as deliberately and purposefully made for a BOB, SHTF, survival situation.
 
I was away most of the day, but the other guys nailed it. It just gives you a fuel source of sorts!
 
Haha and I just watched one on how to cook Bacon and eggs in a brown paper bag. Who knows how good it is but it might sustain you I guess.
 
swear by it! :thumbup: Easiest way to get a fire going in wet weather, the bike innertube just keeps the cotton dry
1ZA7M0a.png

Vphg2xL.png


a tiny bit goes a long way
SFHEs9pl.png
 
Cool, I had one with my LS but gave it to my buddy with my esse. I didn't think it was that small though. I'm thinking of getting a exotac nanostriker just to throw in my pocket on my keys.
 
B34NS said:
Just the little one that came with my izula ii survival kit :thumbup:

Thanks OBX! my other is just fatwood and a bic :)
Click to expand...
- NP!! I am going to make one of your rigs next week.

That's all me too!! As a matter of fact I lit a blazing fire last night with 1 match and single piece of fatwood in a COLD flue!!!
 
Texas_toothpick said:
Cool, I had one with my LS but gave it to my buddy with my esse. I didn't think it was that small though. I'm thinking of getting a exotac nanostriker just to throw in my pocket on my keys.
Click to expand...

That exotac is a great rod. Going gear has a bunch of different sizes of firesteels, all excellent rods.

Firesteel.com has really good steels, too, and they also have some short pieces that you can have with a single hole or a double hole in it. Then you can run shoe lace or paracord through it and attach it to a boot or piece of gear that you have with you all the time. They're very small, but would do in a pinch, or as a backup.
 
Nice suggestion. My daily wear boots are cowboy style but my hiking boots are a lace up red wing. I may have to do that.
 
Soooo... I got to use my first aid kit last night which reminded me of another trick that is awesome... Rock climbing tape!! So many uses and unlike duck tape works well for first aid!

31fef1e5bf078ea736244d6b742499df.jpg


I was loading our dishwasher and a paring knife sticking straight up went about 1/2 " into my palm...
 
Sorry to hear that, that sucks!

Too bad it wasn't a memorable scar from an incident with a cougar, a mountain cliff and a GSO 20, but accidents happen. Will you get stitches?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top