Your personal "survival" items in photo and print

Bagheera

Bagheera

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Finally, December 29 1999, I got my stuff digitalized and you can have a look at:
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=130364&a=1351641

So let hear it please, cheers Bagheera


Hi, I've been collecting essential gear some would call it "Survival Items" for years trying to get the most versatile components in the least space and for us DUTCH for not to much money
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. Prices are sky high for Survival Items that are cheap for Americans.
Survival mirror (Gerber) $17. UKE 2AAA light $23 and so on.
I know that there are lots of lists around but I would really like to see a picture of the items you carry daily and the description/names of them.
Please note that I'm not interested in small survival kits that weigh over 100 pounds and that contain the articles of small shop.
Just basic items that can save you when needed for a couple of days and don't need a 20 gallon backpack.
To start with it and I'll try to post a picture Monday from work I carry:
1. Compass Silva simple with mirror.
2. Gerber Signal Mirror
3. Storm Whistle orance + lanyard
4. 2 cotton Earplugs to avoid me getting def
from blowing on the Storm Whistle
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can double as tinder.
5. Gaslighter type "flameless"
6. Lipbalm UV 15+ factor
7. A couple of condoms lubricated because
you never know if you need them for
something else then carrying water
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don't tell the wife.
8. Waterproof Notepad 4x6" with fisher
spacepen and Fresnel lens + survival
cards fixed inside the cover.
9. UKE 2 AAA + UKE 4AA with Lithium batteries
10.Photon II Green color with 2 batteries
extremely bright.
11.Small thermoneter with chill factor wind
table and button compass.
12.Large Sebenza
13.Swiss Tool with the extra bits + wrench
14.about 10 yards of 2 mm black nylon rope
15.Krill extreme 180 green
16.some chewinggum
17.Anti itch (insect bites etc) stick
18.Small single edge razorblade in plastic holder.
19. superglue gel tube.
20. small first aid kit (4x2.5x1")

I'm now filling a 6x3x1.5" aluminium survival ration can from the French Navy that I bought with some items and I'll let you know what I put in there so far:
1. Pencil flare launcher + 9 flares
2. KMnO4 cristals (makes purple water)
kills foot fungus perfectly disinfect
water and with sugar makes a nice
firestarter.
3. 50 iodine based water purification
tablets
4. 20 feet of copper snare wire
5. 50 feet of 2 mm nylon rope.
6. single edge razor.
7. gas lighter
8. 20 storm matches (britisch boat..)
9. 20 Strike anywhere matches dipped in hot
Beeswax (stays suppler then parafin)
10. BCB SAS wiresaw
11. 20 different size hooks.
12. 30 yards of nylon fishingline (2 sizes)
13. lead "bite-on" split shot weigths
14. 4 condoms again
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lubricated
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15. button compass (BCB)
16. Real Swiss Army knife (all Aluminium) got
it from a Swiss Soldier.
17. some firestarting cubes (Gerber)

Well I don't know anymore I'll let you know and see the picture soon.

So lets hear your daily carry equipement.

Best regards,

Bagheera
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[This message has been edited by Bagheera (edited 29 December 1999).]
 
Bagheera,
Should you actually wish to use those condoms for drinking water, you should pick the unlubed ones. Especially, imho, since the lubes are water soluble anyways.

Stryver, though I guess it's personal preferences...
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id try carrying some duct tape, wrap it around the container, or if that would hinder with the opening, wrap it around other objects like the insect bite stick and such.
i carry a roll of duct tape in one of my jacket pockets, and find it to be one of the most usefull items after my knives.
great for fixing things, bandaging cuts, etc.

and i would advise against the lubed condoms too, carry unlubed, and if your worried about using them for thier intended purposed, maybe carry one of those sample size lube-packets

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AKTI member #A000911

 
Just curious, how do you go about filling a condom with water from an unpressurized source? I'm trying to imagine. Do you take the water in your mouth and force it into the condom? Any other techniques?
 
I prefer large water balloons instead...when given the choice...same ability to store water...just no questions on what happened to it should my wife go through my gear
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Greg Davenport
http://www.ssurvival.com
Are You Ready For The Challenge?
Are You Ready To Learn The Art Of Wilderness Survival?

 
What's important is not the lube on the condoms, it's having some extra to add. Best are the sample sizes of something like Wet or Astroglide. Then, before you "don't carry water", put some lube on whatever you WILL put it. This turns a senseless and irritating exercise into something approximating "not carrying water".
On another subject...
as long as you're taking the space and weight of a plastic holder, why not take one with 5 or 10 razor blades instead of one? It's not like they're made of M2 you know :^)
I've also heard that some pocket chainsaws are a lot nicer than the SAS--probably other people here would know more.
 
Originally posted by Bagheera:
Please note that I'm not interested in small survival kits that weigh over 100 pounds and that contain the articles of small shop.
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Out of curiosity, what does what you listed weigh?

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Urban Fredriksson
www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/

Some Swedish Chrismas traditions:

1. At 3 o'clock on Christmas Eve (Dec 25:th is hardly a
special day here) almost every one watches one hour of Disney
cartoons on the public service TV network, even though it's
been practically no changes in the content the last four
decades. The "highlight" is when the original Swedish
presenter sings along with Benjamin Cricket at the end.

2. Coca Cola usually has around 60% of the market in Sweden,
but around Christmas it drops to about half, as Swedes then
drink "julmust" instead.
 
Not to divert from topic but....

Griffon,
What is the 'julmust'?
Also, I have to admit that in Hungary the big day of Christmas celebration is Christmas Eve (Dec 24). Presents, dinner from fish, midnight mass also come on that night. Dec 25th is more to recuperate (what we are doing now), chill and visit relatives. Turkey is on the menu too. Stuffed cabbage with lotsa paprika and sour cream on top is the food on Dec 26th.

Traditional drink of the season: 'forralt bor' ('boiled wine'). Home recipie: make a pot of tea spiced with cinnemon sticks and whole cloves; add same volume of wine and heat up (NOT BOIL! or you lose EtOH); add sugar and serve as hot as possible.
Is julmust something similar?

I know..it's not 'hard core survival' but might come handy if tumbled through a snow field one finds a cabin with all ingredients...

Merry Christmas!

HM

 
Must is a non-alcoholic alternative to beer, sort of, the modern form is about 100 years old. (I guess this is it for survival content: It's important to know what one can drink where, like for example where in Cape Verde you should avoid the "rum".)

Main ingredients are malt and hops, apart from sugar, in addition there're lots of secret herbs. It's carbonated and dark brown, and is stored so it doesn't taste quite the same around Christmas as around Easter, which is the other time of year Coca Cola has a drop in sales.

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Urban Fredriksson
www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/

"Smooth and serrated blades cut in two entirely different fashions."
- The Teeth of the Tyrannosaurs, Scientific American, Sep 1999
 
Griffon,

Thanks for the 'julmust' recipe. BTW, what is wrong with the rum on Cape Verde?

Also. Greg referred to the 'water ballons' as better than the condom. Could somebody help me to explain what they are? Similar to the MSR Dromedary Bags?

Thanks,

HM

 
HM: Do you remember taking ordinary "balloons" and filling them with water and throwing them at people? Well, now they make balloons SPECIFICALLY for doing that!
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Hence, that is all a 'waterballoon' is, a ballon you fill with water.

You can find them anywhere toys are sold, especially water toys for pools, etc. in most stores!

I hope this helps!
Good luck!

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Plainsman :)
primitiveguy@hotmail.com


 
Thanks Plainsman, I guess I haven't seen them but now I know where to look for it.

Thanks,

HM

 
Originally posted by HM:
Griffon,

Thanks for the 'julmust' recipe. BTW, what is wrong with the rum on Cape Verde?
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I don't remember, but there's one guide book which says that they don't make it properly in all places. It's all made on a very small scale, and I guess there might be impurities left from the process. They've also got "punch", but it's not quite like here.
 
Griffon,
The items I listed that I carry in my travelers vest (the first set of items) weighs about 750 grams that will be about 1.6 lbs. excluding my Sebenza + SwissTool which I consider parts of my body just like a Texan thinks about his boots
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I haven't had time to make some digital pictures of the items I have/carry but will try to do so ASAP and send them to my photopoint address.

Cheers, Bagheera

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[This message has been edited by Bagheera (edited 28 December 1999).]
 
Water ballons tend to be made small and thin, the easier to fill to throwing size and have burst on your target, or better yet, in the tree above their heads... Because of this, I'd vote for normal balloons, which would hold more water and be stronger, and have a larger hole.

Stryver, who never though he'd be debating the pros and cons of condoms and waterballoons...
 
Stryver, you forgot about the lubricant
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By the way you're correct those "throw at each other" waterballoons are designed not to hold much water and will almost burst when a fly lands on them.
So for all your "my wife accepts my survival addiction but isn't to keen on condoms as basic equipement" my wife understands it even the lubricated ones
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Cheers, Bagheera


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