All videos for the tag : One Minute Survival Tip (7 videos)

  • The bark of the wild cherry tree is a traditional Native American remedy. However, the bark still has another value: it helps you to kindle a fire. The wild cherry tree bark burns about 3 times longer, than birch bark. This is helpful if you are forced to kindle a fire under wet weather conditions,…

  • Battery fire lighting. If you are carrying arms you can use the gunpowder from a round to help ignite your tinder.

  • This time: The animal fat Burner Things needed: 2 Tin cans, 3 wooden sticks, cotton strip, animal fat, pocket knife, matches or lighter. Some Facts about animal fat: The University of Georgia has been using chicken fat to heat buildings and water on its campus. Animal fat fuels are produced as waste in the slaughtering…

  • This time: The desert cooker aka Benghazi stove. The ‘Benghazi Stove’ is an improvised cooking stove, consisting of three simple items, Dry Sand, Petrol and an Old Tin Can. The ‘Benghazi Stove’ was innovated by the “Desert Rats” in North Africa, during WW2. Partially fill the Tin can with Dry Sand and then pour either…

  • This time: BOL – Cave as a refuge (Part 1) Imagine there is a collapse of the social order. And as the situation escalates, you decide it is best to stay out of the way of the chaos. You decide to bug out. You head for the hills. Here are some tips on how to…

  • If you find yourself without shoes, it is important that you find a way to cover your feet. With a grass bundle a sort of shoe sole is formed…..

  • To improvise a survival compass can be done in various ways, but each require a ferrous metal object and a suspension system. The simplest way to magnetise your improvised compass needle so that it is attracted by one end to magnetic North, is to stroke it with a magnet in one direction only. If you…