All videos for the tag : Rainer Salzger (52 videos)
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Ground-to-air emergency signs are well known within Rescue parties. Easy displayed by day, you need at night a special procedure for an effective deployment. I call this solution the “SURVIVOR´s RESCUE CINEMA”. The signals can be also projected on the ground, on cliff faces or in urban areas on roofs and walls. The size of…
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Make Yourself Seen. Look at your gear. Evaluate each item for its potential use as a signalling tool. Identify your signalling tools and arrange them so they’re at hand on a moment’s notice. BE FLASHY You can make a highly effective visual signal to aircraft or distant rescuers with a mirror or other reflector on…
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A 2 mm thick wire rope can be used as emergency replacement for a climbing rope, but it is very dangerous. Try this only as a last resort, when all else fails.
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Battery fire lighting. If you are carrying arms you can use the gunpowder from a round to help ignite your tinder.
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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,…
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This time: Charcoal as Survival Medicine. Diarrhoea will normally develop as a result of consuming contaminated food or water. Diarrhoea is detected when the number of daily bowel movements increases by the factor of two or more, the stools being soft and watery. A small amount of charcoal slurry will settle the stomach as charcoal…
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Improvised Camp Lantern (part two) – extremely simple.
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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…
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Double-covered shelters consist of two plastic sheets separated by a layer of air. Double covering has a major benefit over single covering (where there’s just one cover of plastic sheet and no air layer): Keeps warm air in, meaning your emergency shelter is better insulated. Double covering prevents heat transfer by convection. The trapped air…
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Rose hips will can be eaten as a winter survival food. If in case you find yourself having colds and flu while out in the wild, this can serve as your natural medication. Check out my books:
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This time: Fire-starting with a Fresnel Lens. A Fresnel lens will save on using matches for cloudy days or nighttime while during sunshine you can start a fire for free. The compact and lightweight design of a Fresnel lens along with being inexpensive makes it a perfect addition to your survival kit. The Fresnel Lens…
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The candle emergency lantern, made of a old tin can, a candle, and a bit of wire for handle, is a device that will be found to be very useful in an emergency. The whole thing was a boxed light, shining ahead like a searchlight.
