All videos for the tag : Rainer Salzger (52 videos) - page 3

  • This time: How to create a warm environment. Stay off the ground: You lose more heat to the cold ground than you do to the air around you, so having or making a raised platform is a good way to start off your primitive shelter. To achieve this goal, a camping bed or an camping…

  • Air has a low thermal conductivity but is very mobile. There are thus two elements that are important in protecting from the cold: 1: stopping the wind from penetrating and replacing the layer of warm air close to the body; 2: setting up a layer of still air which serves as insulation, by the use…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • If your camp fire threatens to extinguish, a fire booster can it bring back to life. Dry tree resin is such a fire booster.

  • Flood Season Has Arrived. It’s the rainy season and many states are already facing massive floods. Swimming in flood waters can be very dangerous. It should never be done – except your life depends on it. Here are a survival tip to help you prepare for the tough weather. I show you how to use…

  • The Self-Extinguishing Candle: There are some 18,000 candle-caused fires annually in the United States, and experts blame carelessness on the part of candle users. Some Candle fires occur because candles were left unattended, abandoned or inadequately supervised. To leave your candle burning so that it will safely extinguish itself at any estimated time, insert the…

  • Tea strainer: improvised Rescue Signaling Technique Signaling for rescue in any survival situation is extremely important. The more signaling ‘know-how’ tactics you have in your “Trick-Bag” the better your chances are of rescue. 1) Stuff the tea strainer with birch bark. 2) Light the Birch bark (wait for a short time, then perform step 3)…

  • This time: Once you get to your bug out location – how will you be living in? Do everything you can to take care of yourself, now more than ever before. Security: Make sure that the rock structure is solid and there are no rocks poised to fall from the roof on you while you’re…

  • Prepper´s homemade fire booster. Packaged in small containers, it can be taken on camping trips in order to kindle a campfire or be used as a barbecue lighter at home. Put a tin with tree resin in a water bath. Once it melts, olive oil can be added (The mixing ratio between tree resin and…

  • 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…