All videos for the tag : Snakeeaters (42 videos)
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How to improvise a compass from a video tape. Today’s magnetic tape is composed of three main layers: the base film, the magnetic layer, and the back coating. The base film provides the physical support and main strength of the tape. The magnetic layer determines the tape’s magnetic properties. It is composed of magnetic powders,…
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To create your own survival compass you will need the following materials: 1) A needle or some other wire like piece of steel (a straightened paper clip, for example) and your 2) pocket knife. The first step is to turn the wire into a magnet. The easiest way to do this is with the blade…
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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…
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Survival – brain teaser Some survival skills are simple, other, however, a little bit tricky. To improvise a survival compass should be easy, but is it also easy to determine the north direction with it? Watch the video and share your knowledge and solutions with other people. Be wise, think twice!
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Sicherheits-Streichhölzer können in der Wildnis auch ohne die Reibflächen der Streichholzschachtel entzündet werden, vor allem dann wichtig, wenn diese beschädigt oder abgenützt sind. Nützlich ist dabei folgende Information: Streichhölzer entzünden in etwa bei 80 °C. Durch Reibung von Holz auf Holz läßt sich diese Hitze leicht erzeugen; zur Anwendung kommt dabei die Feuerpflug-Technik. Beachte: Streichholzkopf…
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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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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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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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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.
