All videos for the tag : Tip (14 videos)

  • 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…

  • Looking for a way to test your fire building skills? Try lighting a “one-match-fire”. This is even more impressive in wet conditions, windy weather, and in other scenarios that increase the difficulty for fire making.

  • The Lighthouse Emergency Signal: Once lost in wilderness, you have to do everything to be found as soon as possible by search and rescue teams. The Lighthouse signal trick can help you to achieve this aim. These things are needed: a trekking pole, plastic bottle, 3 way flashing safety light or a cigarette lighter with…

  • If your BIC-lighter runs out of fuel or you’ve only got a spark, you can still light a fire. The lean-to is a classic shelter around the world. But is not quite as efficient of a shelter as the TV shows and books would lead us to believe. It offers little in the way of…

  • This time: Don´t burn your fingers! Some have already tried this trick, and burned their fingers. So it’s time to show the trick again. Cut a strip from the aluminium foil of 10 cm and fold it in half lengthwise, in order to make a kind of butterfly bandage. Leave a thin “bridge” in the…

  • 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 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…

  • In this primitive skills survival challenge not even the use of a knife is allowed. The only man-made items used were one inner strand of a 5′ section of 550 paracord and a small #6 Aberdeen fish hook. Thanks everyone for the subs, views, comments, and support. I know it’s a long video, but Sarge…

  • John from shares with you how he is building the best shower filter that will remove chloramine, chlorine, VOC, and other contaminants from the water he will shower in. You will discover some of the benefits of showering in filtered water such as softer hair and skin. John notices a reduction in skin rash, irritations…

  • Roasted Engineers present you 5 different ways of creating fire without using lighter or matches. ♫Music by Approaching Nirvana (). 305 – Approaching Nirvana iTunes: Firesteel:

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