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Build a Log Raft. Steps Method 1 of 2: Basic log raft 1Collect 4 to 10 logs.

Build a Log Raft

Lay them gently into the shallow water near shore that is deep enough for the logs to float. Choose equal sized logs because they fit better (be careful not to lay the logs into a rough sea because they might float away!). Ad 2Collect 6 poles that are longer than the logs. 5Done. Method 2 of 2: Emergency raft for up to 3 persons 1Select the logs.

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Turn Salt Water Into Drinking Water. Make a Survival Kit out of an Altoids Tin. 9 Kits You Should Have in Your Home to Prepare You for Anything. Special Ops Bag. Don Mann: 9 Most Crucial Survival Tips. "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Don Mann: 9 Most Crucial Survival Tips

" -Charles Darwin Life can change in an instant. One moment you're trekking along a mountain ridge, and you're suddenly struck by a rattlesnake. One minute you're skiing down a mountain, the next you're facing an oncoming avalanche. Navy SEALs are trained to face dangerous situations all over the world - at sea, in the air and on land.

We are trained to deal with these emergencies - to survive in the harshest of environments without food and water. But what if, God forbid, something like that happens to you? The U.S. We live in a dangerous world. Loading Slideshow The only person you can ultimately count on is yourself.No one else can give you the mental will, physical stamina, and common sense that you're going to need to survive. Survival Kits, Emergency Kits & Bug Out Bags. How to Build a Homemade Still. Wildernet - Hiking, Camping, Fishing and Many Other Activities Throughout... Disaster Supplies Kit. Earthquakes, floods, and other disasters can seriously disrupt normal life.

Disaster Supplies Kit

Services may not be available, transportation may be cut off and roads may be blocked. 72 Hour Kit. January 13, 2014, by Ken Jorgustin.

72 Hour Kit

Outdoor Survival tips. Here ya go folks, whether you know nothing or very little about survival.

Outdoor Survival tips

And or you just don't have the time and money to buy and read a "how-to" survival book from cover-to-cover. These few survival tips of mine will save you time in learning the really important stuff about survival without the repetitive BS you'll find on other sites. Better to know a few good survival skills than not to know any at all. Do-it-yourself Survival Kit. The Do-it-yourself Coffee Can Survival Kit This is a compact kit that can be carried in the car, on the boat, or in a pack for hunting, hiking, exploring, etc.

Do-it-yourself Survival Kit

Most of the contents will fit in a one-pound coffee can which doubles as a pot for melting snow and device with which to dig an emergency snow shelter. (However, if you can carry it, include a small shovel. Bug Out Bag Shelter 1. Bug Out Bag Shelter 2. Survival Tips. Professional advice should always be sought before entering any dangerous environment.

Survival Tips

DCL | Overall Survival Tips — Always make sure that someone knows where you are going and when you're planning to come back. If something goes wrong, they will know to alert the appropriate authorities. — Do your homework before going on a trip — know the basic geography of your destination and familiarize yourself with edible flora and fauna. . — Use common sense. Bug-out bag. Off-the-shelf Red Cross preparedness kit .

Bug-out bag

A bug-out bag[1][2] is a portable kit that contains the items one would require to survive for seventy-two hours[3][4] when evacuating from a disaster. The focus is on evacuation, rather than long-term survival, distinguishing the bug-out bag from a survival kit, a boating or aviation emergency kit, or a fixed-site disaster supplies kit. The kits are also popular in the survivalism subculture.[5] The term "bug-out bag" is related to, and possibly derived from, the "bail-out bag" emergency kit many military aviators carry. In the United States, the term refers to the Korean War practice of the U.S.

10 Skills Every Survivalist Should Learn. 100 Items To Disappear First. 100 Skills Every Man Should Know: 2008's Ultimate DIY List. YOU CAN BUILD YOUR OWN ADD~ON GREENHOUSE. It's a snap to design and build your own add-on greenhouse from low-cost new and salvaged materials.

YOU CAN BUILD YOUR OWN ADD~ON GREENHOUSE

You Can Build Your Own Add-On Greenhouse For decades, the height of gardening and "food self-sufficiency" luxury has been the private greenhouse. Unfortunately — or, perhaps, foolishly — too many of us have traditionally regarded a family greenly greenhouse as just that . . . a luxury that "maybe" we'll be able to afford "someday". Internationally recognized greenhouse gardening authority Jack Kramer doesn't agree with that line of thought at all. "Far more people than realize it can have a greenhouse right now," says Jack. Some of us (far more than have thought about it) can afford to buy and erect a prefabricated greenhouse, and some of us can't. Homemade greenhouses — just like homemade food-can be even better than the "professionally" designed kind. Greenhouse Location I've seen excellent greenhouses filled with healthy plants attached to the east, west, and even north faces of homes.

How to eat wild stuff and not get poisoned (how-to) Let's play pretend for a moment.

How to eat wild stuff and not get poisoned (how-to)

Are you with me? Let's pretend you can't go down to the supermarket for food to eat. In fact, let's pretend that there is not a supermarket for one hundred miles in any direction, and you don't have any food with you. In this pretend land, you are stranded in the wilderness. Perhaps your GPS navigation unit directed you to detour onto a closed mining road in the middle of nowhere, and you didn't have the sense to second-guess it until your rental car got stuck in seasonal mud, and you decide to head out into the woods instead of following the road back. Does this seem unlikely? 37 Things You Should Stock but Probably Aren’t. UPDATED: 67 Items! Every survivalist message board and prepper blog tells you to stock the same things; weapons, water, food basics, etc.

So, I went looking for a list of things that you should be stocking, but probably aren’t. Everything on the list will make your life many times easier after the SHTF, especially in a Bugging-In scenario. 1. Toothpaste and Toothbrushes 2. 38. What Else? This is a short list of things we are probably forgetting. MacGyver, Survivalist, or Stockpiler: The Urban Survival Skills Everyone Should Know. It's your word against his.. If he ain't talkin, your word pretty much wins. Also, don't try draggin him back in your house after he's dead.. The cops will be able to tell he was shot inside your house. As soon as you're involved in a shooting like this, call the cops, then a lawyer..

You are so bad ass. How to Build a Homemade Battery.