Fire Piston: A Never Fail Way To Build A Fire In The Wilderness
Fire Piston: a simple and effective way to start a campfire without matches when stranded in the forest. A wilderness survival tool that may save your life. You are lost in the woods. It is getting cold and dark.
How to eat wild stuff and not get poisoned (how-to)
Let's play pretend for a moment. 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.
No Fuel- No Problem - Survival Life
You’re out in the woods, stranded. It’s getting dark and you need to make a fire fast. You have all the twigs, sticks, and logs that you could possibly need. So now all you have to do is get a small flame to set it alight. You pull out your trusty Zippo and strike it.
Bramble Berry Soap Making Supplies
Want to make your own all natural mineral make-up? Maybe you want to know down to the last ingredient what you put on your skin or maybe you just can't find that perfect shade of lipstick. Bramble Berry has everything you need to make customized mineral make-up. Info and Inspiration Learn how to get the perfect smoky eye and a fabulous mossy green eye shadow recipe over at the Soap Queen Blog.
7 Ways to Have More by Owning Less
by Maria Popova Inconspicuous consumption, or what lunching ladies have to do with social web karma. Stuff. We all accumulate it and eventually form all kinds of emotional attachments to it.
The Fantastic Four ? 4 Essential Wild Edible Plants that May Just Save Your Life
Did you realize that knowing just 4 wild edible plants could one day save your life? If there were any four categories of plants that I would recommend all people to know how to use and identify it would be these: Grass, Oak, Pine, and Cattail. For the knowledgeable survivor, knowing just these four plants can make the difference between life and death if stranded in the wilds – for each one is an excellent food source which can sustain you until help arrives. Throughout this week and part of the next, I’ll be going into details on how you can prepare and eat these plants.
Constrictor knot
History[edit] First called "constrictor knot" in Clifford Ashley's 1944 work The Ashley Book of Knots, this knot likely dates back much further.[5] Although Ashley seemed to imply that he had invented the constrictor knot over 25 years before publishing The Ashley Book of Knots,[1] research indicates that he was not its originator.[6] Ashley's publication of the knot did bring it to wider attention.[7] Although the description is not entirely without ambiguity, the constrictor knot is thought to have appeared under the name "gunner's knot" in the 1866 work The Book of Knots,[8][9] written under the pseudonym Tom Bowling.[10] in relation to the clove hitch, which he illustrated and called the "builder's knot". He wrote, "The Gunner's knot (of which we do not give a diagram) only differs from the builder's knot, by the ends of the cords being simply knotted before being brought from under the loop which crosses them."[11] Oddly, when J.
Lather Rinse Repeat - Survival Life
Whether you are camping or in a disaster situation, antibacterial soap will be a precious commodity. Did you know that you can use ashes from your wood fire to create a “soap” that can be used to clean your pots and pans? It’s actually a very simple process that has been used in some form or another for a very long time. -Let your fire burn down to the point where it is cool enough to remove the ash without burning yourself. -Select the pot you need to clean. If the food residue is not very greasy you can help the soap making process along by adding a small amount of fat or oil into the pot.
How to Make Lye: 13 steps (with pictures)
Edit Article Edited by G. Kent, Krystle C., Ben Rubenstein, Ash Furrow and 39 others Lye, also known as NaOH, sodium hydroxide, or caustic soda, is used in making soap and in biodiesel fuel production. Caustic potash, or potassium hydroxide, is also called lye. Like sodium hydroxide, it can also be used in the production of biodiesel, although the recipe will have to be adjusted somewhat; unlike, NaOH, however, it can more easily be made at home.
