Survival Tips

Well most people say rock + rock = fire. Well it does not equal fire it equals very frustrated human with two rocks. What you would want if you have modern fire making technology (matches and lighter) is wood and dry leaves. If you don't have matches or a lighter buy you have a pocketknife is wood, dry leaves, a stick and a plank. What you do is cut an indent into the plank then you sharpen the stick and be very careful then rub the pointed end next to your nose for body oil. Then you put the stick in the notch and put dry leaves within a reachable distance. Then you spin the stick in one direction as fast as possible until you see smoke. Once you see smoke put the ash in the notch on the dry leaves then blow on the ash gently till a fire comes. Then you put wood on the fire but keep the blank and stick because you may need it again.

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The best thing to have to start a fire is a Swiss army firesteel. It is relatively easy to use to create large sparks. It works better than a magnesium bar. It doesn't involve the strenuous work involved in fire by friction methods. They are relatively cheap, and a genuine Swiss army firesteel is good for up to twelve thousand sparks of 3000 degrees. If you are into camping invest in a firesteel and attach to a long landyard to wear around your neck. Before you use a firesteel you need to scrape the protective coating off of it. You can use your striker to scrape it off.

Before you use the firesteel you need to gather bundles of tinder, kindling, and progressively bigger fuel wood. Certain tree barks make good tinder when it is crushed up. So do dead grass, cotton balls mixed with candle wax or petroleum jelly, paper, dead leaves, etc. Build your fire in a tepee fashion, at the bottom the tinder, surrounded by a tepee of kindling, surrounded by a tepee of bigger fuel wood. The tepees should have openenings in both the kindling and the bigger fuel wood

Use the firesteel to send sparks into the tinder, which is laid in the tepee openings. Build your fire in a depression or build a wall of rocks around it. This is to keep it out of too much wind.

If you are in a wet environment, pick broken branches buried on the ground under leaves up and whittle into them to see if they have dry wood deeper down. Break dead branches from the bottom of dead trees that have toppled over onto other trees to lean there.

A Swiss army knife is a handy pocket knife for doing fine work while camping or hiking. However, it's too small for chopping firewood. This is where a larger blade knife is needed. A survival knife with a blade length of about 5 to about 7 inches is generally sufficient for chopping and splitting (known as batoning) wood into smaller pieces to be used as firewood. Choose a blade length large enough for this important survival task but not too large to maintain good blade control.

A survival knife needs to be as indestructible as possible, able to take a razor edge, hold that edge, and be easy to sharpen as needed. A knife blade made of a tried and true carbon steel like 1095 meets this performance criteria. There is no need to get caught up in the newest high tech steel for wilderness survival tasks. Stainless steel blades are harder to sharpen and don't hold an edge for as long as carbon steel blades, but do have their place in frequent fresh and salt water environments for boaters, fishermen, and Navy Seals for example.

A useful survival knife needs to be big enough for big jobs like splitting wood, and used as a weapon if need be but not so big that it is cumbersome while doing finer tasks like food preparation, or shaving wood into small pieces to help build a campfire. Other uses for a survival knife can include hacking through ice that a shovel won't cut through, batoning wood for a campfire, cutting rope, making tent stakes, cutting the top off of food cans, hunting, and making traps. The list of survival needs is almost endless.

For wilderness survival tasks, avoid double edged blades and tanto style blades because these are designed more for thrusting as opposed to cutting, chopping and splitting wood. They are not as functional because they tend to have weak tips that can be broken off while doing survival tasks. Remember reliability is everything in a survival knife. A double edged blade also doesn't have a thick spine, so it would be impossible to baton wood with it. A survival knife with a drop point blade is the best all-around blade design for wilderness survival since it is less prone to bending and breaking during most survival tasks.

Large Rambo style knives may look cool and menacing, but are generally too large, heavy and therefore cumbersome for most survival tasks.

Because a survival knife needs to be as strong as possible, a fixed blade knife is preferred over a folding blade knife. Also, the blade length needs to extend from the tip to the end or slightly beyond the end of the knife handle. This one-piece design, called a "full-tang" knife design, is stronger than a two piece design where the blade is attached to the handle using screws, rivets and other attachment techniques.

There is a debate whether or not the blade edge should include serrations. Although this is an option in many survival knives made today, I feel a plain straight edge blade is more reliable since it's is easier to sharpen, does not require special tools to sharpen, and can do the tasks of a serrated edge knife. Simplicity and strength generally contribute to greater reliability for many survival knife tasks.

The spine of the blade runs opposite to the cutting edge of the blade and should be 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick so that it has enough strength for batoning (hitting it with a piece of wood) to split firewood. The spine of the blade should be flat so that it does not chew up the baton (the wood you are using to hit the spine.

Their are many variations of survival knife handles. The knife handle should be solid and should feel comfortable in your hand, provide good blade control, and be durable enough to survive the many tasks required of the survival knife. Hollow handled knives tend to break easily, making them unreliable for wilderness survival tasks. Survival knife handle materials include hard rubber, plastics like glass-reinforced nylon and Kraton(R), wood, and other materials.

When you obtain your survival knife, be careful with it and use it often. This will help you gain confidence using it and will help you find more handy uses for it. Keep it clean. Form the habit of cleaning it before putting it in its sheath. To help prevent blade rust, lubricate it with WD40 or your favorite petroleum based oil. This will help you maintain it for a lifetime.

Actually, what you are probably referring to is the first aid advice for helping a person who has fainted by raising THEIR feet higher than THEIR head to allow more blood to get to their brain.

Yes. She was my great grandmother and she died in 1967. I am not sure why you are mentioning Palatka. I dont think she was ever there. Her dad founded the island of Hypoluxo. Google Hannibal Dillingham Pierce

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You could. They taste kind of bitter though. It's the petals that are edible, and they go better with something else rather than alone.

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I have found that practically no plant is goat proof. But, periwinkle, which happens to be deer resistant, is MOSTLY goat resistant, although they do like to eat the flowers. One thing to do is finding something tall enough, so above 5 feet, depending on the goat. But you have to make sure the goat doesn't lie to eat the bark. It completely ruins the tree. An oak tree I have is like half way eaten through the 5" trunk. Anyways, another option is getting a vine, but there's still the problem with the bark, then you can put it on a levitated surface (porches, etc), and let it grow from there. Well, there's either that... or just building a fence.

yes you can, as long as you are out of the wind by using iron and wood of plants or by banging 2 rocks togather one of them was flint.

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If it is a fresh water river. The water may be polluted. If you see any dead fish floating down the river, it's probably not a great idea to drink out of it. Otherwise it should be good enough.

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Flashlights typically use batteries that contain lithium, nickel, or alkaline elements, depending on the type of battery. Lithium-ion batteries are common in rechargeable flashlights due to their high energy density and longevity. Additionally, some flashlights use LED bulbs, which are made from semiconductor materials that often include gallium, arsenic, and phosphorous.

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