Vanislemom & Tazweiss, I agree with both of you on the attitude issue (dealing with challenges like you both faced growing either makes us stronger or breaks us - glad to see you both opted for the former!). We wouldn't get very far in life without the guts to stand up for ourselves (regardless of who it is we have to stand up to). It's that determination to defend ourselves (with words and actions) and the will to survive which will assist us in our endeavours. I don't expect everyone will want to follow the path that I'm seeking, and that's OK - but each to their own eh!
Russell Coight....outback legend
The first and main tool you need is an Imagination, if you cant think of different ways to do things with what you have, then your lost. If you have a BOB then you already have an edge over every one else. In Susannah's case a buried cache may be logical. A water proof barrel buried will have protection from a bush fire. Or if you can build a root cellar with a steel door, would give you the option of emergency storage.
"We 'Prep.' to live after a downfall, Not just to survive."
lets see, primitive survival skills. ok, if we are going there, let set the scene. The earth has wigged out, no fire men,no cops, no army, no food stores, no out side help.
just me my clothing . I find a deer antler, rub it on a rock to make a point for a knife or poking tool. Make a shelter from beaning over young trees, make mats from cat tails, eat them also. Try and find a flint rock to make fire. Eat inner back of spruce trees, ferns, bugs. Gather moss dry grass for bedding. Use deer tool to slice bark off birch tree to make box basket to hold water. Walk area to see signs of animals, lake for fish, wild crating food sources.
Well its a start. My fondest memories as a child was building forts in the forest pretending to service in the wilderness.
Good post Ranger2012.....a buried cache is a good idea. So is using imagination to do things differently, thanks.
Beth, wonderful .....that's exactly what I'm talking about - that's primitive living skills!
Russell Coight....outback legend
I'm so primitive , I don't were make up or panty hoes, lol
I'm so primitive , I don't were make up or panty hoes, lol
I should add this here, I went here some time ago, not sure if they are still doing there wilderness retreat, if you go there ask to clime up blue berry mountain, you can see forever, nothing but lakes and rolling hills.
http://www.cliffland.ca/article.html
Beth, you sound like a lady of me own heart, but you forgot the other uses of birch. Like birch tea, birch beer, making emergency foot wear and clothing, also there' s............ 😉 .
"We 'Prep.' to live after a downfall, Not just to survive."
Quick Survival bow
http://www.wildernesscollege.com/bow-making-instructions.html
arrowheads
http://www.wildernesscollege.com/making-arrowheads.html
more
http://www.mademan.com/mm/how-make-bow-and-arrow-wild.html
Russell Coight....outback legend
Russell Coight....outback legend
Beth, you sound like a lady of me own heart, but you forgot the other uses of birch. Like birch tea, birch beer, making emergency foot wear and clothing, also there' s............ 😉 .
Ha ha , so your lazy like me, didn't want to type any more. I was a cook in a northern ont bush camp, we trucked in a propane stove, generator, fridge. will it ran out of propane, so instead of being hung from the nearest tree by the tree planing crew, I went primitive. I had to feed the little buggers. Took the racks out of the over, build a fire, cook ever dam thing in the freezer and put it back in wash jars and can it. No one dead from eating the food, a week latter new propane came in.
Beth, my dear, dont you know? it's the lazy people that are the most inventive. It's procrastinators that get caught short.
"We 'Prep.' to live after a downfall, Not just to survive."
Beth, my dear, dont you know? it's the lazy people that are the most inventive. It's procrastinators that get caught short.
good to know I'm on the right track, lol my ex was a procrastinators.
O beth I hear you, I once had hubby come in looking kinda pale, turns out one of my freezers "magicly" got unplugged and when the bottom and middle was still frozen in the middle, with outsides sweating, and the top was cold but thawed.. needless to say, I said, get out the second propane stove, the canners, and we cooked off and or canned or pressure canned the whole freezer out over 72 hours.. now the freezer has an alarm on it, it gets unplugged it beeps.. go with the flow as they say, There is something to be said for canning around the clock with naps between loads 🙂
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