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Monthly Archives: June 2015
Traditional fire kit
My traditional fire kit.
The Sammi pouch was made by a gentlemen out in Oklahoma. It has a real leather thong closure with real antler buttons and slide.
My kit, left to right. Top row: Birch bark, Flint and Steel Kit, “Sure Fire” Kit.
Bottom row: Shredded Tulip Poplar inner bark, jute twine, fatwood.
Seax made for a customer
Seax I made for a customer the runes read Levi this is a custom knife I made if you would like one similar contact me on here Facebook etsy or Instagram. Thanks for looking!
Some people realise there is more to medical care than just having a bandana and a bit of para cord
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Some people realise there is more to medical care than just having a bandana and a bit of para cord!
Earth ‘entering new extinction phase’ – US study
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33209548
The Earth has entered a new period of extinction, a study by three US universities has concluded, and humans could be among the first casualties.
The report, led by the universities of Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley, said vertebrates were disappearing at a rate 114 times faster than normal.
The findings echo those in a report published by Duke University last year.
One of the new study‘s authors said: “We are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event.”
The last such event was 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs were wiped out, in all likelihood by a large meteor hitting Earth.
“If it is allowed to continue, life would take many millions of years to recover and our species itself would likely disappear early on,” said the lead author, Gerardo Ceballos.
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A Forgotten Skill: Weather Prediction
survivalgal:
As of right now, only extreme weather affects our daily lives, but in a doomsday scenario we would need to know the weather to properly adapt shelter, make sure our rain barrels are ready, or to know the right time to plant our seeds for the garden. In the event of a coming disaster you should have already purchased a solar charged or hand cranked radio equipped with NOAA. Ideally, this would provide a way for you to hear news from the outside world and let you know if a giant hurricane or tsunami is headed in your direction. Every good little prepper should have a back-up plan in the event the hand radio had to be used in defense against a hoard of zombies, or there is no one left to broadcast the weather and tell you the latest news (cue in eerie, dark music).
Believe it or not, humans have found ingenious ways to predict a coming weather event for centuries. Long before Doppler and satellites, people used animals, their senses, smoke, and even a cup of coffee to tell the temperature or forecast a coming storm. Here are a few tricks and tips (none of these are foolproof or guaranteed but the last time I checked the Weather Channel wasn’t throwing out guarantees either) that may give you an edge when preparing and provide you with the knowledge you need to plan and protect your family and belongings from a weather event. If nothing else, you can wow all your buddies at the next cookout.
Read the rest/more at A Forgotten Skill: Weather Prediction
Making Cordage
Despite my interest in wild skills and primitive knowledge, I hadn’t pursued playing around much with cordage. This past weekend, we went and visited a man who has attended all the Tracker School classes, allows Earthwalk Northwest Wilderness School to teach a portion of their classes on his land and has been practicing primitive skills for the past twenty+ years. In our down time, while we talked, he walked us through making cordage with a pile of Dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum L.) he had harvested.
Here’s the rough rundown:
1. Flatten the stalk and use your thumbs or a rock to put enough pressure to cause it to split. Do this along the entire length.
2. The wood is fairly easy to remove. Starting at the thick end, snap off inch-long section of wood. To avoid peeling, pull up one end, then the other, until the strip is removed. I’ve known some people to do this process very quickly and in larger sections, but you’ll save more of the fibers in the long run with a little attention to detail and patience.
3. After you have cleaned the fibers of all bark material, we rolled the entire length in a clockwise direction, to give it some “muscle memory” and which helps along the next process.
4. Now, fold the strand so that one end is about 1/3 longer than the other [Picture 4]. This is done because if the ends were even, you would be creating a point of failure in the cordage when you splice more Dogbane in. By offsetting them the weight load is dispersed throughout the rope.
5. Now for the part that is infinitely easier to explain in action. I hold the top section of the rope between my thumb and pointer finger. The bottom section is held with my middle and index fingers. Twist the top section clockwise very tightly (have as little distance as possible between your right and left hands, to give yourself a tighter wrap) [Picture 5].
6. Next, rotate your wrist, counterclockwise, bringing the bottom strand to the top. You repeat this process until you are finished or reach a couple inches from the splice point. I’ll cover splicing in a different photo-documentation.
7. The weave should begin to look like the final photograph. To finish, or continue later, simply tie a simple knot at the end of the cordage and it should hold fine.
Again, I am new to cordage, and step-by-step tutorials are obviously not my strong suit, but if’in you have access to a fibrous plant, I vote give it a go!
Tiny Ancestor of Lions, Tigers & Bears Discovered
Tiny Ancestor of Lions, Tigers & Bears Discovered (Oh My!)
by Stephanie Pappas, Jan. 06, 2014
Lions, tigers, bears and even loyal pups and playful kitties all come
from the same line of carnivorous mammals, a lineage whose origins are
lost in time. Now, scientists have discovered one of the earliest
ancestors of all modern carnivores in Belgium.The new species, Dormaalocyon latouri, was a 2-lb (1 kg) tree-dweller that likely fed on even smaller mammals and insects.
“It wasn’t frightening. It wasn’t dreadful,” said study researcher
Floréal Solé, a paleontologist at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural
Sciences in Brussels. What it was, Solé said, is a clue to the
beginnings of today’s toothy beasts. “It is one of the oldest carnivorous mammals which is related to present-day carnivores,” Solé told LiveScience.All modern carnivores descend from a single group, one of four groups of carnivorous mammals found in the Paleocene and Eocene periods,
Solé said. The Paleocene ran from 66 million to 56 million years ago,
and the Eocene followed from 56 to 33.9 million years ago.The carnivoraforms, as they’re known, appear widespread during the
Eocene, but without earlier fossils, paleontologists are unsure about
their origins. Solé and his colleagues examined fossils from the very
earliest Eocene, about 56 million years ago, from Dormaal, Belgium, east
of Brussels…(read more: Live Science)
illustrations: Charlène Letenneur (MNHN) & Pascale Golinvaux (RBINS)
National roaming Anywhere Sim card to tackle UK notspots
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33091991
National roaming Anywhere Sim card to tackle UK notspots – BBC News
Boker Plus Los Banos Xs knife
A couple of months ago, law66 showed a picture of a Boker Plus Los Banos Xs knife. I commented on the knife, and said that I liked it. Just a little while later, one of my followers sent me one of those knives. I have used it for a couple of weeks now, and I’m very happy with it.
At first, I didn’t think I would like a non locking knife, but, it has worked really well. The finger choil on it keeps the blade from closing accidentally, which works in conjunction with a stiff back spring. You could make it close in your fingers, if you tried hard enough. You could also cause any lock to fail if you banged on it long enough.
As always, I used it for food prep, which is a great test of cutting ability. It sliced meat with no problem, which I assumed would be the case. Next, I sliced baby bok choy, which gives a bit more resistance. Slicing was no problem and the cuts were clean. I also cut plastic cling film to cover the left overs. For me, it passed the kitchen test. It also cut a bit of paracord while making blue line bracelets. Clean cuts the entire time.
It is a flat folder, so I won’t be using the pocket clip. I think it will eventually find its way into one of my bug out bags. It would also make a great knife for camping. The only thing I would like is a lanyard hole. Other than that, it is a great knife.
Primitive Survival Skills 