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Last Updated on April 13, 2021 When I got into Prepping back in around 2005, I felt compelled by a certain feeling in my gut that things were not going in the right direction. I saw potential threats to my family everywhere, so I began an intense study of the possibilities and likelihood of many […]
Did you know that cutting paracord without using a knife is possible? Today, you’re going to learn an awesome paracord trick that can be very useful in survival situations!
While it’s always a good idea to have a knife on hand, sometimes when things go wrong, they go very wrong. So what do you do if you need to cut some paracord and don’t have a knife? Check out this tutorial to find out!
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550 cord is a rot-resistant, fast-drying nylon rope that is a basic tool for survival. It has a strength of 550 lbs., which is why it is used in many different situations. A soldier without a 500 cord is basically not equipped and ready.
Also, a prepper or anyone who is into any kind of outdoor adventures should be well-advised to carry it with them all the time. It is as important as it is functional, in numerous emergency situations.
Examples of situations in which 550 cord is invaluable:
Paracord (also called 550 cord) has tons of uses; this is why it’s a must-have for every prepper or survivalist.
Very tough and very versatile, one person can have hundreds of different ways to use it and the next guy has another hundred. But what happens when SHTF and the only survival tool left in your kit is a long piece of 550 cord?
Paracord is now available in multi-color bracelets, necklaces, key chains, and other accessories which you can also make by yourself. These have proven to be quite useful to the emergency response teams and safety personnel.
Paracord is fast becoming popular with the average person, who may or may not know about its great versatility. In fact, you may be surprised to find out that a paracord bracelet can be unraveled to use when SHTF!
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Today we are going to take another look at backyard aquaculture. Aquaculture has a history of thousands of years of feeding people via small self-managed systems.
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I have now been doing this at various levels for about 8 years. I have also done a large number of episodes more on the how to aspects so today I am coming at it more on how to think about it and chose the right tactics for your own needs.
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In a crisis where you have no access to rainwater or any open body of water, knowing how to collect dew water from the surroundings can spell the difference between survival and dehydration. Every survivalist should know how to gather dew.
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The first thing you need to ensure is the cleanliness and portability of the dew you’re collecting. Dehydration is bad, but drinking contaminated water isn’t any better.
As a general rule, avoid collecting dew from grass that is:
If possible, only collect dew from private, untreated fields or secluded grassy areas in the woods.
Now, it’s time to collect the dew. Wipe the grass with a piece of cloth, then wring out the collected dew in a clean, sanitized cup or tub once the cloth becomes soaked and heavy.
You can use a clean shirt, sock, or rag to collect the dew. Although, opt for chamois cloth if you have it on you because it absorbs exponentially more water than other pieces of cloth do.
If you used a clean piece of cloth to collect dew from a 100% untreated field, then transferred the dew straight to a sanitized cup, you can try drinking the dew water as is. However, this might not be the case in most survival situations.
If you’re going through a tough situation where you only have dew to rely on for your drinking water, then there’s a good chance you’re short on other resources as well. You might not even have a choice on where to collect dew from—much less a clean piece of cloth to collect water vapor with.
In cases like these, opt to distill or filter your water first before consumption. It’s a simple process that would only take a few minutes but drastically reduce the risk of getting infected from contaminated water.
First, filter the dew water. Pass the collected dew water through a clean piece of cloth. Keep filtering until you separate all the visible debris and contaminants.
Next, boil the water. A quick way to kill and inactivate all kinds of harmful viruses and bacteria in your dew water—or any type of water—is to expose them to high heat. Boiling them for at least a minute should be more than enough. Finally, let the water cool down, then enjoy.
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A young, healthy survivalist with good stamina and excellent dexterity should be able to collect a gallon of water in around 30 to 40 minutes. Meanwhile, the filtering and disinfection would take another 10 to 15 minutes. All in all, it’s safe to assume that gathering one gallon of clean, filtered dew water would consume at least one hour of your day.
This process might be easy to repeat daily. However, there’s no assurance that dew will be available for collection every single day during the crisis period.
The best approach here is to collect as much water as you can once dew becomes available. That way, you won’t have to wait for rain, locate an open body of water, or let dew accumulate just to get access to potable water.
During this process, however, make sure to use a clean container. Whether you’re collecting rainwater or scooping buckets of water from a stream, keeping your drinking water inside an unsanitized, unclean container is never a good idea.
Pro Tip: If you don’t have a large container with you, opt to carry around a clean piece of cloth and some fire-starting tools such as a bow drill instead. If you can’t store potable water, at least make it easy to collect and disinfect water,
Don’t have the tools necessary to start a fire or boil water? Opt to disinfect water with regular chlorine bleach. This is a disinfection method the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advises to those suffering from natural calamities that cause water interruptions like a flood or hurricane.
First, transfer the water to a clean cup and assess how dirty it is. Try filtering out some of the visible debris and contaminants using a clean piece of cloth.
Next, add in the bleach. Ideally, you should mix eight drops of 6% bleach or six drops of 8.25% bleach per one gallon of water. You can opt to add more drops if the water is too cloudy.
Stir the mixture, then let everything settle for at least 30 minutes. By this point, your drinking water should be emitting a slight chlorine scent, this is normal. In fact, consider adding a few more drops of bleach if your water doesn’t smell like chlorine.
Lastly, do a quick taste test. Don’t continue drinking if the water tastes too muddy and cloudy or if the chlorine stench is too strong.
Important: Only use unscented chlorine bleach. Color-safe or scented bleach options contain extra chemicals that may cause complications when ingested.
Check out this video by Military.com where they share a simple way to collect dew water for drinking purposes:
Water is one of the most important resources one needs to survive. In fact, studies show that symptoms of fatal dehydration start to appear after just three days of not drinking water, while survivalists with access to sufficient potable water can go up to two months without consuming food.
Also, while dew water harvesting definitely gives you the upper hand in a crisis situation, bear in mind that dew won’t always be present. To increase your chances of survival, learn other ways to acquire potable water.
Do you know any other way to collect and gather dew water for survival purposes? Share your tips and tricks with us in the comments section below!
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It is starting to happen again. Do you remember how “panic buying” caused a massive shortage of toilet paper and other basic essentials during the early days of the COVID pandemic last year? Well, shortages are back, but this time around different factors are at play. We are being told that the shortages should just be temporary, and that is good news. But this is yet another example that shows how exceedingly vulnerable global supply chains have become in this day and age. If another major global crisis were to suddenly strike, we could quickly be facing long-term shortages of certain items that would be quite severe. So hopefully this short-term toilet paper shortage will be a wake up call for all of us. The following comes from Yahoo News…
Who can forget last year’s empty store shelves and pandemic panic shopping, right? Cleaning products, hand sanitizer and toilet paper were all but impossible to find, and only recently have name-brand disinfectant wipes and sprays begun showing up in stores again,
Well, brace yourself, because another product shortage is looming — and yes, it may very well become tough to find toilet paper again.
This new toilet paper shortage is not being caused by “panic buying”. Instead, two factors have combined to create serious delays in getting products from overseas…
For six days, Egypt’s Suez Canal was blocked by a giant cargo vessel that got stuck and held up hundreds of other ships on a route that handles about 12% of world trade. The Ever Given — about as long as the Empire State Building is tall — was finally freed Monday, but analysts say it could take more than a week to clear the backup.
Meanwhile, a shortage of shipping containers also is causing problems in the cargo transport industry. Many of the factories that build the giant metal boxes are in China — and a number of them shut down in the early days of the COVID crisis, cutting supplies short.
Needless to say, it won’t just be toilet paper that is affected.
Even now, you are probably noticing empty shelves at some of your favorite retail outlets, and that will probably continue to be the case for quite some time.
Meanwhile, prices on many of our favorite consumer products are going to be rising substantially. For example, even though we are being told that the current toilet paper shortages will just be “temporary”, the price increases that are coming will not be…
The maker of the Cottonelle, Scott and Viva brands announced Wednesday that it will hike prices on “a majority of its North America consumer products business,” including toilet paper and baby care items.
Kimberly-Clark Corporation blamed rising commodity costs for the increases.
In response to the COVID pandemic, governments all over the globe have been creating, borrowing and spending money like there is no tomorrow.
As a result, commodity prices have shot through the roof, and companies are starting to pass those price increases along to consumers.
Our politicians always seem to think that “more money” is the solution, but their reckless policies are starting to cause some very serious long-term problems. Here in the United States, we have now seen the money supply grow at an insane pace for 11 months in a row…
In February, money supply growth hit yet another all-time high. February’s surge in money-supply growth makes February the eleventh month in a row of remarkably high growth, and came in the wake of unprecedented quantitative easing, central bank asset purchases, and various stimulus packages.
During February 2021, year-over-year (YOY) growth in the money supply was at 39.1 percent. That’s up slightly from January’s rate of 38.7 percent, and up from the February 2020 rate of 7.3 percent. Historically this is a very large surge in growth, year over year. It is also quite a reversal from the trend that only just ended in August of 2019 when growth rates were nearly bottoming out around 2 percent.
We are on a hyperinflationary path, and everyone knows that this story is not going to end well.
One area where we are already seeing tremendous inflation is in home prices…
House prices rose by 11.2% from a year ago, the biggest increase since the peak of Housing Bubble 1 in 2006, according to today’s National Case-Shiller Home Price Index for January.
The index is a good measure of “house-price inflation” because it’s based on the “sales pairs” method, comparing the sales price of a house in the current month to the price of the same house when it sold previously, thereby tracking the amount of dollars it takes to buy the same house over time.
But that number doesn’t tell the entire story.
Home prices are actually going down in some core urban areas, and they are escalating dramatically in desirable rural and suburban communities around the nation. This is something that I discussed in my previous article entitled “We Have Never Seen A Home Buying Frenzy Quite Like This”.
Those at the very top of the economic pyramid are gobbling up homes at a feverish pace, but meanwhile an increasing number of Americans are no longer able to afford homes at all. Homelessness and poverty are absolutely exploding all over the country, and things are particularly bad on the west coast.
In Seattle, tents have taken over sidewalks and parks all over the city. If you drive through the heart of Seattle, you will literally see homeless encampments everywhere that you go…
Fox News analyst Lawrence Jones spoke with Seattle residents about the homeless crisis and encampments taking over their neighborhood parks.
When asked how the presence of homeless tents and encampments in her neighborhood made her feel, one Seattle resident told Jones that it made her feel “sad” and “depressed.”
In one residential area of Seattle, tents filled parks and sports fields where young children would typically play.
I would like to tell you that this homelessness crisis is just temporary, but I can’t.
Unfortunately, the truth is that economic conditions in America will eventually get a whole lot worse.
The short-term toilet paper shortages that we are facing now are an inconvenience, but the truth is that they aren’t even worth comparing to the problems that we will be facing down the road.
So stock up and get prepared while you still can, because things aren’t going to be getting any easier as we roll into a very uncertain future.
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Any experienced survivalist knows that a Ferro rod is the survival gear you never step into the outdoors without. Here is everything you need to know about this invincible survival tool.
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A Ferro rod is a fire-starting tool. Besides its use as a survival gear by outdoorsmen and women, it is also used as an ignition source for lighters or a striker for cutting torches and gas welding.
Ferro rods are made from ferrocerium, a synthetic alloy that emits hot sparks when rapidly oxidized through striking it. The hot sparks can burn as hot as 3,000 °C.
The rod breaks into fragments through rapid striking using either a striker, knife spines, glass shards, or a flint. The exposed fragments are then oxidized by the oxygen in the air, which results in fire sparks.
The sparks then light your tinder which results in an even bigger fire.
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Ferro rods will typically have a lifespan of 8000 to 12000 strikes. It will, however, depend on several factors, including frequency of use, rod diameter, user skills, and the hardness or softness of the rod.
For instance, a Ferro rod with a smaller diameter and a softer alloy will last shorter than one with a large diameter, harder alloy and used by an experienced person.
Here is why every outdoors person should own and carry a Ferro rod:
Being such a crucial survival tool, you need to increase your chances of getting the best one. Here are factors to consider:
Note: A smaller size means it is convenient to carry. The decision is therefore determined by what is more important to you.
Firstly, gather your tinder. It could be anything from a small amount of dry grass, barks, twigs, or even cotton. It will help to get the driest material available.
Next, pile your tinder, leaving enough room for air circulation at the bottom and throughout the pile. It ensures that there is enough oxygen to oxidize the Ferro rod fragments when they hit the tinder.
Now, hold your Ferro rod against or underneath the pile. With the striker held at 45 degrees, forcefully and rapidly drag it along the rod’s length.
Doing this will produce hot sparks, and your best chance is to ensure that most if not all of them go into the tinder. It helps the fire manifest faster.
Now, you will notice smoke coming from the pile. At this point, stop striking the rod, bend over and begin blowing into the tinder. This will grow the hot sparks into a fire.
Once the fire is stable, start pilling on larger sticks and logs. Add as much as you need to keep warm or cook or until you have a roaring fire.
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There you have it, fellow survivalist. Surviving the outdoors requires the most effective and convenient gear one can find, and ferrocerium rods are exactly that. With a little practice, you can trust yourself to start a fire anywhere.
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