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How To: Make a primitive bowl

Create a primitive bowl in the woods. You will want to build a fire and transfer hot coals. Part 1 of 2 - How to Make a primitive bowl.

How To: Make fire with steel wool and a battery

Build a fire without matches or a lighter so you wont freeze to death or attract predators in the wild. The finer the steel wool, the better. Most batteries will work but 9 volt batteries are the easiest.

How To: Start a fire with a battery

Strike a fire with a battery. "Sticks and stone may brake your bones, but they will take forever to start a fire!" This is a good video if you need to survive in the wild by creating a fire.

How To: Make fire with flint

Learn how to make fire with flint with advice from Andy Hofmann!

How To: Build a cob shelter

Build a cob shelter. Use water, sand, clay rich soil, and straw. Watch to learn more!

How To: Use a can opener on your Swiss Army knife

This video shows you how to use a can opener, like the ones found on Swiss Army knives. There's also a strange fruit in this video, something called lychees. So, if you're ever in need of opening a can of lychees in the woods, this is the video to watch.

How To: Make a survival whistle from a tin can

This video shows how to make a whistle out of a piece of tin or aluminum from an ordinary can. It's easy to do! Why is it a survival whistle? Because you could probably find the materials to make it laying around on the ground, plus it beats yelling.

How To: Make fire from just flint and steel

This video is just to show you how to make fire from steel and lint. What more do you need to know? Use an Altoids tin to hold your kit. Just make sure your children don't think it's candy.

How To: Use a fire piston to start fires

This video will tell you all you need to know to get that fire of yours started using an aluminum fire piston. Never leave home without this, that is, if you live in the woods.

How To: Use a bow and drill set to make fire

Use a bow and drill set to make fire. The spindle is extended using a deer canon bone and the chuck is yucca with a black willow bit on the top. The hand hold is an elk knuckle and the hearthboard is some kind of maple.

How To: Make a fire with a bow and drill

Make a fire with a bow and drill. Use fire birch for your spindle.

How To: Make a soda can stove

With tips from this video, make a soda can stove. First, cut the bottom off. Poke holes with a knife into the side of the lid. Make a piece for the inside of the stove.

How To: Turn a pop can into a candle lantern

Turn a pop can into a candle lantern. Create a sharp edge with flint.

How To: Make a fire with a hacksaw blade

Make a fire with a hacksaw blade--use the side without teeth.

How To: Create primitive fire

Create primitive fire with these survival tricks and tips. Enjoy the didgeridoo in the background!

How To: Exchange snuff with nomadic herders in Mongolia

Watch BBC's Ray Mears to learn how to participate in some traditional product exchanges that have been passed down through Nomadic generations in Mongolia.

How To: Carve out a canoe

Ray Mears travels to Savaii to learn the art of making a canoe. Learn how to make a canoe with tips from the BBC.

How To: Make a perfect igloo

Survival expert Ray Mears from the BBC teaches you how to make the best igloo. It's pretty and lustrous too.

How To: Build a Siberian chum from branches and reindeer hide

Watch how to build a Siberian chum from branches and reindeer hide. The BBC's Ray Mears demonstrates how to make a traditional Siberian Chum from branches and reindeer hide.

How To: Make buck skin moccasins

Learn how to make buck skin moccasins.

How To: Make traditional boots

Watch this video to learn how to make traditional boots. Ray Mears is measured up for his very own pair of buck skin moccassins and explains why they are the best accompaniment for the traditional snow shoe.

How To: Set traps and catch reef creatures in Savaii

Check out this video to learn how to catch reef creatures in Savaii. Find out traditional ways to catch some of the reef's best meals.

How To: Walk up a palm tree using a harness

Walk up a palm tree using a harness. Watch this video to see the BBC's Ray Mears work out some of the best uses for the humble palm tree.

How To: Dig for water in the desert

Watch Ray Mears from the BBC show you how to dig for water in the Australian outback. Use grass as a filter.

How To: Use a perang machete

Check out this video to see Ray Mears in Indonesia, learning the importance that a Perang, or machete, holds for survival.

How To: Make a bow drill fire using a spindle and fireboard

Make a bow drill fire. Try resting it against your leg for stability.

How To: Tie a taut line hitch

Tie a taut line hitch with the concluding hitch reversed. Just watch to see what I'm talking about. It's slow and easy to follow.

How To: Join parallel sticks with shear lashing

Join parallel sticks with shear lashing. Potentially--if you did this to enough sticks--you could build a house this way. It might take one hundred years but, let's face it, you probably have time if you are on this site.

How To: Join sticks with diagonal lashing

Join sticks with diagonal lashing with tips from this video.

How To: Join sticks at right angles with square lashing

Join sticks at right angles with square lashing.

How To: Secure a square knot

Secure a square knot with tips from this video.

How To: Secure a clove hitch knot

Tie a clove hitch knot again, again, and again.

How To: Make Norwegian lashings for scout pioneering

Make Norwegian lashings for scout pioneering.

How To: Make an "A" frame for scout engineering

Check out this video to learn how to build an "A" frame structure. "A" what?

How To: Make a scout pioneering tripod structure

Make a scout pioneering tripod structure with tips from this video.

How To: Make a trestle frame for a pioneering project

Make a trestle frame for a pioneering project. Woooohooo!

How To: Survive in the wilderness and not wear cotton

Check out this video to learn appropriate attire for wilderness activities and how NOT to get lost in the first places. (Once lost) signal for assistance! Watch the get tips on how to build land markers to indicate direction, choose a location for shelter, build a shelter, find and purify water, and use basic land navigation (and direction determination)without a compass.