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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.
How To: Make a fire from flint and steel
Take a look at this video to learn how to make a fire using flint and steel like the mountain men.
How To: Tie a highwayman's or 47's hitch knot
The highwayman\47s hitch knot is usually used when using a canoe.
How To: Tie the stopper knot
Use this knot to add weight to a rope or to stop a rope from slipping through a hole. There is just way too many possibilities for this knot. You should run out and get some rope, right now.