Survival techniques and tools
Thou shall hev a fishy on a little dishy,Thou shall hev a fishy when the boat comes in. The first thing we have to do is to get all the scales off the fish. This can be quite a messy procedure so I’d like to do it under running water. I’ll just take a knife. An ordinary dinner knife and run it down the fish. That’s fine. I’ve taken all the scales off right from the tail all the way up tounder the head here and along the back. Now…
Read MoreUnknown: First I’m gonna takethe ears offCut them. How do you know whereto cut?I feel where the cartilage is. Okay. And just there. These go for dogs. So you place all the pieces inone bag. Yeah. And I’m gonna take tails. These are gonna be key chains. Then I’m gonna take the headsoff. You could use large gardenscissors and just crunch them. Or you can use knife it’s a bitharder with a knife becauseyou’ve got to find that rightspot. So don’t just push on the bone. And you’ve got to…
Read MoreI’m going to show what’s up with breaking down a cottontail rabbit. and making it, you know, totally ready for whatever kind of recipe you do. As an herbivore, they have a pretty big gut and they go–they get sour quick. So even if it’s cold out, like now, it’s below freezing, this thing would start to get–It would start to green up if you didn’t gut it right away. I’m going to totally clean him for cooking. I don’t need to worry about gutting him first. You just want…
Read More– I’m Mike Cruz, Manager ofGreenpoint Fish Wholesale,and I’m here to show youhow to filet every fish. To filet fish, I usuallyhave around three kniveswith me, depending onthe size of the fish. One of these butcherknives, it’s really goodfor cutting through heads. This seven inch curved filet knife,and a little five inch guy. You also need a pair of scissors,a steel to keep yourknife sharp, a scaler,and a good pair of tweezersto get those pin bones out. Sardine. I think people kind ofthink of sardines assomething grandpa has in a…
Read Moreso in today’s video I’m gonna show youhow I make a survival bowok so the wood i use to making bows is willow like the one you see herebut my all-time favorite is ash and the way youcan identify ash is by the little budsthat grow in the end of the twigs andit’s great at withstanding pressure sothats why its my all times favorite ok solet’s say you wanna make a proper bowthat’s gonna last year’s and years is aquick little tip that will save you hours upon hoursof time…
Read MoreYou going to the pad?I’m going to. . . the. . . where I’m estimating to be the third tarsal there. 28?– 28. We got the weight. And I think that’s it. Um, I don’t. . . want to weigh the testes. Sweet. So, should we push it over that way and then. . . Or, let’s see how much he lays out if we flip him up. Also, see, these are. . . his leg is so broken. It’s just flopping around all over the place. – Oh my…
Read MoreBack when I was a kid. I was in boy scouts and my dad wasactually, the scout leader and went through a phasewhere he was trying to teach us all the different knots you could tie with rope. But he wanted to take it one step further,and actually make the rope itself. So he used this little guide book to puttogether a little makeshift rope making machine. And we spent hours winding sisal like thisand turning it into long strands of rope. Now Eventually, we made so much ropewe built…
Read MoreA couple years ago,I was surfing around the internetand I came across a cool articleabout a small company in Russiawho would recycle 2-liter plastic bottlesand turn them into brooms. Crazy idea, right?They take the plastic bottles and set them up into a machinethat they’ve created that extracts small thin strips of plastic ropewhich then they can bundle up and turn them into heads of broomsThis blew my mind, and ever since then I’ve wanted to try it for myselfNow over the years I’ve seen a lot of different tutorials pop…
Read More– And right there in lessthan a second, I have createda tool that allows me to overcome allof my physical limitations. My name is Bill Schindler. I’m an experimental archaeologistand primitive technologistand a professor ofarcheology and anthropologyat Washington College. If you’re in the wildernessand you have nothing,the most important thing that you need isa sharp, durable edge. Humans are one of the weakestspecies on the planet. Our nails are almost useless. Our teeth are almost useless. We’re not that strong. We can’t run very fast. We can’t dig into the…
Read MoreUsing the fire sticks to make firethis method can gives you blistersa round stoneDrilling a hole in it with a stone awlPecking a hole with the stone awlPecking hole from other sideHole gouged right throughQuartz sand added to help drilling processSpindle stick Fitting stone over the spindleFibrous tree barkseparating the inner bark frome outer barksplitting the inner bark into thinner stripsTwist the individual strands clockwise, but twist them together anti clockwise. This prevents the cord from unravellingcarving a notch in the stickTying the cord onto the notch with a strip…
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