Disaster Preparation: Page 12

Check out this video to learn how to make a wikkie shelter if you need to spend the night in the woods.

Check out this video to get tips on how to make a wilderness quiver. Watch to learn what materials to use, including a PVC pipe.

Watch a 13 year old girl use a 10,000 year old tool to out strength a brand new army style camp cot. Check out this video to get some tips on how to do it on your own.

Learn how to use a bow for primitive archery with tips from this video.

Check out this video on the witchery of archery. First, learn about the recurve bow.

Create a primitive bowl in the woods. You will want to build a fire and transfer hot coals.

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.

This video shows how to safely and carefully load and unload wounded patients into and out of the M997 High Mobility Multi-Wheel Vehicle.

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

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

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.

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.

Check out this video to learn how to prevent your car from getting stolen or broken into.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Join sticks at right angles with square lashing.

Secure a square knot with tips from this video.

Make Norwegian lashings for scout pioneering.

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

Make a trestle frame for a pioneering project. Woooohooo!

If your home is not protected by impact-resistant windows and doors, or impact resistant shutters or panels, consider building your own temporary emergency panels. www.flash.org

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.

Take a look at this video to learn how to make a fire using flint and steel like the mountain men.

The highwayman\47s hitch knot is usually used when using a canoe.

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.

This is a good way to shorten a rope without cutting it, provided there is a load on each end. If there isn't, well, who knows what will happen.

This is the same knot used for lassos. You can go wrangle some cattle or horses now, or if you not on a farm you can practice on your dog or cat, or better yet - you're neighbor's dog or cat.

If you never were a scout, or you've forgotten all your skills, this how-to video is for you. If the loop is under weight, the knot will not slip, but you will still be able to adjust the size of the loop by pulling down on the knot by hand. Perfect for all of our tarp tying needs. Watch this video survival training tutorial and learn how to tie the tautline hitch knot.

This "double sheet bend knot" is the same as the sheet bend, except that is has an extra turn to make it extra secure. Use this knot instead of the sheet bend if you have springy or slippery lines.