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How To: Prevent your car from getting stolen or broken into
Check out this video to learn how to prevent your car from getting stolen or broken into. Part 1 of 2 - How to Prevent your car from getting stolen or broken into.
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 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 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: Board up your home for a hurricane emergency
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
How To: Survive a silver back gorilla encounter
Gorillas are 400 lbs and 6 feet tall. They are the largest primates and the silver back, the dominant male is known to become aggressive if confronted. It begins with chest thumping and then a charge. If it charges you should crouch down. Don't run or chest thump.Your body language communicates that you are not aggressing the animal. Survive a silver back gorilla encounter.
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: Make the world's smallest cooking stove
Learn how to make this very small alcohol burning stove with cheap and easy to find items.
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.
How To: Tie the chain knot
This knot can be used to decorate a rope or shorten it. Just think, if you make it good enough, you can decorate your Christmas tree with rope.
How To: Tie the sheepshank knot easily
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.
How To: Tie the angler's loop knot for fishing
This is a good knot for all types of rope including fishing line. Don't you wish you were fishing right now? No, well that doesn't mean you can't try it anyway.
How To: Tie the tautline hitch knot
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.
How To: Tie the double sheet bend 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.
How To: Tie the spanish bowline knot
This is a great knot to use if you need two loops in the middle of a line, especially if you do not have access to the ends of the rope. If you need two loops at the end of a line, use the bowline on the bight, but don't bight to hard.
How To: Tie a slip knot
The slip knot is the easiest way to attach a line to a post or bar. Learn how to tie a slip know in this video tutorial.
How To: Tie the halyard hitch knot
The "halyard hitch knot" is a very tidy looking knot that binds tightly under a load.