Lean-to Survival Shelter & Flint Fire Starting Done Quickly

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Wilderness Survivial, Survival, Leanto, Lean-to, Fire Starting, Outdoor Survival, Survival Shelter, Flint, Survival Kit

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This is a video of walking into the woods and only using the contents of a small survival kit. A kit so small it actually fits into a matchbox. The goal was create a shelter for warm climate and start a fire in under an hour. Actually time it took? 50mins. But RELAX the video is only 15 minutes long.
Skills shown include:

* Construction of a lean to shelter
* Fire starting using a flint stick
* Eatable Plant (Root Bear)


As you can tell from watching the video, some of the contents did not work so well.
For Example:

* The electrical tape was way to short to do clashing with, and was too week ( it broke twice), while not for lashing, I still fill like it has other more common day uses
* The Matches were horrible!, never buy cheep matches, the heads kept breaking off of the sticks, it is possible this was because of long term storage, but I dought it. Luckily there was a flint stick on the bottom of the matchbox. However after striking it for 5 mins, (and getting the fire started) it totally wore it out, I was actuality cutting into the plastic at the end.

While I have been experimenting with survival kits of different size and content for over 15 years, it all narrows down to the fact of this "Man, I sure could use _ _ _ _ _ now, but only if I had my kit on me", that is why I recommend a small kit to be used as your "daily" kit. I would have to say that this is more geared towards Men, as most women carry a "kit" with them everyday (pocketbook) although it may not be full of survival items.

  1. By: zanzor
  2. Categories How To, Travel & Outdoors
  3. Views 3,588
  4. Added :23-Aug-08
  5. Related Link: Wilderness Survival With A Small Kit
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  • fabulous

    great tips

    By lorahurleygurl69 1219637175
  • Wilderness Survival

    nice video thanks for the information

    By ncmom1973 1219536291
  • quick and easy

    good job under stress

    By ulzmaka 1221285010
  • Good Editing

    put togetther good, but a bit on the dark side

    By Bubbahell 1221283280
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