Prepper's Survival Hacks: 50 DIY Projects for Lifesaving Gear, Gadgets and Kits
Jim Cobb
Language: English
Pages: 200
ISBN: 1612434967
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
When a catastrophic event strikes, you’ll need to rely on your skills and supplies to keep you alive. This book teaches you how to improvise solutions for the scarcities, deficiencies, and dangers that will arise in a worst-case scenario.
Prepper’s Survival Hacks offers a wide range of creative ideas for transforming cheap and widely available items into life-saving gear:
• Harvest water in a transpiration bag
• Catch food with a pocket fishing kit
• Cook using a handy hobo stove
• Craft quick fire starters in an egg carton
• Make a mini oil lamp using a mint tin
• Assemble a survival kit in a belt pouch
where the paper ends. #2 The idea here is to use the paper as something akin to a wick. Light the paper and you’re basically done with the project. Each crayon will burn anywhere from 8 to 12 minutes or so. Shorter crayons will obviously burn less than longer ones. #3 The hardest part of this project is figuring out how you will keep the crayon/candle upright and stable. I’ve seen a few different solutions to this problem, but the easiest is probably to melt some wax onto a square of aluminum
filter or boil it before consumption. RAIN PONCHO. If you’ve ever been caught in rainstorm at an outdoor event like a county or state fair, you’ve no doubt seen many people scrounging for empty trash bags. Tear a hole for your head and one for each arm and you’re in business. SHELTER ROOF. When building an expedient shelter, a trash bag works rather well as a waterproof, or at least water-resistant, roof. What many do is use brush or sticks as a supporting structure, lay down the bag, then weigh
SurvivalWeekly.com One last thing. When you’re working on these projects, please exercise common sense and good judgment. Make full use of the appropriate safety gear. Any time you’re using tools, wear safety goggles. If you’re cutting metal, whether with tin snips or a saw, make sure you’re wearing gloves. While I want to hear about your successful projects, I really don’t want you sending me pictures of lopped off fingers or the 72 stitches you needed after your failed attempt at making a Hobo
then condense on the bottom of the plastic tarp. It will then run along the plastic to the point above the bucket, into which it will drip. Here’s the thing. The amount of water you’ll gain through the use of the solar still is, quite literally, a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of energy you’ll expend by digging the hole and setting everything up. Don’t believe me? Go ahead, set one up tomorrow and see how well it performs. If you get more than 2 cups of water, you’ll be doing fairly
for a single meal. #4 Once you have the items sorted into individual meals, package them up using one large zip-top bag for each meal. For some items, such as plastic forks and spoons, vitamins, and bouillon cubes, you may want to use small, snack-size zip-top bags within the larger bag to keep things organized. 22 #5 Some folks like to use vacuum sealers to preserve their DIY MREs. That’s certainly an excellent option if you have a sealer and bags available to you. However, using the large