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Skills you need to live without modern conveniences. Survival and otherwise.

                       

Overview

• Survey: What is your situation
• Medical care
• Clothing
• Water
• Waste
• Power
• Foraging
• Pet dogs
• Fire
• Cooking
• Foof Preservation
• Fishing
• Hunt Wild Game
• Growing Food
• Shelter/Home
• House construction
• Storage
• Entertainment
• Travel Transportation
• Travel
• Communication
• Defense
• Side Hustles
• Computers
• Courses

Survey: What is your situation

• USDA Zone for growing crops
• Length of growing season
• How far from water (well, stream)
• Near Ocean?
• Miles to nearest gasoline, store, hospital (Urban, Suburban, Countryside)

Medical care

• Foot care (blisters)
• Stop itching from bug bite
• Treat burns
• Medicines $
• Crutches $

• CPR

• Split to brace bone
• Stop Bleeding

• Clean and suture wound

• Transport someone incapacitated $
• Bury a body

References:

• https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class/resources/articles/11-survival-skills-to-know

Clothing

• Gray Man clothing for urban
• Shoes
• Rain
• Snow gloves, hats, jackets
• Heat & Humidity
• Wear a winter neck gaiter/buff and hat in winter.

Water

• Swim
• Harvest Atmospheric Water
• Desalinate water from ocean
• Test water to see if it’s safe to drink
• Filter water
• Transporting water using containers

• Collect rainwater in solar still with a tarp and bucket over a hole

• Build a raft from tree wood

Waste

• Wash dishes in sanitary tubs using minimal water
• Outdoor Toilet locations
• Latrine
• Trash disposal
• bucket toilet

Power

• Batteries
• Propane generator
• Solar generator

Foraging

• Poisonous plants to avoid
• Looking for edible and poisonous Mushrooms
• Finding, cooking worms Survival Skills Anywhere YouTube channel since 2017 from the rain forest

Pet dogs

• Food
• Water
• Treats

Fire

• Use Solar oven to bake bread
• Fire safety
• Selecting Wood, tinder and kindling
• Cut branches using a saw blade/chain

• Chop firewood using an ax

• Start a fire using a flint and bow pump drill (friction between sticks), in wind and rain VIDEO VIDEO

• Build self-feeding fire that lasts for up to 14 hours
• Build the Dakota “invisible fire hole” that makes little smoke. Great for windy weather or when you want to stay.

• Build the Swedish fire from a log cut like a cake.

• Rocks to sleep with in the cold

• Build a greenhouse heater using a mason jar with copper tubes & felt buring denatured alchohol
• Build a $6.18 48oz metal can of Great Value vegetables shortening with a candle inside. with a copper coil to distribute heat among >$4.97/12 cu ft play sand in a bucket</a>. Burns for 6 hours. How’s the smell?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgjH4EvUPfs Living in tents

Cooking

• Boil water to cook eggs, noodles, rice

• Create a tripod using forked sticks

Foof Preservation

• Preserve eggs without electricity
• Water Canning
• Make cans of jelly from fruits

• Make cans from vegetables

• Make pemican jerky
• Prepare and store game meat
• Freeze dry using vacuum oven $

Fishing

• Gill nets
• Fish Trap baskets
• Poles
• Lures
• The measurement of Knots per hour began with sailing ships who tied evenly-spaced knots on the rope.

Hunt Wild Game

• Snake poison awareness, capture, skinning, cooking
• Raise rabits

• Trap small game

• Avoiding bears, cayotes, wolves

• Trap mice indoors without chemicals

• Create arrowheads and latch onto spears

• Track and hunt game

• Dressing and preserving game

Growing Food

https://www.youtube.com/@AgPhD/shorts

• Food Reserve plan
• Grow root vegatables
• Grow Potatoes in a bucket

• Make cheese from milk

• grow indoor trees (myer lemons, mandarin oranges)
• Create and maintain a beehive

Shelter/Home

• Tie rope to tow car
• Tie tarps using stopper knots for faster release.
• Make tent stakes from tree branches VIDEO

• Use parachord to tie sticks together for bi-pod seat VIDEO

• Build emergency shelter using tarps and ropes

• Build emergency shelter using tree branches and leaves

• build an igloo like the Inuit
• Steal camping in abandoned locations, Steve Wallis
• Convert a small Nissan NV2000 steath car with shower & solar, utilizing every square inch.
• Convert a UHaul van for living in: the 4 functions, using foam, improved. A B

House construction

• Build a concrete slab
• Make bricks
• Build a house
• Storm-proof house
• Fire-proof house
• Looter-proof house

Storage

• Stockpile water
• Hide valuables

Entertainment

• Play DVDs
• Write a letter, poem, song
• Sing acapella (singing using only the human voice)
• Play a musical instrument (harmonica, picallo, guitar, etc.)

Travel Transportation

• Orienteering & Navigation
• Identify compass direction - sun and stars

• Navigating off a map

• Choosing & riding a bicycle

• Climb a hill (safely)

• Repel down (safely)

• Drive a car
• Drive a tractor

• Ford a river

• Check & add windshield liquid
• Change window blades, battery, oil, filter

Travel

• Avoid pickpockets (wallet $ on neck)
• RFID-proof wallet

Communication

• Whistle $
• Signaling mirror
• Cell phones
• GBRS family radios
• Longer range
• EMP protection

Defense

• Hiding
• Hand-to-hand combat
• Knife handling
• Dart throwing
• Bow and arrows
• Trebuchet
• Handgun
• Shotgun
• Rifle
• Cannons

Side Hustles

• Copywriting
• Websites
• Editing videos for YouTube
• Amazon
• Dropshipping

• Signage

• Travel agent

Computers

• Configure a Microsoft Windows machine

• Configure an Apple macOS machine

• Block usage of your social security number for payroll (I-9 by employer)

• Audit shell sccipts
• Generate a placeholder 1024x1024 pixel image using https://picsum.photos/1024/1024

Courses

• Bug-In guide by Navy Seal Joel Lambert, star of Discovery Channel show “Manhunt”.

• https://thesurvivaluniversity.com/shop?selectedCategories=158411691658 in Colorado Springs

• https://immersion.wildernessawareness.org $14,950 year in Duvall Washington by Mary Oliver https://www.youtube.com/user/WildernessAwareness

• Ranger Survival and Field Craft YouTube channel

• Surviving a -36° Night - No Tent & No Sleeping Bag by Kusk Bushcraft

• Greg Ovens Rocky Mountain Bushcraft

• https://www.udemy.com/topic/survival-skills/

• https://southeastwildernessmedicine.com/blog/10-essential-wilderness-survival-skills/

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Survival/comments/117osi2/give_me_a_list_of_skills/

• https://wildernessawareness.org/articles/5-basic-survival-skills/

• https://www.masterclass.com/articles/survival-skills by Jessie Krebs

• https://mtntough.com/blogs/mtntough-blog/5-survival-skills

• US Army Ranger Handbook

• https://yostsurvivalskills.com/

• https://koa.com/blog/top-outdoor-skills-for-youth/

• https://www.nuvancehealth.org/health-tips-and-news/10-essential-outdoor-survival-tips

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFbunDgMTGs filming hobos in Austin, TX.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSitRqKIt48 50 survival tips