Firelighting: Form a tepee of fuel adjust tinder couch. Depending on if windy, lean fuel in opposition to a log on the leeside. Light tinder. Include greater stays once fuel has gotten. Then again light a heap of attempt match slight twigs and place in tepee.
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SAS 119 - Moving on Waterways
A wide river will be easier to float on than to walk beside. Long-term survivors should experiment with making canoes by burning out the centre of a tree trunk or covering a frame of willow with birch bark or skins.
A wide river will be easier to float on than to walk beside. Long-term survivors should experiment with making canoes by burning out the centre of a tree trunk or covering a frame of willow with birch bark or skins.
SAS 074 - Building Shelter
A shelter is more agreeable in the event that it is sufficiently high to sit in, so grow it is stature by manufacturing a level divider of stones adjust your empty. Caulk between the stones with turf and foliage jumbled with mud.
A shelter is more agreeable in the event that it is sufficiently high to sit in, so grow it is stature by manufacturing a level divider of stones adjust your empty. Caulk between the stones with turf and foliage jumbled with mud.
SAS 047 - Seaweed & Animal Tracking
Seaweeds occur anchored tot bottom in shallow waters, or floating on open sea. Coastal weeds are often stratified: green forms grow in surface waters, red in shallow water, brown a little deeper. Wash seaweeds in freshwater before eating, to remove salt. If you can read the subtle signs that animals leave, you will know what hunting/trapping methods to use. Only large, powerful mammals ventur...
Seaweeds occur anchored tot bottom in shallow waters, or floating on open sea. Coastal weeds are often stratified: green forms grow in surface waters, red in shallow water, brown a little deeper. Wash seaweeds in freshwater before eating, to remove salt. If you can read the subtle signs that animals leave, you will know what hunting/trapping methods to use. Only large, powerful mammals ventur...
051 Animal Tracking
Squirrels and Prairie dogs Occur everywhere except Australasia and the Poles, hibernating in COld areas. With wallables and other relatives, limited to Australia, Large kinds can strike a powerful blow with hind feet. Most active at night. Opossums are Small nocturnal scavengers of S.America and USA. Crocodiles and Alligators are found in most subtropical and tropical areas. Avoid Large ones. Li...
Squirrels and Prairie dogs Occur everywhere except Australasia and the Poles, hibernating in COld areas. With wallables and other relatives, limited to Australia, Large kinds can strike a powerful blow with hind feet. Most active at night. Opossums are Small nocturnal scavengers of S.America and USA. Crocodiles and Alligators are found in most subtropical and tropical areas. Avoid Large ones. Li...
SAS 141 - First Aid & Choking
Holger Nielson Method of Respiration: Use to resuscitate a drowning victim if mouth to mouth not possible. Face-down position allows liquids to flow freely from mouth without choking the patient. Lay victim face-down, head turned to one side, arms bent, forehead resting on hands. Loosen tight garments, clear mouth of weed, mud etc and ensure tongue is brought forward.
Holger Nielson Method of Respiration: Use to resuscitate a drowning victim if mouth to mouth not possible. Face-down position allows liquids to flow freely from mouth without choking the patient. Lay victim face-down, head turned to one side, arms bent, forehead resting on hands. Loosen tight garments, clear mouth of weed, mud etc and ensure tongue is brought forward.
SAS 067 - Fishing
Fish contain protein, vitamins and fats. They differ widely in size, eating habits and diet, but all can be attracted and caught with appropriate bait. Angling is not the most effective method of catching fish-the night line and gill net will give better results.
Fish contain protein, vitamins and fats. They differ widely in size, eating habits and diet, but all can be attracted and caught with appropriate bait. Angling is not the most effective method of catching fish-the night line and gill net will give better results.
SAS 031 - Edible Plants
Some plants have edible stems. If they are soft, peel off outer stringy parts, slice, then boil. Inner pith of some stems, example elder, can be extracted by splitting stem and eaten. Use fibrous stems to make twine.
Some plants have edible stems. If they are soft, peel off outer stringy parts, slice, then boil. Inner pith of some stems, example elder, can be extracted by splitting stem and eaten. Use fibrous stems to make twine.
SAS 038 - Trees
Fungi should be emphatically distinguished before consuming. No reliable edibility tests exist – lethal sorts don't taste obnoxious and no side effects may show up for certain hours in the wake of consuming. There is no truth in people tales that a growth is not noxious once peeled or cooked, or that harmful sorts update colour when cooked.
Fungi should be emphatically distinguished before consuming. No reliable edibility tests exist – lethal sorts don't taste obnoxious and no side effects may show up for certain hours in the wake of consuming. There is no truth in people tales that a growth is not noxious once peeled or cooked, or that harmful sorts update colour when cooked.
SAS 103 - Knots
SAS 144 - First Aid & Wounds
Lesser the bleeding immediately. Clean the wound carefully and apply a sterile dressing during an injury. To avoid the risk of infection, do not touch the wound or allow non-sterile materials to touch it. Replace the dressing only when it becomes very dirty.
Lesser the bleeding immediately. Clean the wound carefully and apply a sterile dressing during an injury. To avoid the risk of infection, do not touch the wound or allow non-sterile materials to touch it. Replace the dressing only when it becomes very dirty.
How to Cope with a Heat Wave
Wear light-colored clothing made of Natural fabrics to cope in an extreme heat wave. The head should be covered with something light-colored made of natural fabric.
Wear light-colored clothing made of Natural fabrics to cope in an extreme heat wave. The head should be covered with something light-colored made of natural fabric.
SAS 020 - Swimming & Food
When fishing or swimming stay within your depth and watch for large waves which can knock you off your feet. If caught in undertow of a large wave, push off thebottom and swim to the surface.
When fishing or swimming stay within your depth and watch for large waves which can knock you off your feet. If caught in undertow of a large wave, push off thebottom and swim to the surface.
How to Jump from a Moving Car
Flinging yourself from a moving auto ought to be a final resort, for instance if your brakes are flawed and your auto is going to take off a bluff or into an entourage. Apply the crisis brake. This should not stop the auto, at the same time it may back it off enough to make bouncing safer.
Flinging yourself from a moving auto ought to be a final resort, for instance if your brakes are flawed and your auto is going to take off a bluff or into an entourage. Apply the crisis brake. This should not stop the auto, at the same time it may back it off enough to make bouncing safer.
SAS 062 - Hunting
A sling is a simple leather pouch in the middle of a length of thong or rope. Attach pouch as one piece threaded through, or two tied or sewn on. To Catapult, take a strong, pliable forked twig, and a piece of elastic material. Thread or swe a puch into the centre of the elastic, tie ends to each side of fork. Use a stones as missiles.
A sling is a simple leather pouch in the middle of a length of thong or rope. Attach pouch as one piece threaded through, or two tied or sewn on. To Catapult, take a strong, pliable forked twig, and a piece of elastic material. Thread or swe a puch into the centre of the elastic, tie ends to each side of fork. Use a stones as missiles.
SAS 132 - Rescue & Signalling
Heliograph: Use the sun and a reflector to flash light signals. Any shiny object will do - polished tin, glass, a piece of foil - but a hand mirror is best. Long flashes are dashes and quick ones dots. If you do not know morse code, random flashes should attract attention.
Heliograph: Use the sun and a reflector to flash light signals. Any shiny object will do - polished tin, glass, a piece of foil - but a hand mirror is best. Long flashes are dashes and quick ones dots. If you do not know morse code, random flashes should attract attention.
SAS 173 - Disaster Strategy & Fire
The best protection from fire is prevention. many fires are caused by carelessness with lighted cigarettes and burning matches. The sun shining through a piece of glass can start a blaze in a dry season. If you are present where a fire starts in woodland, or on heath or grassland, your first action should be to smother it.
The best protection from fire is prevention. many fires are caused by carelessness with lighted cigarettes and burning matches. The sun shining through a piece of glass can start a blaze in a dry season. If you are present where a fire starts in woodland, or on heath or grassland, your first action should be to smother it.
SAS 073 - Where to Camp & Building Shelter
You ought to be protected from the wind, close water but clear of any danger of flooding, with an ample supply of wood close nearby. Check above your head for dead wood in trees that might collision down in a heightened wind. don't camp opposite an amusement trail. Take notice that the intonation of running water can overwhelm different tumults which may show peril, or the intonation of quest...
You ought to be protected from the wind, close water but clear of any danger of flooding, with an ample supply of wood close nearby. Check above your head for dead wood in trees that might collision down in a heightened wind. don't camp opposite an amusement trail. Take notice that the intonation of running water can overwhelm different tumults which may show peril, or the intonation of quest...
SAS 180 - Disaster Strategy, Hurricane, Tornado & Lightning
Tornado Precautions: Take shelter in the most solid structure available ideally in a storm cellar or cave. In a cellar stay close to an outside wall, or in a specially reinforced section. If there is no basement, go to the centre of the lowest floor, into a small room or shelter under study furniture.
Tornado Precautions: Take shelter in the most solid structure available ideally in a storm cellar or cave. In a cellar stay close to an outside wall, or in a specially reinforced section. If there is no basement, go to the centre of the lowest floor, into a small room or shelter under study furniture.
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