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Glasses, Contact Lenses and SHTF Situations
Glasses, Contact Lenses and SHTF Situations Maintaining good eyesight is of vital importance during a crisis, but it is often overlooked during SHTF planning or preparation. It is important to consider the benefits as well as the limitations of both glasses as well as contact lenses. It is also important that you have up-to-date …
How To Make Homemade Charcoal Charwood and Blacksmith’s Coal DIY
How To Make Homemade Charcoal This is how we make blacksmith’s coal. It is the same process for cooking coal you just change the wood type. Blacksmith’s coal – any wood but oak is the best Cooking charwood – oak . mesquite , hickory , apple , peach , maple , pecan , etc. How …
Building Barrel Root Cellars
Building Barrel Root Cellars This is a project building small root cellars out of 55 gallon plastic drums patterned from the information in Purdue Extension Application note HO-125. This is my nephew Ben lending me a hand. It is January and they are working great. Additional info: You do have to put a drain hole …
How to Make a Throwing Spear
How to Make a Throwing Spear The last spear is almost as broke as me, so here’s the 2.0, much better this time around. Made it out of a rake handle, a shovel, and a lawn mower blade.
How To Make A Wood Gas Stove – Compact & Efficient!
How To Make A Wood Gas Stove How to make a wood gasifier stove. A highly efficient, compact, and portable wood burning stove that uses natural materials for it’s fuel source, eliminating the need to pack in extra fuel when hiking or backpacking. This tried and true design has many variations, and it’s capabilities …
How to Make Feather Sticks: Dry Tinder in Wet Weather
How To Find Dry Tinder In Wet Weather Tinder is the foundation to fire making, but when its wet out, the ability to find effective tinder can be hard. With a little know how, and a good knife, you can start a life saving fire in any condition. Practice in a controlled environment before you …
How to Make: The War Hammer
How to Make: The War Hammer How do you protect yourself from the Zombie Apocalypse (or any other SHTF situation). Easy, you build yourself one of these badass War Hammers. Sure it may take a bit of work, and a lot of bar stock, but really that’s no price to pay for the Ultimate Zombie …
