I'm glade I won't be here either!
Aug 18, 2019 21:06:16 #
Blade_Runner wrote:
And when we all move back to the caves, we'll build fires for warmth, cooking and smoke signals.
Better stock up on safety matches … rubbing sticks sucks...
Aug 18, 2019 21:10:01 #
emarine wrote:
Better stock up on safety matches … rubbing sticks sucks...
Lots of ways to start camp fires without matches.
Aug 18, 2019 21:10:56 #
Seth wrote:
Which is essentially a g*******t Cosa Nostra. 
Exactly!
Aug 18, 2019 21:21:07 #
Blade_Runner wrote:
Lots of ways to start camp fires without matches.
Ok crock man... but a MAP gas torch works good when every things wet …
Aug 18, 2019 21:31:28 #
emarine wrote:
Ok crock man... but a MAP gas torch works good when every things wet …
Remind me not to take you along if the time comes where we have to rough it to survive. You'd be the helpless, whining and complaining dude who quickly gets on everybody's nerves, and then... Well, the gators gotta eat, too... 😁
Aug 18, 2019 22:08:54 #
emarine wrote:
Ok crock man... but a MAP gas torch works good when every things wet …
I grew up with Native Americans, they know some neat tricks. From the old days, ya know, before matches and gas torches and magnifying glasses and magnesium bars. The bow drill will do the job, but it takes some elbow grease. You can fashion a pump fire drill, but that too takes some work. The fire plough is my preferred method, it works with wet wood, creates its own tinder, and though it requires some effort, it never fails. Even when everything is wet, or covered with snow, dry wood and tinder can be found if you know where to look.
Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of Love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered Fire.
Teilhard de Chardin
Aug 18, 2019 22:26:07 #
Blade_Runner wrote:
I grew up with Native Americans, they know some ne... (show quote)
Sounds like you watch too much naked & afraid Dundee... you can drill all day while I nap with a full belly in my cozy cave with a .99 cent Bic...
Aug 18, 2019 22:54:52 #
emarine wrote:
...a full belly in my cozy cave with a .99 cent Bic... :sm09
... until it runs out of fuel, and you run out of store-bought food. ☹️
Aug 18, 2019 23:10:06 #
Seth wrote:
... until it runs out of fuel. ☹️
I've got a large plastic zip lock baggie with at least 50 Bic lighters & a half dozen cases of sterno's on my boat just in case both gensets & the inverter go down & the propane grill on the flybridge runs out... we eat well every day... the ocean even has free fish... you should check it out... raw tuna is delicious also...
Aug 18, 2019 23:17:07 #
emarine wrote:
I've got a large plastic zip lock baggie with at least 50 Bic lighters & a half dozen cases of sterno's on my boat just in case both gensets & the inverter go down & the propane grill on the flybridge runs out... we eat well every day... the ocean even has free fish... you should check it out... raw tuna is delicious also...
I'm a former USCG boatswain's mate, and I've been living aboard a sailboat for over a year -- I am completely familiar with the advantages it would present in survival circumstances -- however, you didn't mention the boat part, only languishing in a cave with a full stomach, armed with a BIC.
Aug 18, 2019 23:34:16 #
Seth wrote:
I'm a former USCG boatswain's mate, and I've been living aboard a sailboat for over a year -- I am completely familiar with the advantages it would present in survival circumstances -- however, you didn't mention the boat part, only languishing in a cave with a full stomach, armed with a BIC.
It wasn't me... Blade must like to ruff it... anyway there isn't any form of cave around Cape Lookout NC. maybe many hours at 60 MPH due west... Puddle jumpers are some of my best friends...
Aug 18, 2019 23:58:07 #
emarine wrote:
Yep, roughing in the wilderness or at sea is a challenge, it builds character, self-reliance, confidence, self-awareness and muscle, puts one in touch with the best attributes of man. It wasn't me... Blade must like to ruff it... anyway there isn't any form of cave around Cape Lookout NC. maybe many hours at 60 MPH due west... Puddle jumpers are some of my best friends...
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why.
Might learn a few things reading this.
Aug 19, 2019 00:25:21 #
Blade_Runner wrote:
Yep, roughing in the wilderness or at sea is a challenge, it builds character, self-reliance, confidence, self-awareness and muscle, puts one in touch with the best attributes of man.
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why.
Might learn a few things reading this.
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why.
Might learn a few things reading this.
Had more than enough survival training in my youth... I can even do water desalination land or sea with the gear in my back pack... I can hunt with a sharpen stick if I had to but I'd rather a 30.06... seems more probable people will be the problem not gators ...
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