27:15 "Looking at your eyes" (reference to the mirror) Maybe you and everyone else already knows about this, but I'll detail it, in the event it might help someone. Often times, if you have some foreign object in your eye, or on your eyeball, not imbedded but floating in your eye...an easy way to remove it is using the mirror for a good view, carefully touch it with a rolled corner of a dry absorbent paper. The paper will quickly draw the water from the object, which in turn pulls it free from your eyeball. The paper needs to be free of dies and perfumes...a bargain brand white paper towel is perfect, and toilet tissue also works. I have used this method to remove large saw dust from chainsaw, metal chips, wind blown vegetable matter, etc. Hope this may help someone. I enjoy your videos, you always bring practical suggestions and solutions to us. Thank you
Excellent presentation of your well thought out kit. Customization is a great part to success! I took an early retirement in the Republic of the Philippine Islands. We are blessed with an abidance of water sources. Drinking that water without treatment is a bad idea. Your kit surely checks the box for pre-filtering and a means to pasteurize/sterilize water. In our humid and often soaking wet environment, we always have a supply of kick-@$$ DIY fire starters and multiple means of reliable ignition. Certain verities of our skeeters carry bad things such as malaria and dengue fever. Prevention is worth a pound of cure. Bug nets and repellants are the order of the day. You are correct, build your kit with your area of operation in mind!
👍👍👍 .. very good advice .. thanks. Around my neck .. my house key and a whistle, on separate lanyards .. always, no matter where I go. Those 'Emergency Blankets' .. not blankets but just Mylar Sheets and once deployed, they assume a space and volume of their choosing 😁. That said, years back, I bought a batch of Plastic 'Emergency' Rain Ponchos that were going on the cheap .. and they can be re-folded after use and put back into their bag. Combined with a Mylar Sheet, some Duct Tape wound around a card of sorts (to tape the ends of the slit cut into the Mylar Sheet for the head to go through .. prevents the cut from 'running') and some Garden / Mason's Line (for a Belt if required) .. one can hunker down for a perhaps uncomfortable, but functional over-nighter .. and this combo does not take up much space. A Swiss RUclipsr I follow, has demonstrated, sitting up against a tree on one's pack, knees up with a 'T-Lite' Candle down in the space so created that even in unfavourable weather, one's chance of pulling through will improve. On 'how much' to take with? That depends where and when. Down into the Marianas Trench .. a ten ton bathysphere would be useful .. it all depends 😏. A good one .. thanks once again. Take care ..
I stumbled upon your channel this morning. I greatly appreciate your willingness to share not only the content of your kit, but also an explanation of why you chose to carry what you do. From my experience, it is easy to overload on the gear that we are carrying for a simple walk in the woods. Seems like my basic kit is always changing. In trying to figure out what my kit should look like, it always helps to see what others are packing. In this case, your kit isn’t intended to get you through a night in the woods, but it can if necessary. I appreciate the detail in your content. God bless and be safe. - Tennessee Smoky
Thank you for sharing your ideas for a walk in the woods, with a minimal amount of gear. I like having a GPS for marking spots I find letting me find them again using a shorter direct route. It gives me less worry about getting back to my car and not wondering to far not to get stuck overnight. You don't need to keep it turn on all the time and waste battery storage. Having a map and compass still is important as you said.👍
Good to see a new vid brotha. Was wondering when we’d get something new about kit. My personal picks for a Fanny kit are a 16 oz nalgene with a soup can made bottle cup, ferro rod, yellow bic lighter, 70 ft bank line and a poly painter drop cloth along with Mylar blanket. Always keep a mora 511 around my neck at the very least and a leatherman wave in my pocket… Best wishes!!!! EO
I’m also looking I to getting a bayite keychain ferro rod, wax paper in phone case. My back up knife is a kabar dozier pocket knofe that’s always on me. If I can bring a main it’s my mora HD SS and a big fat ferro rod wrapped in tape and Bic lighter. I tend to carry water bottle in a bottle bag that has some gauze and paracord. My Fanny pack would alwyas have a poncho tarp, I’m thinking about getting a UCO lantern in case I’m too dumb or dead to start a fire, that way I can stick under my poncho. If I’m not lazy I’ll have hammock and tarp to sleep on cause things crawling on me when I sleep on ground will drive me insane
Also thinking about taking gloves with me because I can withstand a decent amount of cold but my fingers lose dexterity fast Can you make a video about good compasses and how to use
👍 Nice kit. Contents would be useful during the day even if one did not get lost. Surprisingly what useful inexpensive gear you can get in a small easily carried container.
Watch how close you keep metal (knife) to your compass as it will deflect the magnetic lines and have you going slightly off course. To help this, run the compass lanyard through your pocket button hole and run the compass through the loop. It gets the compass further from your body. Careful with the knife so not to conceal it.
@@outdoorsonthecheap The compass lanyard through a button hole allows the compass to be held out further, even better. I say this because I am a Forester and I have cruised the bush for thousands of Km and had to account for metal tape measure, tree boring tool and metal calipers in hand. Yes there is not much to the knife but the closer it is to the compass the more effect it has. I have a few stories from the bush, fortunately I was not part of that story and others had the problem. Cheers, great video.
Don't forget money! Theoretically, absolutely not necessary for these circumstances, but a couple of notes/bills can come in handy for the unexpected. No volume, no mass.
You always have 2 compasses . If you are lost your brain is going to tell you the wrong way to go. Your compass will tell you the way to go but, your brain will not believe the compass so you use both of them to convince your brain that what the compasses are correct in their directions because they match.
I was installing a Satellite Dish and the customer knew it had to be pointed to the south in the northern hemisphere. Only problem was for nearly 2 decades at his home he thought south was north. So I showed him my compass and he asserted it must be wrong. I then broke out the paper map and showed him the street and intersection and orientated it to the front of his house and reminded him that the bottom of the page is south. He stared in disbelief at the map and implied that something must still be wrong. I finally convinced him to let me do my job but he was still not convinced he could have been wrong even with all the evidence demonstrating otherwise.
nice video on the basics. and a good reminder, the goal is to survive, not to be the most "manly!" ... and also, practice. Watching youtube is not practice.
27:15 "Looking at your eyes" (reference to the mirror) Maybe you and everyone else already knows about this, but I'll detail it, in the event it might help someone. Often times, if you have some foreign object in your eye, or on your eyeball, not imbedded but floating in your eye...an easy way to remove it is using the mirror for a good view, carefully touch it with a rolled corner of a dry absorbent paper. The paper will quickly draw the water from the object, which in turn pulls it free from your eyeball. The paper needs to be free of dies and perfumes...a bargain brand white paper towel is perfect, and toilet tissue also works. I have used this method to remove large saw dust from chainsaw, metal chips, wind blown vegetable matter, etc. Hope this may help someone. I enjoy your videos, you always bring practical suggestions and solutions to us. Thank you
I've done that many times - yes that is a good trick :)
Excellent presentation of your well thought out kit. Customization is a great part to success! I took an early retirement in the Republic of the Philippine Islands. We are blessed with an abidance of water sources. Drinking that water without treatment is a bad idea. Your kit surely checks the box for pre-filtering and a means to pasteurize/sterilize water. In our humid and often soaking wet environment, we always have a supply of kick-@$$ DIY fire starters and multiple means of reliable ignition. Certain verities of our skeeters carry bad things such as malaria and dengue fever. Prevention is worth a pound of cure. Bug nets and repellants are the order of the day. You are correct, build your kit with your area of operation in mind!
Thanks NHJ
👍👍👍 .. very good advice .. thanks.
Around my neck .. my house key and a whistle, on separate lanyards .. always, no matter where I go.
Those 'Emergency Blankets' .. not blankets but just Mylar Sheets and once deployed, they assume a space and volume of their choosing 😁.
That said, years back, I bought a batch of Plastic 'Emergency' Rain Ponchos that were going on the cheap .. and they can be re-folded after use and put back into their bag. Combined with a Mylar Sheet, some Duct Tape wound around a card of sorts (to tape the ends of the slit cut into the Mylar Sheet for the head to go through .. prevents the cut from 'running') and some Garden / Mason's Line (for a Belt if required) .. one can hunker down for a perhaps uncomfortable, but functional over-nighter .. and this combo does not take up much space.
A Swiss RUclipsr I follow, has demonstrated, sitting up against a tree on one's pack, knees up with a 'T-Lite' Candle down in the space so created that even in unfavourable weather, one's chance of pulling through will improve.
On 'how much' to take with? That depends where and when. Down into the Marianas Trench .. a ten ton bathysphere would be useful .. it all depends 😏.
A good one .. thanks once again. Take care ..
Love your videos. No bs! I especially loved your video on how to create a fire without beating on your knife batoning. Thanx for the great videos.
Thanks man
Just ran across your video, and I think it's great. Sound advice
Thanks
Great breakdown. Nice to go minimalist. Less stuff to have to worry about and or manage.
Nate
Absolutely!
I will have to test the wax paper fire starter material. Makes sense and thank you
Im sure I've shown it working in a video - I just can't remember that that vid was called :)
it's this one: ruclips.net/video/U34IvW47nNA/видео.html
It didn't work worth a damn here in Florida.
Maybe you need to try again? I should work anywhere.
I stumbled upon your channel this morning. I greatly appreciate your willingness to share not only the content of your kit, but also an explanation of why you chose to carry what you do. From my experience, it is easy to overload on the gear that we are carrying for a simple walk in the woods. Seems like my basic kit is always changing. In trying to figure out what my kit should look like, it always helps to see what others are packing. In this case, your kit isn’t intended to get you through a night in the woods, but it can if necessary. I appreciate the detail in your content. God bless and be safe. - Tennessee Smoky
Thanks TS :)
Awesom video! Well explained!! I’m going to share this with my Scouting group as it’s great for Scout and Venture age youth. Thanks Greg.
Thanks!
Greg, it’s good to hear from you! I always look for your videos.
I appreciate that!
Thank you for sharing your ideas for a walk in the woods, with a minimal amount of gear. I like having a GPS for marking spots I find letting me find them again using a shorter direct route. It gives me less worry about getting back to my car and not wondering to far not to get stuck overnight. You don't need to keep it turn on all the time and waste battery storage. Having a map and compass still is important as you said.👍
Good to see a new vid brotha. Was wondering when we’d get something new about kit.
My personal picks for a Fanny kit are a 16 oz nalgene with a soup can made bottle cup, ferro rod, yellow bic lighter, 70 ft bank line and a poly painter drop cloth along with Mylar blanket. Always keep a mora 511 around my neck at the very least and a leatherman wave in my pocket…
Best wishes!!!! EO
I also opted for Fanny pack to reduce back sweat. I bring back pack only to fit sleeping bag for winter if I want to be really comfy without fire
I’m also looking I to getting a bayite keychain ferro rod, wax paper in phone case.
My back up knife is a kabar dozier pocket knofe that’s always on me.
If I can bring a main it’s my mora HD SS
and a big fat ferro rod wrapped in tape and Bic lighter.
I tend to carry water bottle in a bottle bag that has some gauze and paracord.
My Fanny pack would alwyas have a poncho tarp, I’m thinking about getting a UCO lantern in case I’m too dumb or dead to start a fire, that way I can stick under my poncho.
If I’m not lazy I’ll have hammock and tarp to sleep on cause things crawling on me when I sleep on ground will drive me insane
Also thinking about taking gloves with me because I can withstand a decent amount of cold but my fingers lose dexterity fast
Can you make a video about good compasses and how to use
Good idea - yes I'll do that soon. Recommend mitts over gloves if its cold where you are - below certain temps gloves aren't that good.
👍 Nice kit. Contents would be useful during the day even if one did not get lost. Surprisingly what useful inexpensive gear you can get in a small easily carried container.
Very true!
Watch how close you keep metal (knife) to your compass as it will deflect the magnetic lines and have you going slightly off course. To help this, run the compass lanyard through your pocket button hole and run the compass through the loop. It gets the compass further from your body. Careful with the knife so not to conceal it.
If the knife is against the chest and the compass it held high - the compass is not affected. They are about 12" apart.
@@outdoorsonthecheap The compass lanyard through a button hole allows the compass to be held out further, even better. I say this because I am a Forester and I have cruised the bush for thousands of Km and had to account for metal tape measure, tree boring tool and metal calipers in hand. Yes there is not much to the knife but the closer it is to the compass the more effect it has. I have a few stories from the bush, fortunately I was not part of that story and others had the problem. Cheers, great video.
Don't forget money! Theoretically, absolutely not necessary for these circumstances, but a couple of notes/bills can come in handy for the unexpected. No volume, no mass.
Lots of pieces in a small space!
You always have 2 compasses . If you are lost your brain is going to tell you the wrong way to go. Your compass will tell you the way to go but, your brain will not believe the compass so you use both of them to convince your brain that what the compasses are correct in their directions because they match.
I was installing a Satellite Dish and the customer knew it had to be pointed to the south in the northern hemisphere. Only problem was for nearly 2 decades at his home he thought south was north. So I showed him my compass and he asserted it must be wrong. I then broke out the paper map and showed him the street and intersection and orientated it to the front of his house and reminded him that the bottom of the page is south. He stared in disbelief at the map and implied that something must still be wrong. I finally convinced him to let me do my job but he was still not convinced he could have been wrong even with all the evidence demonstrating otherwise.
I wonder how many dead hikers he's sent out 'Due south fer a spell...' haha!
@ amazing . Thank you for sharing that story.👍🇺🇸
nice video on the basics.
and a good reminder, the goal is to survive, not to be the most "manly!"
... and also, practice. Watching youtube is not practice.