Camping with 40+ Item Survival Tin (Heavy Rain)
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- I go solo camping with a tiny survival tin that has over 40 survival items inside. My dog joins me, we setup a basic shelter, get a fire going and survive on a 24 hour french military MRE ration pack.
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Freezing the Chem light helps it last longer. I remember my brothers being jealous because I froze mine and had it for days.😂
for your wire saw you should find a bendable stick, notch it and do a bow saw with it
lol, just saw you do it afterward, lot less strain on the shoulder indeed
This guy's so clued up, it's amazing this kit had no cord or fishing line..no fishing line np use the cord ...oh um ok so no food other than copper snare. Nature creates more snares n traps. Love the compass and the french food batch although I think it's slightly modernized ..energy bars great survival review thanks
Your supposed to make a saw with a stick and the wire saw
Condom inside a sock is a mega water carry and the scapleblade is ment for skining/dressing meat!! That's what we was shown/trained when I did my E'n'E training!! Hope that helps all the best Deano
Didn't think of the sock, nice idea!
I'd also find it really interesting for you to make your own kit with items bought just from Amazon with a price limit (£20 would be very difficult, but maybe £50) to see what can be done.
I second this
This is shaping up to be a fine series! The first kit included a lot of cheap stuff but it had more than enough surprisingly useful cutting edges and a mylar blanket. This one had a proper, reinforced Fero rod and the tampon and gel fire starter.
Honestly, simply adding the best items from both kits together sounds like a good exercise. After all, what are the manufacturers going to do: sue you?
My husband and I are into archery and you're not supposed to leave the bow strung on any bow except for compound and crossbows because the tension is released on them. It stretches your bowstring out and weakens it. :) It doesn't surprise me that it's the same with a bow saw.
In my experience, survival tins on their own are more of a gimmick than a serious survival aid, and a bug out bag or small survival pack is a far more realistic option for providing shelter, heat, drinkable water, food and navigation for a short term emergency. A small survival tin might be part of such a pack, but I'd say "bin the tin".
Agreed. If you make them just twice as big (doesn't have to be twice as heavy) you could add much more robust gear. Big enough to fit a multitool at the very least. You could say "I have one with me anyways" but the point of a kit like this is you always have it for a *just in case,* regardless of what else you're carrying, you know it's there.
agreed, it should be there to supplement your basic edc gear like a knife, torch, lighter, water bottle, maybe a paracord fob/bracelet
I remember hearing about a Nalgene bottle survival kit challenge. Definitely a little more space goes a long way.
I find a pouch big enough for a mess tin (John lofty style) works beautifully
I was thinking the same thing. This seems more like a 'stocking stuffer' someone might pick up for their outdoorsy type of friend rather than something someone would buy for themselves for use in an emergency.
18:55 for anyone wondering what is it, Roperoller Cinching Buckle.
your mum
The best rope tensioner around. They also make amazing straps for securing kayaks, canoes, or really anything.
Ha Thanks!
TY just was on eBay looking for them.
Thank you so much! I was trying to Google it 😆
Can confirm with the glow sticks. We used to chuck 'em in the freezer after playing around with them in the evening, and get a bit more life out of them the next day/night
ive got pot jelly in my kits, some are in small straws melted shut, its more versatile than having cotton balls impregnated, and the tampon is a denser way to pack the cotton wool, the pot jelly could also be used with compressed towel tablets
Scalpel blade is also for processing fish typically
I was also thinking about meat prep
I heard it described as a tool for very small operations like getting splinters out, for a bigger knife, just wouldn’t do.
@@TheSaneHatter That's like the 'official' use for it, I think. I think a lot of kits include them as a filet type tool though.
It can also be attached to a stick and that makes it way more usefull. But i thing 1-2 utility blades form a hardware store are a much better option especially when attached to a stick
Hi Mike, I went on a walk earlier and was actually thinking about your videos and I just wanted to thank you, your videos got me into bushcraft / survival and I always look forwards to watching them.
Thanks! Glad you have been enjoying the videos. More to come next week 👍🏻
@@TAOutdoors looking forward to them. Any overnighters?
@@Joshie_Curtis These are overnighters??
@@TAOutdoors sorry I meant any more over nighters?
@@Joshie_Curtis Yes more to come :)
Hey Mike, those little Chem lights are also really good to attach to Jax's harness and then you always know where the dog is! My friends did that with their dog any time we went camping so the dog never got stepped on (she was black)
That is the most simple genius idea i never thought of. Nice one !
Use a stick no thicker than your thumb, that will give enough tension to work, but not overstress the loops. broken many of them finding that out!👍👍
Thumbs or loops? 😄
i used to carry similar items in a self made kit, the condom is good to waterproof radios or GPS as well as to carry water especially if put into a sock, tampons are great fire starters, they are small and lightweight and wrapped so reasonably waterproof until opened, the petroleum jelly is a good addition, i have never had success with a wire saw and as you said a small folding saw is 100 times better, shame about the missing fishing kit.
Mike, that is a great idea with the wire saw! Would have never thought of it. That looks like a 'high quality' saw. Every one I ever tried to use broke, usually either at the snap ring or at the center from being over stressed. A quick FYI: NEVER use any type of petroleum based product (vasoline, or even butter) on a burn. It can cause major infections, prevent healing due to making an air tight layer over the burn area, and it can actually cause the burn to get worse if applied right away after the burn occurred before running cold water over the area and cooling it down. Using petroleum jelly products isn't taught in any first aid classes anymore, in fact, they have been teaching not to use it for over 10+ yes. Cool clear water is the best initial treatment followed by a loose dry dressing until proper medical treatment/aid can be given.
I like the MRE testing as well! 😁👍🏼
Jax the Dawg is totally awesome!
*Jaxx
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You could also use the tampon fluff inside the coffee filter as a second layer of mechanical filtration
Except they have chemicals in such as anticoagulants which you probably wouldn't want to ingest.
@@alexpervanoglu7420 there are no anticoagulants in a tampon, its literally an absorber, if there were anticoags it would have the exact opposite effect as to what its supposed to and people would absorb the chemical when inserted
@@kitobi10660 They don't care what we absorb, as long as we buy it. Just a brief search: Tampons from several brands that potentially millions of people use each month can contain toxic metals like lead, arsenic, and cadmium, a new study led by a UC Berkeley researcher has found. 3 jul 2024 (There is more to find.)
I loved what you did with the wire saw. I saw what you were up to pretty quick and I loved the ingenuity. I think these companies should really work with someone like you (or you) to test and improve their kits. It would go a long way to making their kits the best they can be plus with someone like you they could link to your videos to show how to use the items in their kits.
13:00 I bet that wire saw on a bow stick or the like would work very well also. (Proceeds to do exactly what I thought.) LOL
Ah man it would be class if you kept going up in expense with these kits. Till you get some massive prepper bag> Great video as always. cheers
Fun fact for everybody, US army testing back in the someaughts showed that very dim white light is better for night vision than red light. The reason red light at night is still the standard is that is draws less attention, keeping ohers awake less and drawing less attention from enemy forces.
Red light doesn't screw with your night vision.
I'm really enjoying this series. It's great to see the items actually used. Thanks Mike!
I can't wait for the TA Outdoors custom survival tin. We will all flock to buy it, realise there's no fishing kit and all get the joke.
I have, like most of us. A self packed edc kit. The one thing videos like this offer is an idea of what you need and also help you to see additional stuff you may not have thought of. ❤
Pleas make your own survival kit!
Agreed, these are gimicky and silly.
About a month ago I had been sick and had to get infusion. The drip speed for rain collection reminded me about that, it is the same speed as infusion. And no wonder how you could fill it up so much in short time.
Just as I was going to comment about making a bowsaw out of it, You go and do it! lol
It's annoying that the kit was missing parts, but I have to say that I really like it. It's very definitely a get-to-help kit that can only somewhat assist you in staying healthy as you flee back to civilization, but the way that pieces were chosen and packaged shows some real thought went into arranging everything. I really like that the kit included a condom for water storage and the fact that it contained the separated vial of petroleum jelly and tampon as separate items. They each have multiple very different uses they can be put to, and maximizing the flexibility of the kit seems thoughtful.
The choice of a coffee filter over a handkerchief is a bit of a stumble, as is the lack of a dozen feet worth of duct tape. I do feel like that the original inclusion of a fishing kit seems a little excessive. I would rather have seen ten more cable ties instead. This does seem like a pretty good toss-and-forget camping or car tin, but it would behoove anyone who buys one to go through (and make sure everything's there!) and add a few odds and ends in order to round out a pretty good basic kit.
I like these testing survival kit videos it’s interesting to see what different people think you would need or want in survival situations.
In a 2oz tobacco tin I keep a victorinox ranger+fire ant and a few other bits but I think that scalpel blade is for if you did catch a squirrel you'll need to prepare it to cook. It might be able to make small fine fethersticks as well but i must agree i wouldn't want to rely on it.
Amazing video my friend! Finally, some real survival video with field testing, this's some amazing content... keep it up bud!
Looking forward to more survival kits, and the honest comment on them. Good to see that you open them "real time"to see something is missing.
For the ration kits perhaps Danish and Dutch?
Hoping that next time there will be a fishing kit in there. For the trapping and snaring please do a video on that, loved the video about the munkjack and the hunting of that.
I believe that making your own survival kit is best, having said that I really enjoyed this film. Good job mate keep it up.
In all honesty, who wouldn’t expect the French to pack half-decent food in an MRE?
But more seriously, thanks for making this video: the classic SAS survival tin is a subject I’m glad to hear you expound on, since I’m trying to put one together myself. It’s no small feet, since the simple facts of container size and effective packing often elude me. [/future video hint]
In particular, thank you for addressing the wire saw in more detail, answering every single one of our last round of comments in the process! Indeed, if the last two videos had come out in the other order, then all of the know-it-alls like me would’ve kept our mouths shut!😂
Something that I wish was in these kits is just some orange marking tape. You can tie it up where you get lost to draw attention and leave markings of where you went from there. It takes up almost no room as well
The wire saw technique was worth viewing this video ... good space saving ideas for this kit.
Hello mate, I like your videos very much and I want to thank you for keep making them.
That saw is actually made for cutting flesh and bones, it is a surgical saw, it won't overheat and not gonna pinch either, also no need to make that weird moves with your shoulders while using it in a right way:D
Unfortunately, this saw is a small marketing trap many survivalist have got into.
Surely you can cut small branches with it, but its will snap,when overheated because of its structure.
Peace.
When I hunt for the moose, in the late afternoon, I always have about fifty of these little chemlights in a pouch, they are perfect to mark my way when I have to penetrate into the dense forest to go and retrieve my beast. Those I bought on a Chinese site, can easily last 48 hours. Nice vids. Peace
These kits work better when you integrate them to your person. It takes years of operations experience. But a god send when needed.
You could put a thick short wooden stick into the saw loop creating a wooden handle/toggle. You can use your full hands getting the wood rather than each fingers in saw loop.
At the end of this series will you be making a "make at home " one using the best from each one you tried out alongside the stuff you think they should have
Really enjoyed how you tried to use as many items as you could.
Hello from Oklahoma! Good Videos! Thanks for doing these. The MRE tests are good too. If it wasn't so Hot here, 35°-40°C, I would love to go out and do an overnight.Thanks again. God Bless!
12:18 - A wire saw. also known as an Owen Wilson saw, because when you use it all you can hear is wow-wow-wow-wow 😄.
Might have been able to fit one of the ranger bands around the neck of the bottle to hold the coffee filter on place too ;)
I love that I put this on and my almost 4 year old comes over and watches it with me ❤
I keep coming coming back to your videos, i like them a lot, greetings from Lithuania 🇱🇹
Keep opening them on camera, it's no use finding out bits are missing in a real survival situation. The vendors are slacking there. I'm glad you're putting together your own, and doing the market research. Tampons are usually included for wounds, fire starting or drying stuff but the condom, although slightly comical, proved pretty good at what you used it for. 😂🙌👍
I like this video and I agree there are several items that kit should have . And yes I would enjoy watching a video with numerous snare and traps.
Was always told - Remember when using a wire saw to think Rod Stewart - "First cut is the worst (deepest)" 'cos that's when you make the bow for a bow saw! 😀😀
A trick back in the 70s survival, you run a sowing needle up and down a long bar magnet for a few seconds. You fill a cup with water or find a puddle of water, you slowly place the magnetised sowing needle onto the surface of the water (meniscus will keep it floating) and it will float and point you North. To make life easier, a little blob of candle wax in middle of needle will aid floating on water. Or put needle on tiny square bit of tissue paper then carefully onto water..
Copper does rust. That is why it turns green. Oxidation. "Tampon" can be used multiple ways. Can be used to pack a wound, start a fire, filtration, etc. The condom can be used for water, but usually used more for waterproofing.
The green colour isn’t rust. It doesn’t eat away at the metal, it’s just tarnishing it. If you polish it you will notice the copper comes back really shiny with no pitting or buildup.
@chronicallyshannon1213 Copper oxidizes. Which is the definition of rust. Copper may not rust like iron, at least initially, but it will, eventually, develop pits, etc. like iron does. Statue of Liberty is a prime example. They had to replace sheets of copper because of the extreme oxidation.
Wouldn’t pack a wound with a tampon, they absorb blood and fluid rather than clot it. Might be better to carry gauze in one of these as can light fire with that too
That's not rust
@@tenzaemtade6146 Rust is oxidation of iron. The green coating on copper is oxidation. By simplifying oxidation, even on copper, it is rust. Do they not teach basic science and how to think and reason in school?
Super intéressant, merci beaucoup!
Really enjoyed watching this can't wait for you to do more of these they are so fun to watch and find out how good they really are
Well done mike! Loving this series and can't wait to see the other kits and ultimately yours! Sack off them wire saws, always thought they were crappy. Wanting to see some more woodland management stuff too.
Thanks, glad you like the series. I tend to do most of the woodland management stuff in the winter months. Summer I let the woodland flora and fauna grow and rest 👍🏻
It has been such a 🔥 hot summer here in Maryland USA, temps many days over a 100 F, brutal
Interesting stuff, sounds like you need to put a proper TA survival kit together for sale Mike 👍
One thing I’d like to see in one of these kits is a couple pieces of hard candy. I’ve seen them in mres. If you’re stuck in some emergency situation and are relying on this kit, a piece of candy might be a sort of pick me up thing. You might not have a thing to eat but a piece of candy could do wonders, mentally and physically. I know I’d appreciate it…..
Well, part way through watching this my 5 year old decided he really wanted to build a shelter in the garden! Thanks for the great content Mike, and what's turned out to be a fun afternoon with a tarp 😂
Ace show mate.... A trick with the hexi blocks is to smash them up a little and then spred them over the cooker.... If they are still flaming, you can put them out with a quick slash of water and re- use them...
I wondered if you could get them in the form of a stick with markings on for each 2 minute burn time, then cut off what you need
Rain is life buddy keep up the awesome work mate. ❤❤❤
So for the glow stick or Chem light as you call them, yes if you put them in the freezer and freeze them they will stay good for a very long time.
Where did you get those carabineer pullies? Those are awesome!!!
A fun video. I don't mind these tins for what they are: a bit gimmicky, a bit cheap - not bad to supplement your stuff or keep in vehicle as a backup, but much better to buy stuff seperately and there are many things lying around the house or that can be found at cheap stores ie: tampons, condoms, duct tape, elastic bands, ziplocs, cheap t shirts for making char etc.
You should try camping in the wild out here in BC, Canada sometime. It can be very wild and unforgiving - and you REALLY need to be wildlife aware - grizzly bears, black bears, moose, and most of all mountain lions can all be "challenging".
Fit a small wooden handle on the scalpel and it's ideal for skinning and gutting, The survival kit from the SAS survival handbook has a condom in it so nothing new there, I would like to see a survival tin fishing kit used in the UK .
Great, well-thought-out kit. We can always think of other things that should be included, such as a small magnifying glass or fresnel and some tweezers. There is probably not enough room for a space blanket, but if there is, that certainly would be a good addition (later saw you did recommend) . I love the DIY dental cotton rolls in parafin. I always throw in an orange crayon for color. They will burn intensely for around seven minutes. You can make dozens for less than $10. They are waterproof as well. All in all, it's a sweet little kit and at a decent price. Making the bow saw was brilliant.
The copper wire is great for cutting clay when making pots, in case of a very long term survival situation.
That rain in the morning sounded wonderful.
I like the series, it really shows how those kits work out in a practical situation.
The bent branch method of turning the wire saw into something like a hacksaw works best in my opinion.
I foresee a TA outdoors survival kit being released soon
If you take one of those fine mesh bags that are used for storing vegetables or sometimes for putting small items in the washing machine you can pack your wet tarp in it and squeeze out the water, then hang it from the outside of your pack so you dont wet the inside of your backpack
The little baggies can be used for improvised cups for water too.
The best way to use the wire saw is to turn it into a bow saw
He did it
You’ve made some awesome videos on ‘cheap gear from Amazon.’ I’d love to see a video where budget isn’t a concern-what would your ultimate loadout look like? I’m curious about everything from your ideal backpack and survival tin to the perfect axe and other gear.
with the bow saw method I'd have cut the notches more like a Jr Hacksaw, then use the crimps as the stops on the outside of the bow
great idea for a vid series. Would love to see some trap / snare setups too.Thanks!
Brilliant video once again, loving this series! Lesson from the videos so far is to check these kits to make sure you know what is actually in them before relying on them in a survival situation
That will teach me to watch it all before commenting lol
Loving this series.
Really enjoyed this video of yours. Cheers.
Believe the old trick is to put the condom in a sock first, so it has more support and protection.
I find your videos very interesting and informative. Love Jaxs. Just do what you want it's always worth watching. 😊
Nocturnal animals have trouble seeing the red light opposed to conventional lights. Love your videos.
FYI- tampons, while smart for a fire kit, won’t work well for wound packing. They are treated with anti coagulant, so they would work against you in a critical bleed situation.
A lot of great ideas in this kit though!
can be fluffed out and then starpped on with ducttape, still multi purpose and a good item to add
Please give source for your information since anticoagulants would be absorbed into the woman's bloodstream causing potentially life threatening health issues.
I'm afraid you may have been misled. Tampons do not contain anticoagulants. They are frequently included in IFAKs for use as an expanding gauze. Other than the scented variety, they are purely compressed cotton or rayon gauze.
Work for nose bleed
@@harmonic5107 tampons are not good for wounds for wounds you want to pack gauze to stop bleeding tampons expand to soak up blood you would just end up bleeding out with a tampon inside you
For day to day living, these "survival tins" or "every day carry (EDC)" are a waste of time and never really get used. Most of us spend most of our time in urban environments. To this end I carry a back pack with a bottle of water and a basic first aid kit. The back pack can also carry a woollen hat and warm gloves for colder weather and a waterproof jacket for wet weather.
If you're venturing out into the wilderness, you should be carrying items that would aid you in a survival situation. Think, food, water, shelter, fire and communication with the outside world.
Great enjoyable stuff, thanks!
I always have a small tube of superglue in my kit, though I do double up with needle and thread for deep cuts too.
Excellent video series, really enjoyable.
Military maps are supposed to be red-light readable. The contour lines will look black.
Great video, thanks.
This was another great episode and I love the series about the survival kits. Great video.
thank you a lot for ale these videos
59:10 You asked, I delivered, and now I ask that you deliver😂
Definitely interested in a snare/trap video!
really good series. helping me decide what to put in my own kit
Love these type of videos!
Hey Mike, would be nice to see a australian and new zealand mr, enjoying the content of mre and survival kits.
I get the feeling it was created by someone that was in the military.
The reason you're being "had" with the Amazon orders is that you're not getting it directly from the original supplier/manufacturer. This is becoming an increasingly large issue for online stores in general... Shop around and double check the vendor.