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(91 votes) Published: Dec 27, 2006 8:25 p.m. In 7 Favorites Lists Viewed 487 times
Note of advisory: This egg assumes that the only thing you have on you when this happens is your knife and a few other daily things. The situation will be based on a biker with a back pack, knife, and his bike and other normal things.
The Situation Your mountain biking in the forest, alone, far from civilization, when all of a sudden your tire pops. You don’t have anything to help you repair it or any other source of trasportation. You take out your cell phone, hoping to call for help but you haven no service out here in the wilderness. You are stranded, miles away from society, alone.
Whatever. This is just one of the situations that might happen to you. Stranded in the forest with no food, water, or source of communication. Automaticaly your survival instincts should kick in.
Analyze First things first: analyze your surroundings and utilities. Look around you and check for any signs of roads, paths, or tracks that you might follow. In a situation like this, 40% of the time there will be a path to follow. Next, analyze what items you have one you.
Some things from the bike can be used for later purposes. If not, its always good to have them. Take the prongs from the wheels. They can come in handy later. Also the rubber tubing from the tire. Things like this are valueable additions to your survival.
Unpack your backpack to see what items you have on you. In this situation, we have a knife, a half filled (or half empty) water bottle, a few corn chips, a newspaper, and the actual backpack. Stuff all of the utilities into the pack and prepare for the next step.
Daylight One of the most important factors to your survival is daylight. With daylight you can keep moving, hunt, and do other essential things to your survival. But without it, you are very limited. A good way of determening how much daylight you have left is the handwidth method. You put your hand up in front of the sun (horizontaly) and keep moving it down towards the horizon as if you were measuring it.
Every handwidth is and hour, so if it took you 2 handwidths to reach the horizon, you only have 2 hours of daylight. In this case, its no use to keep on moving.
Fire Survival revolves around fire. It is easily on of the most important factors of survival. Without it, I can just about say your screwed. No matter what you are doing, always look for firewood. If your a smoker, you usually carry a lighter on you, and in that case, your one lucky bastard. But if don’t have one on you, fear not, for there are a few methods of making fire.
Bow and Drill Method This is one of my most favorite methods of creating fire. It requires a few thing but is well worth it for being a fairly easy way of creating fire and not to mention its portable.
Items Socket: This can be a rock, bone, or a piece of hardwood with a slight depression going inwards to the center.
Drill: This can be a straight hardwood stick that is no more than 2cm in diameter and 25 cm long.
Fire Board: A fire board is where all the action is going to take place. It must be atleast 2.5 cm thick and 10 cm wide. Carve a small depression into it about 2 cm away from the edge of the board. Under the depression, cut in a small V shape.
Bow: The bow can be a stick about a foot long and 2.5 cm in diametere that can easly be bent. From there you tie some sort of string or rope on both ends so that it resembles some what of a bow.
Procedure To begin place some tinder (wood scrapings, spanish moss, or paper) under the v shaped slit under the fire board. From there you place your drill in the depression on the fire board. Take your bow so that the drill is in the middle of the string and the stick. Flip over the the stick from the bow so that the string is wraped around the drill once.
Now place your socket on top of the drill and begin to move the bow back and forth. After a few minutes of doing this, hot ash will fall into the tinder. From there, gentley blow into the tinder until a flame erupts. Take the lit tinder to your actual fire place and watch as it sets on fire. Here are different designs you can use for a fire place:
Classic Drill Method This method is that much harder. Its just like the bow and drill method only you have no bow nor a socket. Your drill must be 2 or 3 times the size of the regular Bow and Drill one. You place the drill into the depression once again only now, the drill rotates with the force of your hand. This can take hours and is very painful for your hands. Instead of keep your hands in once position, keep them moving from up and down. Start at the top, move down to the middle, move back...ect. Not really the best one but it gets the job done.
Flint and Steel For the flint and steel method, the first thing you need is a hard, sharp edged rock and a piece of carbon steel (stainless steel doesn’t work that good). This is as simple as it gets. Give the steel a good strike with the flint to ignite a spark. If a spark catches in your tinder, blow gentley into it to start a flame and take it to your camp fire.
Shelter Shelter is another survival essential. Without shelter you are exposed to the wind, rain/snow, and the little unwanted critters out in the wilderness. To build a some what of a shelter, a few things are needed. A cave, or some natural shelter is a great oppurtunity but if you have none, hell, build one.
Essential Items Knife (Better yet a multitool)
String-like material
Leaves, branches, ect.
Wood.
First you must find an area to build your shelter. Pick a place near somewhere that looks naturaly safer such as a large tree or some sort of large boulder to hide behind. In general, its something that will do as an obsticle to un-wanted things. I will only go over one form of shelter but it should cover the same principle that you can use to create different kinds.
Debris Hut First you must create a frame. In general, you need a whole bunch of branches and one, hard Y shaped branch.
Procedure Plant the Y shaped branch firmly into the ground. From there, take a long branch and lay the edge into the Y shaped depression (tie it down for extra security). From there, stack the other branches onto the frame, creating a tent-like shaped hut. Tie the edges of those branches to the main branch they are laying on. From there, lay some leaves, branches, ect onto those giving you protection from the wind and rain/snow. It should look something like this from the first step to finished item. Ignore the log it is laying on. I changed the procedure from using the log to branch because using the Y shaped branch is more stable. Trust me...I know.
I hope you enjoyed the first part of my Wilderness Survival Guide: Forest Area. The second part is on its way. In the second part, we will cover water, hunting, and crafting. Till then, happy hiking!
If you have any questions or additions to the egg feel free to message me. If you vote low, please tell me why so that I can improve on it.
Dec 27, 2006 8:40 pm - C/P? Definitley not. The only thing here I took from another website were the pictures. Other than that, its all things based on what I know.
Dec 27, 2006 9:05 pm - 5* it is ligit from what i can see, the only thing that even looks like it may have been taken from another source was the tire prong from the bike,Seen it on Survivor Man.
Dec 27, 2006 9:10 pm - Yea, the tire prong thing is from Survivorman. Saw every single episode. So is the tire tubing. Its valueable information that definitley should be shared. Thanks for the vote!
Dec 27, 2006 9:19 pm - foggywindsheild, thanks for the vote but can you just tell me why you think the egg is shitty? That way I know how to improve it for the second part.
D c 28, 2006 2:46 pm - No I wasn’t a boy scount but I learned from T.V, my father, live demonstartions from Les Stroud, and the internet. You might want to visit http://www.wilderness-sur ival.net/ for more information. Its a great sight for both beginners and professionals.
Dec 28, 2006 5:20 pm - Tuffy, ofcourse I didn’t do the pictures. They were from http://www.wilderness-sur ival.net/. And oXphsycoMIDGETxO, ofcourse it was said on Survivorman because it is the basics of all survival situations. Just alot of people don’t know them so that’s why I’m here now ain’t I?
Feb 06, 2007 1:58 am - Well Done i was reading the comments to this egg and everyone that rated down and said cop. I Dont Care. im going to give you a 4** because a video would be nice on how to make the fire going, and your username is wierd
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