Category: Skills / Knowledge

  • Simple Solar Water Distilling – Easy DIY

    I’ve never had much luck distilling water with DIY ideas like this but maybe there’s hope yet. The one change I’d like to see is the collection bottles angled downward to collect more water but then this idea won’t work quite as easily, plus I don’t see why you can’t just tape the lids together…

  • 17 Ways To Repurpose Motor Oil

    17 Ways To Repurpose Motor Oil

    Motor oil has never been on my radar as something to re-purpose, that’s for sure. Now, every other oil on the planet has but NOT motor oil, lol. Regardless, I was quite surprised if the following suggestions are true as I’d never expected motor oil to be this potentially useful in ways other than in…

  • DIY Rope from Plastic Bottles

    I’m wondering how useful this “rope” will be for any survival situation as he didn’t show it being used at all but this is an idea I’d never considered before and since plastic bottles can be found nearly everywhere it can’t hurt to store this knowledge in the back of your brain should you ever need…

  • 800+ Free Survival Manuals

    800+ Free Survival Manuals

    I was recently made aware of a huge survival guide resource at PatriotRising.com. It seems this page alone has over 800 free resources (by my rough count) which you may freely download, though the subheadings claim nearly 3000 resources… I’m not quite sure where the other 2200 are at. Regardless, every topic seems covered, from NBC…

  • Can You Really Boil Water in a Plastic Soda Bottle?

    Can You Really Boil Water in a Plastic Soda Bottle?

    I had to burn some papers today and it dawned on me if I could actually boil water in a plastic soda bottle like I’d seen in various videos? As luck would have it, I had an empty soda bottle and so I gave it a shot. I strung up the bottle about two-thirds full of…

  • Double Spring Snare Trap

    I’m not into trapping so I can’t comment about effectiveness but I can say that it never hurts to learn something new, even if you never expect to use it…