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[registror]

that figures. Since for you, the right price is free. If you knew anything, you'd know that you can cache stuff and have a dugout shelter without owning the land. The whole idea is no body can know of such things except you. You can't have livestock or crops if shtf. Such things will just make you a target. Life is going to be hell on earth for EVERYONE post shtf, Only fools think otherwise. you'll get swarmed with looters, regardless of where you are. The looters will have to KEEP looting, cause they cant produce anything. So they'll get around to you in short order. You dont even have basic fighting gear/skills. Your kind never does. Such things cost too much and take too much work.

[grumpygremlin]

if you think that sucks now I'd hate to be you post SHTF.
I loved every minute of my time off grid and would do it again tomorrow if I could find the right land at the right price, I'm continually looking.

[registror]

I've done all those things, too. They suck, so I'm only interested in them if I can get paid, really well to do them. I want on that show. and it's an interesting subject.

[grumpygremlin]

whats this fixation with tv shows? do you have any practical survival skills or is it just what you see on tv.?
I lived alone off grid for 12 years no electrical power of any kind, no running water no drains, grew my own food and shot small wild game for meat.

[registror]

You're allowed to take 5 layers of clothing for your legs, 6 pairs of wool socks, and 7 layers for your torso. Stuff debris between each pair of socks, put them into the reflective tarp booties and put your feet and lower legs into the debris-stuffed backpack, under the 12" thick debris and tarp blanket, inside of the 6" thick debris-stuffed tarp shelter, 4x4x7 ft. Remove the reflective anorak and put it around your upper legs., which are wearing the reflective tarp leggings and the breechclout. Then you'll have 7 layers of clothing around yourself, as well as 18" of compressed dry grass. You wont be losing any body heat. That means that as long as you have food with which to make metabolic heat, you'll be fine. You just have to be able to control your mind as you lay there 7 hours at a time, Then go outside for an hour or less, getting a bit of exercise, hot food, spruce-needle tea, digging up the hot coals to ignite the Swedish fire torch, use the torch to ignite the siberian fire lay, snuff the swede with ashes, so you can re-use it. Use the siberian to boil your fish and heat up your tea. Snuff the siberian with ashes, bury the coals and charcoal in the ashes, go back inside of your cocoon. The first 50 days is a lark. The last 50 days is where you earn your clear 1/2 mill $. So youre being paid a clear $10,000 per day to control your mind. Youll be sleeping for 1/3rd of that, so you'll be clearing 13k per day, Almost $1000 per hour while you're awake. That's what you focus upon and laugh as you plan what you''ll do with the money.

[registror]

you dont want a fire in your shelter, it's too dangerous. If your shelter NEEDS a fire, it's not worth a hoot. With a properly sized, sealed, insulated shelter, you dont need a warming fire nor the sleeping bag. When you dont need to waste an hour per day for 100 days getting firewood processed so that it fits inside of your shelter. Also, knowing how to convert the 20x20 and 10x10 tarps an debris into a proper shelter and blanket, you dont need to waste picks on the axe, saw, and belt knife, or sleeping bag. The saw-edged shovel, with a variety of handles and the modified Crunch multitool are many times more useful than those 3 other items and they save you one gear pick. The Innuit did not have sleeping bags nor fires inside of their igloos. When you have a double layer of tarp and lots of debris to serve as sealed, insulated walls and bedding, your shelter will every bit as protective as the igloos ever were. You get to take and make 7 layers of clothing. You can size that clothing to all be worn at once, with debris between the layers to enhance the insulative value of the clothing. I've tested the assembly and clothing to -20F. There's no need of external heat. That covers all but the final 2 weeks of the 100 days. So you MIGHT need to heat 4 of the head-sized rocks for half an hour in front of a Siberian fire lay and have them in pits under your bedding, warming you for 4 hours, so what? T'hat's a lot less hassle than having to provide a constant warming fire for 100 days!

[registror]

if you make 3 chops or saw cuts, 120 degrees apart, around a sapling or branch, 3-4" OD, you can break it off without further sawing or chopping. 45 degree angle chopping moves cut more easily into wood than do 90 degree across the grain chops. This is expecially true of green wood. Save all of the time and calories you can out there. There's a million $ riding on your performance

[registror]

if you have to cut large OD logs (can't imagine WHY, tho) you can cut the 2" deep saw kerf, all the way around the tree or log, then chop out ONE side of the kerf with the shovel and cut another 2" Deep kerf. Repeat as needed. Saves half of the chopping, as vs not having a saw at all.

[registror]

A Cold steel shovel,modified to have 8" of saw edge., real deal, with offset teeth. Flatten the curve of the blade on that side, so you can cut a kerf 2" deep. Do that all the way around an 8" OD log or tree and you can break it off with your body weight. Heartwood is not all that resistant to lateral forces. Take a highly modified Crunch multitool, a cotton rope hammock(makes 1800 sq ft of netting in 10 days or so. Every couple of days, you can put another baited net trap to work for you. Take the reflective 12x12 ft tarp, one of Chief Aj's slingbows, make baked clay balls for use on small stuff, bow fish with it, too. Take the big roll of duct tape, the 3 lb block of sea salt, the cookpot, the fishing kit, and the snarewire. Have a few feet of the wire be copper, so you can start fires with it and the headlamp battery. Take a bent sewing needle as one of your "fishhooks," and 24 of the largest single hooks allowed. Cut them in half with the Crunch and reforge the ends. Then bind them into 16 treblehooks, using the fishline. Put your main line thru all three of the "eyes". Use them for removing predators from your area, wiring them to 50 lbs of drag log. and to protect your food caches (have more than one cache). If you'll be on the sea, swap the salt for the 2 lb ration of pemmican.

[registror]

you'd starve out or freeze out in month. Everyone would. Anyone who can't start a fire without a ferrorod doesn't belong on the show. I'd much rather have the saw-edged Cold Steel shovel than any knife. This drill makes friction fire easy and reliable. not much stress on the cordage, either. I made mine in half a day, using 7" long, 4" OD logs as the counter-weights, notching the top of the spindle and driving in a wedge, and quarter splitting the bottom of the spindle, fitting a 4 sided, tapering tang tip, so I didn't have to drill any holes. Once you get a fire, you can just bury your coals in the ashes, with some charcoal and it'll stay "alive" 12+ hours. Also, once you have ashes and charred materials, you can rudiger roll some dried veggie items or use any hard sharp rock and the shovel to strike sparks.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rudiger+roll+all+natural+materials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8BXhxHWyF4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzvTsF4Z9xY

[grumpygremlin]

10 items? I doubt you would be allowed that many, probably only 2 and thats if your that lucky.
1. knife.
2. spark striker.
anything else you can make from what you find, its called bushcraft, if you cant do that then you probably shouldnt be going on the show.

[registror]

it amazes me how people who can't even read the gear list "think" that they'll do so well on the show. :-)

[registror]

It would depend on where you are going to be. If back to Vancouver, fishing is paramount and crabbing a close second(see season 2). If back to Patagonia, I would learn to stalk and trap hogs. Fishing would be #2 imo. Like you, I would store extra calories on my body before starting the trip instead of taking food. I would have a plan for my shelter and build it starting day one along with setting trout lines and various traps. I would learn to make and use throwing sticks, shepherds slings, and an atlatl. There were lots of waterfowl that everyone seems to ignore. As for the 10, assuming PNW, and ignoring the items we get free, I would take
1) Axe 20"
2) Bow saw
3) Multitool(Leatherman Core if I can choose)
4) 1 large pot (no more than 2 quarts; includes lid; the lid would be deep enough to function as a frying pan)
5) Titanium canteen
6) Gill Net
7) Gill Net
8) 300-yard roll of a single filament fishing line / 25 assorted Hooks
9) 300-yard roll of a single filament fishing line / 25 assorted Hooks
10) 12x12 tarp with grommets

You can't take more than one of any item on the gear list. The canteen is a wasted pick, since you can use the sleeves of of your rainsuit jacket as water containers The axe and saw are inferior picks. What will you use for sleeping gear and fire-starting? You need a projectile weapon, too. The slingbow is best, with 3 pc take down arrows, so you can always have the projectile weapon on your person. Rocks dont fly straight, so make 50 baked clay balls when you make the 3 one-gallon cookpots, with lids. and use the balls for small game. Reserve your arrows for big game or treed porcupines. Use blunts for the latter, with flu-flu fletching. Use the duct tape to fletch field made arrows for bow fishing.

[registror]

I'd want a 4x4 ft triangle of clear PEVA shower curtain, double thickness, taped into my reflective tarp as part of the 12x12, 144 sq ft of tarp. Then the opening of the shelter can be covered, yet admit light. The big roll of duct tape is an essential item, for many reasons Fire starting, making water-tight bags, air-tight shelter, clothing and water wings (out of the 12x12 reflective tarp) pontoons for the outrigger raft (out of the life vest, backpack and 2 layers of clothing. While still at home, waterproof spray the backpack and the clothing.

[registror]

there are 5 easy ways to start fires without the ferrorod. Bow drill sucks, so it's not one of the 5.. you can bury your coals and some charcoal in your ashes and keep the fire alive for 12+ hours, so the ferrorod is a wasted pick.