Ive been meaning to do this for some time. Wrap all my Bic lighters with Gorilla Tape to use as an emergency fire lighter. Ive also had holes in my emergency Blanket. This one has lasted me two years and Id like to see how far I can take it before total disintegration. I probably need a new one for the pack I’m currently setting up. However this is why you always carry a roll of gorilla tape in your pack.
Prepping is a life style not something you can really do here and there. Life gets in the way every now and again. Ive noticed many of my friends that are into prepping are the same way, but lately they have gotten back into the prepper mindset with all that is going on in the world.
Governments have learned that it is much easier to fight each other through proxy and economics than ever firing a shot and to control people through fear rather than force.
I myself had put aside prepping to deal with loss, injury, rehab and building a new home to live in. I had enough tinned, jar food and TP to last 6 months which over the last nine months has slowly been rotated into oblivion to help save funds to pay off vet and mechanical bills. I’m still trying to save for a small trailer and working on my van which includes another fridge.
My preps are by far not complete but Ive thought of starting to stock up again on essentials. Storage room is now my short coming, hence the trailer idea. I was always buying extra tinned tomato’s when out on sale, I put them in everything from stews to curry’s. With the rising price of food and fuel I walk through the markets now and barely come out with anything for the same money which a year ago would have filled a trolley.
Seeds are once again on my list many still out of stock, chicken forage, wild garlic, strawberry spinach, walking onions, alpine strawberry’s, goose berry’s, salsify, burdock, mangel wuzel, okra. Anything easy to grow from seed and can be used as a staple.
I no longer watch the news, I no longer care about which countries are fighting one another, which are trying to create their own currency, or trying to launder off their old stock piles of arms to fight by proxy or the new variants of germ warfare. I don’t know how else you would describe our latest plague. I wont say the (C) word its not politically correct.
I prep because I know if anything goes wrong there’s always food in the pantry, even if I cant afford anything else.
I believe this is where I screwed up when going through my blades to sell and picked up my Mora Garberg along side of each of these.
Top to bottom an LT Wright Shemanese, LT Wright Sospes, Quickhatch Bushman, Spyderco Bushcraft, ESSE RB3, ESSE CR2.5 that I made into a neck knife.
The Caldwell 1 in 6. A 6 inch blade with palm swell, micarta grip, no choil ,made in 1/4 inch CPM154 steel. I fitted my ESSE 6 Broom handle version over the top of this and the blade shape was almost the same. However the design captured both the ESSE 5 thickness with the ESSE 6 length making for the perfect combination. With the full height grind it actually feels lighter than the ESSE 5 and Becker BK2, even with the extra inch of steel at the tip. I usually recommend ESSE knives to people and had to put this one up to show what an ESSE with a 1/4 inch spine in a 6 inch blade would look like with 3D grips. I believe there were under 200 Caldwells made in this model.
This is something Ive been searching for a long time. A smaller mattock with a removable handle for storing with my recovery gear. Add an axe head for an all round multi digging and chopping tool.
Its amazing what you come across when going through your knife lock box. I hadn’t gotten around to testing my CRKT Persevere adze/axe. On my to do list this week.
“The CRKT Persevere is a survival axe head designed to be a 5-in-1 survival tool. Simply lash it to a stick and the Persevere becomes a splitting wedge, knife, axe, chisel or adze. It travels flat and light for comfortable and convenient belt carry. “
On dis-mornings bike ride, it suddenly felt very quite. Which was out of the ordinary for that particular area. Bird life was usually every where. I started looking around for the source, feeling very out of place at the moment in time. There on a tree about 30 meters in front of me was a hawk. I stopped to take a few quick pictures and was going to stop and take more on the way back through instead of taking my normal route and try and measure the length of the cone of silence that all the other birds presented with knowing a raptor was in the immediate vicinity. I named him Maxwell Smart. Max wasn’t there on the return, however there were moments of intense quietness through the pathway where he must have been circling overhead. I hadn’t seen a raptor in over 12 months.
I keep meaning to purchase a copy of The Peregrine by J A Baker.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-beauty-of-j-a-bakers-the-peregrine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._A._Baker
Max is my first Letter Winged Kite I think? Black shouldered kites are more common in this area.
http://birdswa.com.au/CEC/Handouts/Australian%20Raptor%20Identification.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter-winged_kite
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