7 WILDERNESS SURVIVAL HACKS (These Will Save Your Life)

one day you may find yourself in a life-or-death situation perhaps whilst in your own home but most likely when traveling or taken part in some sort of extreme sport without the proper preparation or knowledge you could find yourself in serious trouble welcome to curiosity and join us as we count 7 survival hacks that will save your life before we start be sure to subscribe turn on notifications and drop a like on the video once you've done this comment down below and I'll be sure to heart your comment and we'll be subscribing to your guys's channels if you find yourself alone in the wilderness after getting lost on a hike or camping trip one of the most important things is to get a fire started as soon as possible in the absence of paper or lighter fluid it can be tricky to get this going so here's some alternate methods Doritos or any other corn chips are surprisingly flammable and will work well to get a quick flame once ignited use them to get your campfire going if you didn't bring any Doritos with you go to your first-aid kit and grab the alcohol cleansing swabs these are very quick and easy to ignite and will give you a solid flame for around 60 seconds if you fool and cut yourself in a survival situation you risk losing too much blood or getting a nasty infection you could go into your first-aid kit to get some bandages but what if you need stitches well unless you're with someone that knows how to stitch wounds you could be in trouble this is where super glue comes in simply pinch the wound close and apply super glue to the surrounding skin despite what you may think this is actually perfectly safe and will do a great job of holding the wound shut whilst you find a hospital again imagine you're out hiking and take a mouse be fooled but this time you finally hurt your arm and suspect it might be broken you can make a temporary sling out the t-shirt or blanket this will take the weight of your arm and reduce the pain well should get to a hospital but my radar my elbow down into the shirt so that it's holding it pretty good all right like this then go ahead and actually use the left arm hold good and put your hand right through so now you kind of have an emergency sling you can make a fish trap from a two liter bottle this truck is quite hard to explain but relatively easy to make so watch this short video to find out how front section off the top section off and invert it into the bottle into itself and stick it in there what I do is I usually tie using some bank line or some quarters like that and tie one put a hole in the top and one in the main part of the ball and tied on there to keep it you know together I see a lot of guys tie and all the way around but then you have to break apart the whole bottle rig to get your bait out or whatever you fish out to eat alright guys so we already finish this video but I was trying to fish trap out just to see you know just for a few minutes for you right up coming for the day and I caught a bait fish and this was in here literally for about maybe two minutes you can see them down in there actually there's two of them there's two Oh see that one here and one here yeah and that was just two minutes you know maybe a minute not even but the track works and if I'd spent more time doing it I'd have a ton more these used to catch more fish or v's themselves obviously it would be hard to catch bigger fish in this trap but it's a good way to catch the small ones huge jugs of water make great lamps just make sure the jug is full wrap a head torch around it and turn the torch on now what's the jug illuminate the whole room improvised compass this is one of the oldest and most useful survival hacks out there all you need is a cup or puddle of water that is dead still a leaf and a sewing needle lay the leaf in the water and gently place the needle on top of the leaf it will now start spinning before settling and staying still the direction in which the needle is now pointing will always be north did you know you can actually make a smoke bomb from a ping pong do these fools are incredibly flammable and by wrapping tin foil around the ball whilst leaving a funnel for air you can make a pretty effective smoke bomb just put a flame to the bottom of the tin foil wrap ball and smoke will soon start emerging this will work as a great SOS signal thanks for watching if you enjoyed the video don't forget to leave a like and subscribe tell us below which survival hack was your favorite and as always we'll see you in the next one

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Length: 5min 0sec (300 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 17 2017