Green Beret Mike Glover 4x4 Diesel Bug Out Truck

hey what's going on guys welcome back it's Mike from Phil craft survival I'm actually in the garage today as you can see I got my big old go rig behind me a lot of people asked about this rig and I one wanted to talk about the rig but to talk about the second pillar of preparedness which is mobility we talked in the first episode in part 1 about your person being the first pillar of preparedness it starts with you and everything that's around you ready access to life-saving equipment and survival and preparedness is the way that you're going to get through a bad situation instead of turning a bad situation worse without having the capability so when mobility we're upgrading our situation thinking it as a extension of a rucksack remember when I was doing mobility operations as a mall crawler in Afghanistan Iraq Yemen Libya all over the world I was utilizing my platform to do long-range reconnaissance and movements and using it as an extension of my capability meaning food water you know the beans and bullets and so you have to think about your vehicle I don't care if you have a Honda CRX which is my first vehicle an 87 CRX Si was super cool I don't care if you have a Civic Si or a souped-up off-road vehicle whatever you have you could upgrade that situation by doing a few things and improving your chances of survival and mobility so we're gonna talk about all those things today on this latest episode alright guys moving right along let's talk about the front of the rig it depending on if you have a full-size truck or a vehicle like a sedan or Civic or whatever you may have you might want to look at reinforcing the front end of the rig remember if we're thinking about moving from an urban to a rural environment we might have to get off-road and not the desired way right we're not talking about taking an exit hitting a dirt path we're talking about jumping curbs going through fences going through obstacles and having the reinforcement on the front end of the vehicle to protect the rig from going down is important also critical you know this is a fab four steel bumper it's Robus it's pretty heavy too and I have a still loupe attached to it this loop is made to protect the radiator from hitting small and big game you know where I lived in Colorado if you hit an elk on the highway going 80 miles an hour you could get killed very easily a lot of people die every single year in Alaska from hitting moose because of the height at their legs and at the mass of their bodies when you hit an animal like that there's a high likelihood you're gonna destroy the front end of your rig and also disable your vehicle so when you're looking at the off-road mobility go rig component you want to be able to have something reinforced on the front end that's why I chose to go this route also in addition to this you could see that I have some lights that are integrated in here including aftermarket fog lights because typically the SAE approved lights that are come installed in most rigs aren't suffice they're not going to cut it and so you need aftermarket lights I chose a rigid light bar up front to cut through the dirt the dust to be able to get that visibility in the darkness and also fab for fog lights that are integrated into the bumpers also I decided to go with a winch on the front of this rig so I've had this truck almost ten years and in the ten years that I've owned it with a lot of mileage and a lot of off-road vehicle driving I've never really used this winch I've only used it once to recover myself I've used it about five or six times to recover other people I also understand that this is peace of mind the best overlanders in the world rarely use their winches because they're choosing the right path they're choosing the right trails and they're choosing the right lines and so this is a peace of mind especially if you do a lot of off-road travel by yourself I would never go anywhere without one the factory 55 adapter of self recovery adapter the snatch blocks that I have in the back of this truck tree saver a kinetic rope and my recovery kit in total because I always want to be prepared and self-reliant on my own alright so that's all I got for the front end of this vehicle let's go inside and take a look alright guys so let's talk a little bit about tires suspension will selection I'm sitting right here on 18-inch racing line tires these are lumen alloy you know there's a little bit of debate on what's the better tire aluminum alloy versus still I could tell you from experience aluminum alloy because it's lighter weight you're gonna obviously get the benefits of not beating up the rig and the suspension and everything else as much depending on the platform whether it's a full-size truck to a vehicle might determine whether or not you're gonna use alloy over still I can tell you from experience that still is very good in the winter time when you're looking at tires crushing the snow a completely impacting with traction still as a better option obviously still can be flexed and bit a lot more malleable than actual aluminum alloys I've seen aluminum alloy wheels crack at the rim you know in this particular case you see this and a lot of people look at this and they go oh that's a fake bead lock and I get it it looks like a bee lock but it's not a true bead lock but the point of this is to protect the edge of the will where it meets the tire I've had to compromise of the edge of the rim just by hitting a rock that actually caused a fracture in the wheel that allowed air to leak out that couldn't be patched on the road and I had to completely do a tire swap if that was a steel wheel I could bang it out and just be yep I said it I could bang it out and basically be good to go back on the road so pros and cons to both but I chose aluminum alloy on this setup because I'm running 37-inch tires these are 37 by 12 and a half by 18 and these are Falcon wild peak 83 double use these honestly for my pickup truck which I've ran basically every single off-road tire that you can run this is the best tire I've ever run look I'm not gonna have this vehicle off the road most of its time driving it and so I weigh the ratio like my Jeep for example I have MTS mud terrains because I know the majority of the times gonna be spent off-road and I want to be able to be prepared for that well this one since most of its life is gonna be on road I chose to do an all-terrain tire and this one is the perfect tire for me so far so good good wearing and you know what we might do a review on it later you want to look at all terrain at a minimum for your go rig the go rate challenge for example I had empties on it and it was good but when I'm going off grid depending on where you're at I think about 70% of that trip was done on road and I did a lot of wear on those tires see if you're looking at longevity if you're looking at getting off the beaten path there's a whole bunch of considerations but all terrain is a minimum something else to note about this truck is how jacked up it is there's a lot of budget lists that do a lot of bad stuff to the components and to the geometry of vehicles this truck has a pure performance lift which is the name of the company that makes Baja lifts for Baja chase trucks I actually built this as a baja race truck a few years ago and so I built it out that way this has an 8 inch lift but it's pretty stout I'm rocking Fox 2.0 which isn't the the most robust suspension setup that can run in shocks but it does the job everything's reinforced I'm rocking rigid rock lights if you work around the edge of cliffs narrow terrain like in Colorado you want Rock lights Rock lights gives you the extra visibility when looking out of your window or for your passenger looking out their window to be able to see what's on the left and right of the vehicle being on 37's being with an 8 + inch lift I want the rock lights to be able to see with some ambient light on the left's and rights oh yeah that's it alright guys bringing you guys around the rear of the vehicle I want you to see kind of my loadout you know the things that we're talking about aesthetically on your vehicle depends on really the type of vehicle you have we're talking about my truck so obviously I'm gonna have specific equipment for my truck in this case we're talking about the foundations of preparedness and mobility survival and med are foundational to your ability to survive a worst case scenario and so I'll talk about a couple of the things that I have in here one of the things that I have is this North American rescue med kit and this is a med kit that's pretty robust a lot of the times when I talk about like example of your person versus your extended capability I talked about it in the context of medical equipment like on my person I would carry a tourniquet well in my vehicle I wouldn't just carry another tourniquet I would carry something more robust like this that has a stop the bleed and then everything to treat kind of a mass casualty you know everybody at least that's inside my vehicle so if I have a vehicle full of people then I would have multiple redundant systems to be able to treat everybody inside that vehicle I hope that makes sense all right so the next thing we're going to talk about is the everyday mobility pack now I designed this based off of a situation that I had that was unfortunate where a buddy of mine passed away and I had to access a MOLLE pack that had my med gear attached that Molly now Molly is used in the military for packs and for attaching pouches that you typically aren't going to remove from that pack and so if you have body armor on for example I'm not going to remove a pouch off that body armor every once in a while I'm gonna access the access that stuff like it's my person because it's on me but a vehicle is very different so it needs to be a setup that's very different so in this case I used velcro when I built this pack so I could grab a med kit and run with it in my situation that was unfortunate I had to grab the contents out of the back of the panel and then run to the casualty with a pack of contents instead of running to him with an actual pouch full of med gear so then I have my med I have survival and everything attached to here and then if I want to I could remove it from the back of my seat and the girl it on my bag cuz it's a low vis backpack and that's a convenience in having something that's mobility centric but you could pack out for your person just in case you have the brake contact from your rig alright so that covers up the back of the seats and remember I'm thinking about survival and men also when I'm looking at survival in med med is obvious right I'm stopping the bleed but when I look at survival I want to be able to sustain life for a period of time typically that window was about 72 hours when I was in reconnaissance and special operations we plan for 72 hour operations because that's realistically the time period in which we could self sustain or support each other without resupply so I could do an operation as a singleton or with a group of guys without resupply for three days and that was the standard well when I look at survival I kind of follow the same rule because if you look at search-and-rescue if you look at being isolated because of an austere weather event for example or just a catastrophe period three days is a good balance so what would I have one you want to have the ability to retain your body temperature your core body temperature and that's reducing yourself from exposure because exposure will kill you the fastest in survival another thing I want to look at is the ability to start a fire so you know in survival kits yeah flint rods are cool but I want the contingencies right I want a Bic lighter propane lighter hurricane matches the list goes on another thing that I want to be able to do is retain and purify water so I'm thinking about survival and sustaining myself this is good insulation for protecting me from the elements but this isn't going to provide me a water source so I'd either need to have a container with a plan to purify after acquire water or I need to have water on board I recommend both also I want to look at signal and ways to be able to let people know where I'm potentially at at night that might be a Kim light on a bus saw like a piece of 550 cord lanyard with a Kim light snapped and then creating a large signature that could be seen at night during the daytime it could be a signal mirror to reflect the Sun at search and rescue pilots that are in the area so these things are staples of survival that we need to be thinking about I'm not going into too much detail about these things we'll do this later but I just want to bring that up because survival and med are critical and foundational to your mobility platform all right let's move on all right guys so now we're looking at the back of the rig as you can see these things are a little bit different in this particular setup I chose a soft top instead of a hard top because I like the ability to remove that anytime I need to carry stuff or if I want to remove this entire element and run a camper shell or a camper setup I could do that as well what you really notice is in the back of this I have a transfer flow fuel tank extended range fuel tank I'm really adamant about that being one of the few things that you do at a minimum foundationally for Preparedness remember you could have a quarter of tank of gas and that truly is the capacity and your capability in the worst case scenario if that's all you have so you can have all this high-speed gear you can have your rig completely built out and if you only have a quarter tank of gas and you don't have the ability to get any more gas then that's all you have that's the extent of your capability and your range so what I like to use is one it's not very popular here in America in rural America and more so is you can see it in Montana Idaho more rural parts where people have to go long periods of time and mileage wise with no gas stations no infrastructure well that's the same thing you're gonna experience in kind of a worst case scenario where the infrastructure or the grid might go down and then you don't have the ability to resource fuel so in this particular case I have a transfer flow system that is an exhilarates tied into my main this adds 75 additional gallons of gas which makes my overall about a hundred and ten gallons for me with a EFI live which this vehicle was chipped it's got an EGR delete it doesn't have any of the emissions I'm looking at about two thousand miles of range on a full thing of gas yes two thousand miles now obviously there's weight considerations right now 75 gallons of fuel on the back of this truck bed but remember this is a full-size pickup truck average for SUV common Toyota 4runner Tacoma etc you're looking at anywhere from 1,300 to 1,500 pounds of payload capacity that's not a lot when you take the people all their effects all the kit a couple bumper sets you're already tapped out and it's real easy to go over that limit most people drive around especially in the off-road realm over that load capacity this particular vehicle 4000 pounds so if I'm looking at six pounds per gallon I mean I'm not even close I'm not even close to reaching my load capacity you have plenty of space and plenty of weight in low capacity to be able to carry more and that's what you want also in this truck med I put down plywood and then insulation if I need to sleep in the back of this which I have done with this transfer flow tank no issues I could use this as a camper I could fold this down extend my range a little bit and then have everything I need to some of the effects that I have in the back here that are pretty pertinent one I have my kinetic ropes I have my recovery system I have my go-bag this is a tear tactical rucksack I always have this no matter where I go especially if I go on the road in a more rural this is my rucksack that I use for bugging out off of my rig so let's say I'm gonna go camping and I'm gonna park my rig somewhere in the woods well I'm gonna take this with me and it has enough effect for me to be able to sustain survival for an extended period of time so I have my sleeping bag I have my tent I have my hygiene kit I have water and a Camelback etc and this is a staple for me especially if I'm doing off-grid travel where I'm camping beyond the limitations of a vehicle that's something to think about because obviously with a truck with 4000 pounds of payload I mean carry as much stuff as you want alright so let's move around to the side of the vehicle and let me show you the transfer flow tank where I fill it up and show you some stuff on the side of the vehicle this is actually where I fill up my reserve tank I just zip this down can access this on no real issues that I've ran into by doing it this way but I like that in the fact that I don't have to keep this open and exposed to the elements I can kind of tuck this away underneath this tarp and then access it when I need to fill up the filler neck I'm coming over here I wanted to show you this kind of setup a lot of people don't like these steps these step downs this is made by amp research but if I take the door and obviously shut this it's like magics like a transformer most people won't be able to look into this window based on the ride height and so when this is tucked away they can't see what's on the inside of this vehicle so if you come up to it it's like you'd have to get up on something and there's nothing to get up onto because this is retained it also stays tucked away so when I'm off road and I'm articulating the suspension and I'm in varied terrain I don't want to have my rock slider beaten up on the side of terrain and collect in mud and dust even these which are tucked away collect mud you could imagine a rock sweater that was hanging below it would collect a lot of debris and I'm not doing a lot of rock crawling in this I'm just taking it off intermediate pass I mean I could if I had to I'm not seeking out bouldering terrain in this particular truck all right so let's walk to the front of this vehicle let me show you my everyday carry setup all right so we're obviously in the cockpit of my off-road vehicle here your cockpits gonna vary depending on your vehicle and the purpose of your vehicle generally speaking there's some things that stay the same across the board for example I have a 4runner and that's my everyday driver I'm not gonna carry a truck gun inside of my 4runner I typically have a pistol on my person or I'll have it in my Patagonia a stealth atom or whatever bag I'm carrying but in this situation because this is really concealed my m4 could be in here and nobody's gonna really mess with it one I told you the sights that helps because you can't see inside the vehicle so it's safe and secure but - I had this tractor set up and wedged in my seat and this particular try Ark setup has a loft tactical folder I was just recently asked like hey is the law tactical folder worth the 300 dollars that you'd paid for it and I would say absolutely it is I mean you could pay that much for some stock setups that you use on in force but also if you look at the overall distance between the barrel and the end of the gun how much it saves you in room it's totally worth it when you collapse this down and make it reduced and its overall signature I mean one if this is wedged in here like this which I would typically carry it and then I had a shemagh or some kind of handkerchief do people even use handkerchiefs anymore a shemagh or some kind of cloth over it you're not gonna really see it and so I'm not trying to bring attention to myself but if I'm in rural environments if I'm in the backwoods in the backcountry in my truck I want to have something that can reach out and touch and this greatly increases my overall capability and long range engagements for wildlife and for man-made threats all right guys so I hope you guys enjoyed the walk around the vehicle I didn't get into too much detail about anything specific what wanted to accomplish in this video is give you a basic understanding of the pillar of preparedness which is mobility remember mobility is an extension of your individual rucksack so you as a human being as a person only have so much capacity and capability but when you take your vehicle and you look at it as a go rig platform it truly extends your overall capability because you have more range you you have more capacity as an individual Taylor go rig specific to the terrain that I'm operating in and so we talked about foundationally you have to have survival you have to have med obviously there's aftermarket components that gonna improve your overall capability if I had to give you two tips to work on no matter what platform you're driving in its tires all-terrain tires I don't care if you're driving in the Honda Civic the sedan the SUV the van whatever it may be all-terrain tires are gonna greatly improve your traction and your ability on and off road next I would recommend an extended fuel tank a lot of people aren't going to be able to buy expensive fuel tanks because it's just not in the budget for you but what you can do is you can retain the fuel and rotor packs and jerrycans you know or the little container that you carry gas at home for your lawnmower for example does they might use lawn mowers anymore if you store your fuel at home at least you have the ability to tap into that fuel reserve to extend your range remember when the worst case scenario happens that typically involves the infrastructure and the grid going down at least for a period of time so that means no electricity which means you're not going to get access to fuel so you have to have it in reserve and also remember the staples of mobility are survival in med always have that capability and the extension of that capability inside your go rig alright so on the next episode we're going to be talking about the third pillar of preparedness which is the safe house or your home which it gets us into sustaining survival for an extended period of time if you like the content please hit subscribe and make sure you leave a comment and also if you're into Phil craft and everything that we're doing check us out on Facebook at Phil craft survival and also our podcast the Phil cross survival podcast thanks guys until next time stay alert stay alive

Channel: The FieldCraft Survival Channel

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Keywords: dodge, diesel, truck, 4x4, 4wd, offroad, survival, survive, prepper, bug out, overland, travel, adventure, baja truck, chase truck, green beret, special forces, ranger, sniper, fieldcraft, fieldcraft survival, mindset, truck lift, lifted truck, cummins, ford, off-road

Id: xittHDF-pa8

Length: 22min 28sec (1348 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 09 2019