How to Survive in the Wild with Only Your Hands!

so [Applause] alright so here's our steak we just take our rock and cut this meat into nice little pieces hey guys welcome back to ranger survival and field craft i'm andrew and what i have for you today is primitive solo survival hands only stand by hey before i forget like and subscribe leave a comment down below thanks alright guys welcome back so today what i'm going to show you are the skills and techniques necessary to survive in the wilderness with simply the clothing on our backs back in a quick inventory we're well dressed so we have a few layers on to that we have our chamog we have our hat gloves we have a red bandana in the back pocket and then as always good boots and then paracord as the shoestring for our boots and so that is it for our survival kit it's simply what we have on us now i'd argue because it's cold outside and we don't have any fire lighting material that we go for shelter first in this situation at least we have something to crawl into and attempt to stay warm in throughout the night and one of the best shelters we can do is a bigfoot bed we have to understand our environment and the materials available to us to build an appropriate survival shelter i found that working with gravity and not against gravity pays dividends in the end to constructing shelter and making survival possible the bigfoot bed is one of my favorite survival shelters that i've used many times out in the woods either training or simple overnights practicing survival skills it's too easy to sweep the materials and debris together and they collect deadfall from around the area to construct a basic frame to hold that debris and then collect more debris and deadfall to build up the bigfoot bed into a sizeable shelter this shelter is perfect if we're not expecting any weather and we just need something to stay warm in for a night or two working smarter and not harder pays off in the end often the best answer is the simplest choice when it comes to constructing a survival shelter now the secret to a good bigfoot bed like this get all the debris down here you can form your frame and then get on the debris and compact it down to four inches minimum of compressed debris between us and the forest floor so we're well insulated after that we go get more debris and then have it on standby because we're going gonna pull it on top of ourselves tonight when we go to bed we can even use our chamog to help gather all that debris for our bed tonight [Applause] well this is a very easy shelter for survival when all we have is just our hands thing i think we need is fire we're gonna have to do that sir fire by friction something like this should work now i've got a few materials here that i think are going to work these are soft woods i know this one right here is cottonwood and i'm not exactly sure if this is cottonwood or not just based on where i found it but it is soft wood soft wood is great for friction fire and so we're going to make a bow drill set out of using primitive survival techniques and sticks and stones is difficult enough but sometimes it takes just a little bit of luck to build or find the appropriate tool for the job in this case sandstone is that tool yes we have a piece of sandstone here it's all over the place took this just kind of hit it and we saw pieces fall off and now we got this nice jagged edge right here that we're using basically for a saw and then kind of a pointy end right here for a drill or for an awl you can see that we've got a little bit of a notch carved i just wanted to see if we could actually saw into there and it's not too bad and then the depression itself where a spindle is going to sit for our bow drill is working out fairly well now we got to do is just carve up the remainder of the set and we'll be good to go so let's probably make a good bow [Applause] [Applause] so i'll just have an endolyme bowline on one end and then i always like to find a bow or a stick we use for our bow drill it's got this y fork in it so all we have to do is just take our inline bowline nut on one end of our shoe string and just slide it right over top and then on the back side here you see we have making some a decent bow with this curve but on the back side as we'll just tie a knot to keep everything in place as best as possible and then we've got our bow and i think we're ready to burn in that was close burning in sets the bow drill in place and ensures that it operates effectively without this crucial step primitive fire will be 10 times harder with a bow drill i think we're burned in even while out practicing survival i want to practice survival safely and with fire starting having a fire pit or a rock circle is part of that safety there's too much dead and dry debris around the camp to allow a fire to get out of control and start a potential forest fire so got some tinder in survival we can't let anything get past us if we see a resource we pick it up and collect it and save it for later while we're down here getting tender and material for our fire i'm gonna pick up some rocks that are laying around out here and we're going to use them for later a few more of these and we'll be good to go all right now that we know that we have possible fire with our bow drill set we need to gather up our kindling and tender material for an attempt at actually getting fire with our bow drill set that we use just by breaking down some soft wood out here and then carving up with rocks and then we can get a fire going and move on to our next survival priority [Music] now with any friction fire our tinder bundle has got to be on point we've got a lot of dead dry grass here cattail and then mashed up broken down grass in the center very fine material to catch that ember and then ignite the rest of this into flame inside our fire pit where we can add the rest of our material on to get a fire going now that we have our burn in and we've got material here to get a good fire going let's attempt to actually get an ember out of our primitive bow drill set operating a bow drill requires physical stamina and attention to detail the more smoke we see the harder and faster we can operate the bow drill and we need to pay attention at the right moment when the ember falls out of the bow drill notch and smokes on its own so primitive fire is a perishable skill and i've worked long and hard to perfect this skill these are precious moments transporting the ember to the tinder bundle and where most people fail to ignite the tinder into flame by providing too much oxygen or not enough all right so we got fire with our stone bow drill we just created a set from dead dry material cottonwood i believe and fashioned that set with the rocks that we just have available with us and now we have friction fire truth be told we had to do three attempts and we used two different bow drill sets so i actually created two sets with the material that was here and were able to get fire release an ember with one of those sets and then blow it into flame a lot of the times four services come through here chop down logs and sometimes they leave sections small enough that we can grab and use for on purposes and i think with this little section right here we can get some water the burned out bowl or fire burning is an ancient practice that has been around for thousands of years we simply take a coal out of the fire and place it on a piece of wood to ignite that material and create embers that will burn out the bowl for us this is a long process and it's going to take some time patience is the key okay so our fire is good to go what we're going to do is we picked up those rocks earlier we got about a dozen rocks or so they're about this size we're going to take these rocks and put them into our fire to heat up while we're still burning out our log now important note don't pick up wet rocks or rocks from a wet source because there could be water inside these rocks put them in the fire they boil heat up and the rocks could explode and cause injury make sure they're from a dry source they're good and dry so they're not going to explode on us if you can use these rocks and our fire to boil our water inside our log even though our log can be damaged by putting it over a fire we can take these rocks heat them up inside our fire and then put them in our water and rock boil that water to make it safe to drink [Applause] the trick with this is that we need a stick and we scrape around the inside as we burn down that way we put out the fire on the side we don't burn over our bowl and instead we create a bowl inside this log but as you can see we're almost ready the ice in this area is thick enough to hold my weight i wouldn't normally recommend walking on ice but in survival sometimes we have to take calculated risks [Applause] with my water secured i'll head back to camp carefully transporting the water and prepare to use an ancient method to purify the water to make it safe to drink rock boiling [Applause] [Applause] all right so we got water to drink it's safe there's a lot of charcoal in there but just think of that as added medicinal value in case we have a little bit of diarrhea later on but water safe to drink still a little hot i'm going to cool down rocks can be excellent tools in a survival situation especially if we can find one like this a tight grain solid color and no bubbles we can make a tool from this all right so we've got shelter fire and water now three major survival priorities now we can focus on other things like signaling medical aid land navigation and then food when it comes to food i kind of fibbed to you guys at the beginning of the video where it's just hands only it's only what we have on us and we have no survival kit we didn't bring anything out with us well i kind of told small little fib and i brought out a steak for our food reason being is that did a recon out here earlier and i was hoping to find walnuts hickory nuts acorns maybe some wild edible plants that still might be around and everything in this area is just beyond eating it's all rotten and decaying and it's just not very good and so i'm thinking how can we make this video interesting for you guys if we don't have really a reliable food source to go to and so i was thinking i'll bring out the steak but then take a chance on looking around here for some rocks and one of the rocks that we can find out here is shirt and i believe this is shirt it's very tight grain smooth dark color there aren't any bubbles in here so it's leading me to believe that this is a nice piece of shirt or something close to it and we take this and create a cutting tool out of it to cut up our steak for food now with this rock this tight grain rock shirt we can take one of our other rocks here or a larger rock and put it on the ground we're just gonna hit it to attempt to knock off a large enough piece to use as a knife and then i'll show you that we can cut that meat with just a shard from this rock all right so here's our steak and we just take our rock and cut this meat into nice little pieces like that ultimately food is what keeps us going in a survival situation and i think this picture speaks for itself [Applause] since i've got you here for dinner let me uh tell you a fun story in army survival training we ate a lot of lizards just the small little lizards that run through a garden or out in the forest like this and the rule is if they have five toes they're good to eat five you'll stay alive and when you cook those lizards over a fire as soon as you pull them out and they're done ready to eat they taste just like a hot dog no joke and that is ranger survival and field crafts version of a dinner and a movie [Applause] a little tip if you're worried about spiders or creepy crawlies inside our bigfoot shelter tuck your pant legs into your socks and then climb in to your shelter all right guys i'm gonna try to get some sleep and stay warm inside the shelter and i will see you guys in the morning after a cold night in the bottomlands sunrise is a welcome sight well i guess if the geese are up flying around we can get up too [Applause] now it's morning time let's talk about land navigation really quick i've got two things to show you one it's called the shadow tip method to find basic cardinal directions and then another thing we're going to do is how to make a marker in the woods if you get lost so i'm going to grab two of those rocks from last night when we boil our water we're going to use these to construct a shadow stick to give us cardinal directions all right so we're going to use our pile of rocks with this small stick right here to give us a shadow you can see the shadow coming right here now we're going with a smaller stick with a shorter shadow since we're in a thicket right now with a bunch of different shadows but we'll take one of our rocks place it at the tip of our shadow and we need to come back in about 30 minutes to an hour the sun will have moved the shadow will have moved and we'll take a second rock placing the tip of that new shadow and then align these rocks to give us east west running line and then we can determine north and south so we just got to wait about 30 minutes to come back all right while we're waiting for our shadow tip method to do its thing let's talk about another survival land navigation tip and that is a marker we can take this red bandana and use it as a marker now we would use this in the event we come to a location where we think we've gone the appropriate distance at the appropriate azimuth and we're searching for a land navigation point or we're somewhere on the map where we think we're supposed to be but we have to search the area to ensure that we're at that location and so we may have to step away from that azimuth and that distance that we walked and one way to keep track so we could come straight back to that point is using a marker something bright that we can hang from a tree that we can see easily and now we basically have a flag or a marker that we can see that's up at eye level or maybe a little bit higher somewhere around there and we can see this come back to it if we have to search the area around here to find the location that we're looking for all right so it's been about an hour so since our shadow moved this little line right here is our shadow that leads up to our stick we planted in the ground with our rocks this rock is our first measurement where the shadow began now our shadow is here we take one more rock place it at the tip of that shadow like we did the first rock and we could take one stick and line these rocks up to give us our east-west running line now how do you know which way is east and which way is west well the sun rises in the east and sets in the west meaning that the first shadow is always going to be toward the west and as the sun moves from east to west the shadow is always moving east so you know this is east and this is west we take another stick and we bisect our shadow line and we have our north south running line meaning this direction is north and that direction is south south is the direction we want to travel that will get us out of here and that is how you use the shadow tip method to find general cardinal directions stone tools have been used by man for thousands and thousands of years and they're still used today for a variety of purposes using this stone i'm glad to see that it'll cut through even this small branch fairly easily now with survival we always want to be signaling for rescue and with a bright colored cloth like this even a bright colored shirt or a piece of clothing we can turn this into a flag long story short we are never without survival signals or the ability to create a signal to alert search and rescue or anybody happening by that signal to get out of that survival situation that we're in all right guys well we know that direction is south and that's going to lead us to a road so we can get out of here from the survival situation that we put ourselves in hands-only primitive skills for this video i hope you guys like this video if you did hit that like button hit that subscribe button leave me a comment in the comment section i always appreciate your feedback i want to thank you guys something you do for me for this channel for your likes your views your subscriptions your comments your feedback and your shares and i'll be back with another video as soon as i can guys thanks [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 30min 45sec (1845 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 30 2022