This is the first installment of my weekly survival skills challenge that goes along with my weekly radios show on APN Radio: Prepper Broadcasting Radio. You can listen to last nights live show here: http://prepperbroadcasting.com/the-7-ps-of-survival/ and be sure to tune in each Tuesday night at 9pm Eastern for the live show (simply follow the above link to listen to the live show and join our chat room). So here is this weeks challenge in video form and I will provide a few more details below, I look forward you your pictures, videos and comments.
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Use Your Knife to Process Fire Wood:This is one of the most important skills to develop with your survival knife. If you can process down fire wood or make a bow drill set you should be able to make fire in nearly any environment. Remember safety first. Have a solid wood platform below the stick you're batoning to ensure you don't harm your blade. If this is your first time practicing this skill make sure someone is with you, pick a soft wood with no knots (pine or something to that effect), wear safety glasses, gloves, pants, long sleeves and boots and also be sure that your blade is seated into the wood before you start hitting the knife hard. This skill can be used as I said before to make a bow drill set by simply splitting a piece of softwood on each side leaving a piece of wood roughly 1/2" thick and and as straight as possible. So What is this part of the challenge: 1) Find a piece of wood 4" thick or smaller; 2) split it via batoning as many times as possible (I highly recommend that you split the stick into pencil led, thumb and wrist sizes for your fire lay); 3) Build a fire using your fire prep above and the wood you just processed. I highly recommend you try out the log cabin fire lay (see how to make it here- LINK).
Conclusions:
So this week's challenge recap: 1) Pick a survival knife; 2) Sharpen it; 3) Make tinder by scraping with the 90 degree spine and making shavings; 4) light your tinder with a ferro rod; 5) split fire wood; 6) Make a fire. I know this is alot for a challenge but knife skills are the foundation of your outdoor skills and if you don't have a knife you can use to accomplish these skills your ability to effect woodland survival is close to 0%. I encourage you to share your results by replying to my YouTube video, commenting here, or commenting on our facebook page or radio show page.Be sure to join us each Tuesday night at 9pm Eastern Time on American Preppers Network's: Prepper Broadcasting Network for the 7 P's Survival Radio Show (http://prepperbroadcasting.com/the-7-ps-of-survival/). If you have a suggestion for a show topic or know someone who would like to be a guest then please feel free to contact me by email (joshsemailfilter-7psblog@yahoo.com).
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