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DANTE MINGHELLAS BEGINNER SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR TEMPERATE FOREST Vital Equipment: Some form of defense: machetes, pistols, and rifle are favoured as protection from wild animals, or, if need be, food. Remember not to kill endangered species unless you really have to in self defense. A survival knife: possibly the most useful tool for a camper. It must have a serrated edge, therefore useful for woodwork, and cutting up a kill. Tarpaulin: also vital for survival, an emergency shelter, spare clothing, wrap for equipment, you would be in serious danger without it. A saw: useful for felling trees and woodwork, and also cutting bone. A hammer: also vital for working wood, and, if no other defense is available, a decent weapon. A hand axe: vital for felling trees, and woodwork, and yet again, an emergency weapon. A pot: awfully useful for collecting dew, rainwater, and also a useful cookery tool. Lighter fuel: essential for fire and warmth. A useful shelter: What is required: Two sheets of tarpaulin. A box of strong nails. A hammer. Four trees arranged in a square, preferably pine, about a foot thick each. A ladder. How to build it Rest the ladder firmly against the tree, and climb a fair way up it, but not to the top. Then nail one corner of a sheet of tarpaulin to the trunk. Then rest the ladder on the adjacent tree, and do the same. Do this with the remaining two trees, so that you have it tight but not taut between them, and the nails VERY firmly hammered in. Then nail the ladder to one of the trees. Then repeat this with the other sheet of tarpaulin about four feet above the first sheet. Then hammer nails about half the way into the trunk of the tree between the two sheets of tarpaulin for hanging your equipment. This shelter is useful because it provides good protection from predators from the ground, and offers sufficient protection from the elements. |
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