tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40241812055454653402024-03-13T03:03:19.960-07:00Sensible SurvivalSensible Survivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01783624792201899315noreply@blogger.comBlogger277125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024181205545465340.post-66384952646878765102019-07-08T19:31:00.000-07:002019-07-08T19:33:01.415-07:00Fermenting Vegetables<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Prior
to the invention of canning and refrigeration, fermentation was one of the most
common methods used to store vegetables. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fermentation of vegetables is currently
experiencing a Renaissance among young people who have discovered that
fermented vegetables are tasty, healthy, and easy to prepare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fermenting vegetables is a valuable skill for
homesteaders, preppers, and survivalists to learn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fermenting is actually easier, and requires
less equipment than canning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It should
be noted that fermentation is not a long term storage technique.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t ferment vegetables and plan on
storing them for years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fermentation is
a method used to store vegetables from a Fall harvest for use until the first
Spring crops are ready for the table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We’re talking about a matter of months; not years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Canning,
as most of you know, requires a lot of equipment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It requires canning jars, lids, rings, a
water-bath or pressure canner, salt, and in many cases vinegar and sugar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fermenting requires only a glass or ceramic
container and salt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fermentation
takes place when the good bacteria known as lactobacillis converts the sugar in
vegetables to lactic acid which preserves the vegetables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lacto-fermentation is actually a 2 part
process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The vegetables to be preserved
are placed in a mixture of salt and water called brine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The salt-water does not affect the
lacto-bacillis which goes to work on the vegetables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The salt-water does affect the bad bacteria
by killing it off so the vegetables don’t spoil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a few days the lacto-bacillis will have
converted enough sugar to lactic acid to keep the vegetables preserved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So,
let’s get into how you do this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
first thing that you will need is the vegetables that you are going to
ferment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I happened to have a few small
heads of cabbage left in my garden, so I decided that I would turn them into
some old-time fermented sauerkraut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If
you are making kraut you need to shred up the cabbage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can do this with an old-time kraut
cutter, a Mandolin, or a butcher knife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Before
you shred your cabbage, remove several of the large outer leaves and set them
aside for later use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span><br />
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the cabbage into quarter inch slices.</span> </span></div>
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your cabbage is shredded you need to place it in a large bowl and weigh it so you'll know how much salt to use..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would recommend a glass, ceramic, or
stainless steel bowl.</span></div>
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you need to add your salt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t use
iodized salt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will give your
vegetables a funky taste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best salt
to use is pickling salt, or you can use kosher salt or non-iodized sea
salt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For
kraut, I use one tablespoon of salt per pound of cabbage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a lot of info about fermenting on
the internet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I recommend that you do
some research on the question of how much salt to use with different
vegetables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Personally, I always err on
the side of too much salt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s simple
enough to rinse your finished vegetables in fresh water before you eat them,
and this will remove any excess salt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So,
sprinkle the salt over the top of your cabbage and then use your hands to
gently massage the salt throughout the cabbage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The salt will, almost immediately, begin drawing water from the
cabbage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Set the cabbage aside and let
the salt do its work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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the cabbage every half-hour to see how much liquid it has produced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Squeeze a handful to see if it drips then
toss the cabbage a little with your hands and set aside again.</span></div>
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some point, after 2 to 4 hours, squeezing the cabbage will cause liquid to rain
out of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When this happens your
cabbage is ready to go into jars.</span></div>
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cabbage needs to be packed very tightly into the jars, so you will need a
wooden spoon or a section of dowel rod for a packing stick.</span></div>
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the cabbage is packed into the jars it will release more moisture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It should actually release enough moisture to
keep the cabbage covered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this case I
actually had to pour a little liquid off as the jars filled up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep adding cabbage until the jar is full to
just below the shoulder (the curved in part at the top) of the jar.</span></div>
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is where those whole cabbage leaves that you saved come into use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You want to take a leaf or two and fold it
into a flat plug that is larger than the mouth of the jar.</span></div>
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plug is shoved down into the jar so that it wedges under the shoulder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The plug should be beneath the brine and
should hold all of the shredded cabbage down under the brine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember, if the cabbage and plug stay below
the liquid, only the good bacteria will live, and the cabbage will ferment.</span></div>
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the plug is inserted you can put a lid on the jar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leave the lid a little loose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the cabbage ferments, gas will be
produced, and the contents of the jar will expand a little.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You want the lid loose enough for the gas and
possibly a little liquid to escape.</span></div>
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white fuzzy growth on top, throw them out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If they get a little white growth on top that is not fuzzy, spoon the
white stuff out and recap and cover the jars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Be sure to keep all of your vegetables, including the plug, under the
liquid.</span></div>
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the cabbage has fermented for about a week, remove the plug and take out a fork
full of cabbage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rinse this fork full
under a little warm water to remove the excess salt and give it a taste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the case of these jars they were not quiet
fermented to my taste so I let them ferment for three more days.</span></div>
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in a cool environment, like a root cellar, the fermentation will slow way
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
was recently buying some groceries at Wal-Mart when I came across one pound
bags of cranberry beans for 92 cents U.S. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cranberry beans are a kind-of pinto looking
bean, only the markings are a distinctive cranberry red with some of the beans
being almost solid red.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
like to experiment with different types of heirloom plants, and I had actually
looked at cranberry beans on an heirloom seed website.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The website was selling their cranberry beans
for $3.00 U.S. for 40 beans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This seemed
a little rich for my taste so I took a pass on them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And here I am now looking at a pound of
cranberry beans for 92 cents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now 40
beans this size weigh just a hair less than one ounce (28 grams), so a one
pound bag should contain around 640 beans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That means my $3.00 dollars will buy me 40 beans from the website or
1920 beans from Wal-Mart, so I figured, “What the heck, I’ll give it a
try.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember when I was a kid, if my
dad was going to plant black-eyed peas, he’d just buy a bag of peas at the grocery
store and plant them. So I was hoping this would still work for me 60 years
later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There
are a couple of things that could go wrong with this plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For one, the beans could be hybrids that
would not reproduce true to type, or they could be genetically modified to
produce sterile seeds that won’t germinate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I reasoned that both of these scenarios were pretty unlikely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven’t really ever heard of hybrid
beans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They may exist, but it seems that
a little selective breeding over the years has made beans pretty much perfect,
so what are the advantages of hybridizing them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As for genetic modification with a terminator gene, I think that this is
usually reserved for big money crops like corn, wheat, rice, and soybeans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think cranberry beans are that big in
the agri-biz world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, these at
Wal-Mart are the first ones I’ve seen outside of a seed catalogue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, long story short, I think these are
probably a genuine, non-hybrid, non-GMO, heirloom seed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time will definitely tell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
second thing that could go wrong is that these beans may be pretty old which
could lower their germination rate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unless seeds are properly stored; which is to say cold, dark, and dry;
their germination rate will decrease each year until at some point it’s not worth
the effort to plant them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another thing
that could affect the germination is if the seeds have been exposed to high
heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One advantage of buying from a
reputable seed company is that the seed will, most likely, be fresh and
properly stored to assure good germination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But, as you can tell from the numbers above, premium seeds mean premium
prices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
only way to tell if the seed is going to germinate is to plant some and see if
it germinates, and the only way to see if it is heirloom seed is to raise a
crop and plant seed from it next year to see if it will produce another
crop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it works I get a lifetime
supply of cranberry beans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it doesn’t
work, I’m out 92 cents and a little labor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So
I took my Wal-Mart cranberry beans and planted 80 of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I planted them ¾” deep and about 6 to 8
inches apart in 2 rows that are about 8 inches apart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tamped the soil down over them, and watered
them in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
first beans started breaking ground on the 6<sup>th</sup> day after
planting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the 9<sup>th</sup> day the
beans were up and growing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had 67
beans that germinated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If my math is
right that’s a germination rate of about 84%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This looks to be about the same as the pink-eyed purple hull peas (on
the left below) that I planted from saved seed, and maybe a little better than
the Kentucky wonder beans (on the right below) that I bought at the feed store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So,
the first hurdle has been cleared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
beans germinated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I need to see if
they produce any beans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll up-date this
post in a couple of months, and hopefully will include pictures of me picking
cranberry beans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I recently watched a video called “Thirty Things
Your Iphone has Replaced.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s pretty
interesting to see how many things that used to be common accessories in
everyone’s homes 25 years ago, have been made obsolete by the smart phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One good example would be that most families
used to have a set of encyclopedias.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who
buys encyclopedias now that you can go on your internet connected smart phone
and look up anything you want?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But, this video got me to thinking about the
flip-side of the smart phone as an information multi-tool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would happen if your smart phone was
suddenly rendered useless?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What items
would you wish that you had if your smart phone cratered?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What follows is a short list for your
consideration:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Communication Devices</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Although it is used for many other purposes, the
smart phone is still primarily a means of communication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The network of cell towers that supports this
technology is extremely vulnerable to EMP attacks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If an EMP attack ever occurred, cell phone
service would probably end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
alternatives to the cell phone might include hardwired field telephones for close
by communication, rechargeable walkie-talkies and CB base stations for wider
area (but still fairly limited) communications, and shortwave radio for long
distance communication.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Compass</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It never fails to amaze me when people show up for a
survival class and expect to use the compass tool on their cell phone as a real
compass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, no, no, no!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many things can go wrong with a cell phone
or its related infrastructure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are
far too unreliable to ever take the place of a real compass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spend the $10 and buy a real compass to stick
in you bug out bag or glove box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Maps</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Google Maps and various GPS applications have made
paper maps virtually obsolete.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t
fall into this trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You need to at
least have a state road map.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Better still;
buy several topographic maps of the area around your home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Flashlight</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Everybody uses the flashlight on their smart
phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, it’s very convenient, but
have a back-up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You need an LED
flashlight, rechargeable batteries, and a solar battery charger. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Books</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No more looking things up on Google, no more reading
e-books from Amazon; you’re going to have to go old school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a shame that books take up so much
space, but it’s a burden you’ll just have to bare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll need books on gardening, plant
identification, canning and food preservation,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>first aid and medical guides, repair manuals, gunsmithing books; all of
the practical how-to books that you can find.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You’ll need books for entertainment (stick to the timeless classics),
and don’t forget the children’s books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you have room throw in a set of encyclopedias. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You won’t be playing Candy Crunch on your smart
phone anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Buy a deck of cards, some
dominoes, a few dice, a set of checkers with board, and a chess set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few old school board games wouldn’t hurt
either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yatzee once got my wife and I
through six months without electricity when we were young.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, definitely buy a copy of <u>Hoyle’s
Rules of Games</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has the rules and
how to play every card and dice game you’ve ever heard of and a bunch that you
haven’t heard of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Everybody takes notes, makes grocery lists, etc on
their smart phones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without a working
smart phone you’ll need to do it the old fashioned way with a paper and
pencil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Buy yourself a couple of boxes
of pencils and a few spiral notebooks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They don’t take up much space, and they could come in very handy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You won’t be listening to that play list anymore
after your smart phone bites the dust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How about learning to play a musical instrument?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My wife and I belong to a re-enactment group
that uses no gear more modern than 1836.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We always have a campfire with a group sing-along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One person plays guitar, a couple of people
play the boron (a kind of Celtic hand drum), one plays the harmonica, and
another plays the penny whistle and sometimes the fiddle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rest of us sing along loudly and poorly,
and we all have a great time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No more weather app, so buy yourself a thermometer,
a barometer, and a rain gauge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learn a
little about cloud formations and weather prediction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Calendar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The calendar and alerts function on your smart phone
is very handy; but if your smart phone is useless, you’ll wish that you had an
old time paper calendar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some businesses
still give them away for free, or you can buy one or print one off of the
internet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hardly anyone under the age of 50 wears a wristwatch
any more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most people just glance down
at the screen of their ever present smart phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knowing the exact time may not be all that
important in a survival situation, but if you feel the need to know the time
you will need an old fashioned wrist watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I would recommend a good quality self winding watch so you don’t have to
worry about batteries running out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had
a not so high quality self winder that lasted for over 10 years without
repair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hey, if you have deep pockets
buy a Rolex and you’ll probably be fixed for life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you have pictures that mean a lot to you; spouse,
children, parents, etc; print them out and put them in a photo album.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You should do this anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could lose or damage your phone, and the
pictures would be lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Unless you are an engineer or a math teacher you
probably depend on the calculator on your smart phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You really should buy an inexpensive solar
powered calculator as a back-up in case your smart phone becomes useless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Well, there’s my little list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, I have to admit that I don’t even own a
smart phone, so I’m sure that some of you smart phone owners can come up with a
lot of things that should be added to this list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you think of anything feel free to add it
in the comments section below.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Sensible Survivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01783624792201899315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024181205545465340.post-88927815624389240512018-07-26T09:51:00.000-07:002018-07-26T09:51:06.958-07:00Make Dutch Oven Biscuits<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Let
me start off by saying that there are a lot of different recipes for biscuits,
and several different methods of cooking them in a Dutch oven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t claim to have the ultimate biscuit
cooking knowledge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This recipe for
biscuits is what I would call a survivalist recipe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It uses only basic ingredients that can be
stored for a good while; no butter, or milk, or buttermilk, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can change the recipe to make a tastier
biscuit; but, truth is, these are not too shabby.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
cooking equipment that you’ll need is:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Medium
size mixing bowl</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Half-cup
measure</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Teaspoon
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bowl
or coffee pot to hold water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fork</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dutch
oven</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3
lug nuts or small stones to put under the biscuit pan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lid
lifter</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
recipe ingredients are:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2
cups self-rising flour</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
teaspoon salt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">½ cup
vegetable shortening or lard</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Water</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Before
you mix up your biscuit dough you need to build a good hardwood fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You need some good coals to cook on, and it may
take from 45 minutes to an hour for your fire to burn down properly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Once
your fire is built, set your Dutch oven next to the fire in order to pre-heat
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turn the Dutch oven occasionally to
heat it evenly.</span></div>
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the fire has burned down pretty good, it is time to mix up your biscuit dough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This recipe is for a small batch that will
feed two or three people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Start by
placing two cups of self-rising flour in your mixing bowl.</span></div>
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and mix until the shortening is evenly distributed and the flour looks like
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now you can start adding water (or milk or
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the water a little at a time, mixing as you go.</span></div>
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adding water until you have a dough that doesn’t stick to the mixing bowl or
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the dough rest for a few minutes while you grease your biscuit pan with
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For
quick and easy camp biscuits I like to tear off chunks of the dough, press them
into a ¾ inch thick disk with my fingers, and place them in the biscuit pan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’re cooking in the kitchen, you can
roll the dough out on a floured cutting board and cut the biscuits out with a
biscuit cutter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t taste any
different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They just look prettier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If you’re
cooking outdoors it is important that your cookware is durable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cast iron and stainless steel are the
materials of choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those nice pottery
bowls and Teflon pans may be okay for the kitchen, but they have no place
around a campfire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Cast
Iron Cookware</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I have
four pieces of cast iron cookware in my cooking gear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a 10” cast iron pot with a bail and
lid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is convenient to hang from an
“S” hook over the fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I use it to cook
things like stew, chili, chicken and dumplings, pinto beans, and etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A 12”
Dutch oven is handy for baking biscuit, bread, pies, and cobblers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It or the hanging pot are also good for
cooking large chunks of meat like a pot roast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I have a
round 12” griddle that is great for cooking pancakes, corn cakes, and
tortillas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s also good for cooking
bacon, sausage, spam, and sliced ham.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
actually have two different sizes of cast iron skillets, but I usually just
stick to a standard 10” skillet for most situations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I’m cooking for a pretty good crowd I have
a larger 12” skillet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are great
for cooking eggs and for frying chicken or fish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Stainless
Steel Cookware</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A large
stainless steel lidded pot is handy for cooking vegetables, soups, rice, or
anything else that you would cook in a pot on your stove.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have such a pot that I use for large
groups, but I don’t use it often.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I use a
deep, round baking pan that fits inside my Dutch oven when I cook biscuits or
bread. Some people cook biscuits and bread directly in the Dutch oven, but I
use this pan and set it on three steel hex-nuts that elevate it about a quarter
inch from the bottom of the Dutch oven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I find that this cooks my bread-stuffs more evenly and avoids scorching
the bottoms. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pan pictured here is
actually a new one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My old one was
fairly shallow, and I’m looking forward to using the new pan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I also
have a big stainless steel bowl that serves as my wash basin for doing dishes. It
also doubles as my dough bowl for mixing up bread dough and letting it rise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Enamelware</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I have
an enamelware coffee pot that has seen a good number of campfires. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some people cook camp coffee by putting the
grounds directly in the water, boiling it up, and then throwing in a cup of
cold water to make the grounds settle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe you can make this work, but I always end up straining coffee
grounds through my teeth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I prefer to
use the removable basket and percolator tube to make my coffee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A medium
size enamelware bowl is used for mixing biscuit dough, pancake batter, and etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I use my
small enamelware hanging pot to cook vegetables, soups, and etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find that I use it much more often than my
large stainless steel pot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I also
have an enamelware lid that fits over my 10” skillet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Kitchen
Utensils</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">You can
get as complicated as you want on utensils.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I keep it pretty simple. The main rule is “long handles.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You want to be able to reach out over that
fire without singing the hair off of your hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I use a big butcher knife and a small paring knife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also pictured is an old-time can opener. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A pair
of meat tongs and a long handle fork are also handy; especially if you are
cooking straight on the grill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">You’ll
need a spatula, a ladle, and a spoon to cook with, and that weird looking thing
on the right is an absolute necessity if you’re using a Dutch oven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s called a lid lifter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The last
item on the list is a blow-pipe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
used to direct air at your fire to help build the flame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It concentrates the stream of air much better
than bending over and blowing through your lips. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Well,
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didn’t exactly drive over to William’s Sonoma and buy my stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s mostly hand me downs, garage sales, and
thrift stores; but it works, and it has turned out some good camp meals over
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Sensible Survivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01783624792201899315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024181205545465340.post-3942775408630539422018-04-09T15:12:00.000-07:002018-04-09T15:12:35.103-07:00Outdoor Cooking Equipment <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In any
long-term grid down situation it will eventually become necessary to cook on an
open fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is, of course, assuming
that you don’t have an old time wood-burning cook stove.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I personally don’t have a wood burning cook stove.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a propane cook stove, and I have
enough propane to operate said stove for about a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This makes it easy to deal with run-of-the-mill
power outages, but for a super long term emergency situation the propane will
run out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In order to keep cooking in
such a situation I have put together a pretty good outdoor cook set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not the kind of equipment that you
can throw in a bug-out bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is heavy,
it is durable, and it will last for generations; but it is not very portable
unless you have a vehicle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d like, in
this post, to tell you a little bit about my outdoor cooking equipment; so
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
Grill</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The most
basic component of your outdoor cooking set-up is the grill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grills come in many sizes, shapes, prices,
and configurations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many
places that you can purchase a good cooking grill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can get a grill at a sporting goods
store or a big-box store like Wal-Mart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I actually bought my 12” X 18” grill at a home building supply store for
about $10 US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it was a
replacement grill for an outdoor barbecue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">To
support the grill I made four legs by bending some 3/8 inch bar stock as
illustrated in the photo below.</span></div>
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up the grill requires a small camp shovel and a hand axe or hammer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I use a hand axe because it is more
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digging a fire pit that is about four or five inches deep and slightly smaller
than your grill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One end of the fire pit
should slope up to ground level so that you can feed firewood down under the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Lay your
grill down over the fire pit so that you can determine where to hammer in the
legs, and use your hand axe to start the legs into the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Set your grill on the legs and tap each leg
in so the grill is as close to level as you can eye-ball.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You should end up with about eight or ten
inches of space between the bottom of the fire pit and the surface of your
grill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will leave enough room to
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">To fine
tune the leveling process, set a pan of water on top of the grill and tap the
legs down until the water is level in the pan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You may not think it’s important to level your grill, but it’s really
annoying to try and cook something in a frying pan and have all the grease run
over to one side of the pan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Fire
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A set of
fire irons is a metal framework that is used to suspend cooking pots or a
coffee pot over your fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Fire irons
are not as easy to find as a grill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve
never seen fire irons in a regular retail store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can probably find fire irons on-line if
you want to go that route.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any good size
mountain man rendezvous or other re-enactor’s event will probably have a
blacksmith or two that sells fire irons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had my set made by a blacksmith friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blacksmithing is no longer a common
profession, but if you search on- line you might find one near you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course any welder can cut, heat, and bend
up some 5/8” bar stock and make you a set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">One part of the fire iron set that is pretty hard for an amateur to make
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A crane
is a device that is attached to one of the uprights and can be moved up and
down and swung from side-to-side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A cook
pot or a coffee pot can be placed on the crane and then the crane can be
adjusted to keep the pot warm without any continued cooking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The good news is that a crane is not really a
super important part of the fire iron set, so if you don’t have one it’s really
not a big deal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">To set
up fire irons you simply drive the uprights into the ground on each end of the
fire pit and place the cross piece on top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you use a crane remember to place it on one of the uprights before
you drive the upright into the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
like to place the uprights out as far as possible from the ends of the fire pit
so that I have a little extra room at each end of the top piece to hang my
griddle, my cooking utensils, and etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This also leaves better access for adding more wood to your fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">One
final item or really items that you’ll need for your fire iron set is some pot
hooks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These hooks are used to suspend
cook pots from the top piece of your fire irons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pot hooks can be fancy black smith items, or
they can simply be bent up out of ¼” round stock. </span></div>
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varying lengths so that you can adjust your pots to different heights above the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Pole Framework Set-Up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I wouldn’t waste the time or energy to do this
set-up for a one night stay, but if you have a lot of materials available and
if you are going to be in the same location for several nights, you may want to
set up a pole framework for your tarp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To do this set-up you will need a ridge pole that is
a little longer that the diagonal length of your tarp, and you will need a
couple of forked sticks that are about six feet long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t necessarily have to have forked
sticks as you should have plenty of cordage in your kit that can be used to lash
together some straight sticks into a bi-pod that supports the ridge pole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will also need a short piece of cordage
to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>attach the front of the tarp (one of
the cords used to tie around your kit will work for this), and you will need
seven tent stakes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First set up the framework as pictured below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here is how you can lock the forked sticks and ridge
pole together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now you drape the tarp over the ridge pole and stake
down the back of the tarp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pull the front of the tarp up and tie it off to the
ridge pole and forked sticks then stake down the sides.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The One Stick Set-Up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you are in a situation where you have very
limited vegetation you can set up your tarp with only one stick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the example below I have pitched the tarp
using only my walking stick which is about five feet long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In addition to the single stick you will need two of
the six foot pieces of cordage from your kit and all of your tent stakes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First you need to stake down the back of the tarp.</span></div>
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your stick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this instance I used the
lanyard on my walking stick and looped it through the front grommet on the tarp
and then back over the walking stick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
you use a found stick you will need to use a short piece of cordage to tie the
tarp off to the stick. </span></div>
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line and attach your two, six foot pieces of cordage to the top of the stick.</span></div>
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people so that one person can keep the stick in place while the other person
sets the tent stakes, but you can do it alone as I did in this instance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, what you do is drive in a couple of tent
stakes that are about 45 degrees on each side of the stick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stakes need to be about four feet out
from the stick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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stick upright.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make sure that the ridge
line of your tarp is tight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Use your
remaining tent stakes to stake out the sides of the tarp and you’re done.</span></div>
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Sensible Survivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01783624792201899315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024181205545465340.post-71222405780683942392017-10-06T17:53:00.000-07:002017-10-06T17:53:07.035-07:00The Plow Point or Diamond Fly Tarp Set-Up<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I
started using this particular tarp set-up years ago.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">At the time everyone I knew called it a
diamond fly.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Today the term plow point
seems to be more popular, but which ever name it goes by this is definitely one
of the quickest and easiest set-ups that you can use.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you tie off the front of the tarp to a
tree you can create a good, rain proof shelter in ten minutes or less.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you don’t have a convenient tree to use it
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guy ropes and one of the little two inch sticks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First lay out your tarp as pictured below. It’s best if you can find a location with one
tree at the front of the tarp and another tree at the back. In this case the front of the tarp will be
attached to the tree on the left.</span></div>
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ridge line.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it only takes a minute to make your set-up a little better. What we’re going to
do is attach a guy line between the center loop of the tarp and the back
tree. This will pull the ridge line up a
little bit and keep it from sagging down in the middle. If it’s very far to the back tree you may
need to tie two guy lines together to make a long cord. Here’s how you set up
the guy line:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tree and wrap it around the tree a couple of feet higher than your bungee cord
is attached to the front tree. Tie the
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the finished loop to prevent <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">accidentally</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When some people are camping they like to be in a
tent; other people like to sleep in the open or under a tarp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am in the later group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the weather is nice, I like to sleep in a
hammock or a sleeping bag and bivy sack under the stars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the weather is threatening rain or if it
is cold; I like to sleep under a tarp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are several reasons that I prefer a tarp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For one, tarps are very light to carry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My tarp set-up including lines, stakes, etc.
weighs 3 lbs. 10 oz.(that’s about 1.65 kilos for my non-American friends).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For another thing, a tarp is very versatile
as far as different set-ups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A tarp can
be set up to take advantage of a fire for additional heat in the winter, and it
can be suspended overhead to allow better air circulation in the summer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A tarp also allows better exterior visibility
than a tent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And lastly, a tarp can be
used in conjunction with a hammock, something that is not possible with your average
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m going to do a couple of posts on my favorite
tarp set-ups; but before I do that, I thought it might be good to show you my
bug-out tarp kit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some might say that I
include too much in my kit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the
items could be foraged or manufactured in the wild.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You could, in fact, build your entire shelter from foraged materials,
and I encourage you learn how to do just that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But, everything about survival is a trade-off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have to constantly be thinking about how
much space you have in your pack, the weight of items that you carry, the time
necessary to locate and/or make items in the wild, and the calories burned
carrying items as opposed to the calories burned making items.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I consider the small amount of added weight in
my kit to be negligible compared to the time and calories used to do things
like cutting tent stakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My whole tarp
kit weighs three pounds and ten ounces and rolls up into a nice 24” by 6”
bundle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With the items in my kit I can make my three favorite tarp set-ups without any additional
materials. So anyhow, this is what’s in my kit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Item number one is my tarp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is an inexpensive vinyl tarp that you can
get at Harbor Freight or Wal-Mart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
tarp is about eight by ten feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used
tarps like this for several years; but I recently modified it, as outlined in
the previous two posts, by painting the inside with reflective aluminum paint,
and I have added a center loop to the outside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Some set-ups require a ridge line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I carry a twenty-five foot piece of 550 para-cord to use as a ridge line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has
permanent loop tied into one end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
ends of all of my cords have been melted to prevent fraying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be sure that you use good, military grade para-cord, not the cheap stuff from the craft store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A 40 inch long bungee cord is handy for quickly
setting up plow-point shelters (more on that in the next post).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I carry eight guy lines that come in handy for some
set-ups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each guy line is six feet long
with a permanent loop in one end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My kit includes eight tent stakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two on them are about eleven inches long and
made of steel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The other six are seven
inches long and made of aluminum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
are actually aluminum nails that are used to hang rain gutters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can buy them at the hardware store for
about fifty cents each.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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certain set-ups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I carry six pre-made
loops bundled together with a hair band.</span></div>
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sticks that are pre-cut to about two inches long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are used for tarp attachments and to
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The last item in my kit is a piece of camo netting
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So, that’s my tarp kit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In subsequent posts I will show you how to
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Sensible Survivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01783624792201899315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024181205545465340.post-51521502720357055592017-08-20T08:51:00.001-07:002017-08-20T08:51:44.235-07:00Adding a Center Loop to your Vinyl Survival Tarp<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Most
vinyl tarps have grommets around the outside edges but few, if any, have loops
on the back of the tarp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A center loop
can be very helpful with tarp set-ups like the diamond fly, also called the
plow point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The center loop allows you
to attach a line in the middle of the tarp and give a little lift to take the
sag out of your ridgeline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, my $15
Harbor Freight tarp didn’t have a center loop; so I decided to attach one
myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I have
added loops to canvas tarps by stitching and then re-waterproofing the affected
area, but I was concerned that this wouldn’t work on vinyl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was afraid that it would either leak or
tear out too easily, so I thought that maybe I could glue the loops on for a
stronger and more leak-proof bond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
found a You Tube video by a young fellow who goes by “Brave the Wilds” in which
he glued on tarp loops (check out his You Tubes at </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/bravethewilds">www.youtube.com/user/bravethewilds</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">), so I followed his lead and
proceeded as follows.</span></div>
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this project you will need the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Tape measure</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Marking pen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Woven nylon webbing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Scissors</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Ice pick and heat source</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Straight pin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Sewing machine or needle and
thread\</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Medium grit sand paper (one small
piece)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rubbing alcohol</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Cotton ball</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">First cut a piece of nylon
webbing that is about six to six and one half inches long. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Next, heat the ice pick in a
flame and use it to gently melt the ends of the webbing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will keep it from unraveling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Fold the webbing in half and pin
it about an inch from the loose ends. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">At this point you can sew across
the loop by hand of with a sewing machine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My wife sewed it for me on her machine, and she went back and forth
about three times to make it good and strong. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">So now you have your loop and
it’s time to prepare for gluing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Lay your tarp out on a flat, hard
surface and set the loop down on your center mark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Use your marking pen to outline
the area to which the loop tabs will be glued.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Use the sandpaper to very lightly
rough up the surface of the tarp and the tabs of the nylon webbing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will help the glue adhere better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Dampen the cotton ball with
rubbing alcohol and clean the surface of the tarp and the loop tabs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let them dry for a few minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mix the five minute epoxy
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Apply epoxy to the tarp trying to
stay inside the outline that you have drawn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Get a good coat of epoxy but don’t overdo it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Apply epoxy to the loop tabs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And press the tabs into place.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Place some weights on the top of
the tabs to press them down but don’t get epoxy on the weights or you may end
up with them glued to the tarp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple
of small pieces of wax paper between the tabs and the weights might help
prevent accidental gluing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Note that 5 minute epoxy sets in
5 minutes but it is not cured and strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You should leave the weights in place for at least over-night to make
sure that the loop is firmly attached.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When you remove the weights you
will have a nice web loop attached to your tarp. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Here are a couple of pictures of
the tarp loop in use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems to be
firmly in place and doing its job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The wilderness survival community has, of late,
taken a keen interest in using reflector blankets or reflector tarps to help
create warmer lean-too shelters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
idea is that if the inside of your lean-too has a reflective surface, it will
reflect the heat of a campfire onto you as you lie in the shelter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
not really a new idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can recall Mors
Kochanski advocating for this quite a few years ago when he developed his
concept of the “super shelter.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mors
suggested placing a shiny Mylar survival blanket on the inside of your tarp to
reflect radiant heat into the shelter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>More recently I have seen several companies selling survival blankets/tarps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These survival tarps are made of more durable
material than Mylar and they have a reflective surface on one side and grommets
to aid in set-up of a shelter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
problem with these commercial tarps is that the ones I have found are fairly
small.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I am going to show you here
is how to make any size vinyl tarp into a reflective tarp that is pretty
durable and quite a bit cheaper than a commercially made model.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me emphasize that I have only done this
with vinyl tarps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know how it
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The idea
for this tarp came to me in a blinding flash of the obvious when I was working
on one of the out-buildings on my farm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The building in question is about 25 years old and is covered in corrugated
sheet metal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The metal was starting to
look a little on the rusted side, so I decided that I would paint it with some Rust
Stop metallic aluminum paint from our local Ace Hardware store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I bought a gallon of the stuff for about $30
US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also
had quarts for about $10, but I knew that a quart wouldn’t be enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, anyway, here I am standing up on a ladder
painting this building when the sun comes up over the trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In about ten minutes I started feeling like a
rotisserie chicken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Man, I thought, this
stuff really reflects some heat, and that’s when it hit me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wonder if I could paint this stuff onto a vinyl
tarp?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, sure enough, I had about a
half-gallon of paint left when I finished painting the building, so I decided
to try a little experiment on a tarp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
got an old tarp and painted a couple of square feet with the aluminum paint. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It flowed on smoothly and covered with one
coat. It also didn’t appear to be damaging the vinyl in any way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far; so good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I let it dry in the sun for a couple of hours
before I gave it the durability test.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When it was dry I scraped it with my finger nails and there was no
peeling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I folded it into a crease,
wadded it up, and just generally tried to make the paint crack or peal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tarp seemed to be completely flexible,
and the paint adhered beautifully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought
to myself, “We may have a winner.”</span></div>
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unstrapped the 8’ x 10’ camo vinyl tarps that my wife and I have attached to
our bug-out bags and went to work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
laid a tarp out on the ground and used a three inch foam brush to apply the
paint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It went
on easily and took about 45 minutes to apply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it
was nice and dry I gave it another round of durability testing, and it seemed
to work great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even better, painting the
two 8’ x 10’ tarps barely made a dent in my half gallon of paint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I bet a quart would paint three or four of
these tarps, so if you have friends that are into this kind of thing you could
share the cost of the paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did
learn a couple of lessons from the first tarp that helped make the second one a
little easier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First of all, do this in
the shade or on a cloudy day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
things really, really reflect a lot of light and heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Second, use some tent stakes to stake down
the corners before you paint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This keeps
the tarp from moving around as you paint it.</span></div>
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you go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An easy way to turn a $15
Walmart or Harbor Freight tarp into a high dollar reflective survival tarp.</span></div>
Sensible Survivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01783624792201899315noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024181205545465340.post-71368783590337854612017-07-15T15:02:00.000-07:002017-07-15T15:02:47.019-07:00Dried Peas from the Survival Garden<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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When you start talking about peas, people from the Northeastern
United States are picturing English Peas; but people in the Southeastern United
States are picturing blackeyed peas, purple hull peas, crowder peas, cream
peas, lady peas and any of the dozens of other field peas which have long been
a staple in the South.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My personal
favorite is the pink eyed purple hull pea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The pink eyed purple hull is an heirloom, bush pea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It loves hot weather, doesn’t require a lot
of water, doesn’t need fertilizer, is an abundant producer, is easy to pick,
and it tastes delicious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an added bonus, it puts a lot of valuable
nitrogen into the soil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In our area you
can get two plantings over the summer; so we get two to four bushels of this
pea out of the garden each year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
pick fresh purple hulls when the pods are dark purple but still soft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are great when fresh shelled and fresh
cooked, and the fresh frozen ones taste almost as good; but in a grid down
situation frozen peas won’t last long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You could can the fresh peas, but that is sure a lot of work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In pre-refrigeration days the way to long-term
store peas was to dry them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When dried
and stored in dry, air-tight <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>containers
they are edible for years and remain viable for seed easily for two or three
years.</div>
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Drying peas requires no shelling and no dehydrator.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All you have to do is just leave them on the
vine and, when the plant dies, they will dry nicely on their own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The dried pods will be brittle and a light brown in color as
opposed to the soft, pliable, dark purple pods of fresh peas.</div>
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Dried peas are also much easier to shell than fresh
peas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following photos illustrate
how I thrash and winnow a small quantity of dried peas. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The time to trash and winnow is on a dry,
sunny day when a good wind is blowing.</div>
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First I spread a tarp on a table top and lay out my dried
peas on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple of hours of hot sun
will drive the last of the moisture out of them and assure that the pods are
nice and brittle.</div>
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Next step is to use your hands to start crushing up the
dried pods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The vast majority of the
peas will separate from the pods at this point.</div>
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To further separate the peas, pick up handfuls of the pods
and rub them between your palms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Continue
this rubbing until the pods have been reduced to small fragments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will complete the trashing process.</div>
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Now you need to separate the chaff (crushed up pods, etc)
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Pick up a double handful of peas and chaff, raise your hands
a couple of feet above the table, and let the peas and chaff slip out from
between your hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The peas, which are
heavier than the chaff, will fall straight down onto the table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The chaff will be carried away by the wind.</div>
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Now set a wide pan on the table and, using small quantities
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You should end up with a pan full of pretty clean peas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may have to pick out a few pieces of
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Store your cleaned peas in air-tight containers and you will
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If you are processing a lot of peas, the same principles
apply; but instead of a small tarp on top of the table, you can lay a large
tarp out on the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead of
crushing the pods in your hands you can walk on them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just make sure that your shoe soles are
pretty flat and don’t have lugs or deep treads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For winnowing you can place a few handfuls of broken down peas and chaff
in a wide shallow basket or an upside down trashcan lid and toss the stuff up
into the air and let the peas fall back into the lid. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will have to toss the same batch several
times in order to remove the chaff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be
sure and stand over the tarp when you are winnowing so that any peas that you
don’t catch will fall back onto the tarp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This takes a little bit of practice, but after the first bushel you’ll
be doing it like an old pro.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The three main garden ingredients for these cabbage
rolls are cabbage, new potatoes, and green onion tops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I make cabbage rolls this way for one very
simple reason; all three of these ingredients are available from my garden at
the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These cabbage rolls are
actually a combination of two different Polish dishes; golabki, which are
cabbage rolls stuffed with a meat and rice mixture; and pierogi, which are a
wheat dough dumpling stuffed with a mashed potato mixture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I came up with this recipe on my own, but I’d
be willing to bet that it already exists in some European folk cuisine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, I’m not the first gardener in the
world that has potatoes, cabbages, and onions all come ready at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So let’s make some cabbage rolls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you have a garden; start off in the garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you don’t have a garden, start off at the
produce market. You will need about two pounds of fresh new potatoes, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">a good sized head of cabbage, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">and a few green onion tops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can use chives, but I just pull a few
smaller green onion tops and then cut them up with my kitchen shears. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I also like to add a little diced canned jalapeno to
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In addition to these ingredients you will need a couple
of tablespoons of butter, a heaping tablespoon of sour cream or plain yogurt,
some shredded cheese of your choice, and a little salt and pepper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Peel your potatoes and put them in a medium pot.
Cover and boil slowly until done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When potatoes are done, drain them and leave the
potatoes in the pot. Use a potato masher or a fork to roughly break the
potatoes up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Add your butter and sour cream and mash the potatoes
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Add shredded cheese and stir in well. </span></div>
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and place it over high heat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Put your head of cabbage in the stock pot with the
core end down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are going to steam
the cabbage for a few minutes to soften the leaves and make them easier to
remove without breaking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About five to
seven minutes ought to do it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Turn off the heat and remove the cabbage from the
stock pot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be careful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s really hot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I use a couple of big wooden spoons to do
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Carefully remove the cabbage leaves one at a time
and stack them in a pan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dark green
outer leaves are a little tough, so you are better off using the light-green
inner leaves. You will need eight leaves, so remove ten just in case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now take a sharp paring knife and shave off the top
portion of the rib on each leaf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By
thinning the rib down you will have an easier time rolling up the leaf when the
time comes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now take your filling and divide it into eight equal
portions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just flatten it out in the
pot and use my knife to slice it into eight wedges like you would a pizza. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lay a cabbage leaf out on your cutting board with
the rib side down and place one of your eight portions of filling at the bottom
of the leaf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I kind of shape it into a
little oblong mound.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Roll the leaf up to cover the filling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fold the sides of the leaf in even with the ends of
the filling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now finish rolling up the leaf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Place the finished cabbage roll into a lightly
greased baking dish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now repeat this for the rest of the rolls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When your dish is full cover it with aluminum foil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Place the covered dish into a preheated 375 degree
F. oven and bake for about 20 minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Remember, everything is already cooked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All you’re doing is heating it up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I like to top these with butter and sour cream when
I serve them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Note that there’s already
a bite missing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re so good that I
couldn’t wait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In this
post I’m going to show you how to make one of my favorite survival traps, the
toggle-trigger scissor trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a
very fast, killing trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s kind of
the improvised version of a Conibear trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If it is set correctly it will kill an animal quickly and humanely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please note that I am setting this trap in a
location where I can take clear pictures of it, and you can see how it is
constructed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not how or where
you would set this trap to catch an animal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I will deal with de-scenting, camouflaging, and how to make an actual
trap set in another post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
toggle-trigger scissor trap is not a super complicated trap (simple is better),
but it does have quite a few parts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
I’m going to do is go over the making of the parts step by step, and then we’ll
put all the parts together to make the trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This trap has a total of ten parts, not counting the cordage, and six of
those parts are the trigger assembly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The good news is that this same trigger assembly can be used on several
other traps, so once you get the trigger down you’re more than 50% there on
building a number of different kinds of traps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So let’s get started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
Toggle-Trigger</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As
mentioned above, the toggle-trigger assembly has six parts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can manufacture all of these parts with
nothing more than a pocket or sheath knife, and you can assemble the trap with nothing
more than a knife and a rock; but a multi-tool with a saw blade and a small
hatchet make it a lot easier to do the job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The six
parts for the trigger are as follow:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">First
you will need two fairly long stakes with a down-slanting side branch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The diameter of these stakes will depend on
the size trap you are building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
stakes illustrated below are about ¾ inch in diameter. These stakes will be
driven into the ground, and there will be considerable upward pressure on them;
so they should be a minimum of a foot long below the side branch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make sure that the tops are flat and the
bottoms are pointed so that you can drive them more easily into the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">You will
need a cross-bar to hold your toggle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is nothing more than a straight stick that is about six inches long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This one is about ½ inch in diameter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
toggle itself is a straight stick that is about two inches long and maybe 3/8
inch in diameter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice that I have
carved a small groove around the center of the toggle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not completely necessary, but it only
takes a minute to do, and it will insure a more positive fit for your trigger
line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The last
two parts of the trigger assembly are the trigger stick and what I call the
bumper stake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bumper stake is about ¾
inch in diameter and about six inches long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>About five inches of the bumper stake will be driven down into the
ground so it needs to be sharpened on the bottom end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
trigger stick is the part that makes the whole thing work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is what will hold the bait and spring the
trap when an animal takes the bait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
will have considerable pressure on it, so it is best if it is a dead and dry,
but solid stick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A green stick may bend
and not hold the toggle back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
trigger stick is about ¼ inch in diameter and the length will be determined by
the final trap set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For now you should
cut it about a foot long, and then you can cut it to final length when you set
the trap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">So, that’s
it for the trigger parts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now let’s make
the final four parts that will actually capture the animal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">First we
will need to make the scissor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will
consist of two straight sticks that are about 3/8 inch in diameter and about
ten inches long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Size will, of course,
vary according to the target animal and the size of the trap</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">You want
to cut the bottom of each scissor stick at about a 45 degree angle so that when
you put the bottoms together the sticks will spread out at about a 90 degree
angle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Next,
come up about 3/8 inch or so from the slanted bottoms and carve a shallow
groove around each stick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Now go
to the top of each stick, about 3/8 inches from the end, and carve another
shallow groove.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Now set
these aside and we’ll make the scissor guides.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
scissor guides are part of the trap that help guide the scissors, and help the
scissors ensnare the animal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will
have a great deal of upward pressure on them when the trap is sprung, so they
must be set firmly in the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
size of the guides and the depth to which they must be set is determined by the
target animal and the size of the trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One important consideration for the scissor guides is that they have to
be bent into a half hoop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They must be
flexible enough to bend without breaking, but still sturdy enough to hold the
game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my experience, the scissor guides
are the hardest part of the trap to locate and make.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Setting up
the Trap</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">To set
up the scissor trap you are going to need about five feet of nylon twine and
about two feet of waxed Dacron (artificial sinew).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t absolutely have to have the waxed
Dacron.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just use what you have or what
you can make.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trap will still work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">You are
going to need something to power your trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In this instance I am using a sapling as a spring-pole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could use a counter-weight just as easily
although that would take considerably more twine. I will talk more about
counter weights in a later post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">First
you want to bend your spring-pole down so that you can see exactly where you should
to position your trigger assembly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
you have that location, start off by driving your two forked stakes into the
ground about four inches apart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Your
cross bar will fit under the forks in the two stakes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Next you
will need to position and drive down the bumper stake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best way to do this is to put it about
eight inches from your cross bar and then come back and cut your trigger stick
to the appropriate length.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This
picture shows how to measure the length of the trigger stick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice that the toggle stick is on the front
side of the cross bar, and the trigger stick goes from there to the bumper
stake. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Now you
will need about three feet of nylon twine to set the trigger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Tie one
end of the twine firmly around the toggle stick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Move up
the string about a foot and tie a knot in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The reason for this knot will be explained in a minute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Then tie
the other end of the string onto your spring pole. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">To set
the trigger, bring the toggle down in back of the cross bar, then twist it up in
front of the cross bar and set the trigger stick between the top of the toggle
and the bumper stake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The picture below
shows the trigger after it has been set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is best to go ahead and smear the trigger stick with bait or shove
bait onto the stick before you set the trigger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can do this later but you will have to be very careful not to spring
the trap. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Now let’s
put together the scissor:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Take
some of your waxed Dacron and tie together the slanted ends of your two scissor
sticks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leave a little space between
them so that the sticks can be pulled out into a “V” shape</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Now go
to the other end of the sticks and, using more Dacron, tie a loop at the top of
one of the sticks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Take
about two feet of nylon twine and tie one end of it to the top of the other
stick and then thread the loose end of the nylon through the Dacron loop on the
other stick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When
your scissor is completed it should look like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Take the
two sticks that you have cut for your scissor guides and bend them carefully
into a half hoop and then shove them down firmly into the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They should be about an inch-and-a-half apart
and should be located two or three inches away from the trigger stick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This photo shows you how they should be
positioned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Now
spread your scissor sticks apart and set them down between the scissor guides. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Make
sure that the nylon twine connecting the scissors is not down between the
scissor guides, and then use some Dacron to tie the tops of the scissor guides together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You want to leave about an inch between the
tops of the loops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Finally,
take the loose end of the nylon twine on the scissors and tie it onto your
toggle-trigger line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tie it just above
the knot that you tied in the trigger line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This will keep the scissor line from sliding down when the trap is sprung. Be very careful when doing this so that you don’t set off the
trigger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is best if you have someone to
hold the spring pole down while you complete this step; but if you are alone,
you will have to just be very careful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever
you do, don’t get your face up over the trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you do, and if the trap springs you will have all kinds of stuff
headed toward you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">So now
the trap is set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> When you build an
actual trap set you will build a “cubby” or use other obstructions to make sure
that the animal can only get to the bait by sticking its head in between the
scissors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When the
animal starts chewing on the bait stick, it will spring the trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The scissors will slam together on the animal
and jerk it up against the scissor guides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The animal will, most likely, be killed immediately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Any survival situation that lasts more than a couple
of weeks is going to make it necessary for you to collect food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Foraging for wild plants is one possibility,
but it is hard to get enough protein and fat from plants alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will need meat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the most efficient ways to obtain meat
in the wilds is by trapping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trapping is
great because your traps will be hunting 24 hours a day, in multiple locations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While your traps are hunting for you, you will
be free to take care of other business like wood gathering, plant foraging,
shelter improvements, and etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So, the simple solution to making meat in the wild
would be to just throw a half dozen double-spring, number 2 steel traps into
your bug-out-bag, right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wrong!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One number 2 steel trap weighs over a pound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Six of them weigh almost seven pounds, and
they are bulky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not the kind of thing
that you need in your pack when every ounce counts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You could bring the weight down to around two pounds
by carrying half-a-dozen rat traps, but you would be seriously limiting the
size of animals that you could trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Anything larger than a squirrel will probably just shake off a rat trap;
or worse, run off with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The most weight efficient way to trap animals is to
(1) learn how to build improvised traps, and then (2) put together a
light-weight kit that will make it easier to build these traps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t get me wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can build improvised traps using only
native materials; but man, it can take a lot of time consuming work to build a
trap this way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’ve ever twisted up
enough yucca cordage to build just one good snare trap, you know what I’m
talking about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And after you’ve built
your trap you still have to find something to bait the trap with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s much easier to carry along a few
light-weight items that will enable you to build and bait some better quality traps
in a shorter amount of time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My trapping kit, including carrying bag, weighs just
a shade over 13 ounces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Depending on the
kind and size of traps you build, it has enough materials for from ten to thirty
traps; and it also includes enough bait to bait each trap several times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s a closer look at what goes into my
trapping kit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First there’s the bag itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bag is about nine inches by fourteen inches
and is made out of heavy cotton with a cotton twill strap to tie the bag
closed.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Inside the bag I have two different kinds of light
cordage wrapped around wooden cradles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The larger
cradle holds about sixty feet of nylon twine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This twine can be used to hold down spring poles or hold counter weights
for snare traps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Note that this twine is
a kind of golden yellow in color.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since
most animals don’t have very well developed color vision, this golden yellow
actually looks gray to them making it less visible than either black or white
twine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A little dirt or mud rubbed on
the twine gives it a mottled appearance which makes it even less visible. The toggle trigger snare pictured below is built using both yellow nylon twine for the trigger and picture hanging wire for the snare loop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The small cradle holds about twenty feet of waxed
Dacron (artificial sinew).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although it
is small cordage, it is very strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s great for things like tying off toggle triggers on Paiute dead-fall
traps, hanging sight lures, and making small snare loops. The toggle trigger scissor trap pictured below is built using both waxed dacron and yellow nylon twine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I carry a small roll, about twenty feet, of light
gauge steel wire that is perfect for making leaning log squirrel snares.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since each of these snares uses about two
feet of wire, you can make quite a few snares with twenty feet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have a roll of picture hanging wire in the bag
that is my favorite for making the actual snare loop on snare traps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s stiff enough to hold open well and it
slides closed quick and smooth on spring pole snares. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the disadvantages of all natural traps is
coming up with bait for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can,
of course, set snares in animal pathways and hope that an animal runs into
them, but your chances of success increase dramatically if you have a bait that
draws animals into your trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I keep an
old baby food jar in my trapping kit that is full of my special trapping lure;
peanut butter and sardines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just put
them in the jar, stir them together, and twist the lid on tight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The older it gets, the funkier it smells; and
the funkier it smells, the better it works. Smear a little of this on your bait
stick and hardly any animal will be able to resist it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Some animals don’t have as keen a sense of smell as
others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These sight hunters often need a
visual lure to draw them to a trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
keep a plastic bag with twelve or fifteen turkey feather fluffs in my kit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you hang one of these on a piece of string
over your trap, every puff of breeze will cause it to swing and twirl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will often catch an animal’s eye and
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As with any other survival skill, building
successful traps takes practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
need to learn not only “how” to build traps, but “where” to build them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do a little research on how to build
different kinds of traps, how to descent them, and where to locate them; then
head to the woods with your trapping kit and practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be sure to know the law and use common
sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The actual trapping of animals,
game or fur bearing, can be outright illegal or regulated by any number of laws
that vary from state to state and sometimes from county to county.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the common sense side of things, don’t set
a trap and leave it where you might catch someone’s pet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s best to just set the traps and see if
they work by tripping them yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
can test your bait and your ability to find good trapping locations by smearing
a little bait on a twig and sticking it in the ground at a site that you think
would be good for a trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come back the
next day and check your bait stick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
it’s missing, or if it has been gnawed on, you will know that you picked a good
location.</span></div>
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Live traps, or box traps as they are sometimes called, are
one of the easiest traps to build in your shop or garage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can be used to catch and relocate
nuisance animals, or they can be used to catch food. </div>
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The construction of box
traps requires minimal tools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A tape
measure, a square, a pencil, a saw, a hammer, a drill with a few bits, and a
sheet of sand paper are all you need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The building materials needed are an 8 foot long piece of 1” x 10” lumber
(actual dimensions are ¾” x 9 ½ “), an 18” by 2 foot piece of ¼ inch hardware
cloth, a few nails, 4 small screw-eyes, and some string.</div>
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We’ll start out by building the box and door first, and when
that’s done we’ll build the trigger and set the trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Incidentally, the dimensions I’m using here
will build a medium size box trap; good for squirrels, rabbits, possums, small
coons, feral cats, and (unfortunately) skunks. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So let’s cut out the pieces for the box and the
door from our ¾” lumber.</div>
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You will need to cut the following:</div>
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2
pieces<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>24” x 7” for top and bottom</div>
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1 piece<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8 ½” x 8 ½” for the back</div>
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2
pieces<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4” x 8 ½” for the back sides</div>
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2
pieces<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6” x 8 ½” for the front sides</div>
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1 piece<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7” x 8 ½” for the door</div>
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2
pieces<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¾” x ½” x 7” for the inner door
guides</div>
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2 pieces<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¾” x ½” x 8 ½” for the outer door guides</div>
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You will
also need to cut two strips of hardware cloth 8 ½” high by 22” long for the
sides.</div>
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Now we’ll
assemble the box:</div>
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First, nail
the back piece to the top and bottom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The top of the back piece should be flush with the top of the top piece
and the bottom of the back should be flush with the bottom of the bottom
piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The back piece should stick out
¾” on each side of the top piece and the bottom piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That sounds a little confusing, but if you’ll
look at the picture below you’ll see what I mean.</div>
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Now we’re
going to nail our hardware cloth onto the sides of the box.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have found that short roofing nails are
good for this job but you can use carpet tacks, small u nails, or even heavy
staples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just make sure that the
hardware cloth is secure enough to hold a trapped animal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hardware cloth should butt up against the
back and be flush with the top of the top and the bottom of the bottom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, confusing but look at the picture.</div>
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Next step is
to nail on the back side pieces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Easy
enough.</div>
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The front
side pieces are next, but before you nail them on, take your sand paper and
sand the insides of them smooth for th first couple of inches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
to reduce friction so that the door will fall quickly and completely into
place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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When you’ve finished sanding,
nail the front side pieces on so that 1 ¾” of them (the sanded part) extends out in front of the
top and bottom pieces.</div>
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Now it’s
time to nail on the door guides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before
nailing we want sand the edges of the guides where the door will be sliding
along them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smooth guides mean a faster
and cleaner drop of the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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When the
guides are smoothed out we’ll first nail on the short, inner guides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You want to position these so that they are
flush with the edge of the top and bottom pieces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used some old paneling nails to attach the
guides. </div>
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Next we’ll
do the outer guides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You want to place
the outer guides so that the distance between them and the inner guides is
about an 1/8 inch wider than the thickness of your door.</div>
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With the
guides all nailed in place it’s time to sand the edges of the door smooth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Round the edges and corners a little to help
keep them from binding when the door drops.</div>
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Slide the
door down between the guides and check to see that everything fits and slides
easily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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If everything checks out, it’s
time to build the trigger. The way this
trigger works is pretty simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
actual trigger sticks down into the inside of the box.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trigger is attached to the back end of a
rocker arm that is supported by an upright on top of the box.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The front of the rocker arm is attached to
the top of the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the trap is
set, the trigger stick is down in the box and the rocker arm holds the door
up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When an animal enters the trap and
hits the trigger stick it releases the rocker arm and the door drops closed.</div>
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So the first
thing that we need to do is drill two holes in the top of the box.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first hole will be 8 inches from the back
of the box and is 1 inch in diameter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is the hole that the trigger will fit down into.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second hole is 16 inches from the back of
the box and is ¾ inch in diameter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
will use this hole to mount the upright that supports the rocker arm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So let’s drill holes. </div>
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Once the
holes are drilled we’ll make the trigger stick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The trigger stick is made of a ¾” x ¾” piece of wood cut 9 inches
long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Round off the edges and give the stick a light
sanding so that it will slide easily. Cut a notch in the stick that is ¼” deep
with the bottom of the notch 2 inches from the top of the stick and then screw
a small screw-eye into the top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <br />
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The trigger
stick should fit easily into the 1 inch hole and the notch should catch on the
underside of the board.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the notch
is engaged, the trigger stick should not touch the bottom of the trap.</div>
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Now for the
upright that will support the rocker arm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cut a piece of your ¾” lumber that is one foot long and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1¾” wide.</div>
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On one end
cut <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>away wood on each side to leave a ¾”
wide by ¾” long tab in the middle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Use a
knife or wood rasp to round off this tab so that it forms a peg that will fit
easily into the ¾” hole in the top of the trap. </div>
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On the other
end of the upright we are going to cut a slot that is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¾” wide and 3 inches long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The easiest way to do this is to use your
drill and ¾” bit and drill a hole three inches down from the top, then use a
saw to cut down to each side of the hole.</div>
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When you’re
finished with the upright it should look like this.</div>
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The rocker
arm is just a ¾” x ½” stick that is cut to 20 inches long.</div>
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Lay the
rocker arm down so that one of the ¾” sides is facing up at you and drill a
3/16” hole in the center of it (10 inches from each end).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When this is done, drill a 3/16” hole through
the slotted end of the upright.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hole
should be one inch from the top of the upright.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When the rocker arm sits in the slot of the upright it should look like
this.</div>
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You should
now be able to mount the upright into the hole on the top of the box, line up
the rocker arm, and stick a nail through the holes in the upright and rocker
arm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rocker arm should pivot freely.</div>
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We’re almost
done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All that remains is to screw a
small screw-eye about ½” from each end of the rocker arm and another screw-eye
into the top of the door. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tie a piece of
string from the trigger stick to the back end of the rocker arm so that there
is about 5 inches between them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lastly,
tie the front of the rocker to the top of the door so that there is, again,
about 5 inches between them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you
are finished, the set-up should look like this.</div>
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One little thing
that I like to do instead of tying the string to the door is to make a little
wire hook on the end of the string that hooks to the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This makes it easier to disassemble the trap
for transportation or storage.</div>
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Well there’s
you live trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To set it just place your
bait in the back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like to use a slice
of apple with some peanut butter smeared on it or a sardine, but just about
anything will do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes it helps to
put a small piece of bait out in front of the trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the critter gets a taste, they are less
reluctant to go on into the trap for more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Set the trigger and wait. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
the animal goes into the trap they will hit the trigger stick while trying to
get to the bait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trigger goes up,
the door goes down, and, boom, you’ve got him. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once you’ve set the trap be sure to check it
every day so that you don’t leave an animal confined for too long.</div>
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Happy
hunting.</div>
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In the past I always wore a little Iver Johnson in 32 S&W<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when we’d go trot lining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why, you ask, would I wear a sidearm to go
trot lining?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The answer is Gar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We fish for catfish, but we often get a gar
on the line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of their mouth full
of razor sharp teeth, you can’t just grab them and unhook them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have to kill them, and thence the
sidearm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, last spring my friend
was running the boat, and I was pulling up lines, and lo and behold I pulled up
a five and a half foot alligator gar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
let the line go very fast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pulled out
my revolver, pulled the line back up and shot the gar to little effect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact I fired five rounds into its head and
it didn’t seem to notice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took my
friend’s .357 magnum to put the thing down, so I decided it was time for a
little fire power upgrade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pistol I
ended up buying was a little Taurus PT709 slim which compared nicely in size to
my little .32, but fires the much more powerful 9mm parabellum.</div>
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So, the problem was that we didn’t go fishing anymore that
spring or summer and I never fired the gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When I finally got around to taking the Taurus down to my range, I was
unpleasantly surprised to find that it jammed about ever third round.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bummer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ve had a Taurus PT92 for years and it has never missed a lick, even
with the cheapest ammo.</div>
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The good news is that Taurus has one of the best warranties
in the gun business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I shipped it off to
the factory with a letter of explanation and they repaired it for free and
returned it within three weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
warranty card, no writing in for a repair order, nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also sent me an e-mail saying that they
had received the gun, called me to confirm my shipping address, sent another
e-mail saying it was being repaired, and a third e-mail saying that it was
being shipped back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They stand behind
their products no matter how old they are or where you buy them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a friend that bought a Taurus with a
broken firing pin at a garage sale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
mailed it in, and they put in a new pin for free and mailed it back to
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, anyway, I got the gun back, and
it hasn’t jammed since.</div>
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Now for the technical stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The PT709 Slim is 6 1/8’ long, 4 ½” tall, and, including the slightly
protruding safety lever, 1” wide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
chambered for the 9mm parabellum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
fully loaded with 7 in the magazine and 1 in the chamber, mine weighs one pound
and 6.4 ounces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lower frame is a
nice heavy polymer and the slid is steel.</div>
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The name “Slim” is well earned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The profile is very slim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The only protrusions are the manual safety lever, which
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and the slide release which sticks out even less.</div>
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The magazine release is located near the front of the grip
and has a very low profile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This keeps
the release from snagging on anything, but it is a little awkward to curl your
thumb around and press it down. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe my
thumb is just too short.</div>
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In addition to the manual safety there is also a trigger
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There is a chambered round indicator on the back of the
bolt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This indicator sticks up about a
sixteenth of an inch and is easily felt with the thumb to determine if you have
a round chambered.</div>
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The PT709 feels good in the hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to its small size you can only wrap two
fingers around the grip, but it does not feel awkward and the gun stays under
good control with this grip.</div>
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The grip is nicely textured and a small depression at the
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The grip is situated in such a way that slid pinch is
virtually impossible when the firearm cycles.</div>
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The slide itself is deeply knurled in order to facilitate
racking it back, but it still takes a good grip and a firm pull to operate.</div>
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The sights have a low profile and the familiar three white
dots to help with target acquisition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
very nice feature is that the rear sight is fully adjustable for both elevation
and windage. </div>
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The Pt709 is striker fired so there is no external
hammer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trigger pull is around five
or six pounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because it is striker
fired, the first trigger pull is long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The first time I shot this gun I thought it was never going to fire, but
the trigger finally broke, fairly crisply, and the gun discharged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t have to let off all the way on the
trigger for subsequent shots so the long travel is only on the first shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes a little getting used to, but you
fall into the rhythm pretty fast.</div>
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Recoil is not nearly as bad as you would expect for a 9mm
that barely weighs a pound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smaller
individuals should not be afraid that the recoil will be too much to handle.</div>
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Accuracy is very good considering that the PT709 only has a two
inch barrel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I shot this 7 shot group
off-hand from 30 feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bull is 2 ½”,
and I’m not a great shot, so I’m happy with the way it shoots.</div>
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The slide locks back when you fire the last round making mag
changes quick and easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just hit the mag
release button to drop your empty mag, shove in a fresh one, and thumb down the
slide release.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re back in business</div>
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The PT709 field strips for cleaning using the same system
that Glock has made famous.</div>
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First remove the magazine, take the safety off, and clear
the round in the chamber.</div>
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Then pull the slide back just slightly and pull down on the
little tabs located on each side of the frame just below the chamber.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will release the slide.</div>
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Now pull the trigger (you did make sure that there wasn’t a
round in the chamber, right?), and move the slide forward and off of the frame.</div>
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Push the slide spring forward and up to remove it.</div>
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And lift the barrel out of the slide.</div>
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The PT709 lists for a little over $400 US, but you should be
able to find one for $350 or less.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
now come with a hard case and two magazines, but at the time I bought mine from
DICK’s they apparently did not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very
unfortunate because the mags are expensive.</div>
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So there’s the Taurus PT 709 Slim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’re looking for a small 9mm, I don’t
think you’ll go wrong with this one.</div>
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If you make a lot of arrows, gluing the feathers on can
become a real chore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Getting the feather
in the right position and then holding it in place as the glue sets is very
tedious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A device that makes this job a
lot easier is a fletching jig.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can
buy fletching jigs that range in price from tens of dollars for a bare bones
one-feather-at-a-time rig, up to hundreds of dollars for a bench mounted, fully
adjustable, three-feathers-at-a-time set-up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or…… you can make a fletching jig for less than ten dollars depending on
what kind of junk you have laying around in your shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are a lot of different ways to build a
fletching jig; this just happens to be the way I built mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not hard to build, it’s easy to use, and
it does a good job. </div>
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To start with, you’ll need to assemble a few supplies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll need a scrap piece of 2” x 4” lumber
and a scrap of 1” x 4”,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a very small
piece of wood that is about 1/8” thick (a paint stir stick works good for
this), and few square inches of felt cloth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You’ll also need about two feet of 1/8” or 3/16” all-thread rod and four
wing-nuts that will fit onto the all-thread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The heart of the fletching jig will be made from an old clipboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used an old one I had laying around that is
made of masonite with a six inch metal clip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you don’t have one on hand, you can pick them up at an office supply
store for about three dollars.</div>
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Miscellaneous hardware includes a bottle of wood glue or
some epoxy, four wood screws that are about an inch-an-a-half long, four small
finish nails, one 12 or 16 penny nail, and two rubber bands that are about 4”
long.</div>
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Tools needed are a saw (a hand saw and miter box will do), a
drill (hand or electric), a 1/8” , a 3/16” and a 3/8” drill bit, a tape
measure, a square, a pencil, a hammer and some scissors. </div>
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How to Build It</div>
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First, take your piece of scrap 2” x 4” lumber and cut off a
block 6 ½” long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then cut two pieces of
1” x 4” that are each 6 ½” long.</div>
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Now measure down 2 3/8” from the top of the two pieces of 1”
x 4” and use your square and pencil to scribe a line across each board.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Measure to the center of this line and make a
small vertical mark.</div>
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Take your drill and the 3/8” bit and drill a hole in each
board where the horizontal and vertical lines intersect.</div>
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Now take your saw and cut each of the 1” x 4”s along the
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Scribe three lines on the top of each short portion of the
1” x 4” blocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One line should divide
the block in half long-wise, and the other two lines should cross the block ¾”
in from each end.</div>
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Put the 3/16” drill bit in your drill, and drill a hole
completely through the block where the lines intersect on top of the blocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is important to keep the hole as nearly
straight up and down as possible. </div>
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Now place the short portion of each block on top of the long
portion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Square everything up and make
sure that the top and bottom portions of the 3/8” hole line up perfectly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drop your 12 penny nail into each hole in the
top block and tap the nail lightly with your hammer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will give you a mark to drill on the
lower block.</div>
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Use your drill and the 1/8” bit to drill a one inch deep
hole at each mark on the bottom block.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Again, try to keep the hole as nearly straight up and down as possible.</div>
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Take your all-thread rod and cut four pieces that are each
four inches long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smear one inch of each
piece of all thread liberally with wood glue and tap them down into the four
holes in the bottom portion of you 1” x 4” blocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Set aside for a couple of hours and let the
glue dry. (If you use epoxy you won’t have to wait as long) </div>
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If you did everything right, the top portion should slide
down over the all-threads and the 3/8” hole in each block should line up
nicely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may have to bend the all
threads a little to make slight adjustments for a good fit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To keep from getting confused it’s probably a
good idea to mark which top goes with which bottom and the direction the blocks
should be turned.</div>
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Now we’re going to cut a groove in each of our top blocks
for the clip to slide down into.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
groves are going to go from the top of the block down to the top of the 3/8”
hole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is important to note that
natural feathers do not have the vanes centered on top of the quill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On right wing feather the vanes sit to the right
of center of the quill as you look down the feather. On left wing feathers they
sit to the left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, the point of all
this is that the grove can’t be dead center of the 3/8” hole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has to be slightly off-set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The good news is that this fletcher will do
either right wing feathers or left wing feathers depending on which direction
you put the arrow shaft into it.</div>
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So let’s cut the grooves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My clipboard is just a shade over 1/8” thick, so I made my groove just a
shade over 3/16” wide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If your clipboard
is the same size, you can use the same dimensions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lay out your grooves with a pencil and
straight-edge so that on one block the center of one groove is just slightly
(about 1/16”) left of the center of the 3/8” hole and on the other block it is
just slightly right of the center of the 3/8” hole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clamp the top portion of the block into a
vise and use your hand saw to carefully cut out the grooves about 5/16”
deep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found that the best way was to
make a cut to establish each side of the groove and then a cut down the
middle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This left some little ridges of
wood in the groove which I broke out with a pocket knife and then smoothed off
with a rat-tail file.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course if you
have a table saw this would be an easy job.</div>
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O.K., things can start to move faster now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Assemble your 1” x 4” blocks and glue and
screw them to the ends of the 2” x 4” base.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Make sure that you have the grooves facing to the inside.</div>
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Cut the bottom portion off of your clipboard so that there
is about 1/16” remaining below the edge of the clip.</div>
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Cut the ends off of the clipboard so that it seven inches
wide.</div>
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Saw a little notch out of the bottom corners of the clip so
that it will not get hung up on the felt that will be protecting your arrow
shaft.</div>
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If everything has been done right, the clip should drop down
into the grooves and slide easily down to the 3/8” hole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find it helps everything slide better if
you rub a little bar soap on the edges of the clipboard and in the grooves.</div>
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Now dissemble the 1” x 4” blocks so that you can line the
inside if the 3/8” holes with felt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just
cut the felt into ¾” wide strips and glue the little strips into each of the
half holes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may take more than one
layer of felt to get the fit that you want around your arrow shaft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You want the shaft to be held firmly in place
when the blocks are clamped together, but you still want to be able to turn the
shaft with a little pressure from your fingers. </div>
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To help keep a constant, even pressure on the clip while
your glue is drying, take your four small finish nails and hammer them part-way
in to the base block bout two inches in from each end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your rubber band will go over the top of the
clip and hook over these nails. </div>
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Cut a small wedge from you thin scrap of wood to make the
position indicator for your jig.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a
shaft is properly positioned in the jig, just the nock will protrude, and the
indicator can be wedged into the exposed nock.</div>
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Notice that the 1” x 4” has been marked with the proper
shaft position for gluing on each fletching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These markings are placed on each end along with a designation for
whether the nock protrudes for a right wing feather or a left wing feather.</div>
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After using the jig for a while I made a couple of
improvements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was to drill a little
slot into the base of the jig so I could put the little wedge in it and,
hopefully, keep it from getting lost. </div>
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Another improvement was to paint the fronts of the two
upright different colors so I could easily see which top went with each bottom.</div>
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How to Use It</div>
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To use the fletching jig the first thing that you have to do
is take the clip out and loosen the wing nuts enough to slide your arrow shaft
through the holes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the photos below I
am fletching with right wing feathers, so the shaft is placed in the jig with
the nock protruding on the right wing end.</div>
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Now snug the wing nuts down so that the shaft is held firmly
but not immovable in place.</div>
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Place the small wedge in the nock and turn the shaft until
the indicator is pointing to one of the fletching positions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a “C” on my indicator to show which
position is correct for the cock feather.</div>
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Now take the clip and, before placing your fletching in it,
rub a little bar soap along the bottom and front edges of the masonite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find that this helps keep the clip from
sticking to the fletching if get a little too much glue on the quill.</div>
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When the clip is lubricated place a fletching in the clip
with the quill resting up against the bottom of the masonite. Position the
large end of the fletching to the left and line it up with the edge of the metal
clip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find that this gives me the
right location for my fletching on the shaft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you would like the fletching to be closer to the nock or farther
away, you can make a mark on the clip at the position that you favor.</div>
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Next you need to run a thin bead of glue down the
quill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I use Fletch-Tite, but you may
wish to use Super Glue, fletching tape, or whatever.</div>
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Slide the clip down into the grooves and press the fletching
firmly into contact with the shaft.</div>
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Loop the two rubber bands over the top of the clip to keep
pressure on the fletching.</div>
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Let the whole thing sit for a couple of minutes to give the
glue time to set, then remove the rubber bands, pinch the metal clip open, and
lift the clip assembly out of the grooves.</div>
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Use the indicator wedge to rotate the arrow shaft to the
next position, load another fletching into the clip, and repeat the gluing
process.</div>
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When all three fletchings are glued in place, loosen the
wing nuts on the left block a little, and remove the block on the right
completely. Slide your finished arrow out of the jig, and insert a new
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position of the feathers is more consistent, and that the glue contact of
fletching to shaft is more even.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Many people are intrigued by the idea of making their own
bow, but they are intimidated by the thought of making a wooden bow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is totally understandable since making a
wooden bow involves so much in the way of procuring the right materials, taking
the time to season the wood, and then making the actual bow; all with no
guarantee that the bow will turn out to be an effective shooter.</div>
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Well what if I told you that there’s a way that you can make
a bow in one day, and that said bow is made from readily available low cost
materials, and that the bow is virtually guaranteed to work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would you be interested then?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, it’s not just a pipe dream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a bow that anyone can make and it
won’t take a lot of time or cost you an arm and a leg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s the amazing PVC bow.</div>
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PVC, or poly-vinyl-chloride, pipe is one of the most widely
used plumbing pipes in the world today, and it is readily available from
big-box and local hardware stores almost anywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To make this bow we are going to use ¾ inch
schedule 40 PVC pipe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A ten foot piece
of this pipe at my local hardware store costs about three dollars, U.S.,
and that is enough to make two bows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Tools you will need to make this bow include a tape measure,
a pencil, a hacksaw, two or three wood clamps, a rat-tail file, a flat wood
rasp, a small piece of 80 grit sand paper, and of course you will need
something to make a string out of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
can use your kitchen stove to heat the PVC for this project, but a heat gun
makes the job a lot easier. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I bought a
heat gun for $20.00 U.S.
at a discount tool store, and I have used it to make several bows as well as
other projects around the house. </div>
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You will also need a few pieces of scrap lumber to make a
simple jig.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The jig is super easy to
make and shouldn’t take more than ten minutes for construction.</div>
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So, let’s get started.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Assuming that you have a ten foot joint of PVC, let’s make our bow five
feet long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that way we can get two bows
out of this one pipe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So step one is to
use your hacksaw and cut a five foot piece of ¾ inch, schedule 40 PVC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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When the pipe is cut, measure to the center and make a
mark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then measure and make a mark three
inches on each side of the center mark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This six inch section will be the handle of your bow.</div>
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When you have your PVC cut it is time to taper the limbs
down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To do this, you will heat the PVC
until it is pliable and then press it between two flat boards to leave it thick
at the handle and tapered down to flat at the ends.</div>
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I found that the easiest way to do this is to build a simple
jig out of a few pieces of scrap lumber.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The base of the jig is a piece of 2 x 6 that is 36 inches long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The top board of the jig is a 36 inch 1 x 4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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To hold the PVC in place while it is being heated and
shaped, I nailed a couple of 1 ½ by 1 ½ inch blocks on each side of the pipe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These blocks need to be the same height as
the thickness of your pipe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this case
they are one inch tall.</div>
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I recommend that you pre-drill the blocks to keep them from
splitting when you nail them down.</div>
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I also nailed a couple of 2 x 4 blocks under each end of the
bottom base board.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This lifts the whole
jig up so that you can get your wood clamps onto the jig without a big hassle.</div>
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So, now you need to heat the PVC to make it pliable. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can do this over a burner on your stove,
but I have found that an inexpensive heat gun, $20 U.S., works better for this part of
the project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are going to shape one
limb at a time on the bow, so set your PVC into the jig with the center mark
between the small blocks and fire up your heat gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heating the PVC evenly takes a little
practice. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You need to keep the heat gun
moving slowly up and down the pipe, and keep turning the pipe so that you heat
it all the way around. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make sure that
the end of the pipe is well heated, as this is the part that will be flattened
out the most in your jig. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are
using your stove to heat the PVC, keep the pipe moving, and keep turning it.</div>
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You can tell when the pipe is ready to shape because when
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Now is the time to move fast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Place your pipe in the jig with the end of
the handle section even with the edge of the small block.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Place the top board over the PVC, and press it
down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quickly attach your clamps and
squeeze the down tight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The end of the
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Let everything sit for about five minutes and then remove
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If it isn’t tapered correctly, or if the limb went a little
crooked, don’t despair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The great thing
about working with PVC is that if things don’t go right, you just heat it up
and go again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As long as you haven’t
scorched the pipe, there’s virtually nothing that you can’t correct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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OK, you’re half way there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now do the same thing to the other limb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When you have both limbs tapered it time to round each tip off to give
your bow a more finished appearance and to cut the string nocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Use your hack saw, wood rasp and sandpaper to
round the tips.</div>
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Then use your rat-tail file and sandpaper to form the string
nocks.</div>
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You can make a simple string by twisting together six
strands of artificial sinew that are about one-and-a-half times as long as your
bow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tie an overhand loop in one end and
then tie the other end off as you string the bow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The string will stretch a little at first,
but you can correct this by unhooking the loop and twisting the string
tighter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will shorten the string.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep making this adjustment until you have
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That’s it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your bow
is ready to shoot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your five foot bow
should be pulling at around 30 lbs. at 28” draw.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you make a shorter bow, the poundage will
naturally be higher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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If you want to dress the bow up a little you can give it a
couple of coats of black heel and edge shoe dye. </div>
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There’s nothing like actual time in the woods to improve
your camping skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A recent trip into
the woods for a little camping trip with my son and one of his friends resulted
in yet another lesson on how to prepare for wilderness living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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You see, the weather on this campout was not a beautiful
spring day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a very early spring
day, and it was still cool, and it was raining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hey, there’s no weather guarantee for the apocalypse, so you’ve got to
practice in all kinds of conditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
anyway, we’re in the woods and we decided that we needed to get a fire
going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything was wet, but I had
some paraffin and cardboard fire starters; so I wasn’t worried about getting a
fire lit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then we discovered a
problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All we had to start the fire
with was a fero-rod striker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A fero-rod
is not the right tool for igniting a wax and cardboard fire starter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, we had to traipse out into the field and
locate a juniper tree, peal some bark off the dry side, shave off the inner bark,
and buff it up into tinder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we
could use the fero-rod to light the juniper bark, use the juniper bark to light
the fire starter, and use the fire starter to get our damp squaw-wood twigs
burning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not a major problem; I’m sure
we could have got the fire started with enough juniper bark and some rich pine
slivers, but it was kind of a pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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So after our camping was done, and I was back at the house;
I decided to make some fire starters that I could ignite with a fero-rod.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is what I came up with:</div>
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To make these fire starters you will need some corrugated
cardboard, a pair of scissors, some heavy jute macramé string, some light
cotton string, and some wax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I use
recycled candle wax that I keep in an old coffee can. </div>
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Start by cutting your corrugated cardboard into strips that
are about an inch and a half wide by twelve inches long. Cut your jute into pieces about four inches long.</div>
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Place a jute wick onto one of the strips of cardboard.</div>
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Roll the cardboard up into a cylinder and tie a piece of
light cotton string around the cylinder to hold it in place.</div>
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Place your can of wax into a pot of water and set it over
heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never set the can of wax directly
on a flame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is danger that it
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wax and also make sure that the first ¾ inch of the wick is also coated with
wax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the lower part of the wick does
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A final lesson learned from this camping experience…..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make sure that you throw a cigarette lighter
in your bug out bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Always better to
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Sensible Survivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01783624792201899315noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024181205545465340.post-41897809937908193742016-07-06T18:33:00.000-07:002016-07-06T18:33:27.939-07:00Canning Garden Fresh Hot Sauce<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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A SPECIAL NOTE
ON CANNING TOMATOES:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many different varieties of
tomatoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many modern hybrid tomatoes
have been bred to be low in acid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
this reason many sources now recommend that tomatoes should be canned using a
pressure canner rather than the water bath method.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only raise the older non-hybrid, heirloom
type tomatoes which have a high acid content.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I process them using the water bath method, and I have never had a
problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will have to use your own
judgment as to what type of canning method to use; and if you are in any doubt,
you should ere on the side of caution.</div>
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To make and can 4 to 5 pints of hot sauce you will need the
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1 gallon of stemmed and sliced fresh tomatoes</div>
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1 medium onion coarsely chopped</div>
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8 fresh jalapeno peppers stemmed and coarsely chopped</div>
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4 teaspoons of pickling or non-iodized sea salt</div>
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1 teaspoon of granulated garlic</div>
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1 teaspoon of powered cumin</div>
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1 tablespoon of chili powder</div>
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1/8<sup>th</sup> cup of distilled white vinegar</div>
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4 to 5 pint canning jars</div>
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4 to 5 canning lids and rings</div>
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A pot large enough to hold your upright canning jars with
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A long handle wooden spoon</div>
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A cup to pour hot sauce into the jars</div>
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Tongs to handle the hot lids and rings</div>
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A damp cloth to wipe the jar rims</div>
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Begin by placing your lidless jars in the large pot and
covering with water until one inch above the jar tops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I always do five jars even though this recipe
usually just makes about 4 ½ pints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
5<sup>th</sup> jar is to hold the left-over which I put in the refrigerator for
immediate use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some times, for reasons
only the canning gods can understand, I will end up with 5 full jars. Place the
covered pot on your stove over high heat and bring the water to a rolling
boil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boil jars for ten minutes to
sterilize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reduce the heat to low to
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Cut out the stem ends of the tomato removing most of the
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Slice each half of the tomato into 3 to 6 pieces depending
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Peel and coarsely chop one medium onion.</div>
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Cut the stems off and coarsely chop eight fresh jalapeno
peppers.</div>
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Place one quart of sliced tomatoes, one fourth of your
chopped onion, and one fourth of your jalapenos in a blender.</div>
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Turn on blender.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
will probably have to use your wooden spoon to press the mixture down into the
blender until the mixture turns over and starts to blend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be careful not to get the spoon down into the
blades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blend for about 30 seconds. </div>
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Pour the blended mixture off into your large cook pot.</div>
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Process additional batches of tomatoes, onions, and
jalapenos until you have used all of your vegetables.</div>
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Place the uncovered pot of blended mixture over high heat
and bring to a boil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sir the mixture
every 4 or 5 minutes. Drag your spoon across the bottom of the pot to keep the
mixture from sticking and scorching.</div>
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As the mixture begin to boil the pink foam on top on the
mixture will largely disappear. </div>
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Reduce the heat but make sure that the mixture continues to boil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Set your timer for 25 minutes for a single
batch or 40 minutes if you are preparing a double batch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The purpose of the long cook time is to cook
and sterilize the sauce and to reduce the moisture content and make the sauce
thicker.</div>
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As the sauce boils add your salt, garlic, cumin, chili
powder and white vinegar.</div>
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Continue stirring and scraping the bottom of the pot every 4
to 5 minutes.</div>
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During the last 15 minutes of cooking, turn the heat on
under your lids and rings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As soon as
the lids and rings come to a boil, turn the heat off.</div>
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About five minutes before your hot sauce is done you can dip
out a spoon full, blow it to cool, and sample it for flavor and (spice)
hotness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it is not hot enough for
your taste, you can add some cayenne pepper to bring up the heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can also observe the thickness of the
sauce at this time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it is too thin
for you, you can extend the cooking time to drive a little more moisture out of
the sauce.</div>
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When the sauce is cooked to your taste it is time to can it.</div>
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Remove the sterilized jars from the canner dumping about an
inch of water from each jar back into the pot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Fill and apply lids to the jars one at a time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pour hot sauce in jar leaving ½ inch of head
space at the top.</div>
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Wipe the jar rim with a damp cloth to clean it and insure a
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Place a hot lid on the jar and immediately screw a ring
firmly onto the jar.</div>
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If you don’t have enough hot sauce to fill the last jar, you
can partially fill it, wait for it to cool, then put it in the refrigerator for
immediate use.</div>
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When all of the jars are filled and sealed return them to
the water bath canner, cover, and turn the heat to high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make sure that you have a least an inch of
water covering the tops of the jars.</div>
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Bring the water to a full boil and process for 20 minutes.</div>
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When the jars have finished processing lift them,
immediately, from the water bath and place them on the counter to cool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lids should ping down as the jars
cool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a jar doesn’t ping, and the lid
stays bowed up, then you don’t have a good seal on the jar, and it will
spoil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this point you can either
replace the lid and ring and reprocess, or you can put the jar in the
refrigerator for immediate use.</div>
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Be sure to label and date jars before you put them in
storage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be sure to check each jar
before you open it to make sure that the lid is still bowed down and the seal
is good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any jar whose lid is bowed up
should be discarded immediately.</div>
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The garden is in full production of jalapeno peppers, so its
time to get some canning done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pickle
my jalapenos so I can do my canning using the water-bath method rather than
pressure canning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To make six pints of
pickled jalapenos you will need:
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A one gallon freezer bag full of jalapenos, washed and dried</div>
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Six grape leaves</div>
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A large covered pot that is big enough to hold six pint jars
completely covered with water</div>
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Six pint jars </div>
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Six canning lids and rings</div>
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A jar lifter</div>
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A canning funnel</div>
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A wooden chop stick or a thin knife</div>
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And ten cups of canning brine (ingredients below)</div>
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I always start my jars sterilizing first since this takes
longer than any other part of the process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To
sterilize jars, fill them with water and place them in the pot, then fill the
remainder of the pot with water until the jars have at least ½ inch of water
over the tops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Place the pot on the
stove, cover, and turn the burner on high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After the pot comes to a rolling boil let it boil for ten minutes then
turn the heat off. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep covered. </div>
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Next I prepare the pickling brine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To make the brine I use a medium large pot
and pour in five cups of distilled white vinegar, five cups of water, and five
tablespoons of canning salt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be sure to
use canning salt, kosher salt, or pure sea salt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do not use iodized table salt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To this mixture I add one teaspoon of mustard
seed, one teaspoon of granulated garlic, and ¼ teaspoon of turmeric.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cover this mixture and bring to a boil for 15
minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is actually a little more
brine than you will need, but there’s nothing more frustrating than to run
short of brine and have to make a new batch to finish up that last jar. </div>
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Place your lids and rings in a small pot and cover with
water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heat until the water just starts
to boil then turn the heat off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
usually don’t turn the heat on under the lids and rings until about ten minutes
before I’m going to use them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t
take long for them to heat up, and I want them to be hot when I use them.</div>
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Now it’s time to prepare the jalapenos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Always wear protective gloves when processing jalapenos to avoid burning your hands. Don't touch your eyes, nose, or mouth while processing. </span></div>
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I cut off the stem end of the peppers and
then split them in half.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you don’t
want them to be too hot you can remove the seeds and ribs, but it kind of
defeats the purpose of jalapenos to do this.</div>
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When your jars have sterilized, use your jar lifter to take
them out of the pot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pour about an inch
or two of water from each jar back into the pot then discard the rest. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recover the pot to retain as much heat as
possible.</div>
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Line your jars up on the counter and stuff them as tightly
as possible with the jalapeno slices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Add one grape leaf to each jar as you are filling it with
jalapenos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tannin in the grape
leaves will keep the jalapenos from getting too mushy. </div>
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Pour hot brine in each jar until it is about ½ inch from the
top rim.</div>
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Run your chop stick down the inside edge of the jar all the
way to the bottom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do this three or four
times around the inside of the jar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is to remove trapped air bubbles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Top up
the brine so that it is about ½ inch from the rim.</div>
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Wipe the jar rims with a damp paper towel to clean them and
insure a good seal. </div>
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Place a hot lid on each jar lid and as you place the lid on,
immediately screw down a ring firmly on each jar. </div>
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Use your jar lifter to place the jars back in the canning
pot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make sure that the jars are
completely covered with at least one inch of water above the tops.</div>
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Turn the heat back on and bring the water back to a
boil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boil your jars for ten minutes
then cut the heat and immediately lift the jars and set them out on the counter
to cool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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As they cool the lids should
make a loud pink as the center of the lid pops down a little.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the lid doesn’t ping down, you do not have
a good seal and the peppers will spoil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All you can do is either replace the lid and ring and re-boil the jar,
or discard the peppers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may choose
to refrigerate the contents and use them in the near future, but I either
re-can or discard.</div>
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When the jalapenos have cooled for 24 hours; I remove and
wash <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the rings for re-use, date the
jars, and put them into storage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be sure
that the lid is still popped down and that the seal is intact when you open a
jar for use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the lid is not down
discard this jar as it may contain botulism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have never had this problem, but it can happen, so be safe. </div>
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One note:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>don’t be
dismayed if your peppers float up and leave a little empty space of brine at
the bottom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is almost impossible to
pack the peppers tight enough to keep this from happening.</div>
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We’ve all read those prepper novels where the protagonists
escape to there well equipped retreats that have everything they need to
survive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have tractors, garden
tillers, chain saws, generators, solar panels, windmills, fuel dumps and
lubricants, four-wheel drive vehicles, ham radios, propane tanks, etc., etc.,
and etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are able to live, and
thrive, and help out other poor unfortunates that were not prepared, and when
society finally gets back on its feet they are able to re-enter it virtually
unscathed.</div>
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Well, those are nice works of fiction, but here are some
facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the last six months on my farm
I have had to replace one car battery, one tractor battery, an ignition switch
and a diesel cut off solenoid on a tractor, a chainsaw bar, bearings on a belly
mower, the supply line and regulator on a propane tank, a burned out well pump
and holding tank, and I still need to replace oil seals on a garden tractor,
and roto-tiller.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that’s just the stuff
I can remember.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The fact is that all machines eventually break down, and the
parts to repair them and the power to run them are all dependent on a very
fragile manufacturing and delivery system that will not exist after some
cataclysmic event disrupts all of that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can certainly stockpile some obvious maintenance parts and you can
even buy duplicates of some items like chainsaws; but who can afford to have a
back-up tractor or a duplicate vehicle that just sits in the garage?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe you, but certainly not poor old country-boy
me.</div>
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A little ingenuity and a little scavenging may be able to
keep things running for a while; but if a crisis lasts long enough, we will all
be living on the frontier in the 18<sup>th</sup> century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All farming will be done with hand tools unless
you are fortunate enough to have a plow and some mules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
wood work and wood cutting will be done with hand tools. All cooking will be
done on wood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your house will be heated
by wood and lighted by homemade candles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Water will be drawn from a well with a bucket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soap will be homemade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shoes and clothing will be made from home
tanned leather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think “Daniel Boone” and
you will be pretty close to what life would be like if society broke down for
ten or fifteen years.</div>
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So, what I’m trying to say here is that prepping is a
multi-layered situation, and one of those layers is “what if it goes on for
years?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It certainly wouldn’t hurt you
to start learning some of the daily living skills that were part of 18<sup>th</sup>
century life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learn how to cook on a
campfire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learn how to brain-tan leather
and make moccasins and clothes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learn
how to make candles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe even take up
blacksmithing as a hobby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are
re-enactment groups all over the United States that promote and
teach these skills, and it may be worth your time to check one of them out.</div>
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Hopefully you will never have to actually live in the 18<sup>th</sup>
century, but it can be kind of fun to learn how, and it will add another layer
of depth to your preparations for a possible calamity in the future.</div>
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When you’ve laid in a good supply of various different
candles, you will need something to hold the candles while they are
burning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your candle holders can be as
simple or as fancy as you wish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can
melt a little wax in a metal jar lid and stick your candle in that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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You can pour a little sand in a glass jar and stick your
candle down in that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Add a wire bail and
you will have a fairly functional lantern that will not be blown out by every
breeze that comes along. </div>
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I would advise against using wooden candle holders, either
store-bought or home-made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When your
candle burns down to the bottom it can catch the wood on fire and then you
could have real problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see by
this photo from my earlier candle test that a wooden holder can definitely
catch fire.</div>
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If your candles will be stationary and inside out of the
wind, metal candlesticks work just fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have to admit to having a little bit of a thing for antique pewter
candlesticks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they are at all
reasonably priced, I just can’t pass them up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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We generally use oil lamps during power outages, but we have
been known to break out the candlesticks on occasion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One winter our power went out about an hour
before 12 people were due to come over for dinner and a small after-Christmas
party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We already had the open face wood
stove burning, so all we had to do was break out the candles and the party went
off without a hitch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course it helped
that the attendees were all members of our mountain man club, so they thought
the 19<sup>th</sup> century ambiance was great.</div>
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We have wall sconces in our dining room that hold three
candles each, and a candelabrum that sits on the table holding another three
candles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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This makes for a fairly bright dining room, but in any long
term situation I would not burn this many candles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have just a couple of candles burning
in an average size room you will be surprised at how fast your eyes adjust and
make the room seem fairly well lighted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not read a book or do needlepoint well lighted, but good enough for most
activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember, most of the old
time country folks didn’t “burn the mid-night oil” very often.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Activities that required a lot of light were
preformed during the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the sun
went down, bedtime was not far off.</div>
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If you will be walking around the house with a candle, or
especially if you are going outside; a candlestick will not work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter how slow you go, or how hard you
try to protect the flame with your hand, your candle will blow out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What you need is a candle lantern.</div>
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There are many different kinds of candle lanterns, but they
all have the same basic purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
are made to protect the candle flame from being accidentally blown out while
still allowing the flame to illuminate the immediate area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As mentioned above you can improvise a pretty
good lantern with a jar, some sand, a candle, and some wire; but there are many
styles of ready made lanterns available.</div>
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The punched tin, or Paul Revere lantern is an attractive
lantern; but, in my opinion, it is one of the least practical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It just does not emit enough light, and the
light that it does emit is in a very distracting pattern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would save this one for decoration and buy
a more practical lantern for actual use.</div>
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Most stores that carry home decorator items will have a good
variety of candle lanterns, and they usually don’t cost that much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can buy two or three of these for your
home without breaking the bank.</div>
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This wooden candle lantern is one that I bought at a
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I’ve used it for years, and it works quite well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only problem I have with it is that the
actual candle holder is wood, so you have to keep an eye on it so it doesn’t
catch fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, you can’t burn really
tall candles in it or the flame may set the top on fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sounds kind of dangerous now that I think
about it, but I’ve never had any problems.</div>
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This last candle lantern is one that I made on the same
basic pattern as the mountain man lantern above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two differences are that I made it much
smaller because I will only burn tea candles and votives in it, and I made the
actual candle holder out of a metal jar lid so as to avoid the catching on fire
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I also made a little protective box to carry it in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The box has some storage space on the bottom where
I can keep candles, matches, and a chain with hooks to hang the lantern.</div>
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Here is a comparison photo of five different lanterns in
use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From left to right they are (1)
candle in a jar improvised lantern, (2) Paul Revere lantern, (3) decorator
lantern, (4) wooden mountain man lantern, and (5) small home-made wooden
lantern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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For purposes of comparison the
first four lanterns are all burning standard paraffin emergency candles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lantern number 5 is burning one of the
paraffin tea candles that it was designed for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All except the Paul Revere lantern produce good light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been known to lay in my cot at night
reading by the light of my mountain man candle lantern, so the light must be
pretty good.</div>
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Sensible Survivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01783624792201899315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024181205545465340.post-45664592608471409902016-04-20T17:48:00.000-07:002016-04-20T17:48:18.947-07:00Candles for Emergency Light<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Many people keep candles in their emergency supplies, so I
thought I would do a little experiment to see what kind of candle will burn the
longest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I used six different candles in my experiment as follow: </div>
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<u>Candle A</u> is a bee’s wax candle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is six inches tall, 7/8 inches in
diameter, and weighs 46 grams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I weighed
each candle so that I could more accurately compare their burn times.</div>
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<u>Candle B</u> is a paraffin decorative taper; the kind of
candle that you stick into a candle holder when you have a fancy dinner on the
table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cut this candle down so that it
was also six inches tall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has a
diameter of 7/8 inch and weighs 40 grams.</div>
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<u>Candle C</u> is a paraffin emergency candle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These candles are sold in supermarkets and
variety stores and are specifically labeled as emergency candles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The candle I used is four inches tall, ¾ inch
in diameter, and weighs 20 grams.</div>
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<u>Candle D</u> is a bee’s wax votive candle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is 1 7/8 inches tall, two inches in
diameter, and weighs 35 grams.</div>
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<u>Candle E</u> is a paraffin votive candle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is 1 ¾ inches tall, two inches in
diameter, and weighs 39 grams.</div>
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<u>Candle F</u> is a paraffin tea candle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is 3/8 inch tall, 1 3/8 inches in
diameter, and weighs 10 grams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tea
candle is contained in its own little aluminum foil tub, presumably to keep the
melted paraffin from running off.</div>
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So, let’s get started.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All the candles were lighted at the same time. </div>
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I turned off the lights and closed the drapes to try and get
an idea of how much light each candle produced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I don’t have anything to measure the amount of lumens each candle
produces, so I just had to eyeball it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They all look to be about the same with the exception of the tea candle which
is noticeably dimmer, and the emergency candle appears to be just slightly
brighter than the others.</div>
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At the end of the first hour the emergency candle has burned
down quite a bit.</div>
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By the end of the second hour the emergency candle is
getting very short.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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The two votive candles are starting to form large puddles of
wax around themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know for
sure, but I think that this is because the votives only get hot enough to burn
the wax that is right around the wick area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The wax that is farther away from the wick doesn’t burn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It just gets hot enough to melt and run off.</div>
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After two hours and thirty-five minutes the emergency candle
is the first to go out.</div>
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By the end of the third hour the two votive candles are
getting very low.</div>
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The tall bee’s wax and paraffin candles are still doing
well. </div>
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After three hours and twenty-five minutes the tea candle
goes out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has not burned the longest,
but remember, at only 10 grams weight it is the smallest candle in the test.</div>
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After three hours and twenty-nine minutes the paraffin
votive goes out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see that it has
left a large pool of melted (unburned) wax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In fact of the original 39 grams of wax there are 23 grams that remain
as unburned waste.</div>
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The bee’s wax votive lasts for a total of three hours and
thirty-seven minutes; just eight minutes longer than the paraffin votive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bee’s wax votive leaves behind 21 grams
of unburned waste.</div>
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It appears at this point that the paraffin taper will last
the longest, </div>
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but for some reason it starts melting and pooling wax rather
than burning it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After four hours and
fifty-eight minutes the paraffin taper goes out.</div>
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The bee’s wax taper burns for over another hour and finally
goes out after six hours and four minutes.</div>
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A bee’s wax taper<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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B paraffin taper<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- 4 hrs. 58 min. </div>
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C emergency candle<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-
2 hrs. 35 min.</div>
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D bee’s wax votive<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-
3 hrs. 37 min.</div>
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E paraffin votive<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>- 3 hrs. 29 min.</div>
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F paraffin tea candle – 3 hrs. 25 min.</div>
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Now it would be easy to say that the bee’s wax tapers burn
longer than other candles, but let’s remember that the tested candles were all
different sizes and weights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only
fair way to make an apples-to-apples comparison is to figure out how many
minutes per gram of wax that each candle would burn, and here the results are a little
surprising.</div>
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The big losers are the two votive candles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The paraffin votive only burned about 5.3
minutes per gram of wax, and the bee’s wax votive only did a little better at
6.2 minutes per gram of wax.</div>
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The paraffin decorative taper burned about 7.5 minutes per gram,
the paraffin emergency candle burned about 7.8 minutes per gram, and the bee’s
wax taper burned about 7.9 minutes per gram. So these were all pretty close to the same.</div>
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The run-away champion was the paraffin tea candle which
burned an amazing 20.5 minutes per gram.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>By the way, I had some other tea candles that were ¾ inch tall instead
of 3/8”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I burned one of them and the
results held.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ¾” tall tea candles
burned for nearly 7 hours.</div>
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So there you have the great candle experiment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if you have to burn two tea candles to
get the same amount of light as from the other candles, you are still ahead of
the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are going to lay in a
supply of emergency candles I would say that tea candles look like a winner,
and did I mention that they are also cheaper than any of the other candles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Definitely a winner.</div>
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