![]() Games and toys are excellent items to pack in an emergency kit – especially if you have small children. ![]() Running low on oil? No problem, just top it off with some more olive oil from the pantry – or any cooking oil for that matter. Sure, it’ll smell like fish, but that’s what you get for not including emergency candles in your “bug in” supplies. A sardine lamp with just a little bit of oil will burn for many hours. Once the wick is fully soaked, simply light the end. The wick, in this case a cotton string from a mop head, will absorb the oil. Once you’re done smashing those tasty bites of fish, place a natural fiber wick into the remaining oil and slightly over the edge of the sardine container. What do sardines and oil lamps have to do with each other? Quite a lot, actually, if your sardines are packed in olive oil. From rendered whale blubber to modern kerosene lanterns, oil lamps are excellent “off-grid” lighting solutions. On a different note, oil lamps have been used for hundreds of years. Maybe you have some sardines packed in your emergency food storage. They have a long shelf-life and are full of protein and fats. You just never know when one of these innovative ideas might shed some light into your darkness one day. This article is a collection (not all my own I’ll admit) of a few, creative, makeshift lighting solutions you may have to deploy as a last resort if the grid goes down. I’ve always said that the ability to improvise is one of the most important survival skills. Sometimes you just have to go MacGyver and solve common problems by using the resources you have on hand – combined with a little ingenuity, of course. Comment on others' contributions.It’s impossible to be perfectly prepared for an imperfect world. Want to help participate? Submit your Bushcraft related material. It's a good thing to consider but by no means the hill we, as a subreddit, are going to die on. More detailed versions of the rules can be found here Guidelines Reposts within 90 days are absolutely prohibited. Use the search function to the best of your ability before sharing something you didn't create. Fresh content is critical to the vitality of our community. Occasionally, we'll find one that does something good and exceptions will be made, but please, REPORT all the bots you see and we'll make sure they never bother us again.Ĩ.) NO RECENT REPOSTS. They're spammy and distract from conversation, which is the whole point of the subreddit. Cooking meat over a campfire wouldn't be included.ħ. This includes, but is not limited to, posts which include pictures and/or video of hunts, freshly killed animals, and the processing of fresh kills. Ħ.) Posts containing potentially controversial or sensitive content must be flagged as NSFW within 30 minutes. Posts like these are difficult for the community to help with/answer without knowing the region in question. Posts that request region-specific information (Where should I camp? What are the rules about cutting firewood? What are these animal tracks? Etc.) must have the location bracketed in the title. ![]() ![]() Respect others views and be courteous at all times.ģ.) All Buy / Sell / Trade posts must be made in /r/BushcraftClassifieds This will help keep the main sub for discussion, and guidelines are in place on the classifieds subreddit to protect buyers, sellers, and the moderation team.Ĥ.) Medical advice/first aid discussion must include the poster/commenter's level of training in the relevant field, and/or link to evidence-based citation to support the advice.ĥ.) Location specific posts must have location in the title. Disagreement and discourse are acceptable and even encouraged. Posts without either OP text contribution in the form of top-level text comment or significant community involvement after 2 hours are subject to removal at moderator discretion.Ģ.) Be Nice /r/Bushcraft is a community of people with similar interests, and oftentimes different methods. Posts of links, videos, or pictures must be accompanied with a writeup, story, or question relating to the content. In this subreddit we discuss the development, and practise, of those skills and techniques, the use of appropriate tools, schools of thought and the historical context.ġ.) Discussion is the priority in /r/Bushcraft. r/Bushcraft defines Bushcraft as the usage and practice of skills, acquiring and developing knowledge and understanding, in order to survive and thrive in the natural environment.
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