If not get them imported. They're UK lighter that can be refilled and easily take a flint change. You can literally get a pack of three here for 2 quid, which is about 3 dollar's
Something I learned doing watch repair. Don't use anything petroleum based on gaskets, long term it will damage them. Use silicone based grease instead.
Rather than nuts and bolts, you might want to use crushed cans or scrap metal, along with waste paper and general garbage. That way it looks more like somebody had dug a hole to get rid of some trash, rather than hiding things from a metal detector.
Vacuum seal each item. I use PVC or the MTM cash buckets. They will not rust or leak and are less likely to be picked up by a metal detector. If PVC is used make sure you have away to open it. Also use oxygen absorbers. If a firearm is put in oil and or grease it down good, vacuum seal it and vacuum seal the ammo. This has worked well for me.
Two things I think are worth pointing out. 1. If you have a survival cache, you have to consider how to transport said cache after you retrieve it. You need a pack or some sort to be stored with the cache so that you can carry the contents easily. 2. if you bury the cache, you need to consider how to dig it up. This is an emergency cache drop. So the odds of you having a shovel or an entrenching tool is slim. Trying to dig a hole in compacted ground with sticks or rocks will be both physically demanding and time consuming. The odds of you being detected retrieving the stash go higher. Although I don't have an alternate solution for how to conceal it long term, it is something that needs to be taken into consideration.
@@superdave8248 I one I done wasn't a large one. It was more for seeing how things will fair out in one. Mine was in soft sand only about a foot deep. I did use a tool to dig it up just to check and see how it did. I placed a block under it and then put a 5 gal. bucket of the the tube. It was down only 6 or 8 months but what I put in it was just as good as the day I put it down. I didn't try any kind of food. Just a number of things that would be very good to have if things where out of control. You are right just the same, these things need to taken into consideration. the land scape can also change very fast too.
@@superdave8248 Maybe a pile of stones set on top of a shallower cache pit? Still annoying for yourself to get, but you don't need a shovel to retrieve.
@@MindForgedManacle One option I considered was to not to bury it at all. To submerge it in water instead. There is usually bridges or concrete pipes in place where roads meet creeks. If it is concrete, take the stash in a water tight container and bury it with rocks directly where the concrete ends on the outbound end. The most you have to deal with is sediment buildup and this tend to be lose and not compact. So it is easy to deal with. Also being right at the very edge of the concrete, the water is likely not going to dislodge it. it will simply flow over it.
My cache is our 1 acre garden. At age 69, I plan to bug in. I am a combat veteran and have set up vietnam style defenses on our 10 acres. We can survive well and we have been prepping for years. We have poultry, nut trees, large garden, root cellar, water sources, and wildlife.
I like to cache with 3" PVC that has a threaded end. I use a post hole digger and bury it vertically with a bit of gravel in the bottom of the hole. This allows a hole with minimal soil disturbance and quick placement. A 14" - 16" Sched 40 pipe will hold my basics but I can make longer/shorter ones if I want/need to. If I think I may need to retrieve the cache quickly I will attach a 1/8" galvanized (or stainless) braided steel cable (wrap & crimp around pipe below the cap) and leave the tail just below the ground surface. Once you clear most of the dirt, a healthy tug will do the rest & off you go.
Good job. I wonder, if you wrap the tube with a piece of Typar or Tyvek (both very slick), you can probably pull that tube out even more easily. Just a thought.
Chris you must be clairvoyant. Today I was just thinking about this topic and watched older TH-cam videos on this. Lots to think about, but I like the simplicity you present. Thank you.
I have a number of caches from basic to full on war. I have some that are nothing but food and water some that have ammo added to them. Interestingly I found a fanny pack once. I hung it on a limb exactly where I found it so it could be seen. A month later I was back in the area and it hadn't been touched. So I took it with me. It contained survival gear plus a good and matching paper map of someone's caches. Just to be sure I dug down found a bucket list and filled the hole back in without opening the cache
I dont have a stash like this, but i love to walk in the mountains, tent and such. In order to come up to were the best views begin (and i can walk for miles and miles in near level terrain) i have to walk around 400 meters from sea level, thru a steep wood. So to avoid carrying the dang 22 kg backpack up and down that bit every time, i bought a big camolike drybag and hide it in the bushes nearby the top. Its been extremely handy :) When the season ends, winter comes, i carry it down and home.
I'd definitely use the plastic ammo cans to prevent rust issues over time. 5gal buckets are nice but likely a bit hard to bury (if you have clay like me). PVC pipe works well if you have any "long" items but make sure it's wide enough like 6" pipe. Lots of ways to be creative on this. If storing a firearm, clean it WELL, and oil it heavily, then try vacuum sealing it with an O2 absorber to prevent oxidation. It worked for all those Mosins we bought right? lol. Food for thought.
Sounds good, but have you thought about filling your PVC pipe with nitrogen? If you get your pipe prepared with a connection, take it to a welding shop and they might fill it for you. Things don't rust in a pure nitrogen environment.
I’ve been testing caches on my mountain property for a couple years, everything from 1 liter Nalgene bottles to ammo cans , 2 and 5 gallon buckets with snap on lids also PVC pipe. Some Buried and some hidden above ground. All have worked well, just be sure they are watertight by filling them part way with water and inverting them, if water leaks out assume that it will most likely leak in ! Vacuum seal contents whenever possible.
My brother and I were just talking about this and he called it a drop box, would be nice to keep it near a off grid shelter too. Love your videos, keep it up, you can never be too prepared!
Once upon a time, my survival cache was half way between work and home, with a 50ish mile commute. It was simple- a storage locker that was three miles from the half way mark. If I had to walk out, half way point with blankets, an older stove, cot, pack with supplies, all hidden behind boxes that say "xmas crap" or "dorm china" and a couple of lawn chairs. It was stuff, but it was also camp if needed. Towards the end, just before I moved cross country, there was even room for my car. Always had the key on my keyring, and the combination for the gate.
Mate, what a well thought out kit without the usual 40+ knives like many. I would add a few things - a plastic water carrier 2 or 4 litres is ideal. A cheap pocket foldable backpack will allow you to grab, go with your items plus a few garbage bags are useful for many things. I have used sewer pipes from hardware shops I have sealed & added a threaded cap - secured with clear silicone but I like your idea too.
Great video. Good additions of lightweight pack and water container. Being in the upper Midwest, I would add a watch cap and gloves, and a firearm and ammo. Multiple passports and thousands of dollars if you’re going full out Jason Bourne. 😳
Our family geocaches. It's amazing how you can find areas that although passed by many people daily it is constantly overlooked. It certainly has helped us in learning where and how to hide items.
I keep a cache at work. It's an added get home supply. Also, I have it locked with my name on it so someone at my job can claim it. It is well hidden though. Thank you for the Vaseline info. I didn't know. If I buried my caches, it would be in someone's yard. So, I have them hidden in various worksites around town. I mostly keep needed items in my vehicles, home and bugout location. I did put items that I don't want to get wet in either ziplock bags or vacuum sealed. Thank you so much for this great info. ❤
We have a storage unit. In with all the junk is a pink plastic tote labeled “baby clothes”. Nobody looting would want to dig through it, but under the top layer of onesies is ammo, handguns, food, meds, all sorts of goodies. If you live in a large city, pick a storage unit that’s on the way out of town, make your goal to get to the storage unit and get your stuff and get out. Add food, water, bicycles, whatever you might need. If the weather is bad or the area is dangerous, locking yourself in and waiting it out is always an option.
(1) If you have a long commute (and thus a long get-home) or long bug-out if you are not bugging in, you might HAVE to have a cache or two because you either cannot carry the weight. Essentially, these are "resupply" points with food, water, and other such consumable supplies (rather than gear). This is particularly true if you are having to pack out for more than just yourself because you are the primary mule for a family with a pregnant wife and small children such that they are doing well just to travel with you unburdened. (2) If you have a bug that you want to be able to travel quickly, then you can use caches at your intended camp sites so that you can travel with nothing other than a day pack, since you can have not just food and water, but your shelter, bedding, fire or stove and fuel, some fresh socks and other clothes, etc. Essentially everything you would carry in your pack for the day is already where you would use it at the end of the day. This will greatly increase your speed, make you more inconspicuous, and can actually let you have a better equipped camp than you would have if you had to haul it. This requires a good deal more investment (especially if you will be independently equipping multiple campsites for a long trek). It can be a real lifesaver if your portage includes moving a person in a cart, stroller, or wheelchair. It is also a good plan if it is a trek you might make regularly - like if you have family whose bug out location would be more than a day's trek to visit and check up on or if you think you might make more than one trip back and forth for some reason. (3) If you are pushed from your home, for whatever reason, having a store of cached supplies at a secure campsite some distance from your home would be a lifesaver as well. This would be the place where you wouldn't just want a full camp like for #2, but also a large cache of food and water since you might be staying there for awhile. This would also be the one where having an extended amount of gear and weaponry might be called for - as this would be the "starting over" point if catastrophe struck at your BoL. Few people live in castles. Being pushed out of your home is always a real possibility. Having a fall back to arm yourself and then go pick off the interlopers before they wreck everything or haul it all away can be a useful defensive strategy (better than dying on a pile of bloody brass and letting them keep it all). This is also why splitting your stash, concealing your stash, etc is always called for. It doesn't have to be far or even done pre-apoc if you are prepped to do it after. I did a trial using raised beds to "bury" some of my buckets (it didn't take much digging). They did a great job reducing the amount of soil it took to fill nice, tall, "you don't have to bend over" boxes, and getting them out later was, of course, a breeze. Who would think to dig out a nice strawberry bed that was producing food 2-3 months a year looking for buckets down under the dirt? Extra, extra, extra moisture protection is a must though. Bags, in a bag, in the bucket, in a bag, in a bag was what I did. All plastic (it wasn't long, long term storage) and it was all good (pasta and rice, with no moisture leaks and thus no quality lost).
Good idea using the 10 C's & D.E.A.T.H. for a Survival Cache assembling. My Surveyor Husband though would probably give us a 4 day lecture about marking a location with rocks, trees, roads, sidewalks, etc. Then, again, he was a Surveyor in NJ and dealt with original Kings' Land Grants, Deed & Land Surveys going back in time when the USA wasn't the USA, but a New World for explorers and buddies. The end result of the lecture would be to have at least a three finger measurement for the Cache location formulated by standing on the spot with your arm out stretched and three fingers measuring what is in your sight at the top/third finger as the farthest mark eg: a Mountain ridge line. Look for an object at the second finger mark. Then, look for an object at the first finger mark. I'm sure you remember the Boy Scout trick for measuring distance, if not get out the BS Handbook and refresh your memory. Be sure to measure from two point for a more accurate location (N-S, E-W). He would probably make us go out and double our measurements & locations a week, month & year later for update purposes, too. Lol
I've got a couple friends who have let me stash stuff in their house or barn. It's nothing valuable enough to temp them to steal in comparison to what they have already. But it gives me something that I can rely on when I swing by there in an emergency without having to be a burden on them
Great items to have in the survival cache. Using the acronym of DEATH to make sure everything packed is safe and not giving off gasses making everything unsafe. I like the seals used with the items to keep them safe.
Some good suggestions in here. I tend to bury mine deeper, I want about 2' of dirt on top of my container. I have also tailored the kits to my climate as well as their specific geo-location. Everything in mine are vacuum sealed and the locations are hard to get to. A couple of examples: One near a local river has: Small folding saw. Fixed blade knife. 100' survival cord. 100' #36 bank line. Emergency blanket. Candle. Mg and flint combo. Sawyer Squeeze. 10L water bladder. Nalgene bottle. Firebox. Some bag [with shoulder straps. 300 yds 30lb braided line. Collapsible fishing pole. Casting net. Assorted hooks, weights and lures. Small tarp. A 9mm lead thrower with some lead to throw. While another I have deep in a forest has: Large folding saw. Fixed blade knife. 100' survival cord. 100' #36 bank line. Emergency blanket. Candle. Mg and flint combo. Sawyer Squeeze. 10L water bladder. Nalgene bottle. Firebox. Medium sized back pack. Large tarp. Axe. 2 small traps. Assorted trapping wires. A .308 lead thrower with some lead to throw.
@@3nertia my frost line is nearly 8 feet. I only worry about making that in the case of load bearing structures though. I've never had a buried cache, with 2 feet of dirt on top of it, rise out of the ground bcuz of frost.
@@humansustainability Rising out of the ground isn't the concern for me. There are expansion and pressure changes at or above the frost line underground that I don't want bursting some of the things I plan to cache 😅
@@3nertia Yeah, if your cache isn't 'freeze safe' you gotta go deep. I would urge you to select items that have no 'expiration date' which means any seeds or food etc. should be preserved appropriately. Also you should wrap and bag your items so any unfortunate bursting does not affect anything else in your cache. Stay safe.
@@humansustainability I'm gonna try some canned goods as they're cheap and if I pick the right ones (and put them below the frost line) they should be safe :)
I think i would choose a plastic box to avoid rust. Plus I would add a folding rucksack to carry all those things, if i didn't have nothing. I really want to see next part about the places you put them.
I have my own propping stuff but I also gave a survival map of the immediate area. On the map, I have color coded things that could be useful in a survival event. Such as water sources, food sources, energy sources, transportation (bike racks, bike stores, etc. ). Basically everything someone might need in a survival setting. While many of these things do not belong to me, I will still know where to go to obtain help and in the SHTF case, where resources have been abandoned by the death or flight of the owner, it is better that I salvage them and put them to good use than they remain idle and help no one.
I’d love a video about how to stay cool during a power outage! We live in AZ and our power was out for 6 hrs the other evening. It was starting to get quite hot in our home and I was getting worried about my newborn. It made me think, “what if the power didn’t come back on for days or weeks?” Heat can get deadly very fast, especially for babies and little kids and I have 4 of those.
The design of your home would be the first thing. Can you modify an existing house to make it more efficient? Figuring out the power needs of your a/c unit and figuring out a way to supply that power even if you have to only cool one room. Of course modifying behavior to take advantage of cooler times of the day will help. A steady supply of water is a must in the desert.
Storing anything in bubble wrap is a surefire way to get a weapon or ammo to rust over time. Armorers in the Army freak out over this often. Excellent advice on not burying your stuff on other people’s lands. I write my stuff’s GPS coordinates on a few pieces of paper. The decoy tip is pure gold, too. Also, kind of a bucket full of moisture and oxygen absorption packets fan myself. Amazon sells them in huge quantities for fairly cheap - I use tons in every ammo box I have at home.
@@freedomfighter1861 Depends on who is digging around your land and why, doesn’t it? Burying it on others’ land leaves far less control, is ethically wrong, and invited a shitload of trouble.
8" PVC pipe four feet long is very usefull. Seal the one end with a cap, glue it on properly. Other end use a screw on cap but use Vasilene...spelling 🙄 to more easily unscrew the cap.
Here is a riddle I'm sure that you will enjoy. I'm thinking of a profession. It is the profession of both the first human and the last. Every human must engage in this profession to a greater or lesser extent.This profession will never go out of style. It will be as relevant in a million years as it is today! What is it? Survivalist
Keep in mind freeze depths and drainage. As with all supplies, rotate to maximize shelf life. Seasonal clothing might be worth more than food. Water filter is strongly recommended as the primary need.
I say when barring any items.. in your area I highly recommend that to make markings in the surrounding areas so only you know and recognize the markings and no were your stuff is. because you can easily Forget Where You put it.. remember bushes Do grow.. so remember Mark your spot that only you recognize it ..
True! I lost a cache once that had a pow pow in it . It was in the ground for almost 3 years. I had to buy a metal detector and eventually found it. Everything was still fine inside.
@@borg386 that is also my friend because you haven't detected that's why it was still in good condition when you found it years later.. because just like a dog mark spot we can do the same thing .so to speak..
@@skapunkoialternativeliving6522 I think it would depend on how good you are at land navigation. You could always back it up by triangulating the exact position using landmarks/features that would not change even though there might be civil development around it. Geocaching is a world-wide sport now. If you have a smart phone, you have a device that is also a GPS locator. I have an app on my phone just for that.
Buried a bunch of cans of food under a garden bed for around 9 months. They were in a sorry state before, but the way I wrapped them, garbage bags and an old ratty sports bag, they weren't too worse for ware One of them busted open though
I wonder what the longevity of a cache is. I realize certain items may not make it, but depth in the soil is dependent on region. Say Texas vs Minnesota
Not a very good idea imho. After the first waves of scavenging are over and most stores have empty shelves a 'storage' complex is a very easy place to find just about anything. A well organized group will look at these places as if they're a shopping mall. If you have a large cache in one of these units I suspect the scavengers will rejoice at your preparation.
@@gailmiller6333 I would go one step further and say they would be 2nd or 3rd choice for the organized group and 1st for those who have nothing are on foot and just stumble across it. People aren't stupid but some movies have provided this idea that there will be stores with full shelves to pick and choose from. That just isn't the case. A scavenging world won't be an easy one to find what you're looking for and even harder to protect what you have.
@@humansustainability those locks are really hard to cut and have you seen what most people put in those units?! Mostly junk or collectibles that will mean little in a world without law.
burying supplies on a roadside requires A LOT of trust and consideration. The odds of box being there when you need it would likely be dubious at best, I wouldn’t personally rely on solely on this method. At best I would consider this for low risk, supplemental items like non-perishable food items.
I live in a place that swings from one extreme temperature to another over the course of the year. From frozen to sweltering heat, both kill up to a couple dozen, each, every year. I wish I could do something like this, not that I think any of my supplies would last out in the wild for more then a few months. But I think bugging in is my only option. I am not very healthy (many health issues like daily pills needed to stay functional), I have a vision disability and no location to bug out too, I'd just be wondering around aimlessly and we all know how that'll end. Still, knowledge is knowledge so I'll take some mental notes just incase.
@Soul Data I will be bugging in too. It’s frustrating knowing we can’t just make a run for the hills. But being a realist makes us prepare in a different way. My sons think I am crazy for my decision that I will stay put unless something extreme forces me to leave...but I know my limitations. The best thing is always to walk in the truth of the situation. I have toyed with getting a bicycle and a cargo trailer made to pull behind it. If all else fails, I could push the bike and trailer for spells. My bad back won’t allow for me to carry much. What creative things are you doing for a bug-in situation? I keep trying to think of ways to fortify my home and make it look like I am not even here. It’s all a little frightening.
@@underneathyourfeet6938 our basic plan is bug in too, for lots of the same reasons. If you live in a house rather than an apartment, along with giving your house the grey man treatment, making your house less accessible might be good. Cactus grows very well here, and would make a nice perimeter. Prickly pear is both edible and the flowers are pretty so it wouldn't be a surprise to see a house with lots of them. Same with rose bushes. Some roses, especially the Eglantine, have SO many thorns; plus producing rose hips that are useful. Things like boards with nails in them laid out in unassuming but strategic places could be helpful too, as long as you don't forget where you put them.
@@MsDcameron Wow! All good ideas. What climate are you in? I’m in Central Missouri. Cactus...hmmmm. Thinking now. And the boards!! Good solid idea. Grey man...never heard that term. Explain?
@@underneathyourfeet6938 thanks! I'm in the Texas panhandle. Right in the middle, nothing but grassland for miles, although there's a pretty large canyon about 20 miles south of us, I think lots of people would head there since its the only place that's not flat. There's hardly any trees here, just lots of short, scrubby mesquite, a few scrubby juniper and lots of dirt, wind, and cactus. We normally have temps here up to 110/115 in the summers and some occasional below zero in winter. I've seen all 4 seasons in one day here, believe it or not - you may get 95 during the day and go down to 32 or even lower in 24 hours. We get some rain, but don't really have it often. Lots of flash flooding because the ground gets too dry in between rains to soak it up fast enough. Grey man is when you do everything you can to blend in. You try to make yourself unnoticeable and uninteresting. You want to look as if you have nothing worth taking. You blend into the crowd and it kind of makes you invisible. I'm still figuring out how to give our house the grey man treatment. I don't keep the yard well groomed, for one thing. It's very overgrown. Sometimes I leave trash in and around it that has blown in from other places. It gets picked up every now and then but not on a daily basis. I built a fence for the front yard out of some old 6 ft. wooden fence people were getting rid of. So we have about a 3 1/2 " wooden picket fence for the front. I'd painted it and it's been there long enough it needs repainting but I'm not going to. Kind of adds to the run down look.
An old family friend of the family had a sheet metal lunch box and inside he kept two ham sandwiches, two cans of beer and an extra pair of flip-flops. He had become so big (fat!) that he could not wear shoes and only flip-flops. The sandwiches switched out every day. He was a Flying Tiger pilot in the AVG from WWII. When his plane was hit he flew off into the jungle surrounding Dien Bien Phu and everyone thought he was dead. All 300+ pounds. About six weeks later he came walking out of the jungle, a bit thinner. The next time he was shot down he was killed. This was back in the mid-1950's. He was a contract pilot for Air America. True story. Survival is also a matter of the mind. Dear old dad was hunted down by 20,000 Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese troops for weeks, well over a month and escaped. Survival was drilled into us, always ready to evacuate for any reason, even war (once we were evacuated from a war because we were ordered to by the ambassador. Dad stayed behind: that was his job). Go to extremes to keep your identity hidden if you hide or bury anything, even on your own property. As stated already, a criminal or underaged person finding a firearm, ammunition, oversized knife not locked away or on public lands can get you arrested and sent to prison for years! I make kits of all types for friends and family: since I was a kid growing up overseas (mom and dad were super secret clandestine agents, dad also one of the founders of today's Special Forces before it was all military. He was a guerilla leader and trainer most often with native troops behind enemy lines. I was to be his replacement, trained since a little kid but, darn, I fell in love with an American woman who wanted me in a safer job and home for dinner. So, it was a career professional firefighter-paramedic job for me! But, like any good agent, any good guerilla, dad had a backup plan, one of my brothers took the job and recently retired after decades of intrigue. I break my kits up so you can share the burden if you pick up others, drop some if the weight if you have to literally run for it, and have a little of essentials in each bag so you don't lose everything in one bag like a totally separate medical aid kit, a totally separate fishing/trapping kit, a totally separate tool kit (axe, trowel, saw, etc.). I have a three day pack with four extra bags: food, medical aid, water, survival kit. The pack mirrors all the other stuff with extra food, shelter and so on.
for many it will be unlikley that you have time to find and retrieve your items in such an event... its best to carry such a kit with you in your vehicle. nearly all of us are either at home or at work when things like this happen, most of us are within 200 yards of our vehicle at all times. If you have a truck a mountain bike thrown in back my be handy should the road be shut down (or in an unlikely event of an EMP). For critical documentation, scan them and store them on an encrypted USB drive... the rest store in a heavy quality fire rated gun safe bolted to the floor and wall in a tight space closet (in a way that makes it difficult to pry open).
You should learn about wild edibles. The stuff talked about is in my bob. However i know enough wild edibles to forage. There are plants even in urban environments to sustain you. At least here in florida. Also there is water every where. Instead of carrying water i have the means to purify it. As well as hooks, split shot, and fishing line. Kick over any leaf pile when it is damp outside, efter a rainstorm, early morning dew,ect and you can find earthworms. Instant bait.
Why the comments about always carrying a shovel? The oldest digging implement is from 60,000 years ago, and it wasn't a modern shovel with a metal blade and wood/fiberglass handle . . .
The only problem with burying your cache is that you'll have to be sure to bring something to dig with on your journey to get the cache. I'm thinking a little bit differently. I hide caches in illogical places that nobody would ever bother to look for something. For instance, many areas of my home have secret compartments, and if I did not show them to you, you would never think to look there. My cache are not "behind" or "underneath" things, but INSIDE of walls, under floorboards, inside of a fireplace. I also do this at friend's houses that are a distance from me as well. Their homes are my "stop off" places to rest as I travel. Each place has just what I need at that time, located somewhere in that place. (Yes, my friends know that I placed them there) This way I'm not carrying a large amount of things with me along the way. True, I have buried caches also along the way, but my back-up plan always has a back-up plan, just in case I cannot get to one of my caches. BTW, having a pair of thick socks and a spare pair of good walking shoes or hiking boots is also a good cache. You can leave those at a friends house or in a cache by themselves. Believe me, dry, fresh socks and a new pair of shoes can go a long way at helping you to get to your destination. May I also suggest, other than food & water, you also pack toilet paper or at least a wash cloth to clean your bottom along the way. (a little vasoline can keep you from chaffing as well) It's hard to travel by foot when you are chaffed and sweating.
REMEMBER "Breaking Bad" ? The gang had "go bags" ready at the airport & other locations, complete with $$$, a gun, and change of clothes. Your survival cache should ALSO include those items - along with basic high energy bars, water filtration straw, and any needed medications. A good location to bury it : the swale along a rural road, especially if it includes a small berm (to prevent flooding). You can mark it by "tagging" the closest telephone poles, and driving a nail into the road surface.
Always have a get home bags....actually test that bag. A cache is a interesting idea but too many factors. 1 got to remember where its at 2. Hope no one else has found it or cleared the land 3. Hope the items are still good
They are a second of third line of defense. If you lose you bag, have to flee you home, get robbed, etc. mistakes happen, bad guys can get the jump on you.
@@titanpreparedness Don't be obtuse. No in an emergency when you have nothing left, you will dig with your hands, a stick, a rock, a piece of garbage.... whatever you can find. You bury it 1' max - not like 6' underground.
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I constantly here you mention Bic lighters... genuine question... do you get or know what a Clipper lighter is?
If not get them imported. They're UK lighter that can be refilled and easily take a flint change. You can literally get a pack of three here for 2 quid, which is about 3 dollar's
Something I learned doing watch repair. Don't use anything petroleum based on gaskets, long term it will damage them. Use silicone based grease instead.
Silicone spray
Great observation. 👍
Rather than nuts and bolts, you might want to use crushed cans or scrap metal, along with waste paper and general garbage. That way it looks more like somebody had dug a hole to get rid of some trash, rather than hiding things from a metal detector.
Vacuum seal each item. I use PVC or the MTM cash buckets. They will not rust or leak and are less likely to be picked up by a metal detector. If PVC is used make sure you have away to open it. Also use oxygen absorbers. If a firearm is put in oil and or grease it down good, vacuum seal it and vacuum seal the ammo. This has worked well for me.
Two things I think are worth pointing out.
1. If you have a survival cache, you have to consider how to transport said cache after you retrieve it. You need a pack or some sort to be stored with the cache so that you can carry the contents easily.
2. if you bury the cache, you need to consider how to dig it up. This is an emergency cache drop. So the odds of you having a shovel or an entrenching tool is slim. Trying to dig a hole in compacted ground with sticks or rocks will be both physically demanding and time consuming. The odds of you being detected retrieving the stash go higher. Although I don't have an alternate solution for how to conceal it long term, it is something that needs to be taken into consideration.
@@superdave8248 thanks for pointing out these two items to comsider!
@@superdave8248 I one I done wasn't a large one. It was more for seeing how things will fair out in one. Mine was in soft sand only about a foot deep. I did use a tool to dig it up just to check and see how it did. I placed a block under it and then put a 5 gal. bucket of the the tube. It was down only 6 or 8 months but what I put in it was just as good as the day I put it down. I didn't try any kind of food. Just a number of things that would be very good to have if things where out of control. You are right just the same, these things need to taken into consideration. the land scape can also change very fast too.
@@superdave8248 Maybe a pile of stones set on top of a shallower cache pit? Still annoying for yourself to get, but you don't need a shovel to retrieve.
@@MindForgedManacle One option I considered was to not to bury it at all. To submerge it in water instead. There is usually bridges or concrete pipes in place where roads meet creeks. If it is concrete, take the stash in a water tight container and bury it with rocks directly where the concrete ends on the outbound end. The most you have to deal with is sediment buildup and this tend to be lose and not compact. So it is easy to deal with. Also being right at the very edge of the concrete, the water is likely not going to dislodge it. it will simply flow over it.
My cache is our 1 acre garden. At age 69, I plan to bug in. I am a combat veteran and have set up vietnam style defenses on our 10 acres. We can survive well and we have been prepping for years. We have poultry, nut trees, large garden, root cellar, water sources, and wildlife.
I like to cache with 3" PVC that has a threaded end. I use a post hole digger and bury it vertically with a bit of gravel in the bottom of the hole. This allows a hole with minimal soil disturbance and quick placement. A 14" - 16" Sched 40 pipe will hold my basics but I can make longer/shorter ones if I want/need to. If I think I may need to retrieve the cache quickly I will attach a 1/8" galvanized (or stainless) braided steel cable (wrap & crimp around pipe below the cap) and leave the tail just below the ground surface. Once you clear most of the dirt, a healthy tug will do the rest & off you go.
Good job. I wonder, if you wrap the tube with a piece of Typar or Tyvek (both very slick), you can probably pull that tube out even more easily. Just a thought.
Exactly.
Chris you must be clairvoyant. Today I was just thinking about this topic and watched older TH-cam videos on this. Lots to think about, but I like the simplicity you present. Thank you.
My pleasure!
I have a number of caches from basic to full on war. I have some that are nothing but food and water some that have ammo added to them. Interestingly I found a fanny pack once. I hung it on a limb exactly where I found it so it could be seen. A month later I was back in the area and it hadn't been touched. So I took it with me. It contained survival gear plus a good and matching paper map of someone's caches. Just to be sure I dug down found a bucket list and filled the hole back in without opening the cache
Why would you steal someone else’s cache? They may depend on that someday.
I would put a couple on different routes just to cover yourself. Its always a good idea to have two or three different ways to get home.
Those trick birthday candles are great. Less likely to go out in windy weather.
Thanks for this one. You’ve convinced me that caching is a lot easier than I have been picturing.
You can do it!
Great topic that is rarely addressed.
I have an office cache. It is a backpack with enough to live on for a few days.
I dont have a stash like this, but i love to walk in the mountains, tent and such. In order to come up to were the best views begin (and i can walk for miles and miles in near level terrain) i have to walk around 400 meters from sea level, thru a steep wood. So to avoid carrying the dang 22 kg backpack up and down that bit every time, i bought a big camolike drybag and hide it in the bushes nearby the top. Its been extremely handy :) When the season ends, winter comes, i carry it down and home.
I'd definitely use the plastic ammo cans to prevent rust issues over time. 5gal buckets are nice but likely a bit hard to bury (if you have clay like me). PVC pipe works well if you have any "long" items but make sure it's wide enough like 6" pipe. Lots of ways to be creative on this. If storing a firearm, clean it WELL, and oil it heavily, then try vacuum sealing it with an O2 absorber to prevent oxidation. It worked for all those Mosins we bought right? lol. Food for thought.
8" PVC pipe works best for "long items".
Sounds good, but have you thought about filling your PVC pipe with nitrogen? If you get your pipe prepared with a connection, take it to a welding shop and they might fill it for you. Things don't rust in a pure nitrogen environment.
I have tested many plastic ammo cans, they don't seal well. You can use a silicone sealer but it will be difficult to open.
I'd also add moisture absorbers but make sure not to put them near the oxygen absorbers or bad things can happen heh
@@vincentmeeks129 Have you priced nitrogen recently? :/
I’ve been testing caches on my mountain property for a couple years, everything from 1 liter Nalgene bottles to ammo cans , 2 and 5 gallon buckets with snap on lids also PVC pipe. Some Buried and some hidden above ground. All have worked well, just be sure they are watertight by filling them part way with water and inverting them, if water leaks out assume that it will most likely leak in ! Vacuum seal contents whenever possible.
My brother and I were just talking about this and he called it a drop box, would be nice to keep it near a off grid shelter too. Love your videos, keep it up, you can never be too prepared!
Great video on a topic I've been thinking about. Finding the right container seems to be a key factor.
A 55 gallon steel drum in some friend's crawl space could really be a Life Saver.
Once upon a time, my survival cache was half way between work and home, with a 50ish mile commute. It was simple- a storage locker that was three miles from the half way mark. If I had to walk out, half way point with blankets, an older stove, cot, pack with supplies, all hidden behind boxes that say "xmas crap" or "dorm china" and a couple of lawn chairs. It was stuff, but it was also camp if needed. Towards the end, just before I moved cross country, there was even room for my car. Always had the key on my keyring, and the combination for the gate.
Mate, what a well thought out kit without the usual 40+ knives like many. I would add a few things - a plastic water carrier 2 or 4 litres is ideal. A cheap pocket foldable backpack will allow you to grab, go with your items plus a few garbage bags are useful for many things. I have used sewer pipes from hardware shops I have sealed & added a threaded cap - secured with clear silicone but I like your idea too.
Thanks for the tips!
Great video. Good additions of lightweight pack and water container. Being in the upper Midwest, I would add a watch cap and gloves, and a firearm and ammo. Multiple passports and thousands of dollars if you’re going full out Jason Bourne. 😳
I'd love to hear your perspective/ideas about being an over the road trucker and a prepper
Our family geocaches. It's amazing how you can find areas that although passed by many people daily it is constantly overlooked.
It certainly has helped us in learning where and how to hide items.
Great video thanks CP, enjoy your evening
Thanks, you too!
I keep a cache at work. It's an added get home supply. Also, I have it locked with my name on it so someone at my job can claim it. It is well hidden though. Thank you for the Vaseline info. I didn't know. If I buried my caches, it would be in someone's yard. So, I have them hidden in various worksites around town. I mostly keep needed items in my vehicles, home and bugout location. I did put items that I don't want to get wet in either ziplock bags or vacuum sealed. Thank you so much for this great info. ❤
We have a storage unit. In with all the junk is a pink plastic tote labeled “baby clothes”. Nobody looting would want to dig through it, but under the top layer of onesies is ammo, handguns, food, meds, all sorts of goodies. If you live in a large city, pick a storage unit that’s on the way out of town, make your goal to get to the storage unit and get your stuff and get out. Add food, water, bicycles, whatever you might need. If the weather is bad or the area is dangerous, locking yourself in and waiting it out is always an option.
Having a cache at you place of employment to grab and go is a good idea as well. In your locker or desk drawer.
Agree.
(1) If you have a long commute (and thus a long get-home) or long bug-out if you are not bugging in, you might HAVE to have a cache or two because you either cannot carry the weight. Essentially, these are "resupply" points with food, water, and other such consumable supplies (rather than gear). This is particularly true if you are having to pack out for more than just yourself because you are the primary mule for a family with a pregnant wife and small children such that they are doing well just to travel with you unburdened.
(2) If you have a bug that you want to be able to travel quickly, then you can use caches at your intended camp sites so that you can travel with nothing other than a day pack, since you can have not just food and water, but your shelter, bedding, fire or stove and fuel, some fresh socks and other clothes, etc.
Essentially everything you would carry in your pack for the day is already where you would use it at the end of the day. This will greatly increase your speed, make you more inconspicuous, and can actually let you have a better equipped camp than you would have if you had to haul it.
This requires a good deal more investment (especially if you will be independently equipping multiple campsites for a long trek). It can be a real lifesaver if your portage includes moving a person in a cart, stroller, or wheelchair. It is also a good plan if it is a trek you might make regularly - like if you have family whose bug out location would be more than a day's trek to visit and check up on or if you think you might make more than one trip back and forth for some reason.
(3) If you are pushed from your home, for whatever reason, having a store of cached supplies at a secure campsite some distance from your home would be a lifesaver as well. This would be the place where you wouldn't just want a full camp like for #2, but also a large cache of food and water since you might be staying there for awhile. This would also be the one where having an extended amount of gear and weaponry might be called for - as this would be the "starting over" point if catastrophe struck at your BoL. Few people live in castles. Being pushed out of your home is always a real possibility. Having a fall back to arm yourself and then go pick off the interlopers before they wreck everything or haul it all away can be a useful defensive strategy (better than dying on a pile of bloody brass and letting them keep it all).
This is also why splitting your stash, concealing your stash, etc is always called for. It doesn't have to be far or even done pre-apoc if you are prepped to do it after. I did a trial using raised beds to "bury" some of my buckets (it didn't take much digging). They did a great job reducing the amount of soil it took to fill nice, tall, "you don't have to bend over" boxes, and getting them out later was, of course, a breeze. Who would think to dig out a nice strawberry bed that was producing food 2-3 months a year looking for buckets down under the dirt? Extra, extra, extra moisture protection is a must though. Bags, in a bag, in the bucket, in a bag, in a bag was what I did. All plastic (it wasn't long, long term storage) and it was all good (pasta and rice, with no moisture leaks and thus no quality lost).
thanks for this information...super helpful.
Thank you for the info. Just got into prepping and looking at many of your videos to gain knowledge.
Interesting food for thought.
Thank you Chris!
Blessings to you and your family. 💜
Same to you!
Good idea using the 10 C's & D.E.A.T.H. for a Survival Cache assembling.
My Surveyor Husband though would probably give us a 4 day lecture about marking a location with rocks, trees, roads, sidewalks, etc. Then, again, he was a Surveyor in NJ and dealt with original Kings' Land Grants, Deed & Land Surveys going back in time when the USA wasn't the USA, but a New World for explorers and buddies.
The end result of the lecture would be to have at least a three finger measurement for the Cache location formulated by standing on the spot with your arm out stretched and three fingers measuring what is in your sight at the top/third finger as the farthest mark eg: a Mountain ridge line. Look for an object at the second finger mark. Then, look for an object at the first finger mark. I'm sure you remember the Boy Scout trick for measuring distance, if not get out the BS Handbook and refresh your memory. Be sure to measure from two point for a more accurate location (N-S, E-W).
He would probably make us go out and double our measurements & locations a week, month & year later for update purposes, too. Lol
I had never even thought of this, thank you so much for posting!
Excellent presentation and orientation to this undertaking. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Always put some water in every cache. You may be very thirsty after walking long distance or having to do some digging.
I've got a couple friends who have let me stash stuff in their house or barn. It's nothing valuable enough to temp them to steal in comparison to what they have already. But it gives me something that I can rely on when I swing by there in an emergency without having to be a burden on them
A 55galon steel drum in some friend's crawl space could really be a Life Saver.
An could influence them to get there own preps (possibly)
Thanks for the tips and the information much appreciated.
Glad it was helpful!
@@CityPrepping It was and you are the first one who mention what to have or not in your survival cache. Much appreciated.
I am in the same neck of the "woods" as you. Thanks for the info Love the Inland empire
Great tips!
I know I'll definitely have my five joy shovel with me. But burying and then recovering anything here in rocksylvania wouldn't be easy
Well rounded overview. Contingency is key.
Hey Thank you for the great ideas, especially in these uncertain times!
Great items to have in the survival cache. Using the acronym of DEATH to make sure everything packed is safe and not giving off gasses making everything unsafe. I like the seals used with the items to keep them safe.
Some good suggestions in here. I tend to bury mine deeper, I want about 2' of dirt on top of my container. I have also tailored the kits to my climate as well as their specific geo-location. Everything in mine are vacuum sealed and the locations are hard to get to.
A couple of examples:
One near a local river has:
Small folding saw.
Fixed blade knife.
100' survival cord.
100' #36 bank line.
Emergency blanket.
Candle.
Mg and flint combo.
Sawyer Squeeze.
10L water bladder.
Nalgene bottle.
Firebox.
Some bag [with shoulder straps.
300 yds 30lb braided line.
Collapsible fishing pole.
Casting net.
Assorted hooks, weights and lures.
Small tarp.
A 9mm lead thrower with some lead to throw.
While another I have deep in a forest has:
Large folding saw.
Fixed blade knife.
100' survival cord.
100' #36 bank line.
Emergency blanket.
Candle.
Mg and flint combo.
Sawyer Squeeze.
10L water bladder.
Nalgene bottle.
Firebox.
Medium sized back pack.
Large tarp.
Axe.
2 small traps.
Assorted trapping wires.
A .308 lead thrower with some lead to throw.
Here I'd have to bury stuff 36"+ because our frost line is 3 feet deep xD
@@3nertia my frost line is nearly 8 feet. I only worry about making that in the case of load bearing structures though. I've never had a buried cache, with 2 feet of dirt on top of it, rise out of the ground bcuz of frost.
@@humansustainability Rising out of the ground isn't the concern for me. There are expansion and pressure changes at or above the frost line underground that I don't want bursting some of the things I plan to cache 😅
@@3nertia Yeah, if your cache isn't 'freeze safe' you gotta go deep.
I would urge you to select items that have no 'expiration date' which means any seeds or food etc. should be preserved appropriately. Also you should wrap and bag your items so any unfortunate bursting does not affect anything else in your cache.
Stay safe.
@@humansustainability I'm gonna try some canned goods as they're cheap and if I pick the right ones (and put them below the frost line) they should be safe :)
I don't have any caches at the moment, but i keep thinking of making some. Thanks for the tips.
Great video and list.Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
I think i would choose a plastic box to avoid rust. Plus I would add a folding rucksack to carry all those things, if i didn't have nothing. I really want to see next part about the places you put them.
hmm bravo brilliant more survival cache fewer landmines
I have my own propping stuff but I also gave a survival map of the immediate area. On the map, I have color coded things that could be useful in a survival event. Such as water sources, food sources, energy sources, transportation (bike racks, bike stores, etc. ). Basically everything someone might need in a survival setting. While many of these things do not belong to me, I will still know where to go to obtain help and in the SHTF case, where resources have been abandoned by the death or flight of the owner, it is better that I salvage them and put them to good use than they remain idle and help no one.
That's a good idea 👍
I've thought about this, but didn't know how to start. Thank you. I'll be waiting for your next video on this topic.
Get one of those Tile locaters for your keychain so you will have an easier time locating the exact spot you hid your stash.
I felt like I was all tough but now I just think I'm going to give up
Very helpful thankyou stay safe and everyone on this channel 🙏
thank you for the video city prepping!!!
You bet!
I thought about this the other day had a dedicated container thanks
Good video. I remember Analytical Survival doing a good cache tutorial on his channel back in the day too.
Thank you for the video.
Thanks for watching!
Hi from Syracuse NY brother and thank you for sharing your thoughts and adventures
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing brother
I’d love a video about how to stay cool during a power outage!
We live in AZ and our power was out for 6 hrs the other evening. It was starting to get quite hot in our home and I was getting worried about my newborn. It made me think, “what if the power didn’t come back on for days or weeks?” Heat can get deadly very fast, especially for babies and little kids and I have 4 of those.
The design of your home would be the first thing. Can you modify an existing house to make it more efficient? Figuring out the power needs of your a/c unit and figuring out a way to supply that power even if you have to only cool one room. Of course modifying behavior to take advantage of cooler times of the day will help. A steady supply of water is a must in the desert.
Storing anything in bubble wrap is a surefire way to get a weapon or ammo to rust over time. Armorers in the Army freak out over this often.
Excellent advice on not burying your stuff on other people’s lands. I write my stuff’s GPS coordinates on a few pieces of paper. The decoy tip is pure gold, too.
Also, kind of a bucket full of moisture and oxygen absorption packets fan myself. Amazon sells them in huge quantities for fairly cheap - I use tons in every ammo box I have at home.
Anything on your land will be found! This has been proven time and time again!
@@freedomfighter1861 Depends on who is digging around your land and why, doesn’t it? Burying it on others’ land leaves far less control, is ethically wrong, and invited a shitload of trouble.
Good info, thankyou
You're welcome!
Rating survival cache
I feel like all Americans should subscribe to a method of preparedness.
8" PVC pipe four feet long is very usefull. Seal the one end with a cap, glue it on properly.
Other end use a screw on cap but use Vasilene...spelling 🙄 to more easily unscrew the cap.
terrific video
This is very helpful, thanks!
Very good info.
Thank you for your insight
You are so welcome
Welcome aboard.
Who did all this for Y2K?
And here we are.. in the Middle of a Zombie apocalypse.
We got this.👍
God bless You.
Here is a riddle I'm sure that you will enjoy. I'm thinking of a profession. It is the profession of both the first human and the last. Every human must engage in this profession to a greater or lesser extent.This profession will never go out of style. It will be as relevant in a million years as it is today! What is it?
Survivalist
Nicely done- I've always wanted to make a cache but have never done so
Keep in mind freeze depths and drainage. As with all supplies, rotate to maximize shelf life. Seasonal clothing might be worth more than food. Water filter is strongly recommended as the primary need.
Thanks for the tips!
@@CityPrepping you covered it well man. Sometimes I post the obvious for folks that read more than they watch. Cheers! We got our hands full now days.
Outstanding video and very useful information. I anxiously await the next edition on this theme of caches. Thank you, CP!
Good video , thanks for sharing , God bless !
great video
Very good video! 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏😷🇺🇸
Thank you very much!
Scouting locations for mine.
I say when barring any items.. in your area I highly recommend that to make markings in the surrounding areas so only you know and recognize the markings and no were your stuff is. because you can easily Forget Where You put it.. remember bushes Do grow.. so remember Mark your spot that only you recognize it ..
How about geocaching your supplies as well. Just in case you have the electronic ability to find your cache using the app on your cell phone.
True! I lost a cache once that had a pow pow in it . It was in the ground for almost 3 years. I had to buy a metal detector and eventually found it. Everything was still fine inside.
@@borg386 that is also my friend because you haven't detected that's why it was still in good condition when you found it years later.. because just like a dog mark spot we can do the same thing .so to speak..
@@vincentmeeks129 would that work though that's why I want to know I'm not too sure though..
@@skapunkoialternativeliving6522 I think it would depend on how good you are at land navigation. You could always back it up by triangulating the exact position using landmarks/features that would not change even though there might be civil development around it. Geocaching is a world-wide sport now. If you have a smart phone, you have a device that is also a GPS locator. I have an app on my phone just for that.
thanks for the info .
You bet!
Buried a bunch of cans of food under a garden bed for around 9 months. They were in a sorry state before, but the way I wrapped them, garbage bags and an old ratty sports bag, they weren't too worse for ware
One of them busted open though
I wonder what the longevity of a cache is. I realize certain items may not make it, but depth in the soil is dependent on region. Say Texas vs Minnesota
Good point. For example, frost line here in Alaska is 100 inches.
I dug up mine after 3 years. Everything including the food was still fine.
Local buried "Time Capsules" might be a good indicator of conditions of a cache.
I’ve always wanted a storage unit/locker as a secondary bugout/cache. I just can’t imagine people wanting to look for survival items in storage units.
As long as you think you’ll be able to get in if the power is down.
Not a very good idea imho. After the first waves of scavenging are over and most stores have empty shelves a 'storage' complex is a very easy place to find just about anything. A well organized group will look at these places as if they're a shopping mall. If you have a large cache in one of these units I suspect the scavengers will rejoice at your preparation.
@@humansustainability
You’re a 100% correct a storage unit would definitely be on a hungry scavenger’s mind after all other options are emptied out.
@@gailmiller6333 I would go one step further and say they would be 2nd or 3rd choice for the organized group and 1st for those who have nothing are on foot and just stumble across it.
People aren't stupid but some movies have provided this idea that there will be stores with full shelves to pick and choose from. That just isn't the case. A scavenging world won't be an easy one to find what you're looking for and even harder to protect what you have.
@@humansustainability those locks are really hard to cut and have you seen what most people put in those units?! Mostly junk or collectibles that will mean little in a world without law.
Great content thx
Glad you enjoyed it
I always enjoy it I miss the hands on vids
Yup, sounds good
burying supplies on a roadside requires A LOT of trust and consideration. The odds of box being there when you need it would likely be dubious at best, I wouldn’t personally rely on solely on this method. At best I would consider this for low risk, supplemental items like non-perishable food items.
thinking about having some type of bag/pack to put the cache contents in once retrieved - for easier transport purposes / keeping hands free
If you use a PVC tube to store stuff, be sure to pack the components for a potato cannon
I use a small-ish plastic container (translucent so anybody can determine that it is not dangerous, should they find it). Thanks for the video.
Hmmm. This is a better option than cannibalism.
I beg to differ, people taste like Gamey chicken.. yum 🤤
Hey, aslong as the spices or herbs match... guess we'll all be game.
@@whyyoudothis1382 NOO!!
@@whyyoudothis1382 This is the way.
Men first
I live in a place that swings from one extreme temperature to another over the course of the year. From frozen to sweltering heat, both kill up to a couple dozen, each, every year. I wish I could do something like this, not that I think any of my supplies would last out in the wild for more then a few months. But I think bugging in is my only option. I am not very healthy (many health issues like daily pills needed to stay functional), I have a vision disability and no location to bug out too, I'd just be wondering around aimlessly and we all know how that'll end.
Still, knowledge is knowledge so I'll take some mental notes just incase.
@Soul Data I will be bugging in too. It’s frustrating knowing we can’t just make a run for the hills. But being a realist makes us prepare in a different way. My sons think I am crazy for my decision that I will stay put unless something extreme forces me to leave...but I know my limitations. The best thing is always to walk in the truth of the situation. I have toyed with getting a bicycle and a cargo trailer made to pull behind it. If all else fails, I could push the bike and trailer for spells. My bad back won’t allow for me to carry much. What creative things are you doing for a bug-in situation? I keep trying to think of ways to fortify my home and make it look like I am not even here. It’s all a little frightening.
You are ahead of many in that you know your limitation(s) so you have the ability to drive your bug-in plan to a high degree. Congrats.
@@underneathyourfeet6938 our basic plan is bug in too, for lots of the same reasons. If you live in a house rather than an apartment, along with giving your house the grey man treatment, making your house less accessible might be good.
Cactus grows very well here, and would make a nice perimeter. Prickly pear is both edible and the flowers are pretty so it wouldn't be a surprise to see a house with lots of them. Same with rose bushes. Some roses, especially the Eglantine, have SO many thorns; plus producing rose hips that are useful. Things like boards with nails in them laid out in unassuming but strategic places could be helpful too, as long as you don't forget where you put them.
@@MsDcameron Wow! All good ideas. What climate are you in? I’m in Central Missouri. Cactus...hmmmm. Thinking now. And the boards!! Good solid idea. Grey man...never heard that term. Explain?
@@underneathyourfeet6938 thanks!
I'm in the Texas panhandle. Right in the middle, nothing but grassland for miles, although there's a pretty large canyon about 20 miles south of us, I think lots of people would head there since its the only place that's not flat. There's hardly any trees here, just lots of short, scrubby mesquite, a few scrubby juniper and lots of dirt, wind, and cactus.
We normally have temps here up to 110/115 in the summers and some occasional below zero in winter.
I've seen all 4 seasons in one day here, believe it or not - you may get 95 during the day and go down to 32 or even lower in 24 hours. We get some rain, but don't really have it often. Lots of flash flooding because the ground gets too dry in between rains to soak it up fast enough.
Grey man is when you do everything you can to blend in. You try to make yourself unnoticeable and uninteresting. You want to look as if you have nothing worth taking. You blend into the crowd and it kind of makes you invisible.
I'm still figuring out how to give our house the grey man treatment.
I don't keep the yard well groomed, for one thing. It's very overgrown. Sometimes I leave trash in and around it that has blown in from other places. It gets picked up every now and then but not on a daily basis. I built a fence for the front yard out of some old 6 ft. wooden fence people were getting rid of. So we have about a 3 1/2 " wooden picket fence for the front. I'd painted it and it's been there long enough it needs repainting but I'm not going to. Kind of adds to the run down look.
Every bug out bag should contain a knife, bottle of water and pemmican.
An old family friend of the family had a sheet metal lunch box and inside he kept two ham sandwiches, two cans of beer and an extra pair of flip-flops. He had become so big (fat!) that he could not wear shoes and only flip-flops. The sandwiches switched out every day. He was a Flying Tiger pilot in the AVG from WWII. When his plane was hit he flew off into the jungle surrounding Dien Bien Phu and everyone thought he was dead. All 300+ pounds. About six weeks later he came walking out of the jungle, a bit thinner. The next time he was shot down he was killed. This was back in the mid-1950's. He was a contract pilot for Air America. True story. Survival is also a matter of the mind. Dear old dad was hunted down by 20,000 Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese troops for weeks, well over a month and escaped. Survival was drilled into us, always ready to evacuate for any reason, even war (once we were evacuated from a war because we were ordered to by the ambassador. Dad stayed behind: that was his job).
Go to extremes to keep your identity hidden if you hide or bury anything, even on your own property. As stated already, a criminal or underaged person finding a firearm, ammunition, oversized knife not locked away or on public lands can get you arrested and sent to prison for years! I make kits of all types for friends and family: since I was a kid growing up overseas (mom and dad were super secret clandestine agents, dad also one of the founders of today's Special Forces before it was all military. He was a guerilla leader and trainer most often with native troops behind enemy lines. I was to be his replacement, trained since a little kid but, darn, I fell in love with an American woman who wanted me in a safer job and home for dinner. So, it was a career professional firefighter-paramedic job for me! But, like any good agent, any good guerilla, dad had a backup plan, one of my brothers took the job and recently retired after decades of intrigue.
I break my kits up so you can share the burden if you pick up others, drop some if the weight if you have to literally run for it, and have a little of essentials in each bag so you don't lose everything in one bag like a totally separate medical aid kit, a totally separate fishing/trapping kit, a totally separate tool kit (axe, trowel, saw, etc.). I have a three day pack with four extra bags: food, medical aid, water, survival kit. The pack mirrors all the other stuff with extra food, shelter and so on.
for many it will be unlikley that you have time to find and retrieve your items in such an event... its best to carry such a kit with you in your vehicle. nearly all of us are either at home or at work when things like this happen, most of us are within 200 yards of our vehicle at all times. If you have a truck a mountain bike thrown in back my be handy should the road be shut down (or in an unlikely event of an EMP). For critical documentation, scan them and store them on an encrypted USB drive... the rest store in a heavy quality fire rated gun safe bolted to the floor and wall in a tight space closet (in a way that makes it difficult to pry open).
You should learn about wild edibles. The stuff talked about is in my bob. However i know enough wild edibles to forage. There are plants even in urban environments to sustain you. At least here in florida. Also there is water every where. Instead of carrying water i have the means to purify it. As well as hooks, split shot, and fishing line. Kick over any leaf pile when it is damp outside, efter a rainstorm, early morning dew,ect and you can find earthworms. Instant bait.
Hey how about a video on knots
excellent idea!
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Why the comments about always carrying a shovel? The oldest digging implement is from 60,000 years ago, and it wasn't a modern shovel with a metal blade and wood/fiberglass handle . . .
The only problem with burying your cache is that you'll have to be sure to bring something to dig with on your journey to get the cache. I'm thinking a little bit differently. I hide caches in illogical places that nobody would ever bother to look for something. For instance, many areas of my home have secret compartments, and if I did not show them to you, you would never think to look there. My cache are not "behind" or "underneath" things, but INSIDE of walls, under floorboards, inside of a fireplace. I also do this at friend's houses that are a distance from me as well. Their homes are my "stop off" places to rest as I travel. Each place has just what I need at that time, located somewhere in that place. (Yes, my friends know that I placed them there) This way I'm not carrying a large amount of things with me along the way. True, I have buried caches also along the way, but my back-up plan always has a back-up plan, just in case I cannot get to one of my caches. BTW, having a pair of thick socks and a spare pair of good walking shoes or hiking boots is also a good cache. You can leave those at a friends house or in a cache by themselves. Believe me, dry, fresh socks and a new pair of shoes can go a long way at helping you to get to your destination. May I also suggest, other than food & water, you also pack toilet paper or at least a wash cloth to clean your bottom along the way. (a little vasoline can keep you from chaffing as well) It's hard to travel by foot when you are chaffed and sweating.
REMEMBER "Breaking Bad" ? The gang had "go bags" ready at the airport & other locations, complete with $$$, a gun, and change of clothes. Your survival cache should ALSO include those items - along with basic high energy bars, water filtration straw, and any needed medications. A good location to bury it : the swale along a rural road, especially if it includes a small berm (to prevent flooding). You can mark it by "tagging" the closest telephone poles, and driving a nail into the road surface.
Always have a get home bags....actually test that bag. A cache is a interesting idea but too many factors.
1 got to remember where its at
2. Hope no one else has found it or cleared the land
3. Hope the items are still good
They are a second of third line of defense. If you lose you bag, have to flee you home, get robbed, etc. mistakes happen, bad guys can get the jump on you.
@@jayhat so then you should always have a shovel so you can unbury cached supplies. Because if you just "hide it" its not gonna stay hidden for long
@@titanpreparedness Don't be obtuse. No in an emergency when you have nothing left, you will dig with your hands, a stick, a rock, a piece of garbage.... whatever you can find. You bury it 1' max - not like 6' underground.