What tools for survival are you able to hand craft in the random woods?

Questions: What are some tools/weapons that I can hand craft out in the woods with only a 2 in. pocket knife?
How much time should it take and what materials would I need for it?

I would like it if I got some really great answers?

Since we know nothing about you it's a little hard to give you credible answers. Are you 5 or 50? Do you have any experience in bushcraft or is this just a dream question? The overall question tends to give the impression you are young and inexperienced. There is nothing wrong with either. However, if we got some really great information about you then we could give you some really great answers.

Also the type of "woods" in which you exist, jungle, eastern U.S., Rocky Mountains...

I have a log of great ideas, but as has been stated it would be helpful to know what is in your area (general location). The reason I say that is that if all you have available is cherry trees and large chunks of granite, my answers would be different that having a wide variety of hard and soft woods.

Hunter63, saying Hey and Welcome.
You asked for some great answers....but that was not a great question.

and as we all know, many of the worlds problems come from attempts to answer questions that have not been asked and solve problems that do not exist!

To do that we would have to declare ourselves politicians and not woodsmen.

Well, think about this...it is so easy, even a cave man can do it. Actually it isn't that easy. You have to spend the time to develop the skills, just like everything else. You can make all your survival with naturally occurring material. It has been proven for millennia. You don't need a pocket knife. Metal knives are a recent invention. But, you can make those as well.....after all, someone made it. What you really should do is change your perspective. Everything that has been made...can be, obviously. Study how it is made now, study how it was made back in the day. Then learn how to make it.

Spear, pungi stick, bow and arrow, bow and drill, snare, deadfall?

spoons. forks. walking stick with spear end. throwing stick/club. figure 4 traps,bow drill , fish trap and shelters. its really up to how much imagination and time you have to spend on the project as well as personel skill level. with skill a very nice bow and arrows could be made or a ivory soap carving. . youre question asks peaple to guess at youre skill lev. and location.i decided just to go with what i can do with a small blade. I would prefer a nice work shop with power tools but there a pain trying to fit into a backpack :) dont let the earlier answers annoy you.You can allways rephrase the question for better responses:) have fun, I almost forgot i am also pretty good at carving up my fingers :))

I can make small stones from big ones....had a lot of practice :)

My guess is the OP didn't like the answers, and won't be back.

Random woods?

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Originally Posted by Atehequa

Random woods?

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Yes, it is found on the rare Random tree which only grow in Random county:smartass:

....close to Middle Earth......on the way to Mordor...You know?

Ok, if any af you would for some odd reason be stranded in the woods with any tool and there is no way you would get back to civilizationfor at least 2-6 weeks, what tools would you make from what's around you and in what order would you make them?

Where are you in this woods?
What time of year?
What kind of woods?
What do you have with you?
Why would you be there for 2 to 6 weeks?
Is there water near by?
Are there any rocks?
What kind?
How are you planning to remover your self...or wait for rescue?

A lot depend on what your needs are Think rule of threes

3 minutes without air - 3 hours without shelter

3 days without water - 3 weeks without food.

Let's say you're in alaska, late summer. You're waking up near a small lake and the only things you've got is the cloths you're wearing: trousers, shirt jacket, socks, shoes, a hat and gloves.
You are alowed to make use of your clothes.

If you don't have a way to build a fire and a good knife they won't let you out of the house in Alaska!

You see, the point of this forum, and most outdoor sites, is to insure that situation never happens.

I'm sitting here at the computer with more gear in my pockets than that!

and I'm just in Kentucky.

And that's why I am saying "for some odd reason" you've lost all your gear...
Your number 1 priority is to survive the first night so I'd guess you'll need a fire first of all!

I didn't ask that question because it will happen, but because it could happen...
What would you do if you were in this situation?

Step one....make some sort of shelter for the nite.....with what ever is around......there is vegetation around right?
Maybe you want to list what you think is around?

Hunter is correct.

Shelter comes first.

Water is next and since you are up at the lake in Alaska that is covered.

Since the subject went into the woods with no knife, no fire gear, and no brain he can now begin making tools of stone, wood and bone for the construction of the town of Dumba$$.

"lets' say", "what if", and "it could happen", closely followed by "you don't really believe that they....." ??? We can run in circles over those for eternity.

My suggestion to the unknowing asking questions with those phrases at the beginning is the same as my advice to new cartridge reloaders,

BUY A BOOK

Not the SAS Survival Guide, or the U.S. Army Survival Guide, or even the fantastic survival information supplied to your own Swedish Army used during the excellent training they give, which would be much more appropriate and realistic for your own area, unless you are really a 12 year old kid in New Jersey and not in Sweden as you claim.

I would suggest My Side of the Mountain, or possibly Hatchet they are great fantasy reads about the improbable accomplishing the impossible in every "what if" situation one can imagine. You will find them in the library under the children's fiction section.

Ok I get it! No need to be an *** about it though...

And for your age I would guess you're an 17yo, trigger happy bully. Just sayin...

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Originally Posted by Xacoon

Ok I get it! No need to be an *** about it though...

And for your age I would guess you're an 17yo, trigger happy bully. Just sayin...

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LOL, I would say you couldn't be more wrong........but then again if you are 12,... 17 seems old.
BTW profanity is no sign of intelligence....even the computer knows that.

So "Just say, I wanted to go to Mars, what would I need"?....would that question make any sense to you?

JUST SAYING.

Ok, Im starting to see your way of thinking. My question was pretty bad in that matter.
So Im gonna back on this one.


As for me being a bit "odd" it may be because I've got ADD and atypical autism and never got help dealing with it until just a year ago. And I am 24.

Would you want to deal with you OP set of conditions?...and maybe make a suggestion so all can compare notes?

I once saw a Marine Corps Drill Instructor cure a half platoon of men of those exact same conditions, in less than a week!

That was back in the 1960s before recruits were allowed to write their congressmen while in boot camp.

:brickwall:

Xacoon - You just received an excellent lesson of surviving on the internet with only a computer.

Xacoon - take a look at this - it may be helpful. http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...rio-Check-List

Rick - Woo hoo! I've learned something! I.. Is there a badge for that?

crash - Note to self; this is why you should always read the stickers before posting stupid things in the forums!

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Originally Posted by Xacoon

Let's say you're in alaska, late summer. You're waking up near a small lake and the only things you've got is the cloths you're wearing: trousers, shirt jacket, socks, shoes, a hat and gloves.
You are alowed to make use of your clothes.

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I would search for a stocked trapper's cabin, of which there are many in AK. Actually, this scenario is not that far fetched. In John McPhee's book, "Coming into the Country", he wrote about an actual incident from the 1940's where a bomber crew doing cold weather flight testing had to ditch their plane in the interior of Alaska near the Yukon river in mid winter. Only one of the crew survived. On his first day, he found a fully stocked trapper's cabin and sat out the winter. I'm pretty sure that he just had the clothes on his back and very little survival training. In late winter he walked out along the river and was found by a local trapper that saved the guy. I guess it just wasn't "his time".

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Originally Posted by Xacoon

Let's say you're in alaska, late summer. You're waking up near a small lake and the only things you've got is the cloths you're wearing: trousers, shirt jacket, socks, shoes, a hat and gloves.
You are alowed to make use of your clothes.

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Hate to beat a dead horse, but...

Ok this isn't a small lake but a small river in Alaska. It is summer so about 60 above zero. In the winter, it's 60 below zero. If you notice, there are no trees. So if for some strange reason you are out here with only a 2" blade...well that wouldn't ever happen. So let's say that your small plane went down on the tundra of the North Slope. It happens pretty regularly. You may only have a small knife in your pocket but you have the whole plane wreckage to scavenge from. Your biggest problem is dealing with any injuries you may have sustained in the wreck and mosquitos. All our aircraft, even tiny ones, have first aid kits. Most of them also have bug dope. But if you have no bug dope, you better hope you have long sleeves and at least a hat or can scavenge or make one from seat cushions or something because the mosquitoes are the main danger you will have.

http://cloud9doula.files.wordpress.c...7/dsc_8712.jpg

Here's the amount of mosquitos that got inside our plane just from having the door open long enough for us to get in.

http://cloud9doula.files.wordpress.c...7/dsc_9142.jpg

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