An under-appreciated bit of kit:

[Oblio13]

This is a three-foot length of surgical tubing with a piece of brass tubing stuck in one end. The end of the metal is hammered partially closed to increase the velocity of air when the tube is blown through. I use it to start fires and to "turbo-charge" my woodburning hobo stove without having to get on my hands and knees and put my face in the smoke. Today I got very thirsty while hunting rabbits on snowshoes and used it to drink from a shallow puddle of ice melt-water without having to get wet on my hands and knees. I usually keep it in a pocket along with matches and tinder.

 

[korvin karbon]

Crackign idea.

I normally use my blow poker for fires but your idea is good for carrying small, also it could be sued in an emergency as a torniquet !!

 

[Mesquite]

Nice idea, and in a survival situation you have the rubber for a catapult

 

[Shewie]

Much kinder on the lips too when it's freezing I bet.

Now, where to get some surgical tubing ???

 

[Wild Thing]

I've got a few friends who are Nurses, and one who's a pharmacist at a hospital, now to see if they will be obliging and obtain some tubing for me...

 

[Oblio13]

Local hardware store has it here. They call it "latex tubing".

 

[andythecelt]

It's also a lot more effective than a bent sapling for powered traps like twitch up snares.

 

[Gill]

I keep meening to get a blow poker like this,just for the handiness of it.i have a normal steel and a brass tube but tend not to take them on day trips because they get in the way,i will need to source some good rubber tubing.

 

[jonquirk]

When I was a kid (in the 1970s) I used to read all the camping books I could find in the library. Most were from the US and virtually all of these listed just such an item as an essential piece of kit (along with your coffee pot and check flannel shirt) for any trip to the backwoods. If I recall it was called an aspirator.

I have used the tube of a Platypus bladder to coax a reluctant Kelly kettle into full flame.

I now carry on piece of aluminium tent pole as a blow poker but I might add some flexible tube to it.

 

[Dave Budd]

and of course, if you are a fan of Bear Grylls and are dehydrated....

(I can't believe he did that!)

 

[hiho]

another pice of kit to add to the list

 

[Shewie]

I'd just like to say that searching for latex on ebay certainly opens your eyes.

 

[Kerne]

And very useful if you need some petrol from a someone else's tank...

 

[Cael Nu Mara]

and of course, if you are a fan of Bear Grylls and are dehydrated....

(I can't believe he did that!)

Please expand. We are lacking in the television department, here in the backwoods, so I can only watch Iplayer :/


Thanks


Sam

 

[Matt.S]

Please expand. We are lacking in the television department, here in the backwoods, so I can only watch Iplayer :/


Thanks


Sam

Let's just say if you want to drink from it you'd do well to give it a bit of a wipe after Mr Grylls is done with it. His use involved vaseline and probably made him feel a little sore.

 

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Please expand. We are lacking in the television department, here in the backwoods, so I can only watch Iplayer :/


Thanks


Sam

Google: bear grylls raft bird pacific

The first few hits should be explanatory...

On the other hand, you may not actually want to

 

[Toddy]

Okaaaay.........did he do what that family that got capsized and ran out of water did with the blood and watery bilge water from the turtle they caught and butchered ? Ingested it the other end.

Ye gods and little fishes, tell me the numpty didn't ?

cheers,
M

 

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Okaaaay.........did he do what that family that got capsized and ran out of water did with the blood and watery bilge water from the turtle they caught and butchered ? Ingested it the other end.

Ye gods and little fishes, tell me the numpty didn't ?

cheers,
M

If I told you he didn't, I'd be lying

 

[Toddy]

...............wait a minute..........did he do that *on camera* ???????
That's for desperate situations only, and even then the shock to the bowel can be really most unpleasant I'm told.

Honestly, is there nothing he won't do for publicity ?

cheers,
M

 

[malcolmc]

When I was a kid ... I recall it was called an aspirator.
...

I don’t know if it was just our Scout troop but back in the 1960’s we called them ding-bats. I still carry one, very useful.