[Vwdiesel] Cold weather survival, was: Starting a Cold Rabbit

[James Hansen]

A coffee can - holds a lot --if you lean on it.----why steel wool ?  you ask
.    Because
it is cheep and it ignites easy and it NEVER  gets wet.---BUT   be careful
it burns really
HOT.
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And additional fuel comes from where?
It's the dead of winter, so you should already have a jug of kerosene in the
trunk for gelling emergencies, isopropal alcohol for icing in tank etc.. You
have a bag of sand there too, right? (for traction to get unstuck with)
put sand in a can, half full, pour kerosene, or alcohol on sand, use a twist
of paper for a wick. Safer, and less intense heat. The kero is a tad smoky,
but it beats dying.  Remember that fire uses up oxygen and provide for fresh
air. The can does get hot so put some sand on the floor mat as an insulator.
You can steal diesel from the tank, put it in a coffee can (big can, or
hubcap) ignite that, and get enough heat to warm the pan to start. Build a
wind break with snow.



As a flyboy way up in the great white north --I learned all kinds of
survival stuff ---Ja
?  I am still here.----oh I forgot ---5 cans of Dog-Food----I like  Rover or
my brand
Pedigree or such ?  Water ?  no problem let them little suckers suck on a
snowball.
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Do not eat snow for water in emergencies, EVER.  Melt it, then drink it.
That's what the candles are for, use two old tin cans.  I carry a camp
stove- a tiny backpack mountaineer's stove made by Svea, burns anything,
it's lid is also a cooking pot.  Eating snow ESPECIALLY when you are not
working hard, just hanging in a car waiting out a storm can kill your ass.
It lowers your body's core temperature and can be the difference between
hypothermia killing you, or not.  NEVER NEVER eat snow.  And no jokes about
yellow snow, I've heard them all thanks.
The best food to have along is chocolate bars.  Big ones. wrapped in
aluminum foil and plastic. lots and lots of energy, and chocolate always
makes things much better. The caffeine also increases your physical
performance by 10ish % and keeps you alert and awake.

What exactly are you supposed to do with five cans of frozen dogfood Svend?
Use them to bang small animals on the head for food? That may work in
summer, but in summer, the wilderness is full of good things to eat. Why lug
around and eat dog food? Yuck! That's where they chop up and put the
critters that died and laid in the sun rotting out back of the stockyards
for a day or so. James no eat that thanks. I'll eat twigs and moss first.

The backpack stove works well as a pan heater too to start the car if the
storm breaks and you can shovel your way out.
Oh, forget the cute little butane stoves unless you are planning on using
body heat to get the vapor pressure of the butane up to where it vaporizes,
and can burn in the a stove.  Small cartridge ones are okay, you can warm
those easily enough, but the refillable models with internal tanks are
really hard to get to light as you can't easily warm the tank.  The old
reliable multifuel ones that use a primer fuel to preheat them are the most
reliable in cold weather.  MSR, Svea, etc.

-James
still surviving after all these years :-)





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