Living off Grid

How to live in remote areas without the comfort of general ordinary housings.

In this section of my website, I will present helpful videos, documentation and other interesting productions regarding "living off the grid", growing food, as well as different survival techniques.
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Off Grid Living is a LIE?

So much "off Grid" content you see is hard to believe ... while I cant tell you whats real and whats not on the internet, I can show you what it looked like for my wife Brooke and I to get started on this journey of off grid living ... the pretty stuff and the ugly.

Stop Bleeding - Save Lives

Massive hemorrhage remains a leading cause of death around the world. Although stop the bleed is generally thought of in the context of active shooter situations it is not a "tactical" skill and can be applied to a plethora of everyday and not so everyday scenarios. This video is a relatively quick rundown of how to save lives in traumatic situations.

This CAT Tourniquet Will Get You Killed

These fake CAT Tourniquets are out there and dangerous. Go through your medical gear and make sure none of these are hiding around pretending to be something they're not.
Feel free to consider these fakes hot garbage and throw em in the dumpster where they belong.
Naturally, we only stock our medical kits with the highest quality products to ensure you make a difference when it counts.
Click this link to see the real ones!

How to: Emergency Surgical Cricothyrotomy

A surgical cricothyrotomy is an emergency airway used when healthcare providers are unable to intubate or ventilate their patient with less invasive means. Often depicted in movies, surgical airways are utilized heavily in the tactical and pre-hospital arenas by combat medics and EMS personnel. This video goes in-depth on the anatomy of the neck, indications and contraindications of a cric, along with step by step instructions for performing the procedure.

Preserve Meat Without Refrigeration FOREVER with only 1 Ingredient!

Historical Salt Cured Meat.
I love this ancient preservation technique to preserve meat forever with only ONE INGREDIENT and make it super delicious to boot! Curing your own meats is not only delicious and rewarding, but a great SHTF skill and just a super cool lost art. I hope this video helps you to confidently go forth and explore the world of home cured meats.

Do note that our commercial processing practices leave most supermarket meat already in a very compromised state of bacterial contamination. For this reason, I recommend using meat you have personally butchered or from a local farmer/homesteader you have talked to about their practices and feel comfortable with or go to a local butcher shop and talk to someone there about obtaining the freshest cuts of whatever you are looking for. This will make a huge difference in not only quality but the success of using these old-fashioned techniques!

p.s. you can add any other seasonings you like too but salt is the important part! I really like black pepper and paprika. If you want to cut the salt a bit or are going for a more "breakfast" bacon, try using a mix of equal parts salt and brown sugar with black pepper on top, I don't think you'll be disappointed!

The Biggest Invention - Water as Fuel!!

Water/hydrogen-based engine uses HH+ to stimulate Hydrolyses. To see what is the HH+ compound just click this link. Of course you can use potassium hydroxide instead of HH+ compound.

HHO Generator - Water to Fuel Converter

Another method. For this project let's build a sexy looking generator that uses electricity to convert water into an extremely powerful fuel! Here's how to build an Oxy-Hydrogen generator from scratch.

Building a No-Weld Woodgas Generator!

A functional gasifier built with a hand drill and grinder?!

Running a Gasoline Engine on Firewood - Woodgas Biofuel

In this video I finally try to run a gasoline engine on woodgas.

Is It Possible To Heat A House With A Candle?

Maybe a good idea to put a "sand battery" on top of the metal can?

Sand Battery! SHTF Free heat! 500 (Fahrenheit) using solar power!

He generated over 500 degrees (Fahrenheit) of heat!
50 pounds of sand
60 volts at 4 amps
some plaster of Paris.

The Transom Knot

This is a good knot to tie two cross-sections in creating frames, shelters, and other structures. It is related to the Constrictor-Knot, but I find that in order to make it load-bearing wrapping the standing end of the cordage around the cross-sections in a "God's-Eye" fashion a few times then securing it with a Reef, Granny, or Surgeon's Knot does the trick.

EMP & CME & EMF: NASA Scientist Issues STARK WARNING

We talk EMPs, Solarflares and and all things EMF with a NASA scientist and prepper Arthur T Bradley.

Evatac Taclite

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Tactical Flashlight, small enough to fit in your pocket, ultra bright, uses standard batteries and it is tough enough to last a lifetime of abuse. For today only we're offering you the chance to secure the Q5 TACLITE for free. We're campaigning to educate everyday Americans on the benefits of self-defense, and there's 500 tactical flashlights being given away as part of the promotion. All we ask is you cover the cost of shipping, and we'll send you one of your own.

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14 years OFF GRID in This Log Cabin! CABIN TOUR.

Log cabin - Off Grid - Lives 100% on rain water - Solar power (new) - Wood Cook Stove - Kerosene Lanterns - Grows 90% of her food - and poops in 5 gallon buckets to make compost!

Boeing DIY inventor shows new ultra-cheap houses to nomad shepherd

Two of the people we keep meeting who have spent years innovating designs for nomadic ultra-light living are Boeing retiree (and legendary DIY maker) Paul Elkins and "guerrilla grazer" Aaron Fletcher. Recently, the two met for the first time to swap ideas. We put together a video timeline.
At his new island home, Paul gave us a tour through his collection of ultra-cheap shelters, vehicles, and survival ideas, from his corrugated-plastic dwellings to his foldable-plastic boats (made for about $24) to his new mini Conestoga Wagon to his DIY prepping tools like his recycled-bottle bidets, bucket toilet and the tiniest rocket stove (2-inch-square).

How the Amish have HOT WATER! Off Grid Living.

They have found the best hot water system for off grid living, no heating element, no power needed, no propane needed!
This is a wood fired gravity fed shower. The water comes from rain and snow!

Solar Power for dummies, This system is easy!

Renogy solar is possibly the best Solar Power set up for the beginner or novice!
5 Strings Solar Combiner Box.
Perfect for both On-Grid and Off-Grid Solar Systems.
5 to 1 connection feature, combining up to 5 solar panel inputs into one.
Built-in circuit breaker for surge protection and lightning protection device.
Easy to install with built-in standard DIN rail.

Do you REALLY get enough out of your solar panel?

We show you how to make your solar panel(s) more efficient.

How To Turn Salt Water Into Fresh Water (Simple Improvised Distillation)

This video shows how to distill water using simple and easy to find items. And there's an even better method. Click this link to view.

Bottle-to-Bottle Honey Production - Contactless Beekeeping

This video is about my experience of breeding bees in plastic bottles and kegs. I am trying to find a way to promote the spread of non-commercial beekeeping on the planet Earth in an avalanche-like way. Humankind can live without honey but would starve without bees ...

Bushcraft: How Native Americans Preserve Food

In this video, I explain and take you through each step to preserve any foods with simple tools one can secure in his or her natural environment.

Dehydrating, Canning and Food Storage Tips

I can advice you to have a look at this amazing website!
Make food storage and preservation easy with these dehydrating, canning, and food storage recipes and tips to save you time, money, and space. Welcome to The Purposeful Pantry!

Click here to view the website.

This Technique of Pruning Trees Will Change Your Life

Simplifying How to prune, Why to prune, and the Techniques NEEDED for your trees to have high production and high-quality fruit.

How to grow a TON of Ginger from store-bought Ginger Root!

You probably didn’t know it but that ginger root you buy at the grocery store isn’t a root at all! It’s actually a rhizome! What if I told you that you could have fresh, nutritious, and completely ORGANIC ginger whenever you wanted it? Don’t believe me? Well, YOU CAN!

How to make a worm farm

Inspired by Geoff Lawton, my permaculture teacher, and Andrew Hayim De Vries from Wasteplant in Byron Bay. In this video, I show how I made my worm farm from an old bath tub, a gate hinge and a bit of tin.

What you can do with an empty gas cartridge.

You can use it to produce light or you can even cook above the flame! I wouldn't use this indoors, since it may produce toxic gasses!

History of a Lost Supermaterial & How To Make It (Starlite Part 2)

In this video Ben explores the history of Starlite, homemade materials with similar properties, and commercial variants.

DIY Rocket Engines - Easy and Cheap!

We go through a step by step process of how to build our rocket engines. At the end, we test the different mixtures. The next video (click this link to view) will show us lighting the rockets built in this video. (Slo-mo included!).

Concentrating Lemon Oil

We demonstrate how to use a large reflux still to extract essential oil from lemons. I discuss what these oils can be used for and how to store them for long periods.

Affordable DIY Shuttle Bus Conversion: $17k Budget Build

Maggie and Sahil left the typical house life and self-converted a shuttle bus into a tiny home on wheels for full-time travel. They have a king-size bed, a vast pullout closet with dividers, and a comfortable dining area that converts into a spare bed.

4 EGG Substitutions With Items You Already Have

"SAVE MONEY THROUGH INFLATION BY DOING THIS"

Watch until the end of the video, to understand what this mom is doing!
The 4 egg substitutions are:
No.1) - 1 ts baking soda + 1 TBS Vinegar.
No.2) - 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce.
No.3) - 2 TBS Quick Oats + 3 TBS Boiling Water.
No.4) - 1 TBS Cornstarch + 3 TBS Water.

Get your FREE Survival Kit here

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A 48.8 MB zip-file including 12 pdf-files with the following titles:
Civil Disturbance Operations / Cold Weather Survival / Edible and Medicinal Plants / Emergency War Surgery / Encyclopedia of Knots / Essential Fishing knots / Flintknapping / Medical Survival Wound Closure Manual / Shelters Shacks Shanties / Survival Medicine / Survival personal wilderness medical kit / Urban Preparation Kit Part-1