How to Make a Chip Clip Using a Clothes Hanger

How to Make a Chip Clip Using a Clothes Hanger

 

How to Make a Chip Clip Using a Clothes Hanger
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If you ever needed to know how to make a chip clip using a clothes hanger I got you.  This tip is stupidly simple.  So simple in fact that it does not need any explanation other than a quick video or a clear picture.

I added it this website because I like to constantly search for new ways to solve problems, even if the problem is a first world non-prepper problem.

The ability to break a problem down into its components and see things for what they could be and not just what they were designed to be is an essential life skill.

Skills need practice to develop.  As I have built this website and turned it into a mission my ability to MacGyver solutions has grown exponentially.  While stupid little tip videos are not the sole reason for this, they do help.  And remember if it looks stupid but it works it is not stupid.

The simple solutions from looking at things from new perspectives is the main way I solve problems.  I bought into the Einstein idea that you can’t solve problems with the same thinking that caused them.  I have learned to break things down into component parts and uses.

Besides, nobody likes soggy chips.  This DIY Chip Clip solves the soggy chip problem for ever.  Or until you stop using it.

How to Make Camp Fire Baked Potatoes in a Can

 

Recipe: Camp Fire Baked Potatoes
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Here is a great recipe/technique for Camp Fire baked potatoes that would work well for camping, grilling out, or making food in a grid down SHTF scenario

To bake a potato in a can simply:

  • Remove the entire top of a soda can. (Using you P-38 can opener gets extra points)
  • Smear the whole potato with butter or oil (and any other seasoning you like).
  • Insert the raw potato into the soda can
  • Cover top with aluminum foil and place the can onto the hot coals of your campfire.

The Potatoes bake in the can just as they would in the oven.

This is a great campfire recipe – especially for kids.  It is easy and takes no effort at all.  I find my boy is more likely to try new foods if he was excited about cooking them.  I did say more likely though, he will get out of bed just to crack and egg, but I can’t get him to put one in his mouth for all the sweets in the world.

He will, however, do this.  Maybe its the excitement of cooking on a fire like a mountain man?  I don’t know, but I do know that done right so the potato gets crispy but not burnt this is one awesome tater in a can.

How to Estimate Campfire Temperature: The Hand Test

How to Estimate Campfire Temperature: The Hand Test

 

How to Estimate Campfire Temperature: The Hand Test
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This is camp cooking temp that tip is handy to know.

If you have ever tried to manipulated something in a campfire fire, you know that the hotter the fire the less time you can stand to have your hands near it.

This means that you can learn to judge the temperature of a fire by knowing how much heat a common person can stand.

Please use some common sense with this.

If you cautiously hold your hand, palm side down, over the fire at cooking height and count the number of seconds you can hold that position and you will have an indicator of how hot the fire temperature is.

Camp Fire Temperature Estimation Times:

5 seconds = low
4 seconds = medium
3 seconds = medium-high
2 seconds = high

This is an awesome prepper skill to have, it works great with outdoor baking as well as other cooking skills.

I have used it to cook steak over coals for a really impressive and testosterone fueled dinner.  This skill really separates the woodsmen from the campers.

Until you do this enough to memorize, I would laminate an index card with the chart below and stick in somewhere with your camping/bugout equipment

Don’t Clear Alone

Don't Clear Alone
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I realize that the idea of standing guard at a fixed point rather than actively searching for the bad guy in a situation where someone has entered your home is repulsive to many. In the article I wrote about “are you capable of using deadly force”  I discusses the morality of personal protection and my feelings on it. If you read that article with this one you may come to the conclusion that the two views are incompatible and I am being inconsistent.

It’s not about being afraid to shoot the bad guy; my suggestion that you don’t clear alone is based upon the most effective way to protect your family. It is common military science that takes a larger force to defeat fixed defenses. If I am standing in a covered position with my flanks and rear secured, with a clear lane of fire and plenty of ammunition for my shotgun, it is reasonable to assume it would take more than a couple of burglars to get to the boy’s room.

If that’s not good enough reason, you can look at the video below for the other reason. I suggest that the typical homeowner (typical as in a normally trained gun owner) faces an impossible task to clear rooms while ensuring previously cleared rooms stay clear. As the video shows, as the defender leaves one cleared space to scan a new area an intruder can slip behind you and get behind your defenses.

There is a reason that room clearing is done by a team, individual members can clear rooms, while additional team members can watch their backs and ensure that cleared rooms stay secure.

I realize that there are some concepts and procedures for solo room clearing, however, they cannot be adequately trained with a short article and a 10 minute video.

Self Defense: a Workable Home Defense Plan

Shooting: The M6 Scout is One of the Best Homestead Rifles
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This Home defense plan video starts as a scenario.  We are in bed and my wife hears a noise.  Being a traditional family she hears a noise, I have to figure it out.

She wakes me up and I get my gun.  The rest of the scenario shows how we deal with intruders at our house.

Traditionally the man would get a golf club and go looking for the bad guy.  In my post “Don’t clear alone” I discuss why I don’t think this is a good idea.

Rather than look for trouble we shelter in place.

I set up a protected spot where I can cover the entry way to the bedrooms while my wife grabs a second gun and protects the kids and contacts the police.

In this case, I would be justified to seek out the intruders, and based upon the laws of my state if I found him and feared that he was a lethal threat I could shoot him.  However, I find it safer to let him come to me.

If an intruders came down the hall after being warned and seeing the 12 gauge shotgun aimed at him, no one would question the need to fire.