The Malayan name for a knife with a large curved blade like a machete. Too large for everyday use, it is ideal in the wilds for cutting down trees and building shelters and rafts.
SAS 006 – Knives
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SAS 147 - First Aid & Fractures
Types of Fracture: If no medical help is expected, reduce closed fractures as soon as possible after injury by applying traction, then splint and immobilise the whole length of the limb. Splints can be pieces of wood, rools of newspaper, ski sticks, etc.
Types of Fracture: If no medical help is expected, reduce closed fractures as soon as possible after injury by applying traction, then splint and immobilise the whole length of the limb. Splints can be pieces of wood, rools of newspaper, ski sticks, etc.
SAS 152 - First Aid & Moving the Injured
During the conscious casuality of the victim, Grasp victim's right wrist. Bend your head under his arm so your shoulder is level with his lower abdomen. Bend your knees, allowing the weight to fall across your shoulders. Place your right arm between or around legs.
During the conscious casuality of the victim, Grasp victim's right wrist. Bend your head under his arm so your shoulder is level with his lower abdomen. Bend your knees, allowing the weight to fall across your shoulders. Place your right arm between or around legs.
SAS 094 - Camp Tools
Tree Felling: Check overhead for dead branches and hornets nests. Clear Creepers and branches which could deflect blows. Cut branches off from the outside of the join. Cut from both sides of the tree, first chopping out notch at an angle of 45 and another on the opposite side ata lower level on the side to which you want to tree to fall.
Tree Felling: Check overhead for dead branches and hornets nests. Clear Creepers and branches which could deflect blows. Cut branches off from the outside of the join. Cut from both sides of the tree, first chopping out notch at an angle of 45 and another on the opposite side ata lower level on the side to which you want to tree to fall.
SAS 075 - Building Shelter
The snappiest sort to erect has several or more plots underpin posts, tied where they cross to make a cone. They might be tied on the ground and lifted into spot before blanket with stows away, birch bark, or sheeting.
The snappiest sort to erect has several or more plots underpin posts, tied where they cross to make a cone. They might be tied on the ground and lifted into spot before blanket with stows away, birch bark, or sheeting.
SAS 095 - Camp Tools & Beds
Beds: Avoid lying on cold, damp ground. In the tropics raise the bed to provide a current of air. In cold climates, Keep a fire going through the night and build a screen to reflect heat back on your sleeping area. On dry ground, stones heated in the fire and then buried under a thin layer of soil beneath the bedding will keep you warm.
Beds: Avoid lying on cold, damp ground. In the tropics raise the bed to provide a current of air. In cold climates, Keep a fire going through the night and build a screen to reflect heat back on your sleeping area. On dry ground, stones heated in the fire and then buried under a thin layer of soil beneath the bedding will keep you warm.
PS Emergency Preparedness Checklist (2)
In a blaze or different crisis, you might should empty your house, pad or trailer on an instant's acknowledge. You ought to be available to get out snappy. Develop an escape plan by drawing a floor plan of your residence.
In a blaze or different crisis, you might should empty your house, pad or trailer on an instant's acknowledge. You ought to be available to get out snappy. Develop an escape plan by drawing a floor plan of your residence.
SAS 115 - Reading Weather & Deciding to Move
To be caught in bad weather could prove fatal. Before setting out, take note of the weather. Observe wind and pressure changes. Keep a record of the weather, the conditions which precede it, and what they develop into. Animals are sensitive to atmospheric pressure and are good for short-term weather predictions. Insect-eating birds feed higher in good weather, lower when a storm is approaching. ...
To be caught in bad weather could prove fatal. Before setting out, take note of the weather. Observe wind and pressure changes. Keep a record of the weather, the conditions which precede it, and what they develop into. Animals are sensitive to atmospheric pressure and are good for short-term weather predictions. Insect-eating birds feed higher in good weather, lower when a storm is approaching. ...
SAS 173 - Disaster Strategy & Fire
The best protection from fire is prevention. many fires are caused by carelessness with lighted cigarettes and burning matches. The sun shining through a piece of glass can start a blaze in a dry season. If you are present where a fire starts in woodland, or on heath or grassland, your first action should be to smother it.
The best protection from fire is prevention. many fires are caused by carelessness with lighted cigarettes and burning matches. The sun shining through a piece of glass can start a blaze in a dry season. If you are present where a fire starts in woodland, or on heath or grassland, your first action should be to smother it.
Wigwam
Wigwams take more time to build than open shelters, but your efforts will be doubly rewarded. Not only can the shelter be warmed by a small fire, reducing the need to collect a huge pile of wood, but the firelight reflects off the walls, providing cheery illumination for sitting out a long winter night.
Wigwams take more time to build than open shelters, but your efforts will be doubly rewarded. Not only can the shelter be warmed by a small fire, reducing the need to collect a huge pile of wood, but the firelight reflects off the walls, providing cheery illumination for sitting out a long winter night.
SAS 109 - Direction Finding
Direction by Watch: a traditional analogue watch with two hands can tell direction, provided it is set to true local time. The nearer the Equator you are, the less accurate this method is.
Direction by Watch: a traditional analogue watch with two hands can tell direction, provided it is set to true local time. The nearer the Equator you are, the less accurate this method is.
SAS 120 - Moving on Waterways
Moving on the waterways needs to be done very carefully. A large group will need several rafts. The first should carry no equipment or provisions, just the fittest group members to act as lookouts and warn of hazards. Waterfalls and rapids are often indicated by spray or mist. They can also be heard for some distance. If in doubt, moor the raft and reconnoitre on foot.
Moving on the waterways needs to be done very carefully. A large group will need several rafts. The first should carry no equipment or provisions, just the fittest group members to act as lookouts and warn of hazards. Waterfalls and rapids are often indicated by spray or mist. They can also be heard for some distance. If in doubt, moor the raft and reconnoitre on foot.
SAS 073 - Where to Camp & Building Shelter
You ought to be protected from the wind, close water but clear of any danger of flooding, with an ample supply of wood close nearby. Check above your head for dead wood in trees that might collision down in a heightened wind. don't camp opposite an amusement trail. Take notice that the intonation of running water can overwhelm different tumults which may show peril, or the intonation of quest...
You ought to be protected from the wind, close water but clear of any danger of flooding, with an ample supply of wood close nearby. Check above your head for dead wood in trees that might collision down in a heightened wind. don't camp opposite an amusement trail. Take notice that the intonation of running water can overwhelm different tumults which may show peril, or the intonation of quest...
SAS 084 - Fire
Gouge a small depression at a near end of baseboard. Cut a cavity below for tiner. Shape the spindle evenly. Make a bow from a pliable shoot and hide, twine or a bootlace. Use hollow piece of stone wood to steady top of the spindle and exert downloard pressure. Wind bowstring once round spindle.
Gouge a small depression at a near end of baseboard. Cut a cavity below for tiner. Shape the spindle evenly. Make a bow from a pliable shoot and hide, twine or a bootlace. Use hollow piece of stone wood to steady top of the spindle and exert downloard pressure. Wind bowstring once round spindle.
Fallout Shelter (1)
A fallout shelter is an encased space extraordinarily composed to secure tenants from radioactive flotsam and jetsam or aftermath coming about because of an atomic eruption. Numerous such havens were built as civil barrier measures around the Freezing War.
A fallout shelter is an encased space extraordinarily composed to secure tenants from radioactive flotsam and jetsam or aftermath coming about because of an atomic eruption. Numerous such havens were built as civil barrier measures around the Freezing War.
SAS 027 - Food Values
A healthy body can survive on reserves stored in its tissues, but food is needed to supply heat and energy, and to recover after hard work, injury or sickness. Seventy calories per hour are required just for breathing and basic bodily functions.
A healthy body can survive on reserves stored in its tissues, but food is needed to supply heat and energy, and to recover after hard work, injury or sickness. Seventy calories per hour are required just for breathing and basic bodily functions.
SAS 030 - Edible Plants
In Spring and summer yound shoots are tender. Some may be eaten raw; many are best cooked; wash in clean water, rub off hairs and boil in a little water so they cook in the steam. Leaves are rich in vitamins and minerals.
In Spring and summer yound shoots are tender. Some may be eaten raw; many are best cooked; wash in clean water, rub off hairs and boil in a little water so they cook in the steam. Leaves are rich in vitamins and minerals.
PS Emergency Preparedness Checklist (4)
In a debacle, normal things in the home can create harm and harm. Whatever can move, fall, break or create a blaze is a possible peril. Repair faulty electrical wiring and cracked gas associations. Affix retires securely and support overhead light apparatuses.
In a debacle, normal things in the home can create harm and harm. Whatever can move, fall, break or create a blaze is a possible peril. Repair faulty electrical wiring and cracked gas associations. Affix retires securely and support overhead light apparatuses.
PS Family Supply Kit (3)
Store your kit in a convenient place known to all family members. Keep a smaller verstion of the Disaster Supplies Kit in the trunk of your car. keep items in air tight plastic bags. Change your stored water supply every six months so it stays fresh.
Store your kit in a convenient place known to all family members. Keep a smaller verstion of the Disaster Supplies Kit in the trunk of your car. keep items in air tight plastic bags. Change your stored water supply every six months so it stays fresh.
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