ESEE Junglas + Survival Kit from SOL: Survival Situation - STAY ALIVE in the Rain and Cold of NH 

The best part of that survival kit is the pouch. You could load that pouch up with gear. And when it’s empty it can be used as a water container.

REALLY great video. The most important thing I saw you demonstrate is your cool & collected attitude. You stuck to the 'rule of three' the first one being "You can survive three seconds without hope" ..and your mindset, knowledge & skillset always determines that. The others are: You can live 3 minutes without air (Not an issue here... plenty of that)... 3 hours in an extreme environment (you had shelter/fire covered)... 3 days without water (you had rain & a water source)... and 3 weeks without food (and you had that with the fish, you could also set trap lines if needed)... About the only things I would add to the kit would be a couple of pieces of heavy-duty tin foil (to make a cup, fire windshield and/or cooking platform), some extra paracord (could be wrapped around the knife handle... a thousand uses for that) and a heavy duty rubber band and small piece of scrap leather (could be wrapped around the outside of the kit tin) which could be used with a 'Y' from a branch as a hunting slingshot (rabbits & squirrels are GOOD eatin!!) I would love to see a video on the particular clothing you wore on this trip. Looks like you stayed relatively dry during (considering) the entire shoot.

I like this kind of video, where you actually test out a kit. most people just go through it and give there opinion about wether they think it would be good or not without testing it. Thanks for all your work. God bless.

Awesome video! Great seeing someone actually putting these kits to the test! Very interesting and well documented

Great video Tim!! Lots of great information & drinking from your shelter tarp was classic.

I really enjoyed the practical test of the items in the kit! Great review!

One of your better videos! Not just a gear review but practical use!

Fantastic video! There is so much work here, I applaud you for it all. Vids like these are why I keep coming back and hitting thumbs up!

I actually really appreciated this video. Survival wasn’t glamorous like the TV shows but real life application and still got to see the product that I was curious on, being the Junglas.

I like your honest videos. Water is so important, so purification tablets and a 1 liter bag is essential. The dry wood in a wet forest is on the inside, you were half way there. Kindling made from split wood wouldn't have smothered your effort. I know you know this stuff but others watching don't. Fun to watch, thanks

Thanks for keeping it real with the difficulties of fire making with damp wood.

I like the scenario-based approach to this video. Well done.

Great video, Man! Thank you for taking the time- lots of good info!!!

Thanks for an awesome review!!! Lots of great info in this video!

Great video. Lots of useful info. It's nice to see someone test things out and then give the review.

ESSE Junglas has been a champ for me and stays in my big blade rotation

Great video Tim, really appreciate it

Finally, someone looks up before working on a shelter.

Tim, I don't know how I came across this video, but normally, I'm known for brutalizing survival videos posted by content creators who don't have the first clue about how to use their resources. This is by far one of the best videos I've seen since I can remember. And it's 5 years old? Wow. Why haven't I seen it before. Anyway, this is going to be a long write up for the benefit of those reading because I guarantee you they aren't seeing what I'm seeing. GREAT STUFF! I'll start out with the Junglas... First of all, while I have knives costing well into the hundreds, out of all of them, my ESEE-6 is the one knife I'd take into the world if it all fell apart (that AND my Junglas). I used to have the ESEE tin full of bits of my own making (fishing, FAK, signal mirror, whistle, 1qt water bag, water tabs, razor, sew kit, duct tape, etc...). An ESEE should be anybody's first survival knife once when they're ready to step up from the entry level budget knifes. I'd bet my life on any ESEE. Great tips on handling the survival blanket for those who don't know how delicate they are. I would've gone with using it as a shelter in your scenario as well. I also would've cut off a section to use for collecting (tinder, edibles, etc...) and as a makeshift table cloth for your little stuff. Also, a nice section could be used as a water catch where you dig a hole, set it in place and like a passive trap, let it do the work for you. Staging yourself against the rocks was brilliant. Once you had a fire going, you could've made a small ditch next to one of them and kept feeding it coals from your fire under your shelter and they would've heated up that rock face and turned it into a reflector without flames so no smoke in your sleep area. That also would've attracted bugs looking for warmth and which become bait for your fishing. Ask me how I know. 😉 The decision to "not" practice SOSing with your whistle, to "not" sacrifice that small fish since you didn't really need it, all those little details set you apart from the rest here on RU-vid. Mad respect for you brother. From one yankee to another, it shows your conservative (small "c") mindset because we don't believe in waste. Of course, these being the Northeastern Woodlands, you're bound to find trash every once in a while. That metal was a godsend. Great use of them. On the fishing pole, I would've went with something a little burlier and not necessarily as long. More line, less rod. If it would've snapped at the very end with something bigger on line, you could've lost not only 1/3 of the rod, but the line & hook with it. One thing I love about fishing line is how compact and packable it is. I could fit 100' of line on a small sewing spool (the kind that go on the old school sewing machines). That's how I carry it in my PSK. Not only is it contained well there, but unreeling it is essentially like a micro fishing rod (no entanglements). For cutting down saplings with a knife, there's a Scandinavian method of bending it over, keeping pressure on it and pushing the knife through it at an angle into the cut. Your pressure does most of the work and requires less effort on the knife so you don't have to chop through it (not that it's any hard work for any ESEE of course). The main reason I don't like to chop that close to the ground is that once the knife goes through the cut, you can hit ground and their may be a rock under there which'll chip the edge with the blunt force. I have some pics on my group on FB (Woodcraft & Camping and Survivalist Base Camp) of some wicked work I've done with my Junglas including making a pretty snazzy spoon with it for all those little knife fans who claim that you can't do small knife work with a big knife. For feathersticking with it, I use the edge of the blade at the base, closest to the handle. That'll give you some nice feathers and a lot more control keeping the slicing edge close to your hand. Plus, the weight of the knife ends up working for you in the cutting, balancing it out. Birch bark...We TRIP over the stuff in the Catskill Mountains (where I live) and the Adirondacks. That stuff burns even when wet. I slice down through it and peel it back and collect it from deadfall whenever I come across the stuff. With your fire, I would've used up the birch bark. I knew your flame in it's infancy was going to die once you put those soaked twigs on it. You needed all those betulin oils in the bark to burn through that dampness. I LOVE that you built it while it was raining and damp out. That's a true test of one's abilities and it shows how difficult it is when you have the elements working against you (not those fair weather backyard demonstrations in other videos). Also, I would've had all my tinder ready to pile on with the initial flame instead of going for it while it was burning. Keep it close, right next to the starting flame up with also helps to dry it out faster. So, as your flame starts needing fuel, it'shelping itself by drying it out before it's even laid on the fire. While I 'm the biggest fan of twigs as fire kindling, split wood is pretty much always better in wet conditions. Soaked twigs are fire killers. They choke the flame. That's where feathers and split lead sized kindling come into play, not to mention that it act as a wind block and conserves heat around the immediate area of the fire. That in turn creating a micro oven like atmosphere and keeping the humidity & moisture in the air around it at bay. It becomes it's own microclimate. Another reason to have cut off a piece of your space blanket...create a boatload of this tinder & kindling and keep it dry by wrapping it in the the piece and to keep it out of the atmosphere which was humid. Then you would've had an inferno to feed the damp twigs to which would've burned off all the moisture in them right away. They wouldn't have stood a chance to kill the flame. I've used my ESEE Junglas to split 6" logs. This is why I love big knives. You can do just about everything needed with a big knife that you can with a small knife, but you can't do the same with a small knife that you can with a big knife. Besides, it's a lot easier to source smaller cutting implements in the field (rock, bone, etc...) than big cutting implements. Again, a great video. I barely watch more than a few minutes of any video these days, but I've watched this one 3 times in a row. Thanks for the common sense. --Yankee

Hey, great job! Don't see enough "test" scenarios from bug out to micro and mini kits - jungle/forest - urban / stealth. Well done. The sparker... Airforce and others use that form or fire starting as it helps in a scenario where your down a hand or arm... One handed lighter. Thanks.

Cool blade I've got a junglas exactly like that one. The guys at smkw are awesome,I live 30min from there and visit often. Great vids thanks Tim

Awesome vid Tim!!! Enjoyed!!!

Awesome video! Simple and effective survival setup. I'm most likely going to base my light weight kit off of yours. I was planning on using my ESEE 5, but after seeing how versatile the junglas was I'll be getting one very soon.

Great video as always Tim thank you

I have been with smkw for over 30 years.

Good vid nice you do the scenario's love the walk office to home. keep them coming greatz from Netherlands

I've had my Jungalas for 5 years now and can't find another knife that can beat it. love this knife.

Another good one Tim built around establishing a plan and not giving up. The SOL kit(with no help from ESEE) is fairly solid for its size except for one serious flaw: no way to purify water. Without the rain you would have been hard pressed to have potable water. And apparently they assume you will have at least a pocket knife with you.

good vid, didnt really NEED to know the junglas works by reputation but always good to see people use their kits

Great vid! Can´t believe i didn´t see this until now. I love the Junglas, it is on my top three choppers with the Sp53 and the Skrama :)

Great video and review of the Jungles and survival kit

I loved this video. I hope to see more like it. Great job buddy

Truly outstanding video. Thanks for posting. 👍👍

Awesome video keep up the great work and you drinking from the blanket made my day

Also, the duct tape is a great fire tinder extender in wet weather!

Great video Tim, thanks for sharing... As Dave Canterbury always says ''Your first line of defence against the elements are the clothes on your back''.. With that being said, you def need to practice your skills and get familiar with your gear.. Thanks and ATB from Yellowknife

- I was wondering about the rain running down the rock right in your shelter. But glad it didn't - I know why your fire went out the first time. you didn't let it breathe - great video

As long as that sheath is you could add another pouch. I agree the more options the better. I think a small fanny pack could hold a heck of a lot of personal survival gear. Thanks Tim for a fun video and yeah, that Junglas really rocks!

I'd switch the fishing kit out for a 1l water bag and 10ish water purification tablets. Clean water is a priority over food

Lost a friend in weather just like you described here from Hypothermia, some don’t understand the dangers, so thanks for bringing that up, snd I’m digging that blade 👍

Thank you for a splendid lesson.

One of your top 10 videos I think.

Glad you showed how hard it can be to make fire when things are wet

Great video, it great that you included the fire fail. 👍

Love them esee knives, have the 5 , awesome blade, and the Izula-2..👍

I really enjoyed this video as well👍

Nice video! Thanks

Gr8 video Tim

Good seeing this equipment used. Very good sir. Thankz

I love not to far from Smokey mountain knife works and let me tell you.... when you go in there it’s like becoming a kid again lol. Definitely worth checking out

Impressive and well done. Nice knife, too. Bet you're glad it wasn't windy...ha.

hey great video i really liked it

Wow I'm in new Hampshire but I'm in Berlin small world I just started watching you

Nice catch! 🐟

The junglas reminds me a lot of my go-to, the Becker BK-9. It's an inch shorter but very capable.

Great video. Good knife handling skills.👍🏼💪🏼

The junglass is great. I carry a small kit on mine with a mora eldris, silky pocketboy, and a variety of other useful things. I wear it on a beachin tactical baldric lite. God bless

I just ordered a Junglas from SMKW Thanks for the {real thing) test. I'm glad you lived. LOL

Nice video. FYI don't use the tin just stuff the SOS in its wster proof pouch . In the sheath pouch. I really like these kind of videos. Much better than just a gear review

You could add another pouch up higher on the sheath for more gear storage options.

Better vid. Thank you.

excellent!

great great video. Dont think ive erver replied to one of your vids but i enjoy them very much and value your reviews. Living in northern Michigan our terrain are much the same. yours.

Adoro il junglas di questo colore

Put a second pouch on the sheath above the first one for the mylar blanket and a couple other bits and pieces.

I watched this like ten times great video..you should test some different survival kits out and see how they stack up..good job

Excellent video.

If u added a second pouch you could have the blanket on your sheath as well.

Great Video Man😊

Great vid... it's hard for me to get past the "wanting to be found" as we usually teach this in the military as evasion lol.

Good job!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

such an awesome knife. I really want to get one one day

Awesome video..need to get me one of those.

Thanks for this video Tim. Love that knife..I want that in my collection, but I really only like to stick with Buck lol. You should do some Buck Knives videos. Their quality is top notch. One knife of theirs I absolutely love is the Mini Bones knife. A small tanto with a frame lock. It has become one of my favorite knives.

My fire steel is a couple of bic lighters.

Good Kit, Good Video. Just wish everyone going into the Woods would also carry a Water Container of some kind. Even an Army Surplus Canteen Set (Bottle, Cup, Carrier and Purification Tabs) balanced on the other side of the Knife would make the Emergency so much easier. CARRY WATER PEOPLE!

Good vid. In a survival situation you should let the rain collect in your tarp. Great way to keep your water or collect it.....

Esee sells a molle plate that bolts directly to the Junglas sheath. That allows you to attach any pouch you want to the sheath.

I've been looking at getting one of those sol kits,I'd add a ferro rod,some matches and a mini bic,i disagree with not taking the waterproof bag,you could use the tin/pouch for a fishing kit and use the waterproof bag as a water carrier,just my opinion,that junglas was a beast though,nice mini machete,lol,great vid,loved that you showed the fire fail,I've had that happen a few times,its humbling,lol. Take care bud and stay safe out there

Do more of these vids. I like the tops kukri one too

Wait, you said just before 1.20 mins that it is spring time. But the published date is Oct 1st. Are you messing with us? LOL. It does not matter, love your vids no matter what.

21:15 mistake > too early you put wet and even living wood! I know it well ;) anyway next trial went well ;) thanks for vid

I love this little kit I’ve bought 2 off then haven’t finished your video yet but you should have saved the original bag it came in they are tiny dry bags good to keep ever jut for water collection

Great vid , if you could have one pair of survival pants to last what would you choose .

Maybe it's just me but that whistle sounds just like the call of a Blue Jay. You might want to make your distress calls varying lengths of duration to make it stand out.

i learned a lot of things from your videos... so, thank you so much!

That was a pretty tough scenario and you got lucky it started raining otherwise water would have been a giant problem. How would you have addressed the water issue if it was not raining? I know typically most of us would never walk into the woods without a container for water or water prep, so that is a given, but without a stainless water bottle or canteen, what do you think would be the solution in THIS scenario? Also, if you like the full size Junglas, I bet you would LOVE the new 8" version (that is one I am really looking forward to playing with).

Speaking as a dedicated non fisherman given the 'simplicity' of your rod personally I'm surprised you felt such a small fish take the bait 👍

Really great video. You deserve alot of credit for making one like this.

Great review mate, really enjoying the realistic usage vids. Just wondering if you could use the duct tape plastic Centre as a float for the fishing?

Maybe I'm just lucky maybe I'm just a pyro at heart I've never had to use a feather stick just saying I have no doubt it's handy I will keep it in my Arsenal thank you for the info

Bro very good video!! I wish you could have more fire power! Look for Fat Rope Stick and the FOG-H77A! :)

Nice video. Maybe put a few fly fishing flies or nymphs into that kit.

I would say a plastic water bag of some sort and a few water purification tables would be a nice addition to this kit.

I feel bad for you and Sootch. Always walking away from the camera for a shot, only to come back and get it. You guys need the drones that follow you while taking video. Great video though! I'll probably pick up a SOL kit now!

Now , that's a knife ! Good vid but those following are hoping you misplaced it out there . Much Luck , Thanks be

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The tent material is supposed to be put with reflecting material on the top side so that it reflects the heat away

the strap for closing the pouch is long, you could put the blanket under that flap?

Is there enought room on the sheath to add a second ESSE pouch above the first? If so, the mylar blanket could go there with perhaps a few additional items. That would be an awesome kit to have in this situation. You've got me wanting my own Junglass now...my Wife thanks you (not)...lol. Great video...