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As a physician I would recommend that at least 8 Imodium be added to a kit. 2 pills is only the first dose and thereafter 1 pill for each additional loose stool. (It never stops after the first dose). And it’s not uncommon for others to come down with diarrhea on the same trip as well. Love your post.
Oh please, as a 'physician', in this scenario you would lack to get supplies after the 72 hours, and we all know what happens if you not consistently keep taking your medicine. You lose in both scenarios regardless without additional supplies, if not getting it in 48 unlikely to even get it in 120 hours. Doctors are always the same, same in warfare, they freeze while 'uneducated medics' do the job.
Good sleuthing about the purpose of the valve and grab handle. In the absence of any documentation confirming or contradicting your hypothesis, I think you've identified its best use, if not its intended use. Well done!
Hey man, that little survival frog(stainless multi tool) has helped me out of more than a dozen jams! Don't poo poo the Survival Frog!!! Once you learn how to use it, it will be your first choice for it's ease of handling and sturdy construction. Except for when an AR 15 is more necessary!
I have come to enjoy your common sense approach to reviewing all levels of kits, and look forward to more. I also like how you show simple, but effective ways to improve or modify ready made kits. My goal is build simple kits, one item per week for my granddaughter’s Girl Scout troop, teaching how to use each item, each meeting. Stay the course my friend.
If you're using the purification tabs and the life straws, boiling water is unnecessary. Food prep is unnecessary as there's already emergency food cubes included. Further complicating the food situation is pointless. Remember this kit is for 72 hours absolute emergency use, not to set up home for many weeks.
Unless you pack really heavy gear any roll top dry bag can be used for flotation. Either to support the gear or to hang on to for water crossing. Simply expand the bag as much as possible and roll the top without squeezing out excess air. They will support a surprising amount of weight. At a minimum it will float the bag and gear. I had mine get dumped out on several rafting trips, was able to recover the gear each time. With that said, I think the valve is gimmicky and adds a potential failure/leakage point to what otherwise appears to be a decent dry bag.
Same with water bottles. If you have means to get water and the water you have is not that crucial then you can drink/pour out your water and seal up your bottle. A 32 oz bottle will support a decent amount. You can pick up soda cans and cover the holes with duct tape, shove them in a bag and have short term floatation. You are only limited by your imagination.
The valve is a Boston valve. The same type used on inflatable kayaks. After a real world use of the emergency kit, you're probably likely to start with a fresh/brand new kit to replace it... Should you survive.
I do like the bag and the contents are a good base to work from. As usual Eric's upgrades bring the kit up to another level entirely. I also like the fact that the added gear is reliable but not costly.
I normally use a 2 person 72hr kit for 1 person. Also, I would add a shamy towel to this as a way to dry ones self off if wet. This will help prevent hypothermia in colder conditions. I agree with adding the additional food pack to this kit. One Great thing about the dry bag is it can also be used as a pillow. But as I said I use this kind of kit as a 1 person kit. You should also add any medication that you take such as Blood pressure meds or diabetic meds . And remember that you have consumable items in this kit and if you end up using some of these items at any point. Make sure you restock the kit. I have seen people forget to do this. And you should also add a P51 can opener for that just in case.
Great review. I like the bag and you added some high value components for a 72 hour kit. I would also add one of the cheap $1 Walmart headlamps, good enough for short term use. I have found that the whistle combo is a good reliable piece of gear that is regularly slighted on many video reviews. It is a loud whistle, a reliable compass for a button type, provides adequate storage for some waterproof matches and striker, a couple of cotton balls, and a small ferro rod. I carry one in my vest pocket whenever I head into the woods. I think you should reevaluate your view on this tool. I always add a couple of individual eye drop tubes to my first aid supplies. You never know when you could get something in you eye or get an injury you need to irrigate, especially in the woods. Yours is one of my favorite channels, I think you do a great job. Keep up the good work.
Definitely nice kit . I do like what you add at the end. Now what I add to it if their was room is a Silky pocket saw and a victorinox or leatherman knife and headlamp small cooking pot like the Stanley's 24oz just have another way to get drinking water and some storm proof matches. One those Arcturus tarp. Maybe a small folding shovel. I myself like sometimes buying premade kits and see how I can Doctor them up as well.
All the little bags take up a lot of room. But the organizational advantage outweighs the slight loss. I use a lot of little bags in my back pack first aid kit.
IMO the bag is fine as is. I think it’s meant to be stored on a boat and deployed with a life raft or dingy if your boat sinks. Explains why no knife pointy things are included and the emphasis on signaling. Those glow sticks on a rope swung in a circle would be visible for miles at night. The tent for sun protection and space blankets for signal flags.Also almost everything is plastic which doesn’t corrode. The water is a little light but if rationed properly might last 3 days. The thinking being if you’re not found by then you’re probably done for.
If you're on a boat, you should have life vest. I think the bags purpose as a flotation device is more to keep water out of the bag if you cross a deep stream or river than a life saving device.
It seems strange that a company would add something obvious to a product (like a valve) without saying what it was or how to use it. I figured it was for water storage, but your ideas make better sense. Good kit bashing, great vid, and keep up the good work.
I think you are right about the intended purpose of the valve. I think it would also function as an inflatable pillow. Sleep is important to thinking well and surviving.
When you open the bigger valve, it would help get the extra air out of the bag if you are trying to make the bag more compact, maybe to fit tucked away in a car or larger bag.
I am pretty sure you got the point at that valve. Sure makes what ever is in there float if it should be needed. Cool video as usually. Looking forward for your videos every time.
I like the card board bottom liner. Keeps the bottom from being perforated and used as fire starter tinder. I would add two more cardboard disks as well as a cut disk of 1/4" plywood to become a work surface or seat. I would also cut a rectangle of cardboard to act as an inner shield to protect the bag. I like the bag. Great video. Thanks for the share 🙏 😀
It may sound dumb but I like to keep a small kite in my emergency survival kit. It's homemade from an old shiny silver mylar blanket with long bright orange and silver streamer tails to use as a signal instead of packing flare guns since I live and hike in high windy mountains. When the sun shines the kite glows and flashes brightly, hard to not see.
Throw away the ration bars, and replace with over the counter power bars, more cals, more fat, better taste. Food is really important for moral, if it tastes good we seem to do much better under stress.
Just subbed and I love your vids man! I’m just recently getting into survival and survival kits and your vids are some of the best for ideas on how to build a kit! Thanks!
For the first time I tried using a small fero rod and knife as a striker and it was harder to use then expected. Everyone of these videos I see everyone makes it look easy. Practice makes perfect so make sure you get used to using one.
16:52 Easy to test. Fill the bag with weight equal to the contents. Inflate the bag. Hop in the pool. Will it still keep you afloat? I bet it would do a pretty decent job of it. At least it would provide an assist to someone in the water. That, coupled with other improvised flotation would probably do the trick. I learned that even blowing air into the neck hole of my t-shirt would Inflate it and keep me above water. Just keep the fabric wet and use your head as the 'cork' in the 'bottle'.
That bag is supposed to have all the items in it. What you do is blow up the bag. And then cross a river and that flaots all your gear across the river. And stays dry. I hope that makes sense. I think i said this right. You could also use it as a pillow.
Interesting that the bag could bouble as an inflatable pillow. Never seen that taken into account before lol. I'm sure with some looking around you could find an attachment method for a water spigot or diy one. Thanks for another interesting review.
It was interesting what they had in the bag. I was surprised you added a cheaper folding knife instead of a fixed blade with a Mora companion heavy duty for almost the same price as the folding knife and replace the garbage bags with 2 or 3 , 55 gallon bags to get more options with these heavy duty bags. Thank you
A small bottle of essential oil of lavender is good for headaches(even migraines).Also good burn aid,and as an antiseptic.Can be used to calm,or sleep aid as aromatherapy.Pretty handy stuff,forsooth(hah)
You wouldn't have to empty the gear to use it as a flotation device. It would still have buoyancy. You could also carry water in it, of course. the handle would come in handy for that. That is one of the best kits I've seen, esp. after you beefed it up a bit!
I just want to point out that many of the ziplock bags have vent holes; they are NOT waterproof, so do not depend on them to keep any contents dry. I would swap them all out for better baggies/pouches and carefully press out excess air before fully zipping them closed. I detest baggies with holes then them for this very reason. Good video, sir.
It's nice to see a survival kit with toilet paper. Your best guess is my best guess as to what that valve is for on the bag. I do like the extra items you added to the kit to make it just that much better. I mean if you have the room you might as well make it all it can be.
Nice review! I thought the buoyancy aid would not necessarily be a life saver but may make it easier to carry the kit if you were crossing water with it.
Agreed: if you were drowning, you'd probably have bigger things on your mind than dumping the contents of your survival bag and huffing-and-puffing on that valve for a few minutes to inflate it! If you inflate it with the contents inside before getting in your boat, it will inflate the bag to a larger volume that takes up more room, but would help save it should your boat overturn by letting it float, and it could similarly help to save the kit if you inflate it before crossing a stream.
Nice video I think I want this bag now not for the contents but to fill it up with my own stuff I have the first version and it's highly upgraded very highly upgraded LOL you can still get three rolls on that handle and pack that thing full of goodies even small firearms with some light ammo great video I will upgrade and get this one too
For that price i would have expected to see more high end gear. Also a better water and fire kit like you see in many other kits in this price range. The bag is a open water safety buoy, it is used for long distance swimming and as a backup safety measure on boats.
Love your videos. I think your logic about inflating the bag is spot on. That is the same valve used on inflatable boats. The only thing you could have done better was contact Life Gear and confirm the purpose of the valve and handle. I suspect this kit was designed for rafting or canoeing trips.
I would skip the cheap matches and use the whistle to store some UCO Stormproof or Sweetfire matches along with some cotton ball & vasaline tinders if there is room
If you can, stuff a clean pair of socks, pants and a shirt or hoodie in there. If you get soaked crossing water or from a sudden downpour flash flood etc... then you'll have all the stuff needed to set up camp while soaked and get a fire going, and have clean warm clothes to switch into while you dry your other set by the fire. Carry them in another bag tied to this bag if you have to. Whatever it takes.
You can probably flip the valve and use it for a gravity bag to filter water through a water purifier. Though, with the valve there, you might have to put pressure on the bag to squeeze it through the filter once the water level dropped a bit.
I have a customized survival kit and keep rotating the supplies every time I get back from a Backpacking trip. Clean all the gear , dry it , repack it and resupply the food for the next Backpacking trip. My kit offers a lot of comfort and great meals.
Sounds like you're confusing 'survival kit' with 'regular kit'. Survival kit should stay unused until such time as you have no option but to use it, in an emergency situation. It's not meant to be your standard kit.
you could also use that bag as a pillow, or a neck brace, I am sure that it has multi-purposes, and I would definitely add stuff to the bag, I think they meant for the customer to do just that with all the extra room in the bag, I do that with all my stuff
I’ve never been a fan of pre made kits. I do like the bag though and the guesses you had about the purpose of the valve were really good. I also thought the additions were good.
Hi, this is a good video yes I confirm you the valve is for the air. not for water as some people think... when the bag is filled with object you have to fill it with air.. 1: for floating 2: as a more comfortable backpack to carry the bag..
~1:01:OK I give up. That tag/content list is printed on what looks like a glossy card stock, making reading it a practical impossibility. The way it is lit makes it even more difficult. You could start a non-survival drinking game here. Every time the word "Emergency" is seen or used on the packaging, take a shot. By the time you get most of this over-priced junk unpacked, you won't care quite so much about being in a risky situation! Lifestraw is better than most of its cheap imitations. The wire saw (a good one) is the best addition you made. Toss a good quality multi tool in just for laughs and you can take out some of the other stuff and start saving weight. The Shelter side of this kit is good only for a laugh or two. Ground cover and a good large tarp with heavy grommets and more paracord will get you a lot farther. Take this kit out somewhere and lets see if you can live on it for 3 days. The most common mistake people make in a survival situation is never having used all these nifty toys. Yes. I'm talking about the two things you can't get into that inflatable toy. Experience and training.
(writing at the moment when You're inflating bag) I see one downside of this use of bag. It's two person kit (and i like it a lot) so someone have to handle swimming without help ;)
The one thing about the food is you probably don't even need any food for the first day while your figuring out what your going to do and how to do it in a survival situation. You might want a little snack for morale or on your stomach as you sleep at night
In general.. I advise people to put your own survival kit together with good quality stuf and watch video's of people who have had experienced diverse survival situations.. Thanks for the good video
I wonder if you can get the bag by itself. It seems to me that since it’s waterproof, it’s made to float. I’ve heard many boaters around here talk about having a couple of these on their boats for emergencies.
I love the fact that you put in amodium just like me that's Awesome, think for the knife I might have went with a mora or an even azusa. Just a thought, but putting in the knife great idea as well
I have one of the cheaper version and added a cheap folding knife to it, too! Am thinking of adding the one-handed trekker instead, since it has a three-inch saw on it!
What are you planning on boiling water in, a simple metal sealable drink container would be a good idea. A pair of constructor grade garbage bags, a few sugar packs of some energy bocks would be my addition to give an energy boost or flavor water.
I've been carrying one of these multi-tool credit card thingies in my wallet for like 5 years now, and the only time i needed it, it failed it's job 10/10 would recommend
I've stacked everything in mind in a circular motion and flat take it out of the package zip lock it do whatever you have to do but I have a 100,000 gallon clean water filter straw in my pack as well with the water purification tablets even a stove. I turn that two person three day kit into a two-person week-long kit.. and everything that came with it originally
