1.Backwoddsman Cooking
2.How to Stop Serious Bleeding
3.Knots: Traditional
4.Knots: Lashings
Backwoddsman Cooking
Backwodds man cooking is a challenging event where scouts cook without traditional utensil i primitive way.
Egg in potato
Quick Tips
Meat: Easily grilled, skewered or done on a spilt.
EGGS: Boiled in half an orange, onions, scopped out potatoes or skewered (very tricky)
Fish: wrapped in wet newspaper and placed directly on embers, tied to a green stick by the tail and stood up in the embers or done on a reflector.
Here some recipe of Backwoods man cooking are given:
Egg in an orange
Cut an orange in half. Cut an orange in half. Scoop out the fleshinside and eat it - be careful not to cut through the skin! Now crack an egg into the skin and place on the embers of the fire until the egg is cooked.
Kebabs
Can be made with many different ingredients - the main idea is that you put meat and vegetables in small pieces on a barked stick and grill them over the embers. They can be made even more delicious if you brush your kebabs with a mixture of oil and spices. A small tip here - use the very small onions normally used for bottling. Pork is not suitable for kebabs as it needs much longer to cook.
Twists
Mix flour, water and a pinch of salt together to form a thick dough, adding raisins and sultanas if you like. Make a snake-like roll of the dough and twist this snake like fashion on a thick green stick. Support it over glowing embers turning occasionally until the outside turns golden brown.
How to Stop Serious Bleeding
Uncontrolled bleeding may cause death quite rapidly, but in most cases bleeding can be stopped easily and swiftly by good first aid treatment.
Blood flowing from a vein oozes from the wound and is dark red in color. Blood from a cut artery spurts out with each pulsation of the heart and is bright red in color.
In almost all cases, applying “Direct Pressure” to the wound may stop bleeding. That is by pressing down upon the wound with your fingers or hand. If a sterile dressing is available, it may be placed on the cut before pressing down, but if the bleeding is serious, DO NOT WAIT for the sterile material. It is better to have a live victim with a few germs than a sterile wound on a dead patient.
ALWAYS WEAR LATEX GLOVES WHEN APPLYING FIRST AID TO A BLEEDING VICTIM.
There are a few cases of arterial bleeding when direct pressure may not be used:
- If there is a broken bone deep in the wound.
- If the wound is too large to cover with your hand.
- If there is a foreign object such as a piece of glass, or metal, within the wound.
In these cases, arterial bleeding may be stopped by pressing firmly on the area above the wound where the artery is close to a bone and may be compressed.
Don’t forget that after you have stopped the bleeding, you must dress the wound, and transport the victim to medical care as fast as possible.
Knots: Traditional
by shahin on February 9th, 2009
Square (or “Reef”) Knot
Square Knot. Used for joining ropes of equal thickness. It is also the knot used for tying bandages, as it lies flat. This knot is also known as a “Reef Knot”. The working end is tied over the standing end, “right over left, left over right.”
The Sheepshank
The Sheepshank is used for shortening a rope without cutting it.
Clove Hitch
Clove Hitch. Used for securing a rope to a spar as a starter knot for lashings, and for securing a line to a fixed object.
Round Turn & Two Half Hitches
Round Turn and Two Half Hitches. Used for tying a rope to a tree, securing a boat or making a rope fast to a spar.
The Bowline
Bowline. One of the most useful knots that you can know how to tie. It has many uses such as a rescue knot for hauling people up a cliff. You should practice tying this knot in the dark, and with only one hand.
How to whip a Rope
Simple Whipping. All ropes should have their ends treated in some way to stop them from fraying or becoming un-stranded. A whipping will fail if it is not tight and tidy.
The Timber Hitch
In addition to its use or starting a diagonal lashing, the Timber Hitch frequently is useful for hauling logs to the council fire, and for hauling spars and timbers for such pioneering jobs as bridge and tower building. It can be quickly adjusted, holds snugly under a strain, and is easily freed.
The fisherman’s Knot
The Fisherman’s knot is used by fishermen to join strands of fishing line. It is one of the best knots for tying fine lines together, especially plastic or nylon.
The Hitch
The Rolling Hitch is used for securing a rope to a spar.
Knots: Lashings
Square Lashing
Square lashings are used to bind together two spars that are at right angles with one another.
i) Place the poles on the ground in the shape of a cross. Tie a clove hitch around the bottom pole near the crosspiece. Twist the free end of the rope around its standing part and tuck it out of the way.
ii) Make three or four wraps around the spars, keeping the rope very tight. As you form the wraps, lay the rope on the outside of each previous turn around the crosspiece, and on the inside of each previous turn around the bottom pole.
iii) Then wind three or four frapping turns around the wrapping to tighten the lashing as much as you can.
iv) Finish it off with another clove hitch.
Diagonal Lashing
Diagonal lashings are used to lash to spars together other than at a right angle.
i) Start by tying a timber hitch around both poles and pulling it snug.
ii) Make four tight wraps around the spars, laying each wrap neatly alongside the timber hitch.
iii) Make four more tight wraps across the first three.
iv) Frap it three or four times and finish it off with a clove hitch.
Sheer (or Shear) Lashing
Sheer lashing is used two lash two spars together.
i) Lay two spars side by side.
ii) Tie a clove hitch to one spar.
iii) Make four loose wraps around the spars and four frapping turns between them.
iv) Finish with a clove hitch.
Tripod Lashing
A Tripod lashing is made by laying three spars alongside each other, with the center spare pointing in the opposite direction to that of the outside spars.
i) Tie a clove hitch around one outside pole.
ii) Loosely wrap the spars five or six times, then make the frapping on either side of the center spar.
iii) Finish the lashing with a clove hitch around the outside spar.
