How to use a tampon real man

Let's talk about survival. ABOUT Arduous March, Emergency situations, test for real men who find themselves face to face with wildlife. It would seem, and here tampons? No, we do not make a mistake with a header. Now all we tell and show. The theme of today's article - how to use a tampon for survival in extreme conditions. Hypocrites access is denied.

So, first of all: forget everything you know about tampons until now. It's difficult. But imagine that you first saw this thing, for example, the online store of gadgets for survival. Treat thereto respectively. Now let's consider a specific example: the same may be useful tampon. You'd be surprised how many hidden features it carries in itself.

1. Wound dressing

Swabs sterile. Their packaging is sealed and waterproof. They are designed to absorb as much liquid as possible. All this makes an excellent material tampon for emergency bandaging. It is known that even tampons used for primary treatment of gunshot wounds during the fighting - if the hand had no other medical equipment.

2. Primitive water filter

Of course, tamponovy filter will not save from heavy metals and chemical contaminants. But here with purified water of impurities and fines slurry can handle it remarkably. If the water in the only available source of dirty, muddy, cluttered debris - Construct a simple filter from a plastic bottle and raspotroshonnogo swab.

We thrust the swab into the neck of the bottle clipped. In doing cover the small hole, and then pour the rinse water.

Water the output is clean, clear and quite safe to drink:

Kindling for the fire

It is no secret that cotton is flammable. One swab if it well to fluff up, you get 3-4 small handful of the material for kindling.

And most importantly, as we have said, the swab is packed tightly, that is your kindling is always dry. If you sprinkle it with gasoline or a mixture of the fire, the matter will go even livelier.

Filter tube to drink from a stream

Some pads further packaged in a plastic container with a straw. will not specify what was done so initially, we are interested in how it can be used.

If you do not have time to properly filter the water in the manner described above, it is possible to produce a filter tube and drink directly from the water body. Put part raspotroshonnogo swab in a plastic box from him, slightly tamped, and adjusts the tube from the top:

Again: this method does not clean the water from chemical and biological contaminants, but if there are no other options - a tampon will provide at least the mechanical cleaning.

5. Wick candle

Tampon lanyard (rope in the middle) can serve as a wick for makeshift candle. In the photo below as a filler used animal fat:

Once the cord is saturated with fat and has been successfully set on fire, the candle burned another 20 minutes. And part of the cord still remains, just fat burned.

6. Rope

Already mentioned lanyard and can serve as a rope. Of course, this is not the marine rope, however, the strength of the rope in a quite decent.

In the photo cord was used to set traps on small game. In general, when you need a small, thin, but sturdy enough rope, it can be a huge amount.

7. Dart

Darts for centuries served faithfully for all those who have ever to survive in the harsh conditions of wildlife. In the capable hands of this deadly weapon.

For the manufacture of a simple, easy darts for hunting small rodents, lizards, amphibians, birds, and even fabricate "tail" of the swab. To fix it can be all the same lanyard-rope.

8. Make a natural depression for water

Not so easy to find in nature the water container. And sometimes it can be vital. Here's a makeshift pot can be manufactured using a tampon, or rather part of it:

Take an empty plastic applicator tampon on, blows the coals on a piece of timber. Burns suitable size container. The author has spent about 30 minutes trying to build a container with a capacity of 2 cups of water.

9. The sealed package of matches

In the conditions of moisture and high humidity it is very important to keep matches and kindling dry. Bag, which packed a tampon, is perfect for this purpose, it is made of waterproof material and sealed.

Put a match or other small things that you want to protect from moisture inside. Then firmly drag the open end of the cord-rope from the center of the tampon:

10. Float

Tampon amiss and for fishing in extreme conditions. Because it is possible to make the float.

When there is a homemade rope and hook on hand, fishing rod is almost ready. It remains to build a float. Take a swab from packaging. We reveal firmly overtighten edge. To the air trapped inside, not out, can be added in, the place of constriction, a bit of cotton wool swab itself. We tie our "fishing line":

Here is such a practical and functional piece of the tampon. Are you courageous enough to take with a package, going on a long and dangerous journey?

translator's NoteNot all are equipped with plastic applicator tampons. And not all applicators have such form, as in the photo above. If you plan to use tampons for the survival of pre-look online features of different types and brands.