{"id":4432,"date":"2017-05-03T08:33:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T15:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightfast.com\/blog\/?p=4432"},"modified":"2017-05-03T08:33:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T15:33:35","slug":"bushcraft-bs-creating-poncho-trashbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/03\/bushcraft-bs-creating-poncho-trashbag\/","title":{"rendered":"Bushcraft or BS: Creating a Poncho From a Trashbag"},"content":{"rendered":"When it comes to a good survival kit simplicity and versatility are crucial. Few items are as simple and versatile as a large heavy duty trash bag. They are light, compact, multi-purpose, inexpensive, reusable, and readily available. <!--more-->\n\n<div class=\"flex-video\">\n<iframe id=\"ytplayer\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\"\nsrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DsWXKFXC9AE?controls=0&rel=0&showinfo=0&iv_load_policy=3\"\nframeborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"small-10 small-centered medium-4 medium-centered large-4 large-centered columns\">\n<script src=\"https:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/platform.js\"><\/script>\n<div class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channelid=\"UCzRcRKV6mRwLfkg9WmB84Eg\" data-layout=\"full\" data-count=\"default\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nIn the video above we demonstrate how quickly and easily you can turn a trash bag into a rain poncho with just a knife. It's not rocket science, the biggest things to keep in mind are not cutting yourself and not slipping and cutting a huge hole in the bag rendering it useless.\n \nWet clothes are a real hazard in cool conditions. Wet clothes will pull moisture out of your body faster than dry clothes of the same temperature. Staying dry is a priority if temps will get below 70 degree, and if it's windy 70 degrees and wet it can still get dangerous.\n  \nThere is no good reason not to put a heavy duty trash bag in your survival kit. If you don't have one currently, do it now. I have 2 in my survival bag at all times and they are so light and compact I have on several occasions forgotten they were even in there.\n \nLook forward to more trashy survival tips where we'll show you how to:\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Waterproof your backpack<\/li>\n<li>Use a trash bag and backpack as a flotation device<\/li>\n<li>Collect rain water<\/li>\n<li>Make a tent\/ wind break<\/li>\n<li>Cover a shallow underground retreat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<div class=\"small-10 medium-4  large-4 columns\">\n<h4><strong>Click the button below to subscribe to our new channel:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/platform.js\"><\/script>\n<div class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channelid=\"UCzRcRKV6mRwLfkg9WmB84Eg\" data-layout=\"full\" data-count=\"default\"><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to a good survival kit simplicity and versatility are crucial. Few items are as simple and versatile as a large heavy duty trash bag. They are light, compact, multi-purpose, inexpensive, reusable, and readily available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[66,93,225,239,258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11959,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions\/11959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}