Welcome to Earth Walker Primitive Survival

Welcome to my blog. I am Sgt. Speakman, founder of Earth Walker Primitive and Earth Walker Creations. I created this blog as a place to post my survival ideas, lessons and philosophy for my followers to view and comment and learn.



EWP is a survival philosophy involving both modern and primitive methods of self reliance. This blog is for all those who either camp, hunt, hike, are into scouting, love being outdoors or just plain want to learn and know what to do if found in a survival experience.



Hope you enjoy.


Feel free to email questions, comments and even share your own experiences, skills and tricks of the trade with me. If there is anything you wish me to answer or discuss or do a lesson/video on please email me at earthwalkerprimitive@yahoo.com

Monday, July 19, 2010

Primitive Tool Box Video 1.wmv



Start of a multi video series on finding and making primitive tools.
How to make tools to work in and live in an extended stay camp with only the clothes on your body as tools.

Fire Starting Kit Demo.wmv


This is the fire kit I carry and recomend. It is a simple very affective fire starting kit and I never leave home without it.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

My Kits

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/album.php?aid=12085&id=100001271033284

for ecamples of my 3 basic kits I carry check out the link.

I detail my fire kit, my EDC (every day carry) and my extended stay pack

Improvised Cheap Survival Kits -short.wmv



Demonstrating how to put together a very cheap inexspensive but very useful survival kit using items bought in a dollar store. Keep a survival kit in your truck, camper, boat, atv or pack with you on camping and hiking trips.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Start Fire with firesteel and cotton ball.wmv



How to start a fire with a firesteel and a cotton ball coated in vaseline and using a cotton ball as an improvised candle.

The foresteel was provided by:

The Surnite Lodge

www.Rrazor37.etsy.com

Making Char Cloth.wmv




Demonstrating how to make char cloth at home to store and carry to the field or to keep on hand for an emergency survival experiance.

FireSteel provided by:

The Surnite Lodge
www.rrazor37.etsy.com

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Sgt. Speakman On Walking Sticks


I would like to take a moment to talk to you and get a blog conversation on the topic of
walking sticks. Walking sticks, whether bought or made on the spot are something that
are beneficial to anybody either walking, backpacking, hiking or camping. Very easy to make or
obtain they can be used for many things and are a great tool to have and take the time to
make.

If you are backpacking, hiking, camping, even hunting or fishing or you find yourself spending
alot of time walking through the wilderness, both on and off trail, then a walking stick or staff
is somehting you should consider. You could buy manufactured sticks, custom made handcrafted sticks
or fashion one yourself in a matter of no time and with little effort. Find yourself in the woods, mountains,
stream or desert...make a walking stick.

Lets look at a few saftety reasons and benefits to having a walking stick. First off, it provides you with a
great tool to help aid you while traversing the land. Any place you go, even on trails you are confronted with
very uneven and if off the trail very unpredictable landscape and footing. A staff gives you that 3rd leg, that
extra balance to control your step and give you sure footing. It will also improve and make more comfortable and
less tiresome traveling up and down hill as you can use it to balance and support weight on the way down
and dig in and lean into on the way up.

Secondly, a walking stick is a good defense. When setting up a camp, or resting in the woods or just stopping
along a trail it could protect you from many harmful intruders. It could be used as a sacraficial arm, exploring holes
and rocks around your camp and bushes and shrubs and undergrowth to make sure there are no harmful critters lurking
in the shadow of your camp or rest spot. Also, while traveling it could be used as a protective tool in the event you
come across a snake or agressive varmin, being used as a club or stick to push away an attacker or stay off
a snake that you might have startled.

Injury is a dngeraous animal in the wild. So having a tool that can help you revent injury is a plus. Both in assistance
in walking to prevent slips, trips and broken bones and as a self defense tool to prevent an attack the walking
stick can be of great use.

A walking staff also provides a unique multiple purpose tool constantly at your disposal. It can be used as a bush whacking
tool to clear dense growth as you walk through the woods. Can be use to dig or hammer, can be used to test rivers and
creeks to tell depth while crossing. Many things can be done with a simple wooden tool that can be cheaply made or bought.

Some considerations for a walking stick can be: The height of a walking stick is generaly your armpit height, however, this is
mostly a personal preferance and what makes you more comfortable works. Some like it taller, some shorter. Find one with a grip
comfortable to you. You want it comfortable since you are going to be holding it for long periods of time. Make sure it is made
hard wood. Especially if you are making one for yourself, you want it to last. Something made of soft woods, and green wood
will not last. If it is green and not dried slowly the heat and sun and use can crack and split the staff makeing it
weak and useless and unstable.

You can make your staff or purchase one from many stores and shops and even online. I have a shop where I handcraft
all natural wood walking staffs, walking sticks and canes and they are available for sale online. Take a look at my
online shop and maybe you will find a walking staff you like.

A walking staff can go a long way for you. I hope you consider using one, for saftety, ease of use and for comfort when
you are out in the wild. I never leave for the woods without mine.

Sgt. Speakman

My online Shop:

www.etsy.com/shop/earthwalkercreations

Monday, July 5, 2010

4 Basic Survival Knotts

Instruction on how to tie 4 basic knotts commonly used and needed in survival, hunting or outdoor enviroments.

Improvised Rock Wall Shelter

Building the Rock wall shelter I talked about yesterday.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Improvised Rock Wall Shelter

This is an improvised hasty rock wall shelter. Anytime you are out looking for aplace to shelter down if you run into a rock wall it is an ideal place to set up. The rock wall is not just protection from the elements on one side of your shelter but also an all natural air conditioner. If its hot, sheltering in a rocky outcrop like this will keep you cool as the rock, in shade all day and col from the dampness will stay cool. When its night or cold, starting a small fire along the rock wall at an opening to the shelter will heat the shelter up immensly as the heat warms the rock, which will retain the heat, and then bounces heat off the rock and the poncho. Leaving a gap at the bottome of the shelter is a good choice to allow ventilation because you can quickly over heat in this type of shelter if you have a good fire going.

Simply two logs, one tied to each side of the poncho build the shelter. Then lean support poles against the wall forming a frame. Then pickup the two poles with the poncho and place it over the frame leaning the poles in place to stretch the poncho over the frame. Its optional to make one end pole tied to the poncho shorter to allow you to place the stick closer to the rock wall wraping the poncho around the frame acting as a door to close off one end and then leave the other end open for your fire.

This is merely a hasty shelter but with a few improvements, such as, tamping the outer poles into the ground and digging support holes for the frame poles to strengthen the structure would be good to strengthen it against wind. You can also add more straighter frame poles as you find them flattaning out the shape and making more of a wood wall and the poncho then becomes like a shingle material waterproofing tour structure.

You can find more pics on my facebook page and I will soon have a video of this posted up as well.

Sgt. Speakman

Friday, July 2, 2010

6 H's Talk about H1, H2 and H3

6 H's of survival discussion. In this video I talk about the first 3 H's in my 6 H philosophy that are the most important. H1 - Heat, H2 - Home and H3 Hydration. Short video detailing what most of my lessons in the future will be about.


Video on H1 - Heat

Video discussing the basics of fire starting. Discussing H1 - Heat, the first H in my 6 H's philosophy of survival. Learn the 4 elements needed to start a basic fire started here with a lighter to start things off basic and work our way toward primitive fire starting skills.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

The 6 H's of Survival

Hello again. In my first blog I brifely stated my introduction to my survival philosophy. In this blog I wish to beifely outline my 6 fundamentals to survival in any situation or climate.

If your stranded in the desert, stuck in a frozen forest or lost in the woods these 6 principles, if followed, will definately benefit your situation and total outcome of your survival experience.

These 6 H's are my key points that I will be teaching in all my classes, videos and instruction. The 6 points lay out, in a specifice order what elements must be obtained and maintained to give you success in a survival situation. I will even have poket cards made and available or download at a future time to keep with your survival kits or what not but remembering or writing them down will definately help.

The 6 H's

H1 - Heat - Fire is the ultimate resource in a survival experience. It warms you, protects you, drys cloathes, cooks food, protects you and many more things. Your first priority should always be to develope and maintain a good working fire to assist you in the rest of your survival points and help sustain your life.

H2 - Home - Second to fire, shelter is key. You may be warm from the fire but you still need to be protected from the elements. Shelter provided you protection from heat and cold, wet and even from pesky critter. It is also a huge comfort and security factor in your survival. Home or shelter should be your second priority.

H3 - Hydration - The human can go 3 days without water. But that is also deteremined on the climate and amount of activity performed. After fire and shelter, it is time to find, gather and puriy a safe means of water. We will go over many safe ways to do this in the near future.

H4 - Healthy Eating - You dont have a store or take out and you possible have no or little food packed with you in the field. Food is the next point. We will discuss ways and methods and areas where food resources can be gathered or hunted. It will be crucial that you learn ways of obtaining healthy types and ammounts of food to help you survive.

H5 - Hygiene - You are out in the wild exposed to dirt, no showers, bugs and pests, hunting food and getting filthy. Sickness and disease can be a big factor in the success of your survival experiance. You must have an idea of how to keep yourself and even your survival camp healthy and clean. Keeping good hygiene will also assure that your health will be better upon rescue or recovery and that you will not have any long term healh problems.

H6 - Help - Now you must seek or find help. Its imparative you know ways of signaly or grasping the attention of those that can help you or be able to navigate and find your way out of a survival experience and back to civilization.


These 6 points, once again, are the key philosophic points that will be covered in all of my material. Good well rounded knowlege on each H will assure your survival experience has as best as an outcome possible. Those who gave up or lost the will to survive or didnt follow rules and priorities like this can not give testimony to it because they did not make it. Those who have the will to survive and follow life saving and sustaining guidlines will make it through.

I will talk about and post videos on each of these points in the future. They will be out of order and bounce around a bit but each will be labeled in the title the H point they represent.

Be well and Be safe.
Sgt. Speakman