This deserves more views!!! I watch survival kit vids a lot, but this still took a month to show up in my feed. Really interesting and fun. You are a very good presenter. I'd love to see you do an update on this kit
From one USAF Veteran to another....I served during the same time period 1971-1975. I enjoyed your video very much! Thank you! Have you thought about cleaning up and salvaging some of the contents, replacing the nasty stuff and keeping the tin and contents just for your personal history? I think that would be awesome! Really good survival kit sir! Well done!
Thanks. I did clean it up, repacked it and added it to my assortment of memorabilia. When I'm gone my kids are going to have a good time dealing with all of my stuff. :-) I did a second video on upgrades I'd make to the kit: ua-cam.com/video/ML3K_JirJ6g/v-deo.html Have a good one.
Oh Man, that ferro rod and striker in a wooden case is a true collectible! Build the same kit today, substituting bullion powder in mylar foil sachets (we have that here in the Philippines, maybe you can find it also?), perhaps add a moisture absorber and you will be good to go just as you were 45 years ago. Thank you for your service and the tour of your kit.
On closer examination I discovered that two of the packs of four squares was not bullion cubes but sugar cubes. I also forgot to mention that the tin could but used as a container to boil water. Overall a well rounded kit.
When I was a Boy Scout in the early 1970s I made a survival kit (for a merit badge) out of an old plastic sewing kit. I carried it with me on many camping trips. I put a few bullion cubes in it and when I found the kit years later those cubes were nasty and had had leaked into other items in the kit like the now rusty single edge razor blades.
Wow, great kit, that was like a cool time capsule! lol. I think you should clean up the things you can salvage (even the old water tablets- just for the history, not to use of course) and put it back together just for the memories. Also, I am stealing your idea for the fishing kit, it was so neat and tidy, and not prone to get tangled. Loved the video. :)
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Yes, I'm going to put it back together and keep it for its history value. I was also surprised by the fishing kit, I didn't realize I was that clever. I haven't used that technique in recent kits I've made. I'm going to go back and update them.
Neat 👍. A great 'blast from the past' .. thanks for sharing. Nothing much has changed .. just variations on a theme .. just more 'marketing blurb' in this day and age. My survival kit (those days known as a 'bush kit') was (and is still very much) based on a soldiers handbook, named 'Don't Die in the Bundu' written by Colonel D. H. Grainger, a Rhodesian army officer back in the late '60's, for operating in the Southern African Bush. Was in my loadout then with associated kit .. became so dog-eared and weathered that I had to replace it in the early 80's. Was relevant then and still today. I read, many years back (and for the life of me cannot recall where and by whom) something by a then-recognised Survival Expert regarding actually how little one really needed to 'survive out there'. Wish I could find it .. Once again .. a nice share .. have subscribed .. take care ..
I'm glad you enjoyed the video. That book sounds interesting, I'll have to see if I can find a copy. True you can survive with very little, that is assuming you also have some knowledge. I like to say "You can survive with very little but adding a few items to your kit can change a survival experience from Near Death to Uncomfortable."
Dang, that's a great kit! I miss Band-Aid Tins. My grandfather used to use them for just everything. Random hardware, a survival kit, piggy bank, literally anything!
The knowledge and insight garnered from this "unboxing" is quite invaluable. What a gem of a video. Thank you so much for sharing this. And thank you for not only your service, but your sacrifices as well. From one Vet to another, happy trails and safe journey, sir.
Thanks for showing this old (I was 12 year old pupil) but well designed survival kit ! I plan & give my now grown up young adult kids which already live in shared appartement (2 daughters > 500km away), part by part multi-usable things (every day house hold, weekend trip, longer xmax journey back, emergency survival pack). I hope they learn to start preparation for emergency at home or abroad by using these parts. Even germany government recomments 14 day emergency/crisis preparation (electrical black out, now Ukraine war sanction back effects).
I love these vids, especially the old vintage ones. The fishing kit and ferro rod holder-mini saw did it for me. Good job. It endured the test of time. Nicely done👍
I like your kit. I was a city kid in High School when you made that and it wouldn't have held any interest to me at all at that time. Now it is very interesting to me. I know A LOT about pocket survival kits now, and had no idea how similar the rational for their construction was back then. I thought we just got smart, recently LOL. I just bought some goofy bandaids that look like bacon strips, just to get the tin, flip top box that they came in, so I could build a pocket survival kit. It turned out the bandaids are pretty damn good, too. If you think back, you may remember that we had shoe polish tins to store our treasures in as well as the world famous "Sir Walter Raleigh" in a can, of phone prank fame. I seem to remember that they sold Bugler tobacco for hand rolls in metal tins as well. The women in my family cherished the tins that came with their sewing machines. They held the bobbins and cams for the machine. I hate even thinkin' back to pre zip lock bag days. Fold over sandwich bags sucked. LOL
Very interesting video. I had a very similar survival kit which contained almost all, if not all of, the same items you put in this kit, plus a few more like a boy scout folding knife and a small flashlight. I used an old WWII surplus first aid kit with the old style snap in the canvas lid. I made my kit when I was in Scouts from '72 to about '76. I took it everywhere with me for years on every hike and backpacking trip. I upgraded to a cheap, zippered, small fanny pack in the 80's sometime that I still have and use. My old bouillon cubes did the same thing to me, they fell apart. The sugar disintegration surprised me the most. I was really impressed with the quality of the electrical tape and the fishing line. Both looked viable and strong. This was a cool look backward to the days of my youth. Thank You Sir! I'm about to watch part 2.
its like a time capsule..glad to see keep it after all this years to show it to us and we can learn something from your survival kit,,, thank you very much sir ..more power to your video...keep safe.
Except for the bullion cubes everything looks pretty good, to my surprise....You made this kit when I was 5 years old, and my own body hasn't held up as good as this stuff! Really fun vid...Thanks for the upload!
That was fun. Like opening a time capsule. Think the pills that were a powder may have been tums? Thanks and reminds me of the kit I made when I was in the Navy. Mine was in a chem warfare test kit.
While the cubes and candle conspired against the longevity of this kit, there is a very involved history to those cubes and a reason why many people in the 1900's considered them as a "go to" survival pantry or kit item. While exact origins are lost to time the "portable soups" of the 1600's to 1700's became one of the "foods of interest" to people in the 1800's (such as Heinz with Ketchup and Kellogg with Corn Flakes etc). Justus Freiherr von Liebig in around 1840 created a beef concentrate, and by the end of 1899 OXO had been formed. Justus is also the founder of Organic Chemistry (a very large body of science today). Then there came WWI, and even though OXO had been the invention of German origins, the British Army did the entire war with OXO as a major part of their rations. Following the war, a variation of Hard Tack soup became popular and known as bread soup (bread and OXO) and this led into depression era survival. Following the next war (WWII) when nations were rebuilding, creating new communities and moving people from ice boxes and hand wringers and pot belly stoves to the new modern living with electricity OXO again was a prominent food because it helped exemplify how simple electricity made your work a day life at home. Through many countries even today, national identity foods start off with water and bouillon cubes. I can say there is no doubting the important place in history bouillon holds and that is reflected in your choices in that tin. But then, there are all the other items in that tin! There is so much history in there and so many other stories it can also bring out. This was a very enjoyable time capsule to watch opened.
Like your comment . . . "of using what you have" . . . In the UK in the 1960's two ounce hand rolling tobacco tins were widely used for this type of kit. Plus, a patent medicine called 'Carter's Little Liver Pills' came in a small glass bottle with a screw top, which was prized as a match safe. Great informative video by the way.
The quality everything was made of back in those days, is noticably better than our days. This old kit is a great lesson, for newer made kits (You don't put buillon cubes inside kits, they carry moisture!!)
I have bullion cubes in my hiking/backpacking survival kit but I keep the in a small plastic tube with rice grains. I've add the bullion that comes in the packets to some kits and wonder how long they'll hold up. I'll get back to you in 45 years :-)
Awesome kit, you sure listened carefully to your instructor - the same content (fresh items of course) would serve you well today. Bouillion cubes are great to replenish lost minerals, so nothing wrong with having a handful in your kit. Having them packed in a heavy duty roll-top plastic bag and sealed with some e-tape it wouldn't mess up everything else, same for the candle. Your cotton balls look pretty fluffy, putting them in a tube container allows to squeeze them rather tight and fit in 3-4 times the amount - can always be fluffed up again. I think, the light yellow pills that turned into dust might be amphetamin, quite common for the military. I love your compass, still working after 40+ years, that's real quality! In the description box you mention to use the container to boil water - I think, this wouldn't work, the seams are made much too flimsy to be waterproof and will most likely drip and kill the fire.
The pills weren't amphetamines 😊, probably aspirins. Flying C130s we were never issued Amphetamines since we had two pilots and a bunk. The drug was issued to fighter pilots for long over-water ferry flights.
Good video. We made similar kits in Boy Scouts in the 1960s. Those Baidaid cans were very useful. When I left for the Army, my youngest brother took all of my stuff(except what I had hidden in the attic). The Army didn't really teach survival in those days so I had to do my own. The accessory pouch from the C rats was a pretty handy kit. Some small supplies from the medic and a good Scout Knife and you were set. The poncho was probably the handiest piece of gear. I bought 2 new ones(the issue ones leaked). They fell apart 10 years ago. Good Luck, Rick
Those C rat packs were great, I still have some. Back then there wasn't much in the way of dedicated survival items and you had to make do with whatever you could find.
After seeing so many survival time this was amazing. Thank you. Also it reminded me not to mix my food with my tools. Moisture can become an issue after time.
That’s a ice little kit. It’s funny how times change, but some things don’t. There is nothing it your kit that I wouldn’t consider in mine today. Packaging has improved, the the contents are spot on.
Here’s a hack to consider, fellow patriots. Do not pack ANY consumables in pocket-carry survival kits. Amazon offers so many aluminum or titanium canisters, boxes etc, all one need do is utilize a second unit that carries nothing but consumables (and maybe 1 more mini Bic or UCO’s). For example I built several 4 inch round tins (w/screw lids) that are 2 inches deep. Each contains: •beef & chicken bullion cubes •sugar •salt •200mg caffeine tablets •Jolly Ranchers •Hard caramels •tea •coffee •aspirin •Whirlpack stand up water bag •Aqua tabs •mini Bic •hard chocolates •single serve (16oz) Crystal Lights I run 3 feet of electricians tape around to seal them water tight. Since every adventure involves my wearing at least 6-8 pockets carrying the 800 calories, hot drinks & caffeine separately is a non issue. Like this gentleman is so perfectly demonstrating, there are too many instances when sugar or bullion or melted chocolate ruined batteries, a knife, headlamp, matches. Yep. Best to keep consumables AND first aid boo boo meds (Neosporin, burn cream, alcohol pads, betdyne pads & iodine) away from things like fishing tackle, fire starters, writing instruments, compasses et al. UA-cam is full of channels that do noting but wilderness rescues/hikers in trouble. Almost every single one traipsed off into the wilderness with nothing but a phone. Don’t be one of those people. “Know what kills everyone out here? Shame. They die of shame” -Anthony Hopkins “The Edge”
I'm always amazed how little many people take with them. You're out there for exercise why not get more by carrying some survival gear. I wonder how many of the people stuck on the freeways from this winters storms carried nothing. Keep a few things in the car, they don't take up much room, won't effect your gas mileage, it might save your life or at least make your wait a little more comfortable. For me, the thought of having to be rescued is very troublesome.
Very nice kit! Not sure I would want to drink water that was boiled in it though! I'm working on a kit that uses a collapsible stainless steel cup. Thanks for sharing!
I have a collapsible cup and thought about making a survival kit around it. I haven't because my cup is a cheap aluminum, I'll have to look for a stainless steal one.
I don't put knives in my kits because I always carry a knife. While in the Air Force I carried the issue survival knife (see video: ua-cam.com/video/8XwIC4IXDwk/v-deo.html) which was secured to my flight suit with a lanyard and a pen knife
Hahaha, true. Back then you didn't have a lot of choices. My wife introduced me to Red Rose which is good for a mass market tea. These days I use Red Rose to make Ice Tea which I go thru in gallons. :-)
@@planetsideagent Yes sir, Please don't stop making videos. I'm definitely a fan as I love any and everything old school from survival kits to old-school EDC. And there are others into that as well. Thanks for your videos I'm subscribed and will direct people here.
Brother that “old” bandaid box is substantially better than the silly Altoids things. Btw I’m 51 and Remember getting the metal bandaid boxes and mercurochrome at the “five and dime” (sigh) Things were better then.
Those old bandaid boxes were handy. I'm surprised mercurochrome was still around when you were young, I'm 72 and It was common when I was a boy, although Bacteen was starting show up. Mercurochrome was better than iodine which my folks were brought up on, I guess it really stung. We also used hydrogen peroxide which didn't sting as much as mercurochrome.
That's crazy I was born is Spokane, lived around Idaho and there my whole life. there's a lot of people around that area that really know their stuff when it comes to survival. Great Northwest have so many woods and places she didn't have a kid or something you could easily die. I'm not a huge fan of the city but definitely of the woods north of there hahahaha and in north Idaho
Survival Kits are like Fire extinguishers, you should have one but hopefully never have to use it. I guess the same could be said for life insurance. 😂
@@planetsideagent At least with the survival kit you know its there, need it or not. A survival kit is one of those things that you definitely only get out what you put in. Do you know what gets bigger the more you take away?
@@planetsideagent A hole, gets bigger the more you take away. When you have thst " Survivalist" mindset every bag you carry ends up an " Inch" bag. I've a few bags. Started out as a "day bag" but before I could say Ray Mears the bag was 60 lbs and my wife was really struggling to carry it. She'd do better if she wasn't wearing those heals but she never listens to me.
I don't put knives in survival kits because I always have a knife on me. While in the Air Force I carried the issued Camillus knife that fit in a designed pocket on the inside thigh of my flight suit. Here is a video i did on the knife. ua-cam.com/video/8XwIC4IXDwk/v-deo.html
You know what? Dont want to be rude but I got fed up just looking at that tin. We dont need to know all the details about a tin. Just open it and show the contents. Thank you😮😮😮😮
I feel your frustration, I too get it when watching unboxing videos or ones that are going to tell/show us something very interesting and the UA-camr rambles on. I didn't know I did it. 🙁 🙂 Thanks for the honesty.
Yeah I know, it bothers me too. 🙁 Mics are expensive and if you look at my numbers I’m not making any money on my channel. I’ll try the mic that comes on the ear phones and see if it’s better. Thanks for the feedback.
That's bulshit I can tell you right now that is not true that thing is not 45 years old the bandages would have fell apart everything in there would be old looking and it wouldn't matter that he put them away anything like that they still would have got dried out and that is not the way it would have looked that stuff was put in there just recently or within the last ten or twenty years but not 45 years ago and 19 was 74 75
Well Ed its not bullshit, I have no reason to deceive. My UA-cam channel is not monetized so I don't need to pump views with click bait. If you scan my video list you can see that I don't. Twenty years ago was 2000 by then I had been out of the Air Force for 13 years and the survival kit I used, and still use. is in a nylon bag. I completed pilot training and survival schools in 1975 after which I built this kit, that was 46 years ago. I can't believe it but I am that old.
@@planetsideagent if so then I apologize but I have similar things and mine look like they're old as s*** and I know back in the day when those survival kits were around there wasn't always a thing to put around them and if there was you had to change it from time to time and if it didn't get changed her right ear got in and it could dry Rot & Ruin Everything inside it would turn brown looking even if it didn't get wet just being left upstairs in the Attic dry-rotted it would just it's just so old so either you had your stored in a really good place or not true
@@planetsideagent I probably will watch more of your stuff more of your videos what does stuff look in mint condition I just didn't think that something 45 years old would look so mint condition
No worries, I understand where you are coming from. I had it stored in a foot locker in the garage so pretty good conditions. Not every thing was pristine, the bullion cubes turned to goo, the ferror rod corroded pretty bad, the lead shot showed corrosion and the candle deformed a bit but overall I was pleased with how it held up.
I'm a die hard survivalist I love survival kits I collect them but I make my own aswell but I just like to see makes the best pre made kits there's only a few companies that actually make very good kits but there pricey but that being said you pay for what you get if your poor or cheap then your survival kit is probably not going to be as good as a 200 or 500 dollar kit but I've bought several plus I have bought plenty of gear over the years and made my own and my kits are alot better but Vigilant Trails they make very good cheap kits for people that are poor or broke but they give you decent quality items for the price and they cover all the different areas of survival in each kit or you can buy mods so if you only want the fishing kit you can get it and be honest there fishing survival Mod kit is tge best I've seen and there's several different ones to choose from Esee makes great kits but pricey and Best Glide makes a great kit and it's very affordable the most expensive is 104 but it's a great kit and covers alot of basics and extra
When I grew up there were no pre made kits except military surplus stuff. We made our own kits from what we had on hand. As you say the pre mades are expensive and you get what you pay for. These days with the internet you can find a lot of kit components and at good prices.
@@planetsideagent I agree there is only a few companies that actually give you quilty gear for an ok price I'm 38 years old and the first kit I seen was my late 20's and I started with buying my own gear now I've built up alot of good stuff but I made all my own kits it's better because most people have used those items that you put in your EDC or survival kit or bug out bag once I got in the survival world and built up gear they came out with some survival kits and different gear nobody has really seen before but I will not buy any crap Amazon choice junk i like to collect them mainly just the ones I think I found survival with there expensive thou like Esee and Best Glide are up there ASR made a kit that was a jack of all trades kit I thought was cool but it was 250 but the bag was amazing
This deserves more views!!! I watch survival kit vids a lot, but this still took a month to show up in my feed.
Really interesting and fun. You are a very good presenter.
I'd love to see you do an update on this kit
Thanks. I did do a follow up to this video:
ua-cam.com/video/ML3K_JirJ6g/v-deo.html
@@planetsideagent I'm on my way...😊
Yeah the algo done f’ed up on this. Kitbashed, wrangerstar… none of em have something this cool to review.
It just got recommended to me. Interesting video! That thing is almost as old as I am. Tres vintage. 😉
Yes, really❤
I bet that opening this up brought back a lot of old memories for you. I enjoyed watching the video.
From one USAF Veteran to another....I served during the same time period 1971-1975. I enjoyed your video very much! Thank you! Have you thought about cleaning up and salvaging some of the contents, replacing the nasty stuff and keeping the tin and contents just for your personal history? I think that would be awesome! Really good survival kit sir! Well done!
Thanks.
I did clean it up, repacked it and added it to my assortment of memorabilia. When I'm gone my kids are going to have a good time dealing with all of my stuff. :-)
I did a second video on upgrades I'd make to the kit:
ua-cam.com/video/ML3K_JirJ6g/v-deo.html
Have a good one.
Oh Man, that ferro rod and striker in a wooden case is a true collectible! Build the same kit today, substituting bullion powder in mylar foil sachets (we have that here in the Philippines, maybe you can find it also?), perhaps add a moisture absorber and you will be good to go just as you were 45 years ago. Thank you for your service and the tour of your kit.
I found Goya brand bullion in packets that I'll start using.
Good idea on the moisture packets, I have quite a few that I've saved.
On closer examination I discovered that two of the packs of four squares was not bullion cubes but sugar cubes.
I also forgot to mention that the tin could but used as a container to boil water.
Overall a well rounded kit.
instablaster...
When I was a Boy Scout in the early 1970s I made a survival kit (for a merit badge) out of an old plastic sewing kit. I carried it with me on many camping trips. I put a few bullion cubes in it and when I found the kit years later those cubes were nasty and had had leaked into other items in the kit like the now rusty single edge razor blades.
Wow, great kit, that was like a cool time capsule! lol. I think you should clean up the things you can salvage (even the old water tablets- just for the history, not to use of course) and put it back together just for the memories. Also, I am stealing your idea for the fishing kit, it was so neat and tidy, and not prone to get tangled. Loved the video. :)
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Yes, I'm going to put it back together and keep it for its history value.
I was also surprised by the fishing kit, I didn't realize I was that clever. I haven't used that technique in recent kits I've made. I'm going to go back and update them.
Neat 👍. A great 'blast from the past' .. thanks for sharing.
Nothing much has changed .. just variations on a theme .. just more 'marketing blurb' in this day and age.
My survival kit (those days known as a 'bush kit') was (and is still very much) based on a soldiers handbook, named 'Don't Die in the Bundu' written by Colonel D. H. Grainger, a Rhodesian army officer back in the late '60's, for operating in the Southern African Bush. Was in my loadout then with associated kit .. became so dog-eared and weathered that I had to replace it in the early 80's. Was relevant then and still today.
I read, many years back (and for the life of me cannot recall where and by whom) something by a then-recognised Survival Expert regarding actually how little one really needed to 'survive out there'. Wish I could find it ..
Once again .. a nice share .. have subscribed .. take care ..
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
That book sounds interesting, I'll have to see if I can find a copy.
True you can survive with very little, that is assuming you also have some knowledge.
I like to say "You can survive with very little but adding a few items to your kit can change a survival experience from Near Death to Uncomfortable."
@@planetsideagent 👍 .. naturally.
Oof. That book is $86 on Amazon right now. A used 1st edition paperback copy at that. Looks to be out of print.
Wow thanks for sharing this and for your service. 👍🏼🇺🇸
Amazing to see your survival kit. It's like a time capsule that is pretty much the same as these days ! Awesome.
I LOVED THIS VID YOUR LOOKING BACK AT HISTORY 🙏🏾❤
Dang, that's a great kit! I miss Band-Aid Tins. My grandfather used to use them for just everything. Random hardware, a survival kit, piggy bank, literally anything!
yep, the were a very handy size. I'm still using the ones I collected decades ago.
I LOVE how you organized that fishing kit.
Thanks, I was impressed myself. It appears younger me was more cleaver. :-)
@@planetsideagentIt's odd, I'm rewatching this video two years later, and the first thing that came to mind were the Nesquik tins. I miss those tins.
The knowledge and insight garnered from this "unboxing" is quite invaluable. What a gem of a video. Thank you so much for sharing this. And thank you for not only your service, but your sacrifices as well. From one Vet to another, happy trails and safe journey, sir.
I remember making one of these when I was in the marines it came in very handy to have thank you for the memories
Thanks for showing this old (I was 12 year old pupil) but well designed survival kit !
I plan & give my now grown up young adult kids which already live in shared appartement (2 daughters > 500km away), part by part multi-usable things (every day house hold, weekend trip, longer xmax journey back, emergency survival pack).
I hope they learn to start preparation for emergency at home or abroad by using these parts. Even germany government recomments 14 day emergency/crisis preparation (electrical black out, now Ukraine war sanction back effects).
I love these vids, especially the old vintage ones. The fishing kit and ferro rod holder-mini saw did it for me. Good job. It endured the test of time. Nicely done👍
Thanks.
Sir, i love that video! It's still impresively practical survival kit, well thought.
Best regards!
Thank You :-)
I like your kit. I was a city kid in High School when you made that and it wouldn't have held any interest to me at all at that time. Now it is very interesting to me. I know A LOT about pocket survival kits now, and had no idea how similar the rational for their construction was back then. I thought we just got smart, recently LOL. I just bought some goofy bandaids that look like bacon strips, just to get the tin, flip top box that they came in, so I could build a pocket survival kit. It turned out the bandaids are pretty damn good, too. If you think back, you may remember that we had shoe polish tins to store our treasures in as well as the world famous "Sir Walter Raleigh" in a can, of phone prank fame. I seem to remember that they sold Bugler tobacco for hand rolls in metal tins as well. The women in my family cherished the tins that came with their sewing machines. They held the bobbins and cams for the machine. I hate even thinkin' back to pre zip lock bag days. Fold over sandwich bags sucked. LOL
Those old tins were gold. Yep and I remember those sandwich bags too. Before those mom used wax-paper.
Very interesting video. I had a very similar survival kit which contained almost all, if not all of, the same items you put in this kit, plus a few more like a boy scout folding knife and a small flashlight. I used an old WWII surplus first aid kit with the old style snap in the canvas lid. I made my kit when I was in Scouts from '72 to about '76. I took it everywhere with me for years on every hike and backpacking trip. I upgraded to a cheap, zippered, small fanny pack in the 80's sometime that I still have and use. My old bouillon cubes did the same thing to me, they fell apart. The sugar disintegration surprised me the most. I was really impressed with the quality of the electrical tape and the fishing line. Both looked viable and strong. This was a cool look backward to the days of my youth. Thank You Sir! I'm about to watch part 2.
Your Welcome.
I never put flashlights or a knife in my survival kits because I always carry those on my person
its like a time capsule..glad to see keep it after all this years to show it to us and we can learn something from your survival kit,,, thank you very much sir ..more power to your video...keep safe.
Thanks
Absolutely incredible. Thank you for sharing this with us!
Very interesting to see your old kit!
it was interesting for me to. :-)
This was amazing! Love this. You are amazing 👏Thank you for your service.
So cool to see such an old personal kit! I'd be happy to have that with me in a survival situation! Thanks for sharing 👍
Except for the bullion cubes everything looks pretty good, to my surprise....You made this kit when I was 5 years old, and my own body hasn't held up as good as this stuff! Really fun vid...Thanks for the upload!
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Nice kit! And Thank You for your service!🙏
That was fun. Like opening a time capsule. Think the pills that were a powder may have been tums? Thanks and reminds me of the kit I made when I was in the Navy. Mine was in a chem warfare test kit.
They could have been Tums or Aspirin, to long ago for me to remember. :-)
Wonderful piece of history!
I'm glad I found this video!
Amazing kit. I was really impressed with the fishing accessories.
While the cubes and candle conspired against the longevity of this kit, there is a very involved history to those cubes and a reason why many people in the 1900's considered them as a "go to" survival pantry or kit item. While exact origins are lost to time the "portable soups" of the 1600's to 1700's became one of the "foods of interest" to people in the 1800's (such as Heinz with Ketchup and Kellogg with Corn Flakes etc). Justus Freiherr von Liebig in around 1840 created a beef concentrate, and by the end of 1899 OXO had been formed. Justus is also the founder of Organic Chemistry (a very large body of science today). Then there came WWI, and even though OXO had been the invention of German origins, the British Army did the entire war with OXO as a major part of their rations. Following the war, a variation of Hard Tack soup became popular and known as bread soup (bread and OXO) and this led into depression era survival. Following the next war (WWII) when nations were rebuilding, creating new communities and moving people from ice boxes and hand wringers and pot belly stoves to the new modern living with electricity OXO again was a prominent food because it helped exemplify how simple electricity made your work a day life at home. Through many countries even today, national identity foods start off with water and bouillon cubes. I can say there is no doubting the important place in history bouillon holds and that is reflected in your choices in that tin. But then, there are all the other items in that tin! There is so much history in there and so many other stories it can also bring out. This was a very enjoyable time capsule to watch opened.
Thanks for the history, I really enjoyed it.
Funny, I was in a pub the other day and they had an old OXO sign hanging up.
Well cool video. Thanks for sharing and your service 😀
I agree.This deserves way more views...Thumbs way up.
Like your comment . . . "of using what you have" . . . In the UK in the 1960's two ounce hand rolling tobacco tins were widely used for this type of kit. Plus, a patent medicine called 'Carter's Little Liver Pills' came in a small glass bottle with a screw top, which was prized as a match safe. Great informative video by the way.
Here's a use what you have, we made match safes out of old shotgun shells.
ua-cam.com/video/FpI08QoatNc/v-deo.html
Love this! Thank you for sharing your kit!
The quality everything was made of back in those days, is noticably better than our days. This old kit is a great lesson, for newer made kits (You don't put buillon cubes inside kits, they carry moisture!!)
I have bullion cubes in my hiking/backpacking survival kit but I keep the in a small plastic tube with rice grains.
I've add the bullion that comes in the packets to some kits and wonder how long they'll hold up. I'll get back to you in 45 years :-)
Awesome kit, you sure listened carefully to your instructor - the same content (fresh items of course) would serve you well today. Bouillion cubes are great to replenish lost minerals, so nothing wrong with having a handful in your kit. Having them packed in a heavy duty roll-top plastic bag and sealed with some e-tape it wouldn't mess up everything else, same for the candle. Your cotton balls look pretty fluffy, putting them in a tube container allows to squeeze them rather tight and fit in 3-4 times the amount - can always be fluffed up again.
I think, the light yellow pills that turned into dust might be amphetamin, quite common for the military. I love your compass, still working after 40+ years, that's real quality!
In the description box you mention to use the container to boil water - I think, this wouldn't work, the seams are made much too flimsy to be waterproof and will most likely drip and kill the fire.
The pills weren't amphetamines 😊, probably aspirins.
Flying C130s we were never issued Amphetamines since we had two pilots and a bunk. The drug was issued to fighter pilots for long over-water ferry flights.
Great video I have a couple of kits from the 70's nothing has really changed over the years
Good video. We made similar kits in Boy Scouts in the 1960s. Those Baidaid cans were very useful. When I left for the Army, my youngest brother took all of my stuff(except what I had hidden in the attic). The Army didn't really teach survival in those days so I had to do my own. The accessory pouch from the C rats was a pretty handy kit. Some small supplies from the medic and a good Scout Knife and you were set. The poncho was probably the handiest piece of gear. I bought 2 new ones(the issue ones leaked). They fell apart 10 years ago. Good Luck, Rick
Those C rat packs were great, I still have some.
Back then there wasn't much in the way of dedicated survival items and you had to make do with whatever you could find.
@@planetsideagent I've got a couple that have the pack of 4 cigarettes. Memories.
I pay my respects to you, I've never knew survival tins was a hobby many years ago. 🫂
I did a similar video last year but the kit wasn't as old as yours, apart from the bullion cubes it was in pretty good shape.
Thanks for posting.
I checked out your video. 👍
@@planetsideagent excellent, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed yours.
Just found your video thank you for sharing with us and thank you for your service god bless
Very cool like opening a time capsule
After seeing so many survival time this was amazing. Thank you.
Also it reminded me not to mix my food with my tools. Moisture can become an issue after time.
That’s a ice little kit. It’s funny how times change, but some things don’t. There is nothing it your kit that I wouldn’t consider in mine today. Packaging has improved, the the contents are spot on.
The compus was doing it's job the whole time
yep, I cleaned it up and it should be good for another 40 years :-)
Here’s a hack to consider, fellow patriots. Do not pack ANY consumables in pocket-carry survival kits. Amazon offers so many aluminum or titanium canisters, boxes etc, all one need do is utilize a second unit that carries nothing but consumables (and maybe 1 more mini Bic or UCO’s). For example I built several 4 inch round tins (w/screw lids) that are 2 inches deep. Each contains:
•beef & chicken bullion cubes
•sugar
•salt
•200mg caffeine tablets
•Jolly Ranchers
•Hard caramels
•tea
•coffee
•aspirin
•Whirlpack stand up water bag
•Aqua tabs
•mini Bic
•hard chocolates
•single serve (16oz) Crystal Lights
I run 3 feet of electricians tape around to seal them water tight. Since every adventure involves my wearing at least 6-8 pockets carrying the 800 calories, hot drinks & caffeine separately is a non issue. Like this gentleman is so perfectly demonstrating, there are too many instances when sugar or bullion or melted chocolate ruined batteries, a knife, headlamp, matches. Yep. Best to keep consumables AND first aid boo boo meds (Neosporin, burn cream, alcohol pads, betdyne pads & iodine) away from things like fishing tackle, fire starters, writing instruments, compasses et al. UA-cam is full of channels that do noting but wilderness rescues/hikers in trouble. Almost every single one traipsed off into the wilderness with nothing but a phone. Don’t be one of those people. “Know what kills everyone out here? Shame. They die of shame”
-Anthony Hopkins “The Edge”
I'm always amazed how little many people take with them. You're out there for exercise why not get more by carrying some survival gear.
I wonder how many of the people stuck on the freeways from this winters storms carried nothing. Keep a few things in the car, they don't take up much room, won't effect your gas mileage, it might save your life or at least make your wait a little more comfortable.
For me, the thought of having to be rescued is very troublesome.
Very nice kit! Not sure I would want to drink water that was boiled in it though! I'm working on a kit that uses a collapsible stainless steel cup. Thanks for sharing!
I have a collapsible cup and thought about making a survival kit around it.
I haven't because my cup is a cheap aluminum, I'll have to look for a stainless steal one.
good kit for the 70's surprised no knife
I don't put knives in my kits because I always carry a knife.
While in the Air Force I carried the issue survival knife (see video: ua-cam.com/video/8XwIC4IXDwk/v-deo.html) which was secured to my flight suit with a lanyard and a pen knife
Really liked seeing this
Interesting elder kit, I like it.👍👍👍
Thanks for sharing, i like to see wat changed, and not much has, but ive still learn a lot
Very cool I used to keep my baseball cards in bandaide tins the smaller one but it protected them haha😊
I opened my Father-in-law's old survival kit. It included three "strike on the back" matchbooks from local restaurants.
Really enjoyed watching this.
You were smart to add soap. Hygeine is so important in survival situations
Lead reacts with fero rod..
A little moisture causes the reaction..
Also will do the same with magnesium
Thank you for sharing.
Amazing!
I would like to see some 9f the items used, like matches to see if they kept the properties
I was two years old when you made that kit. lol
Great fun video ❗💯🔥👍
Thanks I enjoyed that allot hasn't changed like you said, stay strong&healthy safe&happy!!(=✌💚
Really interesting. Thanks 🙏🏻
I had a lot of fun watching this! Surprised a little Victorinox wasn't in there. Maybe just too expensive "back then."
Yes they were. It was many years before I got my first one. 🙂
If ever you are reduced to drinking Lipton tea, you know you’re in a survival situation… :)
Hahaha, true. Back then you didn't have a lot of choices. My wife introduced me to Red Rose which is good for a mass market tea. These days I use Red Rose to make Ice Tea which I go thru in gallons. :-)
I am really upset that this video is not as popular as it should be.
Thank you, I'm a small channel so I don't get much love from the UA-cam algorithm. 😊
That you enjoyed it is good enough for me.
@@planetsideagent Yes sir, Please don't stop making videos. I'm definitely a fan as I love any and everything old school from survival kits to old-school EDC. And there are others into that as well. Thanks for your videos I'm subscribed and will direct people here.
Great video like it a lot
Respect for you 👏👏👏
thats really cool. thanks for the upload.
Brother that “old” bandaid box is substantially better than the silly Altoids things. Btw I’m 51 and Remember getting the metal bandaid boxes and mercurochrome at the “five and dime” (sigh) Things were better then.
Those old bandaid boxes were handy. I'm surprised mercurochrome was still around when you were young, I'm 72 and It was common when I was a boy, although Bacteen was starting show up. Mercurochrome was better than iodine which my folks were brought up on, I guess it really stung. We also used hydrogen peroxide which didn't sting as much as mercurochrome.
Wow, what a great little pocket kit ! Are you planning on cleaning it up and re-packing it with fresh items ?
I am going to do a video on some upgrades I would make to the kit. I'm not sure yet whether I'll completely rebuild it.
Include a small Pencil in the kit.. Rest is perfect 👍
That's crazy I was born is Spokane, lived around Idaho and there my whole life. there's a lot of people around that area that really know their stuff when it comes to survival. Great Northwest have so many woods and places she didn't have a kid or something you could easily die. I'm not a huge fan of the city but definitely of the woods north of there hahahaha and in north Idaho
You and the kit survived. Maybe what we should take from this is that " Survival kits" aren't used much LOL.
Survival Kits are like Fire extinguishers, you should have one but hopefully never have to use it.
I guess the same could be said for life insurance. 😂
@@planetsideagent At least with the survival kit you know its there, need it or not. A survival kit is one of those things that you definitely only get out what you put in.
Do you know what gets bigger the more you take away?
@@planetsideagent A hole, gets bigger the more you take away.
When you have thst " Survivalist" mindset every bag you carry ends up an " Inch" bag. I've a few bags. Started out as a "day bag" but before I could say Ray Mears the bag was 60 lbs and my wife was really struggling to carry it. She'd do better if she wasn't wearing those heals but she never listens to me.
no?
Interesting video...it hasn't changed....
Yep, I even surprised myself.
Watching this was very reminiscent of perusing a video by Steve1989.
Good lord. Three and a half minutes of chatter before you actually got to the kit
After all that time much is still usable.
Incroyable 🇨🇦✊🇺🇸
Someone opens the kit and sees condoms at the top, may keep them from digging in any further 😂
Nice !
Not a bad idea to check your survival kit every forty five year
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Don't make wire saws like they used to
Im missing a knife 😮
I don't put knives in survival kits because I always have a knife on me.
While in the Air Force I carried the issued Camillus knife that fit in a designed pocket on the inside thigh of my flight suit.
Here is a video i did on the knife.
ua-cam.com/video/8XwIC4IXDwk/v-deo.html
You know what? Dont want to be rude but I got fed up just looking at that tin. We dont need to know all the details about a tin. Just open it and show the contents. Thank you😮😮😮😮
I feel your frustration, I too get it when watching unboxing videos or ones that are going to tell/show us something very interesting and the UA-camr rambles on. I didn't know I did it. 🙁 🙂
Thanks for the honesty.
Buy a decent microphone dude.
Yeah I know, it bothers me too. 🙁
Mics are expensive and if you look at my numbers I’m not making any money on my channel.
I’ll try the mic that comes on the ear phones and see if it’s better.
Thanks for the feedback.
That's bulshit I can tell you right now that is not true that thing is not 45 years old the bandages would have fell apart everything in there would be old looking and it wouldn't matter that he put them away anything like that they still would have got dried out and that is not the way it would have looked that stuff was put in there just recently or within the last ten or twenty years but not 45 years ago and 19 was 74 75
Well Ed its not bullshit, I have no reason to deceive. My UA-cam channel is not monetized so I don't need to pump views with click bait. If you scan my video list you can see that I don't. Twenty years ago was 2000 by then I had been out of the Air Force for 13 years and the survival kit I used, and still use. is in a nylon bag.
I completed pilot training and survival schools in 1975 after which I built this kit, that was 46 years ago. I can't believe it but I am that old.
@@planetsideagent if so then I apologize but I have similar things and mine look like they're old as s*** and I know back in the day when those survival kits were around there wasn't always a thing to put around them and if there was you had to change it from time to time and if it didn't get changed her right ear got in and it could dry Rot & Ruin Everything inside it would turn brown looking even if it didn't get wet just being left upstairs in the Attic dry-rotted it would just it's just so old so either you had your stored in a really good place or not true
@@planetsideagent I probably will watch more of your stuff more of your videos what does stuff look in mint condition I just didn't think that something 45 years old would look so mint condition
No worries, I understand where you are coming from.
I had it stored in a foot locker in the garage so pretty good conditions. Not every thing was pristine, the bullion cubes turned to goo, the ferror rod corroded pretty bad, the lead shot showed corrosion and the candle deformed a bit but overall I was pleased with how it held up.
I'm a die hard survivalist I love survival kits I collect them but I make my own aswell but I just like to see makes the best pre made kits there's only a few companies that actually make very good kits but there pricey but that being said you pay for what you get if your poor or cheap then your survival kit is probably not going to be as good as a 200 or 500 dollar kit but I've bought several plus I have bought plenty of gear over the years and made my own and my kits are alot better but Vigilant Trails they make very good cheap kits for people that are poor or broke but they give you decent quality items for the price and they cover all the different areas of survival in each kit or you can buy mods so if you only want the fishing kit you can get it and be honest there fishing survival Mod kit is tge best I've seen and there's several different ones to choose from Esee makes great kits but pricey and Best Glide makes a great kit and it's very affordable the most expensive is 104 but it's a great kit and covers alot of basics and extra
When I grew up there were no pre made kits except military surplus stuff. We made our own kits from what we had on hand. As you say the pre mades are expensive and you get what you pay for.
These days with the internet you can find a lot of kit components and at good prices.
@@planetsideagent I agree there is only a few companies that actually give you quilty gear for an ok price I'm 38 years old and the first kit I seen was my late 20's and I started with buying my own gear now I've built up alot of good stuff but I made all my own kits it's better because most people have used those items that you put in your EDC or survival kit or bug out bag once I got in the survival world and built up gear they came out with some survival kits and different gear nobody has really seen before but I will not buy any crap Amazon choice junk i like to collect them mainly just the ones I think I found survival with there expensive thou like Esee and Best Glide are up there ASR made a kit that was a jack of all trades kit I thought was cool but it was 250 but the bag was amazing