How to build a log raft

Making a survival raft can be relatively easy, as long as you have the right materials on hand. The article offers tips on how you can craft a useful survival raft.

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If you want to test your survivalist skills, you can build a log raft with supplies provided primarily by nature. If you don't mind employing some plastics, though, you can also make a raft out of either PVC pipe or plastic storage bins....

Lumber magnate Simon Benson needed to get logs from the Columbia to his mill in Southern California, so he designed cigar-shaped log rafts a full acre in size. They were a familiar sight until the early 1940s. (Lower Columbia River, Columbia County; 1890s) -- #ofor #oregonHistory #ORhistory -- 19 Feb 2012 -- By Finn J.D. John

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The Homestead Survival | Building A Wooden Raft | This group of friends experienced the adventure of building a wooden raft while on a camping trip in Karlstad Sweden with their own hands & they share how they did it. DIY Project - Homesteading - Primitive Skills

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Sometimes a three-hour tour turns into a much longer trip than planned. Your ship's gone down and now you're on a desert island with only the remnants of your life raft. Now what?

This survival excerpt on fording/crossing a river or stream was taken from FM 21-76: Survival Evasion and Escape, an Army field manual published in 1968.

Swedish log raft

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