The Prepper Video Share Thread - So you can watch and learn

[HeraldofNurgle]

Making a thread for people to share videos, youtube channels, and educational series that have useful information for self-sufficiency, homesteading, prepping, survival, and other topics related to this board. There is a thread going for books, so here is a thread for videos. The goal is to allow people to download videos that they like that they can keep offline so they can watch when they please.

To start off, here are two youtube channels I recommend

Townsends: An 18th century cosplayer who displays what life was like in the 18th century for average citizens. He mostly features cooking, so you can see how you can preserve and prepare foods with a tried and true method that supported a nation hundreds of years ago.

Primitive Technology : Dude goes innawoods. Is now in the iron age. Just make sure to turn on subtitles because he explains what he does in them.

So yes. Share videos and channels you feel is particularly useful. Just be careful of fake shit!

 

[asystole]

Back when I worked in EMS I would watch this guy's videos and he had pretty good content back then (about 6 or so years ago). Here are some videos on first aid kits I remember watching back then that cover some stuff people often forget (especially the eye flushes have come in handy IME):
Home First Aid Kit
Car First Aid Kit

If you want to learn radios, intelligence, and other interesting topics that'd be good for when shit hits the fan, S2 Underground does some good videos:
S2 Underground Channel

T.REX Labs does videos on communications and navigation technologies like ATAK sometimes:
ATAK Playlist

 

[P. Barnes’ THOT 2.0]

I’m excited to see food vids-I love historic food prep. It’s really a tried and true way of using what’s around and tech free ways of preservation. I think utilizing past food recipes is a fantastic way of prepping

 

[HeraldofNurgle]

I’m excited to see food vids-I love historic food prep. It’s really a tried and true way of using what’s around and tech free ways of preservation. I think utilizing past food recipes is a fantastic way of prepping

Well you're in luck cause here's an entire playlist by Townsends on various historical food preservation methods.

An overview of foodstuffs you can stockpile that will last for ages.

The Purposeful Pantry is super good if you want to get into dehydrating food. It's not exactly historical because she uses a dehydrator machine, but dehydrating over a fire or in an oven is a historical means of preservation. However, if you buy one dehydrator it pays for itself within a year, but you can choose to still dehydrate food with an oven, but it can take longer. Still it's important because with this skill, you can buy ugly veggies/fruit on sale, dry them, turn them into powder, and incorporate it into soups and other things to still get the nutrition.

Building a smoker to smoke salt water fish. Smoking is one of the oldest methods of food preservation!

 

[Topsoil]

Homesteady are a large family homesteading channel who recently attempted to do fully off-grid in Alaska, hated it, and came back. Their channel is generally good for homesteading content, but also now especially good for a brutally honest depiction of how awful off-grid really is.

Greg Judy is great for sustainable farming content. If SHTF and we don't have access to modern fertilizer, you're going to want his techniques.

And what will we do when there's no more gasoline? Use horses, of course. Just like we used to. Jim's videos are all focused on farming/logging using draft horses.

Half general cooking channel, half focused on historical food that they would have eaten during westward expansion. Useful for meals made of non-perishables.

Mostly a woodworker, but has some practical videos like this one.

Lots and lots of good homesteading content.

 

[asystole]

I’m excited to see food vids-I love historic food prep. It’s really a tried and true way of using what’s around and tech free ways of preservation. I think utilizing past food recipes is a fantastic way of prepping

Allow me to introduce you to The War Kitchen, which is by the same guy who does S2 Underground.

 

[Bad as Can]

I recommend Frugalprepper's channel, he almost looks like JustinRPG but he is a humble fat guy with a lot of useful videos.

 

[Casshern]

Clay Hayes was already mentioned once, but needs to be mentioned again for this fantastic low tech water filter he based off a MIT research paper. Essentially, all you need is two containers, a knife, a suitable source of plant matter, and gravity. The combination of capillary action and gravity force the contaminated water through the membranes of the plant, which captures bacteria and other large particles. It may not purify it from certain chemical contaminants such as fluoride, though, nor viral contaminants (the latter can somewhat be handled with a day’s worth of sunlight exposure and heating, however).

 

[monk]

This video got recommended to me by Youtube:

I got some weird vibes from it, the story is sensationalist and alarmist, they don't cite any sources, they really try to push/sell their merchandise a lot, and the video seems over-produced, looks too polished. I took a look at their videos, and they're all exactly the same formula, sensationalist/alarmist topic targetting preppers/farmers, heavy push for giving them money ("join" their channel a.k.a. pay to get access to paid-only content), buy their merch, and so on. I also haven't found a single follow-up or non-sensationalist video on their channel.

Spoiler: Yanasa TV - about

Yanasa TV is operated by Yanasa Ama Ventures an Agricultural Film Producer. This channel contains productions by Yanasa Ama Ventures, Opaliris Studios, and Meet My Neighbor Productions, Inc. (a 501(c)3 nonprofit).The world is changing and agricultural producers must adapt, or they will perish.Our goal is to preserve the integrity and distinctiveness of rural life by building content that supports the agricultural community while also educating viewers on how to adapt to the changing political, economic, and social environment. We do this by covering topics of interest to our rural neighbors and covering their stories, not just our own.While global leaders work to reimagine our rural communities we are working to rebrand our great land stewards.YANASA AMA VENTURES - A Media Source for Thinkers#Agriculture #Farm #Ranch #Homesteading #News

I wonder what others think of it. I don't trust them, I can't even watch them without being put off by their format, I'm certainly not gonna share them with anyone. It's a shame because they're interesting and probably true, but without them citing sources, I can't tell if they're true or not. Maybe they're just making them sensationalist and formulaic to boost their algorithm score, but that doesn't mean they can't cite sources or make non-algorithm videos occasionally.