Imagination Exercise - Plastic Bottles

[Marvell]

We've done String (http://www.naturalbushcraft.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?3618-As-long-as-a-piece-of-string) and we've done a Nail (http://www.naturalbushcraft.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?3295-Hard-as-nails&highlight=nail). Now ... Bottles.

Let's expand this into cover large bottles, small bottles and wide necked bottles.

Once again, one suggestion per post, wait one before further suggestion and continue the list in each post.

I'll start with:


Store water (clean or contaminated)

[FishyFolk]

Store berries and other edibles in

[GalaxyRider]

If it was quite a big bottle, then I would paint it red and use it as a float to go shark fishing like in Jaws.

[GalaxyRider]

Or put a message in it.

[Marvell]

Uses for plastic bottles:


Store water (clean or contaminated)
Store berries and small edibles
Fishing Float
Floating message container
Lobster/Crab pot marker

[comanighttrain]

could make a crab/rodent trap by cutting off the top, burying it with the top open with some edible in it

[Marvell]

Uses for plastic bottles:


Store water (clean or contaminated)
Store berries and small edibles
Fishing Float
Floating message container
Lobster/Crab pot marker
Funnel Trap
Filter housing

[Realearner]

How about crayfish traps, or prawn traps for the larger ones and marker floats for the smaller ones :o

[Tony1948]

I'd put brown sause in it for the bacon butties round the camp fire in the morning.:happy-clapping:

[paulthefish2009]

Make a raft/flotation aid.

[AL...]

Hobo Fishing reel
Also makes great target for throwing rocks at
Cheers
AL

[AL...]

If its a glass one brake it . You have cutting tools and use the bottom of it to start a fire.

Cheers
AL

[GalaxyRider]

If you were asthmatic, you could use it as a spacer for more efficient inhaler usage.

[FishyFolk]

Fill it with water and use it to start a fire...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMOyydXUrYc

[SimonB]

For those cold nights when you don't want to crawl out of your warm sleeping bag... A 4U2P bottle. :D

[Bernie]

Uses for plastic bottles:


Store water (clean or contaminated)
Store berries and small edibles
Fishing Float
Floating message container
Lobster/Crab pot marker
Funnel Trap
Filter housing
Sauce holder
Raft/floatation
Pee bottle (when it's just too cold to venture out of the tent/hammock)

[JonnyP]

Boiling water in..

[David_JAFO]

hello,
I had this image on file. Plastic Bottle 'Green' (recycled) House.
Thinking along the same lines trimming the bottle into tiles then
constructing a lean to or similar type shelter?
I'd imaging you would have to drink a lot of 2 litre Cider bottles
for your construction :eek: makes a good Bothie!
Regards
David
5563

[Marvell]

You could boil water or cook food in it.

[GalaxyRider]

Melt it and make a nice necklace, which you could trade for a gun, then rob a bank and live in luxury in Northern Cyprus for the rest of your life?

[Marvell]

Pee bottle (when it's just too cold to venture out of the tent/hammock)

Or sleeping bag if a very good aim :)

Uses for plastic bottles:


Store water (clean or contaminated)
Store berries and small edibles
Fishing Float
Floating message container
Lobster/Crab pot marker
Funnel Trap
Filter housing
Sauce holder
Raft/floatation
Pee bottle
Boiling/cooking vessel
Trading item
Construction material (if enough available)
Underground fridge

[GalaxyRider]

Or sleeping bag if a very good aim :)

Uses for plastic bottles:


Store water (clean or contaminated)
Store berries and small edibles
Fishing Float
Floating message container
Lobster/Crab pot marker
Funnel Trap
Filter housing
Sauce holder
Raft/floatation
Pee bottle
Boiling/cooking vessel
Trading item
Construction material (if enough available)
Underground fridge


You missed out the melted trinket!

[Chubbs]

Ferment a brew.
Use as a candle holder.
Play 'Bushcraft Spin The Bottle'.
Saving coins for something Bushcraft related.

[Likantropo]

If plastic, I would use it to improvise a funnel fish trap.

[Likantropo]

Filled with water, I would use it as a lens to start a fire under direct sunlight.

[fish]

minnow trap.
greenhouse.
small closh .
wrap round sun glasses (tinted plastic)
funnel
water filter
solar water bulb

[f0rm4t]

This is an awesome thread!!!

[happybonzo]

Build a Greenhouse? LINKY (http://www.sci-scotland.org.uk/bottle.shtml)

[Kernowek Scouser]

Club/Weapon
Rudimentary snorkel
Fire extinguisher
Anchor (if filled with sand) or dead weight
Bong

[Pryderi]

Solar water purifier a la Cody Lundin

[Old Guard]

manufacture musical instruments, to accompany singsongs around the campfire

# Small stones / dry peas / small nuts etc into bottle and shake !!

# Different ammounts of water and blew across top for different notes

# Blow down into bottle, like a jug band for base

# If bottle has a rib around it, use a suitable stick to rub up and down it

[fish]

Club/Weapon
Rudimentary snorkel
Fire extinguisher
Anchor (if filled with sand) or dead weight
Bong

http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/smoke/smiley-smoking-bong.gif (http://www.sherv.net/smoking.bong-emoticon-410.html) lol

[Marvell]

You missed out the melted trinket!

"Trading Item" :)

[Marvell]

Store water (clean or contaminated)
Drinking vessel
Store berries and other edibles
Fishing Float
Floating message container
Lobster/Crab pot marker
Funnel
Funnel Trap
Filter housing
Solar purification device
Sauce holder
Raft/floatation
Pee bottle
Boiling/cooking vessel
Trading item
Construction material (if enough available)
Underground fridge
Hobo fishing reel
Inhaler spacer
Lens (when filled, for fire lighting)
Anchor or weight (when filled with sand, say)
Fermentation vessel
Candle holder
Closh
Snorkel
Sprayer/Fire Exstinguisher


Fish, is this what you meant by Solar Bottle Bulb?

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-build-a-SOLAR-BOTTLE-BULB/

[comanighttrain]

If its a non survival situation... could fill it with warm water and use it as a shower.... a short shower but a shower none the less

[FishyFolk]

You missed out fill it with water and use it to start a fire...

[TreeCamper]

Paint it black and pre-heat water.

Especially in summer it can get quite hot. Use it for washing up, showers, pre-heated water for cooking and brews saves fuel and time.

TC

[TreeCamper]

If you are in a boat,dinghy,liferaft or canoe you can cut the top off and make a hand bailer.

Definately a survival tool and I have used it more than once.

[TreeCamper]

:oCollecting Tadpoles.

[TreeCamper]

Plinking practice.:guns:

[Silverback]

A bong..........:innocent::innocent:






sorry couldn't resist.......<gets coat>

[f0rm4t]

You missed out fill it with water and use it to start a fire...

no, it's in there champ.


Lens (when filled, for fire lighting)

[Marvell]

You missed out fill it with water and use it to start a fire...

Did not! :)

I did miss sun glasses though and some others. I'll collate them at the end.

But for now ...

5605

[DaveLimaPapa]

Fill it with water and use it to start a fire...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMOyydXUrYc

I was goign to say this, however I am a couple of months late joining the discussion haha

[wildish64]

container for boiling water

[DaveLimaPapa]

Add moss, stones and some sand and you have a water filter

[DaveLimaPapa]

A bong..........:innocent::innocent:






sorry couldn't resist.......<gets coat>

How old are you :P haha

[Silverback]

over 40 but less than 50 and never done drugs unless you count alcohol and tobacco and I gave up smoking 6 years ago

[scoots66]

I'd go for water filter as well, with the bottom cut off and then layered with sand/charcoal/sand/charcoal - dirty water in the opened bottom (now the top), cleaner water out the top, (now the bottom)

D

[DaveLimaPapa]

over 40 but less than 50 and never done drugs unless you count alcohol and tobacco and I gave up smoking 6 years ago
My first is in Nine, but not in canoe, what am I ;)
Started like a riddle hahaha
I'm over 29 but less than 35 ;)
I have done drugs... but then I grew up, I don't drink... well I do but like once every 2 months if that, and I gave up smoking 9months ago when my wife and I found out she was pregnant :D


I'd go for water filter as well, with the bottom cut off and then layered with sand/charcoal/sand/charcoal - dirty water in the opened bottom (now the top), cleaner water out the top, (now the bottom)

D

Great minds think alike n all that... or fools never differ, your pick ;)

[CanadianMike]

Was going to say boil water in, wasn't til second page I saw someone mention it.

Use it as a fuel, aka burn it!

[DaveLimaPapa]

Was going to say boil water in, wasn't til second page I saw someone mention it.

Use it as a fuel, aka burn it!

Cleanse it with fire, I like it!

[Silverback]

make a musical instrument from it

[wildish64]

bouncing time-lag petrol bomb

[DaveLimaPapa]

bouncing time-lag petrol bomb

You mean similar to this ?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lGKibwfgLo

[wildish64]

pmsl,well sort of,i wouldn't want it coming back my way

[DaveLimaPapa]

I can only imagine how funny it was to actually be there!

[wildish64]

lol oh i wish! love stuff like that

[SilverBinder]

Well, having read some of the previous posts, my idea of using them to raise a sunken boat is not quite as odd.

[jcornelius6]

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/09/10/6amudu5a.jpg

A handy device for foraging berries...!

[KevB]

I can see that last use saving me hours next year, when Blackcurrant picking season comes round again.

Solar roof lights for an earth covered shelter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Fpsw_yYPg

Rodent and weevil proof store for dry goods, like flour, rice, pasta etc.