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Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 21:34:01 No.272112 View View Reply Original Report

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Hey /out/siders.

Anyone of you tried the "lifestraw" ? It's this straw with advanced filters in it. Lets you drink straight out of water puddles and shit without getting sick.

I wanna know if it's bullshit or not.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 21:39:24 No.272115 Report

Quoted By: >>272126

>>272112
I dunno anything about it. I certainly wouldn't want to test it out, does it have a pump or some way to store that water or do you gotta spit it into something else?

It looks like a fucking ridiculous gimmick.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 21:45:42 No.272123 Report

Quoted By: >>272127 >>272128 >>274963

>>272112
it filters most things but it doesnt filter all viruses or heavy metals etc and it has a life of around 1k gallons of water
try this one instead its much better and easier to use and you can use 100000 gallons of water before it needs replaced
http://www.amazon.com/Sawyer-Products-SP128-Filtration-System/dp/B00FA2RLX2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1392673411&sr=8-2&keywords=sawyer+filter

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 21:45:51 No.272124 Report

Quoted By: >>272467 >>277706

Approved by Les Stroud at S05E02 and
http://www.amazon.com/Vestergaard-Frandsen-527950-LifeStraw-Personal-Filter/dp/B006QF3TW4

5 stars by 528

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 21:46:06 No.272125 Report

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>>272112
I watched someone use one once. With nasty water. He said it tasted fine, and he's is still alive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 21:47:19 No.272126 Report

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>>272115
they work. they filter down to .02 micrometers

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 21:47:50 No.272127 Report

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>>272123

Thanks. This one looks better

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 21:48:25 No.272128 Report

Quoted By: >>272210 >>285309 >>285700

>>272126
there is viruses down to 0.05 so it doesnt filter all viruses
it is nice though i have one and ive never gotten sick using it so
i much prefer this one though
>>272123

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 21:50:30 No.272129 Report

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They work, but I prefer Aqua Mira.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 21:55:11 No.272134 Report

Quoted By: >>272136 >>272141 >>272152

Why do people think wilderness water filters are some magic devices that might be "bullshit"? This one is shaped like a straw, big deal.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 21:56:05 No.272135 Report

Quoted By: >>272138 >>272370

Is there anything to the claims that they're a cap & trade scam? Is anyone familiar with this? The company donates them in Africa claiming that each donated lifestraw reduces carbon emissions based on projection of wood-fire smoke that would be needed to boil the same amounts of water, then the company gets carbon credits, which they then sell?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 21:56:47 No.272136 Report

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>>272134
I have no idea.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 22:00:32 No.272138 Report

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>>272135

Selling carbon credits should be illegal.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 22:09:07 No.272141 Report

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>>272134

My guess is that there's a lack of understanding about bacteria, viruses and contaminants. Kind of like
>dude that shit is like. TINY! how could you even make a filter that tiny? that's like impossible man. water wouldn't get through it!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 22:18:02 No.272152 Report

Quoted By: >>272160 >>288762

>>272134
Maybe because the question is whether or not the producers claims of their product's efficacy are "bullshit," rather than whether or not the product is magical.

So far I've only found two studies: one was a thesis paper, and the other was a study in Africa with fewer than 700 hundred particpants. The lab study said "no good!" for viruses, and the African test wasn't very well-controlled, but produced results way, way, way under what the company claims.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 22:26:48 No.272160 Report

Quoted By: >>272164 >>281346 >>291422

>>272152
Why the extra scrutiny for this one compared to all the other filters out there though?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 22:30:23 No.272164 Report

Quoted By: >>272166 >>272168

>>272160
Because it's the one OP asked about. When you're interested in a piece of equipment, you tend to do more research about it than you would about equipment you're not interested in.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 22:33:50 No.272166 Report

Quoted By: >>272170 >>272240

>>272164
As to why it's what more people are interested in?

Because it's extremely compact and makes some pretty awesome claims about how well it works, compared to other water filters. So, naturally, people who carry water-filters are interested in knowing whether or not it's a good one. And that additional interest generates additional scrutiny.

It's roughly the same reason the paparazzi follow around Paris Hilton but not, say, your aunt Milly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 22:36:50 No.272168 Report

Quoted By: >>272177

>>272164
Arrogant or just autistic? I wasn't asking about *your* scrutiny, but about the nature of OP's question and why the rest of the internet is doubting this device and not caring about the others. This isn't the first time I've seen people WTF at the lifestraw when it's just a run of the mill water filter as far as I can tell.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 22:39:47 No.272170 Report

Quoted By: >>272177

>>272166
>It's roughly the same reason the paparazzi follow around Paris Hilton but not, say, your aunt Milly.

Good fucking lord you're arrogant. I'm out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 22:44:36 No.272177 Report

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>>272168
>>272170
You seem tremendously buttflustered over the fact that I provided you a simple, straight-forward answer to your question, and even provided an analogy to help you comprehend.

It's an interesting product. People are interested. This interest generates scrutiny. People are more interested in it than they are in similar products, and that additional interest generates additional scrutiny.

That said, there isn't a single water filter out there that you can't find hundreds of people debating the efficacy of.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 23:32:36 No.272210 Report

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>>272128

No matter what anyone says, nothing really filters all the viruses. The only way to guarantee no viruses is boiling or chemical treatment.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 23:47:12 No.272216 Report

Quoted By: >>272217 >>272218

say you have no filtering media, would boiling the water be for drinking be safe?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 23:50:45 No.272217 Report

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>>272216
Yes.... assuming the water is not full of some non-organic poison like heavy metals from mining run-off.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Feb 2014 23:55:20 No.272218 Report

Quoted By: >>272250 >>282972

>>272216
>no filtering media
you mean like instagram or like fox news?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Feb 2014 00:27:12 No.272240 Report

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>>272112
i have the lifestraw waterbottle. its hard to drink through. and near impossible to blow it back like the instructions said. and it tastes horribly plasticy.

>>272166
also, they give one to starving aids riddled africans when you buy one. so people can feel good about themselves, i mean, do what you want for africans, more than 80% of them have aids in some places.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 18 Feb 2014 00:53:21 No.272250 Report

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>>272218
no, like carbon, filter paper, ph regulators (media = plural of medium toaster brain)

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Feb 2014 02:32:21 No.272290 Report

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I've never used one and I'm still alive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Feb 2014 04:53:46 No.272369 Report

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I own one but I've never used it.

The protip I've heard is to put some fabric over the bottom when you're drinking through it (to keep bugs and shit out of the filter), and then you're pretty much good to drink whatever you want.

I can go use it right now and report back on the difficulty of drinking through it if you like.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Feb 2014 04:54:55 No.272370 Report

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>>272135
fucking carbonfags

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Feb 2014 09:32:12 No.272467 Report

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>>272124

Dang. I may have to pick one of these up. Looks awesome.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Feb 2014 11:01:13 No.272480 Report

Quoted By: >>272825

I've had a few, they do work, only down side is the water tastes like shit.....well some times tastes like shit, depends on the water source.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Feb 2014 01:55:52 No.272825 Report

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>>272480
I feel like this is true for almost any water purification method. Water tastes like wherever it comes from, except minus the viruses and other nasty shit that the filters kill. Otherwise you're still drinking the same water, you know...

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Feb 2014 02:21:25 No.272833 Report

Quoted By: >>272837

You can drink water out of a moving stream and be fine 99.999% of the time.
We'd all be long extinct if this wasn't the case. The problem is stagnant water allows for the growth of cultures. The problem with these products is that they outright warn you not to expect it to work with actually dangerous water. Really a pointless product when the poor can do a ceramic drip filter in the third world and a recreational or in trouble hiker can use chlorine.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Feb 2014 02:37:47 No.272837 Report

Quoted By: >>286239

>>272833
This.
Waste water treatment anon here. People have no idea how much living crap is put back into water from sewage with shockingly little treatment. For shits and giggles though, I'm going to buy one of these and test the results. Will be a few days but will report.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Feb 2014 03:45:57 No.272878 Report

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>>272112
It gets clogged really quick, I wouldn't use it for my primary water disinfectant

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Feb 2014 05:08:51 No.272912 Report

Quoted By: >>275011

I have one, but I've never used it outdoors legitimately, only to test it. I haven't really been in a situation where I felt the need to use it, I still have it in my backpack when I'm going somewhere for a little while just in case. It's light and I don't remember it costing much at all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Feb 2014 05:27:08 No.272919 Report

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Best survival method is use the sawyer, cut your camel back tube, insert sawyer, drop aqua tab( remember you need to know your ratios). Or boil it, aqua tab it. I'm doing a se Asia tour and we will have 1 months of tabs. A sawyer each too.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 23 Feb 2014 04:20:03 No.274963 Report

Quoted By: >>278226

>>272123

Shiet nigga, I just ordered 2! I almost bought an MSR MiniWorks EX and a bunch of extra filters last year but decided I'd rather spend my evenings boiling water than lugging an expensive, ceramic filter around. Why isn't this more popular?!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 23 Feb 2014 05:17:36 No.275011 Report

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>>272912
Same here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 Feb 2014 04:00:14 No.277695 Report

Quoted By: >>277974

>>272112

http://lawsonequipment.com/All-Products/Sawyer-Mini-Water-Filter-System-p983.html

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 Feb 2014 04:25:00 No.277706 Report

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>>272124
>because the people that give 0 stars would be alive to do it

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 Feb 2014 04:41:25 No.277710 Report

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I wouldn't rely on any filter for virus contaminated water. Only boiling/UV/chemical treatment will guarantee viruses are gone.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 Feb 2014 17:23:54 No.277974 Report

Quoted By: >>278223

>>277695

Why would anyone buy a pump filter which is several times as pricy, weighs several times as much and are more fragile? Is there anything I've been missing?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 27 Feb 2014 21:47:15 No.278223 Report

Quoted By: >>278246 >>281338 >>281346 >>281448

>>277974
Are you somehow implying that pump filters are inferior? Pic related. Probably the toughest filter you can get.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 Feb 2014 21:50:22 No.278226 Report

Quoted By: >>278246

>>274963
Miniworks guy here. It's a great filter, and I've had mine for 3 years. Still on the first element. They don't wear out that quickly at all, especially if you use a coffee filter as a prefilter

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 Feb 2014 22:32:04 No.278246 Report

Quoted By: >>278251

>>278223
>>278226

I don't know. Am I? I have no doubt they work great, but is there something special about pumps that warrants the extra weight, space and price over the sawyer mini?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 Feb 2014 22:53:31 No.278251 Report

Quoted By: >>278323

>>278246
Gavity feed is just the new hotness.

I have a Hiker Pro I rarely use it now. (let friends borrow it mainly)
I have an MSR Autoflow rig that is fantastic for a group setting. Having 6+ effortless liters on demand with one "swipe" of the dirty bag beats pumping 6L any day of the week.

and a Sawyer Mini for my solo outings.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 27 Feb 2014 23:15:06 No.278262 Report

Quoted By: >>290327

Why has no one mentioned berkeys? They are large when set up but they can be broken down easily and they're supposedly proven in lab tests to filter the smallest virus known out of water sources as well as bacterias and most chemicals.

Miniworks guy

Miniworks guy Fri 28 Feb 2014 00:53:30 No.278323 Report

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>>278251
We have the ketadyn basecamp as well. Works pretty good but the filter doesn't last as long as the miniworks.

It's nice to not have to pump to get your water though

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2014 11:23:08 No.281323 Report

Quoted By: >>281335 >>281340 >>282973 >>282975 >>282979

do I really need a filter if all the water im taking is from a pretty big Swedish lake? I am always boiling

ive had my eyes on the katadyn hiker pro and that is probably what il get if I need it

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2014 13:00:36 No.281335 Report

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>>281323
>do I really need a filter if all the water im taking is from a pretty big Swedish lake? I am always boiling

Just need something to filter particulates. Boiling (for long enough) will remove virtually all biological hazards.

I would only drink from a life straw or straight from a filter if there was no other choice. Boiling is always preferable if you have time and the means.

http://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/travel/backcountry_water_treatment.html

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2014 13:06:30 No.281338 Report

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>>278223
And my choice. Used in AZ cattle tanks.

>eeew

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2014 13:07:20 No.281339 Report

Quoted By: >>281346

This guy approves of it. Seems legit to me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2014 13:12:52 No.281340 Report

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>>281323
cant hurt to have it right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2014 13:31:38 No.281344 Report

Quoted By: >>281389 >>286145

My complaints about a lifestraw as compared to a filter pump is that you have 2 choices:

Drink only when you're near a water source
Carry unfiltered water

It would be good for a flat out survival pack where if you break it out you simply move as necessary to a water source then hold in location for SAR to find you, but beyond that it's of limited use in my eyes. It might work well if you're in a swampy terrain but if you're not wanting to have to constrain your movement to where your water sources is (like you're trying to actually cover good ground in a specific direction) then it's not going to be a big help.

You'd have to drink until you're physically full of water before you continued on your way, and even then you might end up hitting dehydration between sources instead of just purifying and packing the water to drink on the way to your destination.

I use a MSR Miox and a Miniworks EX with iodine tablets as a backup, personally. Pretty much everything I do /out/ involves covering distance so being able to drink clean water whenever without having to stop is preferred.

I don't know anything about the other stuff that has been mentioned about the company, but my primary focus is on the utility of the product.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2014 13:38:36 No.281346 Report

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>>281339
>Seems legit to me.

>Putting your face 10"s from a sewer and holding it there.

>>278223
Ideal.

>>272160
Idealer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2014 14:23:07 No.281352 Report

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what about bleach?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2014 14:43:25 No.281369 Report

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I literally just got mine in the mail from amazon yesterday. comes in a sealed foil baggy thing, havent opened it up yet. I fully plan on using up in the ADK's this spring/summer, those mountain streams look clear and chemical free (no factories or farms nearby) I cant imagine it will be any good on that tea colored water but it should filter out giardia and crypto
it was 19.99 btw

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2014 15:48:23 No.281389 Report

Quoted By: >>281400

>>281344
>carry bottle
>sip through straw and spit into container if you have to leave water source
>prob solved

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2014 16:19:25 No.281400 Report

Quoted By: >>281406

>>281389
> spit into container
> share your water
> ???
> profit herpes

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2014 16:35:31 No.281406 Report

Quoted By: >>281415

>>281400
>sharing water with people with herpes
>actually having friends with herpes
>notmefaggot

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2014 17:11:26 No.281415 Report

Quoted By: >>281446 >>281447 >>281941

>>281406
>actually having friends with herpes
you know herpes is actually pretty common. depending on the source you use, its reported that as many as 90% of people have oral herpes, you may know it as cold sores.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2014 18:37:10 No.281446 Report

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>>281415
>actually having friends

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2014 18:44:18 No.281447 Report

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>>281415
It's also reported that as many as 90% of those with herpes use this statistic to somehow downplay the fact that they actually have herpes

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Mar 2014 18:49:41 No.281448 Report

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>>278223
this is exactly what i use, shit is cash

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2014 07:32:21 No.281844 Report

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>>272112

I tried it for the first time yesterday. It's as simple and straightforward as your pic makes it look.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2014 15:34:14 No.281933 Report

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>>272112
according to Robert Pelton, mercs use this shit in Africa

http://www.proforceequipment.com/products.php?id=45

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2014 15:44:34 No.281940 Report

Quoted By: >>282032

why not drink it the way nature demands?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2014 15:45:42 No.281941 Report

Quoted By: >>281995

>>281415
That's herpes type 2 you idiot

Zed !ZF41dz6F/Y

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Zed !ZF41dz6F/Y Thu 06 Mar 2014 17:52:37 No.281984 Report

Quoted By: >>281988 >>281995

Here's what kills this product for me:

1. No mechanism to transfer filtered water to a container.

2. Requirement to get your face just a few inches from the bacteria/amoeba/parasite/liver fluke infested water you're worried about in the first place.

Nope. I'll spend $12 more and have a pump, thanks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2014 18:04:58 No.281988 Report

Quoted By: >>281995 >>281998

>>281984
>lifestraw
I think its made for emergency situations or for quick sips. Not for showering.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2014 18:21:32 No.281995 Report

Quoted By: >>281997

>>281941
herpes is herpes man. going by what he said hes excluding a potential 90% of the population from his friend base. he didnt specify what kind of herpes.

>>281984
as>>281988 said its not designed to replace the other filters. its just a cheap thing you can have and throw in your closet in case you ever need it. and its cheap, so its not like you have to go out and and actually save up for this thing that your probably never going to use. im not trying to convince you to use it because by no means is it the best available in any way shape or form, im just saying that your thinking of something different than the makers were thinking of, i think, of course, i have no idea what anybody is thinking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2014 18:25:17 No.281997 Report

Quoted By: >>282068 >>285613 >>285623 >>292288

>>281995
>herpes is herpes man
it's really not, type 1 is the STD, type 2 is what gives us cold sores and builds up over a life time

Zed !ZF41dz6F/Y

Zed !ZF41dz6F/Y Thu 06 Mar 2014 18:26:28 No.281998 Report

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>>281988
>emergency situations
I suppose that's somewhat valid. You could throw it in an emergency pack and not take up much room. Still, I can't imagine NOT having a canteen (or some way to carry water) in an emergency pack, or a way to fill it, and the pump I posted only weighs one ounce more.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2014 20:38:23 No.282032 Report

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>>281940
because nature demands death, all the time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Mar 2014 21:40:00 No.282068 Report

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>>281997
i know they arent the same. but they are the same. if you say herpes, you cant be mad that someone took you to mean herpes.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 08 Mar 2014 08:14:48 No.282972 Report

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>>272218
I had a good chuckle at that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Mar 2014 08:16:37 No.282973 Report

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>>281323
>Katadyn Hiker Pro
Nice.
That's been on my list of things to get.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Mar 2014 08:25:07 No.282975 Report

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>>281323

I've got a katadyn vario which is pretty neat, it blasts water through pretty fast and screws right on to my bottles and bladder. For me this is important when I'm cycling as it gets pretty hot out there and you need to pick up water when you can.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Mar 2014 08:37:20 No.282979 Report

Quoted By: >>283001

>>281323
The filters sure aren't cheap.
How long do they last on, say, normal pond/river water?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Mar 2014 10:47:37 No.283001 Report

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>>282979

Quite a long time. The top-end katadyn lasts for like 50000 liters or something ridiculous.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2014 20:11:43 No.284325 Report

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If I accidentally swallow a bunch of lake water while swimming and don't get sick, does that mean it would probably be okay to drink as it is? Since I've never gotten sick that way, I would assume most water is clean for small consumption with no treatment.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2014 20:21:02 No.284328 Report

Quoted By: >>285587 >>285622

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2014 20:37:23 No.284341 Report

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I have a sawyer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Mar 2014 16:03:20 No.285309 Report

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>>272128
I hope you realize 0.05 is larger than 0.02

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Mar 2014 02:07:30 No.285587 Report

Quoted By: >>285592 >>286165

>>284328
Okay I might just have a low IQ but I don't see how water could get through wood like that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Mar 2014 02:13:30 No.285592 Report

Quoted By: >>286165

>>285587
You really need to work on your sucking skills if you can't even drink water through a stick.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Mar 2014 02:59:54 No.285613 Report

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>>281997
> herp is herp

Ask Grandma why you never loan or borrow a comb?

> the old ways are the best ways

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Mar 2014 03:13:56 No.285622 Report

Quoted By: >>286165

>>284328
What the hell? Where's the filter? The extremely tight space between the tube walls and the piece of wood?

It looks more exhausting than blowing the yolk out of a tiny hole in an egg for those kindergarten Easter things.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 13 Mar 2014 03:19:01 No.285623 Report

Quoted By: >>286146 >>287740

>>281997
I prefer to obtain neither just the same.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Mar 2014 04:43:56 No.285700 Report

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>>272128
.02 is smaller than .05 dumbfuck

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2014 09:14:35 No.286145 Report

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>>281344
Don't these things also fit on bottle tops and camelbaks? Pretty sure mine does. That means fill up your camelbak attach straw suck through straw.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2014 09:17:07 No.286146 Report

Quoted By: >>286147

>>285623
90%+ of the world population has type 2. It's probably likely that you too already have it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2014 09:21:20 No.286147 Report

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>>286146
Hope he's never had a cold sore...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2014 10:02:32 No.286165 Report

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>>285622
>>285587
>>285592

Lol, it may surprise you that branches have lots of thin channels in them for the flow of water (xylem) but I doubt you could generate the pressure to push water through in any decent flowrate

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 14 Mar 2014 17:11:22 No.286239 Report

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>>272837
I'd actually be really interested in that.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 00:18:23 No.287555 Report

Quoted By: >>288531 >>288751

>>272112
The German army issues a green version of it to there troops for emergency water purification. Those guys are usually pretty on the ball when it comes to there innawoods gear

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 03:48:56 No.287740 Report

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>>285623
Look at it this way, getting herpes is a lot funner then not getting herpes.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 06:47:17 No.288531 Report

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>>287555
Those are supposed to have a better filter
What does /out/ think of this?

http://www.lifesaversystems.com/lifesaver-products/lifesaver-bottle

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 20:11:11 No.288747 Report

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>>272112
It works by a million little fucking tobes, each with smaller holes, filtering fat nasties out.

What happens when one tube is knocked loose?

Ya get brown water. I bought one, it got banged up, and went bag. It's not durable enough for a rough retard such as me, being made for $20-$25 to make two of them, but If you take care of it and heed the warnings, It will do you a lot of good.

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Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 20:20:28 No.288751 Report

Quoted By: >>291018

>>287555
>buy surplus filter
>enjoy old poop at your mouth

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 20:24:55 No.288754 Report

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sawyer squeeze /thread

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Anonymous Tue 18 Mar 2014 20:43:31 No.288762 Report

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>>272152
It turned me into a newt.

...I got better.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Mar 2014 17:25:06 No.290327 Report

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>>278262
>Why has no one mentioned berkleys?

I'm wondering this myself. This has been a god thread but I would love hear from Big Berkly user? Is it just because they are so fuckhuge or what?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 23 Mar 2014 01:35:51 No.291018 Report

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>>288751
All the websites I have seen are selling it as being in new unissued condition. I have one as a backup to my Katadyn because the life straw is very lite. I don't want to be sol if god help me I crack the ceramic core.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 23 Mar 2014 19:13:42 No.291422 Report

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>>272160
my brother has this and it worked well when i used it btw

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Mar 2014 09:26:01 No.291802 Report

Quoted By: >>291950

>>272112
Seems like a bad idea to put your face to the water. You should always bring the water to you with a lief or your hands, that way, your able to watch out and tell if something is coming up on ya.

BUT

If your using the 'life' straw you're probably in a bad enough state as it is.

But, wouldn't that mean you should be more careful and keep your head up?

I don't understand.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Mar 2014 16:33:56 No.291917 Report

Quoted By: >>291961

I am creating the "deathstraw." Anyone interested?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Mar 2014 17:11:31 No.291939 Report

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Probably not suitable to replace a proper pump filter, but it's small enough to fit in a medical bag, so I suppose it would be good to have as a backup system in case your pump and/or water carrier gets lost/busted.
Some advantages to purifier tabs, too, which could be pretty nice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 24 Mar 2014 17:30:57 No.291950 Report

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>>291802
Yes because when we go /out/ we have to be on the lookout for enemy scouts and FEMA guards

go back to /k/ manchild

OP Mon 24 Mar 2014 18:21:05 No.291961 Report

Quoted By: >>292192

>>291917
How does it work?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Mar 2014 01:16:48 No.292192 Report

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>>291961
it filters all the water out into a waste bag but leaves all the nasties in a convenient slop for you to suck down in one gulp.

*death not guaranteed

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Mar 2014 04:44:08 No.292288 Report

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>>281997
Either of them are sexually transmittable, dick face. Also you have your types backwards. Type 1 is most common on faces, type 2 is most common on cunts and cocks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Mar 2014 04:50:20 No.292290 Report

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My penis is a lifestraw, of sorts.

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