The Harbor Freight Survival Bag

The Harbor Freight Survival Bag

This amazing survival bag was put together at Harbor Freight Tools.  The concept is going to one retailer to put an entire kit together and this one was done for about $200.Check out the video to get the entire breakdown.

Transcript of The Harbor Freight Survival Bag below

once I'm here from everyday tactical

vids and today we're looking at a car

emergency survival kit and all the items

in this kit were purchased at Harbor

Freight tools you may have seen some of

our other videos like the Walmart bug

out bag video the lowest survival bucket

video and also the Home Depot urban

survival kit video and the concept

behind these videos is can you go to one

retailer and buy everything you would

need for the kit or the bug out bag that

you're making the cost for this kit was

right around $200 and I will tell you

that this one was a bit more challenging

than some of the other kits I've made

because the Harbor Freight stores I went

to had no food or water

so no sodas no water you know in a

cooler by the cashier no snacks nothing

like that so if you built this type of

kit from harbor freight tools you're

going to want to supplement it with some

sort of food and water from another

retailer the last thing I'll tell you is

that for me when I build a bag like this

I have this as my emergency items kit

and then I have a separate bag or box or

container as items for repairing issues

going on with the car so it may be extra

fuses extra oil things like that I

generally have two different setups one

emergency bag like this and then another

box or crate or some sort of container

holding emergency items specifically for

repairing a car as we start off here

you'll see that there are some items on

the outside what I've done is I've said

basically for me the items that I use

the most I want to have them the most

easily accessible so I I find that I'm

using a tape measure often I'm using

sunglasses or protective glasses and a

folding knife so that's why I left these

on the outside side as opposed to

putting them on the inside so what we've

got are some protective glasses so these

are safety glasses but they're also

tinted so you can use them as sunglasses

I do have a tape measure here and you

can use this for whatever purposes might

come up this is a 16 foot tape measure

and then the last is a folding knife I

usually have a knife on me at all times

I have a bigger knife in here that

you'll see in a moment but this is a

folding knife that you can get at Harbor

Freight nothing super special around

seven dollars but you could you know if

you get out of the car and you forgot to

you know where your EDC night for the

day you could throw this into a pocket

quite easily and now you have your EDC

blade on you up top here you can see I

have a set of kneepads and this is great

for a variety of different uses if

you're out in the winter and you got to

get you know say your shovel and some

ice or snow out from under the car you

can be wearing these if you have to get

under the car in any kind of weather and

you're going to be on concrete this

could be a way to protect your knees

certainly on the outside here there are

three more pockets and I've got see if I

can get these out it's a little bit

tough because they're in there so snugly

but I've got some 35 or 33 gallon trash

bags I've got one two three one here

than two and this and then over in this

section I have some of these they're

kind of like ShamWow type cloths and

these are good for you know just wiping

sweat or general cleanup and I have the

all this stuff accessible on the outside

down on the end I've got a couple other

things I do have an emergency whistle

that I picked up I have two Sharpie like

markers they're not exactly sharpies but

it's what they sell at Harbor Freight

and then I have one of these little key

knives and it doesn't fold away as

nicely as the SOG version does because

you can still see the blade the back of

the blade is kind of sticking out there

but I have this knife on the outside

which is a EDC knife I have this tiny

little knife and then I have a larger

knife inside but again I want to keep

these things like the emergency whistle

and the Pens accessible immediately

because if some situation comes up we're

going to take notes quickly now I've got

that and I've also got the emergency

whistle obviously if I need to get

somebody's attention I can grab that

without having to dig through the bag

okay going into the main section of the

bag first you can see I have a bunch of

heavy-duty zip ties and I'll show you

how to actually use these at the end

when I show you how I secure the whole

kind of kit together some of those this

is a little cargo net it's it's elastic

so it's kind of like you know shock cord

bungee cord and it's made for

motorcycles so you can put a helmet on

the back your bike and then you can

strap this down you know say when you go

into a store or something but I thought

this would be great because the nets are

just useful for a lot of things so if

you found something that you wanted to

attach to your bag you could put it on

top of the bag and then put this around

it and just general use to have this

type of cord

is helpful got these little hooks here

that's that do have a variety of

different lights here just a very basic

flashlight there is another one that

came with this set

okay came in - a set of two for maybe

like four dollars or something like that

so we have that got some very bright

cordage here that did not carry 550 cord

so I went with something that was

compact and yet visible so I got that

these are some particle respirators dust

masks basically in case you come to a

situation where there's lots of stuff in

the air I do have a 10-foot extension

cord and this has the three prongs one

edition I might add is that you know to

get a converter so if you did just find

a two prong outlet you could still plug

this in but this is a more heavy-duty

one than something you're just going to

plug like a floor lamp in to have a

bunch of zip ties this is more than I

need but this was the size of the pack

it came just with a ton of them so I

just put a couple zip ties around them

and I've used those to secure some of

the different items in here as well I do

have a drop cloth this is 13 feet by 16

feet and a lot of different uses for

this I was thinking primarily if you had

to filter some sort of water you could

use this you can certainly throw it down

on the ground if you had to you know

collect something or throw a bunch of

things into it because it is white if

you have to do something that has any

great detail you can work over this so

if you drop things you'll see it on this

as opposed to dropping it on the ground

drop cloth super glue I just kept these

in the package because it's easier than

them maybe getting busted or falling out

but three different little sticks of

super glue this was interesting this was

the best option they had when it comes

to storing water or some sort of you

know drinkable liquid if you you know

you had Gatorade or whatever would say

but these comes it comes in a three pack

I kept them in this pack since they're

all tight and organized like this but

they didn't have any metal container

that I could boil say water in to help

start the purifying process the best

thing I could find was actually a large

metal gasoline container and it was like

a 20 or 15 gallon container I just

thought that's totally excessive it's

huge

so this was the best option I could find

at Harbor Freight tools when I came to

storing water and I'll talk in a minute

about a water collection option that I

found or I thought of when I was

thinking about that so that's for your

water another one of those kind of

ShamWow cloths you have in here this is

a bright emergency vest so if I have to

walk down the road or do something I

will be much more visible you have a

sharpening stone and I'll show you the

other knife as I mentioned down at the

bottom here and this is a medium grit

stone this is one of the big comments

people made from some of the other

survival kits you need a sharpening

stone so definitely put one in good idea

I do have a magnesium block and a Ferro

rod it does come with this little

striker you could use the knife or

something else if you want to do that

but there's your option to start some

fire I have a tarp in here and this is

like a six by eight or maybe nine by six

tarp all cinch down so that it's as

compact as it can be and this is

certainly usable for shelter but also if

you need to get under the car without

getting all wet or you have to work on

something outside you can put this down

to avoid getting yourself all soaked 50

yards of duct tape million uses for that

do have electrical tape as well I find

that sometimes duct tape is good and

sometimes electrical tape is good most

the time I like duct tape but I do find

this can be useful for some other things

have a little pry bar here down in the

bottom this is another recommendation

from I believe the Home Depot urban

survival kit people said you shatter

some sort of primer in so thanks for

those thoughts I did that and then we

have a axe here it's 1.25 pounds and

because of the back here the palm I can

use as a hammer as well and then

obviously your your cutting edge over

here we have a headlamp and you'll see I

have a variety of different lighting

options just because if something breaks

I definitely have a backup one so this

takes three triple A's so another option

for light I do have a reflective mirror

and then I have some disposable ear

plugs if you're in a situation where say

you're stuck in a

in a place where there's a lot of noise

and it's going to be that way for a

while nice to have these to drown out

some of that noise and then down in the

bottom here I have some this is wire for

hanging pictures but a variety of uses

for for this type of wire spinning it

around to the other side I've got some

double-a batteries so I've got this I

also have some triple A's which I'll

show you in a minute

very basic rain slicker this is also

give you some visibility if you have to

be out in the rain pair of gloves

western safety don't know anything about

the company but these were kind of the

middle of the line they had some very

cheap ones and then some more expensive

and these seem to be kind of right down

the middle so I chose these gloves I do

have this is um a magnifying you need

something to put in your eye if you were

looking at jewelry or something so it's

a magnifying lens and it's a ten power

so you could definitely use this to get

a fire going over here I've got some

wd-40 this is a screwdriver you can see

it's got the Philips head here and then

there's a flat head inside you can swap

around a couple different options as far

as your sizes this is your basics vise

grip style tool this is made by

Pittsburgh it's a company that does a

lot of work with harbor freight tools

good for a lot of different things just

general repairs some needlenose pliers

triple-a batteries I was mentioning

before so I've got double a's and triple

a's and over here I've got a is out

there we go there's a crank flashlight

so this is like the Husky one that I

have in my other kit but you crank this

and then let it light up for you and

this is always a good option to have

something like this it's very basic but

if your batteries die out or whatever it

is you've got a light that can still

work and then as I mentioned before that

blue light had a another matching one

that was red and so here's another

flashlight so I've got the headlamp two

of these and then crank light as well

and that's it for the inside

than this mammoth beast which is the

survival knife that you can get I think

this was like 9 bucks or something a

very basic sheath but it gets the job

done and then I still have this wrapped

in the plastic that came in but look at

the size of this thing I mean compared

to my arm even Rambo style here I'm not

expecting this to you know be the

highest quality product for 9 bucks but

inside there are some some items as well

I'll show you that in a minute

but I do have a smaller knife now a big

knife at burly to hack at something I

can certainly use this to do some some

pretty basic cutting I want to be

careful because I don't think it's going

to be the sturdiest knife out there I

did have a small saw in here but I

decided because I have the ax and

because I have this probably between

those two things I could do whatever

cutting I needed to do all right let's

show you what's inside the handle here

here's what you have inside the handle

of the survival knife there's a compass

on the bottom there seems to work

decently moves around you just got to

tilt a little bit to get it to free up

and then in this little plastic bag you

have some matches a sewing kit get some

fishing line and one fishing hook and

then you have your striker for your

matches three more items I want to show

to you that don't actually fit into the

bag but I'm going to attach them to the

bag and I'll show you how to do that in

a moment we've got a shovel up on the

top there lots of uses for that in

particular I always think of since I

live in New Hampshire you know snow ice

getting stuck onto the car you can use

that to dig out we also have a heavier

drop cloth here and this could certainly

be used for warmth if you got stranded

for a while you can wrap this around

yourself a couple times or you know

around a couple people to maintain at

least a little bit of warmth it is a

little bit more compact here because I

put those two zip ties on it and then

over here we have a container and inside

is a sponge and this is just something

that you would use you can see you can

rest a paintbrush there but the reason I

got this is because since there's no way

to purify water easily there's no like

metal container that you could collect

water and then boil water and what you

can do and this is an easy way to

collect water that is generally quite

clean is that you can use a sponge to

collect do in the morning off grass

trees whatever it might be

squeeze it into here and now you've got

a container that you can actually drink

out of it's easier to take this and just

squeeze this into this than it is to

some of those into one of those three

small kind of squirt containers that I

had before so this is an option for

collecting water it's not the most

perfect option but when it comes to what

hardware Freight

offered thought this could be a nice

addition to the to the kit so here's

what it looks like all put together you

can see with the shovel on there I've

got the knee pads on top I've actually

used some zip ties to attach a bunch of

these things and what I did was I put a

small hole in this cup over here and

I've attached it to the keyring on the

end

at this point now you could grab the the

bag you can still get your hand under

the handle there and then you know take

it out of the car if you had to leave

the car behind for some reason if you

had to just get the bag out and walk up

the road to be you know helping out with

the situation

you've got a you've got this all kind of

in one kit together you could also very

relatively easily take out that folding

knife cut some of the zip ties and leave

some of these items behind but at least

now we have all the items together it's

not going to be like you're going to go

into your car and because of you know

drive it around for a couple weeks

things have rolled around or spread out

in the car it's all in one kit together

and it's all attached so there you go

the survival kit was built from just one

store and that's harbor freight tools as

I said earlier this one was a little bit

more challenging just because of the

selection that was available at Harbor

Freight but it does go to show that if

you have to run out and throw together

an emergency kit you know for your car

your house whatever it might be you can

do it relatively quickly by going to

just one store you're not going to get

all the best items that you could ever

want but you can get a basic kit

together that will provide some

assistance if an emergency or survival

situation pops up let's get the

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