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PL / APL TEST CAMP

The following table is a guide to the knowledge that will be tested on the weekend. You can print this page and have it as a study guide prior to the camp. If you test out OK on an area that you have not currently got signed off, you will be signed off for that test.

Knots

Construction

Plan Equip Build

Red

Reef   1./2 Plan, sketch, equipment & build      
Clove Hitch  

Red

4a) Flag pole 5m high      
Sheet Bend   b) Scout chariot      
Rolling Hitch   c) Camp wash stand or similar      
Square Lashing  
Round Lashing  
Prussic Square lashing  

Blue

Footbridge      

Blue

Bowline   monkey suspension bridge      
Double Figure 8   camp table      
Sheep Shank   tower with platform      
West Country Whipping   ballista catapult      
Sail Makers Whipping   swing bridge or similar      
Round Turn Two Half Hitches        
Diagonal Lashing  
Figure of 8 Lashing  

Emergencies

Truckies Hitch   4a) Show how to control bleeding from a badly cut arm or leg.  
b) Show how to treat a nose bleed  
Two hold fast & anchorage knots   c) Demonstrate the four uses of a triangular bandage  
Double sheet bend   d) Show how to treat minor burns or scalds  
bowline on the bight   e) Demonstrate how to treat fractures to lower arm or leg  
5a) Demonstrate two types of hand seats  
b) Carry a patient on a stretcher  

Fire & Fuel

Red

2c) Build & light a fire - dry  

Scoutcraft

2d) Stoves - gas   2a) Describe the Australian flag  
           -other   2a,b) Fold hoist & break a flag  
Select & cut firewood   4a) Show how to correctly use a pocket knife  

Blue

2b) Light & care gas stove   Show how to correctly use a bush saw  
2c) Change Gas mantle  

Navigation

Red/Blue

Map reading  
Navigation  

Camping

6a)1 Personal Hygiene  
2 Care of bedding  
3 Protection against insects  
4 Pitch, strike, dry & store tent  
b) Gear for a weekend camp  
c) Menu & Food List  
d) Patrol camp layout