Walking /tracking stick

[stuart f]

Hi folks,heres the other project that i finished this week.

I cut some Hazel for sticks about 5 years ago and i have just gotten round to making a walking stick

Anyway i thought you might like a look.

I chose the handle shape for the reason that when i go foraging,i will be able to pull tree branches down to get at the hard to reach bounty.
Full length shot.

A side view of the handle.

And a closer shot.

And the end of the handle shape.

Once i finished shaping and sanding,i mixed teak oil and some brown dye to tone down the white wood on the handle as it was just to bright for my liking.

I am also putting on some castration bands to use it as a tracking stick.

Anyway thanks for looking.

Cheers Stuart.

 

[Survivalmike]

Really nice!
I think this will be a great "friend" and companion when hiking around.

cheers
Mike

 

[IntrepidStu]

Lovely. Few questions for you.
1. Is the handle part of the root, or joined onto the stick?
2. What is a "tracking" stick.
and lastly...bit scared to ask...what is a castration band?

Stuart.

 

[troopermaz]

looking at it stu it looks like it is all one piece 2. a tracking stick is used to measure the stride etc. when tracking to give a rough idea of the size of animal which is where the castration bands come in (as they are like small thick rubber bands that are put around the scrotum of sheep to cut off the blood supply thus castrating the rams), which can be moved up or down the stick to give a fixed measurement which can then be laid against the next set of tracks

 

[ganstey]

Thanks TrooperMaz, I was going to ask the same questions as IntrepidStu.

I can see how marking the length of stride would be useful to compare against another to see if it was speeding up or slowing down, but how's it used to gauge the size of animal? It's been a hard day and I'm probably being particularly thick today!

G

 

[troopermaz]

no worries, as i understand it, its same as humans the length of the leg is proportionate to the size of the animal so the length of the leg determines the length of stride to a degree

 

[johnnytheboy]

Looks allot better than the stick ray had in that last program, it was like a catapult with the worlds longest handle!!

 

[Radix lecti]

Thats a nice stick there Stuart f, i like the idea of the handle. I just finished my Hazel stick last weekend , a bit lighter coloured than yours.Thanks for sharing.
Daz

 

[IntrepidStu]

Hi Stuart. So is the handle part of the root matey ?

 

[gsfgaz]

Nice mate ................

 

[stuart f]

Hi folks,thanks for the kind comments.

Hi Stuart. So is the handle part of the root matey ?

Hi stu,the stick is all one piece,and the handle was'nt part of the root,the stick itself is a shoot which was growing straight up on a downed Hazel branch.So the handle was part of the downed branch.

So if you turned the stick upside down you would see how it was growing.

I hope thats clearer than mud.

Cheers Stuart

 

[Barn Owl]

Nice stick Stuart.

 

[brancho]

Thats a nice one piece stick enjoy using it

 

[MSkiba]

I cant help but think when you put your body weight on it in a sticky situation it would snap ?

 

[IntrepidStu]

Yep...got it now, Cheers !

Hi folks,thanks for the kind comments.



Hi stu,the stick is all one piece,and the handle was'nt part of the root,the stick itself is a shoot which was growing straight up on a downed Hazel branch.So the handle was part of the downed branch.

So if you turned the stick upside down you would see how it was growing.

I hope thats clearer than mud.

Cheers Stuart