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I look at grandad mors he was 28 when he started, im 21 but I've got a good job, if I could get there in 7 years, considering I have no family I feel id be doing extremely well, whereas you have family which obviously would mean you would have other considerations to make.as far as im aware your...

The market is saturated as has been said.I hold the same dream, fortunately for me im not too concerned with money but I think anyone realistic is going to realise you ain't going to make much money, this doesn't hugely concern me but one has to realise we are going to be old men at some point...

Cheers for clearing that up. I've seen guys smashing through ice with an axe, surely if your doing this over water a lanyard is a good idea, as if you dropped it you'd probably send it to a watery grave, I suppose if you were doing it you'd do it from a kneeling position, so there wouldn't be...

I got a hatchet today and found it had a lanyard hole, to my mind using it would be a very bad idea, as far as im aware la yards are used to prevent its loss in the event that you somehow let go but if you were standing and let go your gonna get a bad injury. Only time I could see it being...

I'm still a British citzen, if I accept citzenship of the place that's willing to take me then my application for renunciation would be completed and id no longer be a British citzen and would in all probability be immediately deported from the UK, but I have 3 months to decide if in want to...

Hey folks, thought id give a wee update.Aside from when I've been working, I've had the joy of sleeping in fields and parks simply because its often simpler just to crash anywhere moderately comfortable than looking for a remote spot, been crashing at friends houses for 5 or 6 days in that time...

I've made a wee primitive version.In a wee leather pouch around my kneck, iron pyrite and flint, few pieces of amadou and some pieces of birch polypore, 60 ft nettle twine and 30 foot sinew, bone awl.My modern one has flint and steel, cigarette lighter, charcloth, couple of hexi tabs, couple of...

Due to the nature of my job I don't have to spend a penny for 6 months of the year and get paid at the same time, so that helps. Now that I don't have a house I don't have to pay rent, I was paying £58 a week to live in s house that was far too big for 1 guy, no gas or electric bills...

I find the subject somewhat fascinating, our ability to inflict brutal torture is one of humanities defining characteristics, there was a study done a while ago and I've forgotten the name of it but basically it was to see if "normal "people would torture folks when told to by an authority...

Pitch is made differently depending on what you want it for, I mix it for specific jobs. When you make resin the ingredients, are for strengh( sawdust, charcoal, dried herbivores poop etc) and elasticity( beeswax, veggie oil etc) charcoal and beeswax are most common though.

As far as I understand it. Pine pitch( also called cutlers resin) is glue made using rosin, sawdust and beeswax. When the resin comes out the tree it contains turpentine, which stops it from setting, hence why it will be sticky, the solidified resin found on the trees is rosin which is resin...

Thanks, I don't use the bark for weaving with but use the middle bit, scrape the outside off and its quite pliable, use it for cups to buckets. As for the cambium, I've got a few kilos of it, when the forestry commision fell em i strip the logs

I could never afford to spend 6 pound a day on food, 6 pound is 3 days worth of food in my house lol. Due to a stomach condition i find it difficult to eat solid food so i have to liquidise most of the food i consume so have to make everything before going out or have to mash it up somehow so...

I've spent the whole day out with a spade and flip flop winch tearing out pine stumps so I can extract the resin, hopefully get a few litres out of it all but this was a massive amount of work and im looking for a less time consuming method of getting resin by the litre. I have a friend who...

Aye, I agree. What I meant was that they wouldn't not use a plant just because they were unfamiliar with it, like my willow, I know basically nothing about it but I know I can weave baskets from it. Our ancestors who travelled would need to understand properties more than anything surely...

I've not tried prive but I have a hedge trimmer and see a hedge needing cut I'll do it for free if I can keep the cuttings, I offer to do a lot of gardens if I can keep the nettles, willowherb, bramble etc folk think im mad. It doesnts as much matter you know plants as knowing properties...

When I cut them I wasn't 100% sure on the best method and I have a slightly bad back so thought its be best so I didn't have to bend over as much.I'm not sure what variety I buy but its in nice 7 ft lenghs and is native, the stuff I've got is 5ft and not native but I suppose our ancestors would...

Aye, I've gt a book about Scottish native trees that gives info on growing trees etc, in spring im going to plant some cuttings and hopefully get some nice trees.The trees I pollarded, I cut them 3ft off the ground so its be easier to cut the withies are of a strange variety, one of the 395...

Thanks toddy. These willows I have have buds on them and some have started firing off side shoots but I only want these for personal baskets, the baskets I make to sell is from willow that comes from Somerset as they are nicer varietys of a more standard size.

I pollarded some willows two years and after checking them today they seem good for harvesting the withies. I've done some research and can't really find anything out. I read that they are usually harvested in winter, which means now? Would it not be better to wait till spring and debark...