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they work hard if you do. you can try making your own. knock the locking pin out of a new chainsaw "blade". insert heavy split rings in the resulting holes. loop some light rope in the rings and saw away.

the problem i see here is that you should be swilling large amounts of very good coffee. good coffee should always be drunk black. bad coffee (if it must be consumed at all) should be augmented with cream and sugar. it needs all the help it can get. moderation is so overrated...

they are very popular bait here in the states. especially when trolling. much more durable than earthworms. actually i'd guess from their design that plastic worms imitate leeches as often as they do earthworms. in the water they will flatten and stretch out. their action in the water is...

the tool is great for what it is, but the truth is it's just a quality set of long-nose pliers. the tips are as fragile as any other, even with the redesigned profile. as long as a person uses them and refrains from abusing them the darn things should last for a long time. it's funny, i...

i've often wondered why a person would think that the only place they'd need to survive was in an arboreal, paleolithic environment. way back when tim leatherman called his tool a survival tool, i said huh?!!? he was more right than i could have imagined. with a pair of vise-grips and some...

united still makes the replica lile from the first film and all of the hibben iterations. the last time i looked. if you could find the buck on ebay or at a dealer you'd get a well-made, big, honkin' knife. much better manufacture than the united products. if you save your money you...

we should probably get something out of the way first. there is nothing "humane" about trapping. that said trapping works. trapping with snares works. i suspect it is popular because they are inexpensive and easy to carry a lot of. small animals and tie wraps are a somewhat dubious...

try them on the stove in the kitchen until you get the hang of it. lower and longer is better. a wet dough won't be a problem if you give the moisture time to escape. for practice you might by a box of pancake/baking/biscuit mix. by the time you've gone through a box of it you will have...

oldtimers would wrap red flannel on a hook, dangle it in front of the frog and dinner was hooked. i tied frog flies for my kids. weighted #12-4 barbless or debarbed hooks wrapped with red hackle (you can use whatever color you want but we all know frogs prefer bright red...right?). attached it...

i've used one for an afternoon...don't own one. it's good enough. better than many of the new gerbers. why not just take it out and play with it. see if YOU like it.

the hori hori in carbon steel is heavy but one of the most useful diggers i've ever used. i keep a real shovel in the truck, but the hori hori is wqhat i use the most.

the battery thing isn't brand dependent. it can happen with any light and any battery. changing the batteries often will usually prevent the leak. but we aren't likely to do that. swab the inside of the tube with vaseline or a silicone lubricant before you insert new batteries will allow...

and it's a shame. a well made balisong is a very functional tool. not just the wet dream of a zillion martial arts movies.

if you google "campaign hat" you should get that hat. our forest and park service people wear them. the us 7th cavalry still does for ceremonial events. our state police are called smokies because smokey the bear wore one when he warrned us about forest fires and they do when they are...

let's stipulate i'm not an expert... when you go to have cowboy hat made for you the shop will have styles that are determined by crown height, brim width, felt type (wool, beaver....) and felt quality. the more X's the more $'s. the hat person will ask what you want and using heat and steam...

several years ago someone was shopping a prototype where the blade rotated in a socket on the tool's poll. if i can find the book it was in i'll add it later. for a large version look at the pulaski. i use mine primarily as a grubbing tool but it will take a very sharp edge on both blades. i...

all good reasons, obviously. i thought that you had used somr hdri magic...the lovely steel blue of your stream seldom occurs in nature. nice shot anyway.

if you used your fuji for this shot, what makes you think you need a "better" camera? as an old-timer told me.."ya done good bud." the image stands well on its own and you could crop it for its constituent parts if you wanted to. you have two or three good pictures inside your one good...

dead on, i think. adams painted with light. when you read his books you realize the magic came after the shot. a lesson most photographers should take to heart. especially with high res cameras (the enormous number of pixels available) you can take an everyman's "kodak moment" and...

great knife it's refreshing to see a nice big knife