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the same jerk who screwed me over with the knife last year (see my thread in the knife section...) also turned up with TWO aluminium water bottles in 2022 when i asked him to bring me a Nalgene "oasis" (despite extremely clear instructions); this morning he left for next half year to go back to...

after several months of research looking for a backpack for overnight trips (and an upcoming longer trip; volume ca 45 liters) and manufacturers telling me they either don't have a dealer in Costa Rica (or cheerfully telling me about the nearest dealer in Ecuador or the US...) and sellers only...

i know this might sound like a stupid question...: i normally prefer to sleep on the ground and only occasionally used a hammock in the past as a back-up for the few occasions when i could find no suitable spot on the ground. last year i got a hammock in a trade for carving some spoons and as...

in march i started a thread about the quest for a new knife. it was supposed to be brought from europe as payment for some work i was doing for a guy, BUT sadly he didn't keep his word.... :-( in october i posted an update regarding this matter with the sole intention of letting the folks...

today i helped a friend of mine to sort her belongings -- she's leaving the country and needs sadly to get eid of most of it in short time :-( most of it will hopefully raise some cash for her in an upcoming yard sale, but my "personal score" is a brandnew-looking stove. there's no description...

hi! recently i posted a thread about getting a new knife, and my favorite so far is a blank of the "brisa trapper". i'm planning to put on the scales myself to give it some individual touch -- so far i'm not sure between micarta and G10... which one is better?! (i'm currently living in a...

as already mentioned in a few posts in the past: during a trip to nicaragua 4years ago i lost my five most-used knives and my pocketboy when being robbed by bandits... my carving knife i replaced with a homemade replacement, in late 2021 i managed to replace my pocketboy and last year i got a...

hi! i've been absent from the forum for about five month for various reasons (see my thread " ruediger roll and a rant" for some details): after one incident too many i left my previous employer and moved to an off- grid farm in the jungle -- the owner found himself facing an ocelot in his...

one of the items in my bag is a fuji xp80 pocket camera (supposedly waterproof and bought in 2015 after posting a thread on here looking for a new toy :-) )which i carry to take occasionally pics of wildlife. i noticed since a while that the screen got blurry around the edges, today (after not...

in a recent thread in the firecraft section i mentioned my frustration with my current situation. what keeps me stuck in this place is some paperwork (as its easier to sort close to town and with internet access vs. living out in the countryside without those things in easy range). well, that...

it's raining here all afternoon and i'm stuck inside, so time to grab a book --Bernard Cornwell's "the bloody ground" (about the US civil war) to be exactly... on page 324 (of my copy) is a mentioning of one character stuffing a mixture of spider's web and moss into entry and exit of a bullet...

about 30years ago i watchedd a programme featuring Ruediger Nehberg teaching kids basic survival/ bushcraft skills -- one skill featured was the "ruediger roll". we gave it a try afterwards -- poplar seed "wool" and ashes iirc -- but had no success, my guess is bad technique.... i never tried...

as mentioned several times in the past, three years ago several tools were lost in an armed robbery in nicaragua... one of them was my original "supertool" which i carried for nineteen years around the earth disk and which is sadly not in production anymore : -( recently i mentioned my...

i haven't done an overnighter in years (at least not a proper one):cry::cry:o_O, but nonetheless i'm regularly checking (and maintaining) my gear to keep it in good shape and ready. today i checked my trusty "tatonka" tarp which i've since 2002 and which saw action wherever i went... it spent...

inspired by some recent threads i'm planning to make a softwood strop. yesterday i harvested a piece of balsa (presumably part of a raft discarded by locals) when walking the beach with my little friend Biscuit. today i started processing it BUT that stuff is that soft that i easily can depress...

most of the snakes you can get around here i'm now familiar with, but today i found a dead snake beside the road which looks like a coral snake -- something i haven't seen before... i know there's "the real deal" and non-venomous look-alikes... my local friends weren't able to enlighten me so i...

.... during a morning stroll this weekend i finally managed to get away from my current work for a few hours, so i went to visit a friend with a large jungle property for some much-needed dirt time :) . this morning i went to his waterfall to check for poachers (fortunately none) when i noticed...

for some reason folks around here get excited about my wooden spoons -- no idea why but it means i'm always hunting for offcuts (= i'm using a local type of hardwood which is used for house and fence posts -- consequently not too many trees left + i don't like cutting down trees for whittling...

today i had to my surprise the entire beach to myself so i walked a bit further than normal, amongst the large amount of trash was a rain jacket -- shredded up but it got me thinking :eek:about another idea i've been pondering since some time: as everyone who spends time in a wet environment...

looks like i'll be moving back into the countryside soon --- means i'm closer to the jungle again (yay!) but also no more internet time on my favourite forum for a while:aarghh::( so i'm using the opportunity to post a question i've been pondering about for some time...: insects are part of the...