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    The Hoblow Stove, a homemade wood stove with fan ( 0.5Mb pics )

    Heres one that i put together a year or so ago. Pictures here Initially I started off with 2 stainless steel container, the type you put tea/coffee ect in, at a cost of ?1.99 each After quite a while trying to cut and drill through the steel I came up with the finished produce. The...
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    oxfordshire & surrounding area

    Sorry guys. I’ve been away for a while and now I am living in Germany, so it looks like it is all off. Once again sorry, but there looks like there is a lot of interest, maybe someone else can take it all up. Its good to see so many people in Oxford and the surrounding area, who wish to share...
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    oxfordshire & surrounding area

    Thanks Scott and sorry all. I have been overseas for a while, but back in the UK at the MO. I'll start looking into the site and dates. It could be that i set it all up, and not be able to make it myself. Give me a week to sort something out, i'll have an answer next weekend. Cheers...
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    oxfordshire & surrounding area

    I will do, nothing will be confirmed until i get numbers. But i have used the area before to teach cadets survival. Keep watching this thread for more details. Cheers Chip
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    oxfordshire & surrounding area

    Hi Guys Anyone kicking around the Oxfordshire area or surrounding counties. I am looking at setting up a meet in Oxfordshire, within a private estate. The estate contains forrest and wetland, with an extencive waterway and lake. Chip
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    East Anglia Group! - Archive

    :D Yer it is the Game Fair 23rd - 24th at the show ground, its a most, bargin city :D Chip
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    East Anglia Group! - Archive

    I can probibily be up for the 25 - 28 March.
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    Primitive or Modern fire?

    I was out this afternoon and decided to make a brew. So out comes my flint, fires now burning well. Then it dawned on me. In my kit I both a modern flint & steel and the more traditional Iron Pyrite & Alibates, but I now tend to use the more modern method. So my question is, am I becoming...
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    East Anglia Group! - Archive

    Guys if you have a confrimed date and you don't mind, i would like to join in this time. Chip
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    Why use Celestial Navigation?

    I too, have found myself draw to the skies on clear night. Having had GPS fail on me from time to time and traveled over rich iron deposits which have thrown my compass into a "useless liquid filled bubble with a floating needle" i have found solace in the fact that i can direction find, with...
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    Aims and Principles??

    I am a firm believer in adapting aims & principles in whatever I do. Whist instructing in the Army, all instructional matter had an aim and principles to project the lesson. Although while teaching survival the principles were replaced with “requirements and priorities”, the wording may have...
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    What Folder..

    Tomtom. Nice, were did you get it from, Will i need to get a sub of the one who holds the purse strings? :naughty:
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    What Folder..

    Here's the two I use BUCK Alpha Hunter http://www.buckknives.com/catalog/detail/212/223 BUCK Tactical Stricker http://www.buckknives.com/catalog/detail/365/233
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    What Folder..

    Use a couple of cheapo's, but never failed me. Buck Alpha Hunter 279WA & Buck tactical Stricker 880TX.
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    Edible & Medicinal Plants - Real good read!

    All members. I have just created a Data Base, which i am going to imput details from the book. i will not add pictures as this will be too time consuming, and i have got some sort of life. Once completed i will up-load it to the web and post the address, exspect completion in the next two...