Recent content by GreenManOfTheSouth

as a stick for rugg'd walkin' the only thing is that green wood is heavyer. depending on the species can be *much* :eek: heavyer. Easier (in general) to rough carve green, then add detail (and modify your plan to accomidate all that inconvenient checking in the wood!) once it is dry. I love...

Yep, Gary Paulson knows his stuff - have read his autobiography ect and is an amazing guy, ran the idditorod (massive dog race) several time and is a natural bushman :D very accessable writing style and gud for fun and some basic knowledge :)

books (if we're not *only* counting bushcraftin ones) then knives, then fire making devices and then carving tools - am currently looking for a reasonably priced hook knife :)

Have made and played with bolas, stones in a leather pouch, meta disks with a hole punched in 'em. bunles of nails . . . Three strings work best - quite accurate up to about 20 metres (um 60 footish?) were aparently originaly used to bring down quadrapeds (and bipeds! - trust me works for...

Heres an idea, if you have an adjacent roof handy it might be worth getting permission to use a coupple of high preassure fire hoses (might need special permission if they are linked to the alarm system??) Blast the little b******s with a few 1000 gallons of icy water a number of times and they...

we kept pigs not that long ago and had a boar that stood hip high at the shoulder, came the time when the old guy had to be knocked off so my da' called in a work mate with guns. Pig was lying on his side asleep so this guy decided to try an organ shot i think (i was quite young) .303 bounced...

Hey peoples, afta finding this site, using a burning glass was the first 'woodsy' type thing ive tried, results as follows: 1. dried scraped hazel bark (byproduct of arrow making) - rolled and rubbed it to golf ball size - got a coal then blew it into a flame ~ 'bout 2-3 min total 2. dried...

yee . . .a, hope it goes well, was dropping branches (not even trees!) the other day for my old man, needless to say, despite a grapple belayed round a coupple of posts and a burly bro hangin on the end, still ended up with a dent in my ladder and a snapped 6 inch fence post :o Best of luck...