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You can always use small nut (as in nuts and bolts), just squash them with a pair of pliers. Or as I have done in the past, thin copper plate and wrap tightly around the wire rope.

Thanks for the PDF, Goatboy.

Over the past few years with all the walking I do I have had to stop wearing shoes. I have found the more I walk in shoes the more problem I have with my feet. Now the only times I wear shoes is going out somewhere fancy, work or when its too bloody cold.

I have done something similar, I was trimming the branches of an oak I had just felled, with my favourite ax. I cut straight through a 3" branch and then felt the ax hit my boot. Not think much of it I proceeded to carry on. About 5 minuets later the foot was starting to sting, so I looked...

You could split it up for bow staves and make some bows. I have a bow I made from a bay, mind you it is as ugly as hell but a 70# and the first bow I every made I just love it.

I remember see a company was making windup laptops for third world kiddies somewhere, I will see if I can track down the link.

I became immune to the sting years ago, I had to thin carrot seedling, and the carrot beds were full of nettles, thinned for 8 hours the first day, been immune ever since.

I have a few sak's and my knife maybe a mora ( I bought it 25 years ago, lost it and found it again two years ago), but I do own a zebra billy.

Even though I don't live in the UK, down here I have found them in dive shops.

Baden Powell, the scouts started me on this, I had never heard of Ray Mears till I hoped on to this site.

I am not afraid to use to use dead wood, I have to much, it is what I heat the house with. I manage our woodlot, I only harvest what I need for winter, if the wood on the ground is getting thin, I will harvest some of the coppice's for next year or will drop a tree that needs to be dropped.

I have complex regional pain syndrome in both hands,( the result of carpel tunnel surgery.) As a result of this I get about 10 minuets of use of my hands every 2 hours, so no more driving and other uses of the hands, I have to adjust they way things are done, like I use my forearms to pick...

I have an axe that is almost the same as the French one, it is an Italian axe made buy Anglo, a great axe, it is much thinner than the Gransfors.

I personal use a scrim net, been using them for years, but I always carry a buff in the back pocket for just in case.

I have had problems with Silva before, I sent in a compass where the needle had come apart, and they sent it back and basically said live with it.

I get out everyday, but I am back to cook the families meal. I am unable to use my hands for more that 5 min an hour. So I main walk and harvest what I can find. I do like the shiney things but we are saving every cent to buy a bigger block ( looking at around 100 acres instead of the 3 acres we...

Man, that the best looking knife I have seen in a while. Love the work.

I have them nesting in my backyard. They are everywhere down here. We don't get them imitating many man made noises, just mainly other varieties of birds. But their feeding habits can very destructive, we have no topsoil left down the back of the property because of their scratching. Mind you...

Nobody down here uses a bed roll anymore, they mainly use swag, and I'm nottalking about what you guy use, we are talking about a really heavy peice of canvas and 3" - 4" thick matress that know body in their right mind would ever hike with, the average weight is around15 kg, and thats without...

It is a crock. If you teach them to wear the packs correctly, there would not be as many problems. Half of the packs today that are aimed at school kids are rubbish, and their design are going to cause problems anyway.