What's your long term project for this year?
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Is the ghillie suit for wildlife photography or for ninja work?
Best thing for a ghillie suit has got to be a mesh jacket with plenty of fastening options. That way you can use the local flora for cover, rather than having 1 fixed ghillie suit colour/pattern.
Biker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Heeeeey that's a valid point! So there's hope then?
Suddenly 2011 just got a whole lot better! Whooo hoo! Thanks man, I needed that pep talk.
Biker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
WHAT?!!! Now just wait one cotton pickin' minute here! So what you're saying is that what we're doing here at this forum isn't Bushcraft?
I didn't get the memo that said I have to sleep in the woods sometime and actually do the stuff we talk about here. Well that puts a whole different perspective on the matter. Sheesh I could die out there! :yikes:
My duvet would miss me, not to mention my slippers!
All this time....
YEAH COOL.
My daughter is 6 months old and superb fun. We're taking her on her first camping trip to Comrie Croft in July.
i'm working on taking the young un out for some camping this summer but i suspect lisa will say no
you chosen your daughters first knife yet? i keep getting in trouble for buying camo baby clothes and looking at kit for him
mind you i now feel the need to get better a stuff so i can teach him.
Biker may i suggest you take on the fifteen items or less challenge to absolve yourself from just reading about it?
EDIT you've already found it
you chosen your daughters first knife yet? i keep getting in trouble for buying camo baby clothes and looking at kit for him
mind you i now feel the need to get better a stuff so i can teach him.
Biker may i suggest you take on the fifteen items or less challenge to absolve yourself from just reading about it?
EDIT you've already found it
Biker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
The proof of the pudding is whether you can still count to 10 using your fingers? Brave parents I have to say. Though my two daughters were both taken camping when there were both still in nappies, mostly to biker rallies and they loved it! Kent Custom bike show, Bulldog bash, Drink Drop and Doss. They loved 'em all and revelled in the attention they got too.
Yeah Man_of_Tanith I signed up for the 15 items of less queue at the local supermarket till. Still not sure how that relates to bushcraft though, but it sounded like fun. Buy 15 different items and join the 10 items or less queue and see if you can get away with it, yup sounds easy enough....
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Getting a knife was nothing, we used to sneak into the workshop on the farm a couple of years after that and play with the oxyacetylene kit.
Biker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Mental note to self:- Pick locum76 for my team if we ever have to do anything dangerous, it would appear he's overqualified.
I've gone off danger after just a few too many near misses. I'm pretty good at extreme hammocking these days or adventure gardening.
I'm pretty good at extreme hammocking these days or adventure gardening.
a freind recieved his first axe at four! not gonna happen with the boy i dont think
i was looking at a small fixed blade for his first although i might have to be quick to get past his great grandfather who gave me my first knife,lighter and piece of string with the advice dont set fire to yourself,cut away from yourself and if your dad asks where you got these it wasnt me :lamo:
biker you might want to check the fifteen items again not quite as you describe mate
i was looking at a small fixed blade for his first although i might have to be quick to get past his great grandfather who gave me my first knife,lighter and piece of string with the advice dont set fire to yourself,cut away from yourself and if your dad asks where you got these it wasnt me :lamo:
biker you might want to check the fifteen items again not quite as you describe mate
Biker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Adventure gardening!!
Just love that expression, conjurs up some really funny scenarios. Thanks for the LOL!Sorry for the thread hijack
Back to the programme of what you plan to do long term this year.
brush up on basic skills
learn loads more about flora
practice friction firelighting alot more
keep the knifemaking going
keep doing volintary work as a traniee instructor
prepare for my course ect
hopefully do a bit of traveling
and anything else that pops into my head
learn loads more about flora
practice friction firelighting alot more
keep the knifemaking going
keep doing volintary work as a traniee instructor
prepare for my course ect
hopefully do a bit of traveling
and anything else that pops into my head
I want to make a fishing knife for my dad out of the old 1940's bed frame (if the steel is the right sort). It was my dads when he was a boy recently my eldest boy had it for a couple of years but the wires that it's sprung with have all got metal fatigue so we're having to scrap it - small issue of not knowing what I'm doing but hopefully I'll get there in the end.
I'm thinking about living like a hobo for a year roaming the UK to see if it can be done? To find out what legal pitfalls I might encounter? Then writing about it.
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Same here, planning a little walk with my young uns in LLangollen this week end so might take a brew kit and burner.
