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TheViking
08-09-2004, 20:48
Hi...
This is probably a tough one, but about how many hours of bushcraft do you do per week??? :wink: If you choose other, then please deepen.
Tell us about it! :D
Hmm yes that is a tough one. It differs from week to week really but I try to spend all weekend doing it.
TheViking
08-09-2004, 20:59
I have now voted 14 hours. That's about 2 hours per day, but in the weekends it's more. In everyday I have to do homework, butI'll do bushcraft anyway. :wink: :biggthump
Squidders
08-09-2004, 21:14
Hardly any to be honest... by the time I've finished work, got home and done all the evening things I have no time during the week... Other than that, I go rock climbing, This weekend i'm going to visit my parents in Wales, last weekend I was visiting my girlfriends dad in Norwich, the weekend after that i'm in france climbing... I have to fix all my computers at some point.
It is probably an average of 23 minutes and 12 seconds a week. But i'm not sad about it, I think an over polarised view of life can sometimes kill the excitement a bit. :-)
i spend on average about 14 hours a week while at work mostly and some more at the weekends with hobbit :wave:
Nightfall
08-09-2004, 22:37
My time really changes often.I spend more time in the bush in the summer.Anywhere from 2 hours to 10 hours a day.Right now Im not getting out as much as I would like. Only on the weekends for a couple of hours.But, I'm also in school plus work. One of the classes that I am taking is mushrooms of the north coast.Its a 6 hour class and half of that time is in the woods.
bothyman
08-09-2004, 22:51
How do you define Bushcraft per week ??
It depends again. If i go on an outing it would be 6-7 hours (never thought of it like this). but 2 hrs is average 'cos i can't every week.
school during the week, work during the weekends. So i only go out in vacation periode's. But since i have to pay my bills too, i sometimes do extra work in the vacations. This summer vacation i worked 2,5 months, with very little days off. SO very little time for bushcraft. that why my skills are horrible.
MartiniDave
09-09-2004, 08:47
Not enough! And no, I don't count gardening as bushcraft! :lol:
Dave
Well before I started teaching wilderness skills I had another life...... now its all bushcraft...buashcraft... bushcraft.... either in the classroom, in the field..... at home doing lesson prep for classes.... most of my working and spare time seem to be taken up with it these days.... then in my spare time I moderate here.... I go away for a weekend with karen.... and where do we go... the BCUK meetup :yikes:
Far more than 20 hours a week
Ed
jamesdevine
09-09-2004, 10:54
I voted for other simply because it varies. As young Bushman says how do you define time doing bushcraft? While out on my walks I am looking at planets spotting and tracking wildlive. If it's camp craft etc. then maybe once every two months thanks to the scouts and a couple off courses.
It's also on my mind alot whilst in work :wink:
James
TheViking
09-09-2004, 13:41
I voted for other simply because it varies. As young Bushman says how do you define time doing bushcraft?
It wasn't Young Bushman, but bothyman... :wink: Well anyway, this is up to you. But how many hours per week do you go out and do skills?? :wink: Something like that! :D
jamesdevine
09-09-2004, 13:43
I stand corrected thanks TheViking :biggthump
James
some weeks i get to do a day straight some weeks i dont get out (but i am trying to cut back on those weeks :wink: )
Burnt Ash
12-09-2004, 00:27
While out on my walks I am looking at planets
"Chaqu'un a son gout", as they say and a darned good thing too if you ask me. Personally speaking, I just can't remember the last time I went out for a walk "looking at planets".
Burnt Ash
Its hard to give a specific time frame, for me anytime not spent at work is somehow connected to bushcraft, whether its out practicing,fixing gear, making new gear,etc. I would have to say that with the exception of earning a living , its what I am, so its what I do!!!.
I probably only spend 5 minuets a week doing bushcraft, I do try to spend up to 16 hours a week in the outdoors, doing what come naturally to someone that has spent a great deal of time living in the outdoors.
I'm not sure how to answer this question...all depends on how you define bushcraft doesn't it...and no, I'm not asking that question again because we've already done that one to death...
Walking looking at plants, trees, trying to understand and learn about my environment, yes, when I can...I often walk to work and end up seeing all kinds of birds and plants on route that are gradually becoming familiar to me.
trying to start fires...not often...
BIG-TARGET
13-01-2005, 20:44
Not as much as I like!! :cry:
arctic hobo
13-01-2005, 21:03
You could argue that I spend my whole week doing bushcraft, my whole week outside of work that is :lol: Which is about two hours :nono: :lol:
In the summer I'm less of a cybergeek and I'll go out most evenings.
RovingArcher
13-01-2005, 22:09
I don't get to spend as much time outdoors as I used to. Too much rain and runoff causing slides and floods and basically a very unstable landscape. When it dries out more, the outdoors awaits.
However, while being homebound, I am catching up on my knife weilding abilities (bushcraft and tactical), improving my different shapening skills, working on the different facets of arrow building, getting new strings on old bows, fine tuning our on hand gear, browsing for additions I'll eventually make to my gear, doing more reading of outdoors medicines and proceedures, helping wifey put together more comprehensive medical kits for packs as well as home and vehicle, studying up on orienteering and navigation, my outdoor cooking skills (BBQ :nana: ), taking time out to actually start reading through a few of the many threads here and on other sites that have interested me but I hadn't gotten to yet, reading up on nature photography, etc.
falling rain
17-01-2005, 08:18
Hard one indeed. I look at BCUK during lunchbreak at work every day, or other Bushcraft related websites, I read books on plants, trees, knots etc or do some carving, sharpen tools. Teach Buchcraft, wilderness first aid, navigation twice a week to ATC, and run the D of E. And if I'm out with the dogs or just walking I'm constantly ID'ing plants or trees or looking them up in a field guide to learn new ones. Looking for tracks, runs and sign, watching birds, checking finghi, almost all my spare time is used for something to do with Bushcraft or studying/trying out new things practicing old ones, fire lighting or trying out new woods for bow drill. Unless I'm shopping at Asda I'm pretty much Bushcrafting, and even shopping I'm looking out for something I can use for my Bushcraft. I absolutley love it. The only TV I watch is the news and any programme on Wildlife, Nature, (Tribe at the Mo) or anything along those lines. :super: