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Given the grandiose name of this thread I hope people are as interested in what I am. I'm a fan of what most would call "useless information" and for all intents and purposes it doesn't matter much at all most folk will know what your on about but given the nature of our shared hobby im sure...

After spending pretty extreme amounts of time harvesting, processing and twining serious amounts of cordage in wondering about methods of avoiding the need for twined cordage which is probably a better thing to know about than proper cordage technique. Obviously the simplest solution is to...

I've made literally thousands of metres of various cordage thickness from nettle fibre this year but I can't make very fine stuff. Even when you break down the cordage, the minimum your going to get to is 1 fibre each side which is a weak as hell arrangement as any slight weakness anywhere in...

I'm interested in learning to make buckskin and making bone tools but I don't know anyone with even a remote connection to hunting or butchering. Are there any suppliers of fresh, salted or frozen skins I can buy them from or is it a case of "knowing a guy"? I was thinking about contacting...

I've been working on a braided nettle fish line and I've got a bunch of primitive hooks. I've fished for flounder in the mouth of the yay but I wanting to try it of a primitive handpine with hawthorn hooks, is this legal to do? All the anglers at this end oglf the tay(at the mouth) don't...

Is it legal to harvest bits of seals I find washed up upon the beach? I'm finding at least 1 a week that's still pretty fresh so I wouldn't mind getting the bones and fat and possibly the skin. They're already dead so hopefully it ain't a problem

I got some more nettles today but for some reason the fibre breaks every time I try to remove it. I've stuck about a hundred in a bag full of water but now in lost, what do I do next? How long on average does it take to ret? Once its retted how to I extract the fibre? I tried to research...

Does anyone else get this? I suppose there's very good evolutionary reasons to be fearful but even when I know exactly what fungi it is I really don't like seeing them, though I can handle some the rest scare the heck outta me. Anyone else got a fear of fungi?

Took my dog for a walk about 1030 last night in tentsmuir forest, I was roughly in the middle which is a good few miles from anywhere, and my torch died. Its a lot darker than you would think in a fairly dense woodland. Didn't have a lighter so I ended up using the little light there was to...

Was out walking with my old boy today and seen a pine that I can only describe as having "rusty"bark in that there was a big orange tinge on it that has great resemblance to rust, I saw this in an almost inteirely pine ecology though I've seen the same thing on a sycamore in a decidous woodland...

After weeks of looking I finally found a horses hoof fungus however I can't get it off the tree never mind into it. I tried chopping the wood out of the back off it but hit it by accident and shattered the flint on my axe, I tried driving an antler wedge into it but that cracked insted of the...

I've been experimenting with natural cordage for the bowdrill for the past 6 months with great sucess with nettle, bramble, my hair, my dogs hair, rawhide from squirrels, and sinew. Using Nylon cord or similar man made material has the advantage of not stretching as much as natural cordage...

Think most folk would agree kochanski and mears are probably the two best regarded instructors of bushcraft yet both seem to have completely different methods for some skills, most of the differences in methodology can be attributed to differences in environment( boreal and decidous) For...

I want to make a fish trap or two, the torpedo shaped thing with the one way entrance but don't have acess to lots of wood for making them so I was thinking I could use my old chum the bramble for the framework. I would think they would supply the required rigidity but if not I could twine...

Been playing about with brambles for the past few weeks and in my opinion this must be one of the most useful plants. The young shoots are edible Edible berries Thorns can be used for making various types of fishhook The outer fibre makes a moderately good cord It can be split in the same...

Been playing about with cordage today, and I've noticed something that makes me think my technique was wrong. I made 5 6 ft lenghs of normal thigh rolled cordage and 5 6ft lenghs of thigh rolled cordage that I occasionally spread the ends to tighten the cord up such as ulyou do when making...

Just made about a hundred metres of nettle twine and before I start netting it would it be worthwhile tarring it? Ive got a 5 litre tin full of birch oil I made so I could tar it all. Don't know if its worth the hassle though. Got two pickup loads of nettles retting as we speak so I'll be...

Poundland are selling jute twine in 80 metre spools in a useful looking tin. No affiliation etc ps i got it in the poundland in dundee but its probably sold in them all

Should all the sheet bends be drawn tight orkept loose?

Anyone out toninght? Dont know if this is hapoening throught the country but in central scotland its lashing down, itsamazing, ive only gt a 1,5 metre wide poncho but aftwr 3 hours of this im 99% dry, my sleeping bags still in my bivi bag dont k.ow how illget it lol this is great...