BG again

[Littlesthobo]

Shame bear can't do the bow drill yet. Check out the following video of him failing miserable to use the bow drill and then faking a bow drill ember, which looks nothing like a friction ember I've ever seen!

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/dis...w-and-drill-fire-building-technique-video.htm

The guy's a prat and a fraud.

 

[crazydave]

actually why does he do it - probably because its damn good fun and he gets paid to do it, I've sat in chopper doorways and its like riding a motorbike with no lid, exillarating, batoning with a rock? well the cree guy building a canoe I linked to used a hammer on his yet we'd class him as a native craftsman, swinging around a waterfall well thats what happens when climbing and its better than falling 20m.

there is good info in there for people if watch it again and look beyond the showbiz, its meant to shown stuff slightly outside the box to get people thinking about improvisation and to realise that they are deficiant in skills which may come in handy. just like first aid where you have 1 in 200 as a first aider at work. I'm not a religious watcher infact I've probably only seen 4 or 5 full episodes but a fair few clips off youtube but when I have watched them I have seen a lot of potentially usefull into for people prepared to see it. he does carry a few bits of kit but off he goes in relatively normal clothing, and trainers. no ventile, no floppy hat or hammock and he even used to take normal knives with him. certainly the first series he had a different knife every week to show that you didn't need a specific one. same way he tried a different fire techniques because he didnt carry a firesteel the theory was sound but even rm cant get a fire going all the time using 'traditional' techniques.

I'd love to be able to do all that again for fun but time and injuries have take their toll. doesnt mean I couldn't and wouldn't should the need arise.

 

[dwardo]

Yeah yeah BG RM.......

Now back to Gemma Atkinson, sheevus..:yikes:

Almost makes me want to watch soaps

 

[Goatboy]

Sorry if this just deepens the rift here with another faction being created but I've always enjoyed Les Hiddins, The Bush Tucker Man.
Yes I'm not likely to find even a tiny fraction of the species he quaffs but he's fun, easy going, and mind opening in a non preachy way. He did a lot for conservation and opened a lot of peoples eyes as to the possibility of food in their environment. A lot like Hugh Fearnley Whittinstall and the "The Wild Gourmets" Thomasina Miers and Guy Grieve are doing for this country now.
They're all entertaining to some degree, and I personally don't hold with BG being what we've come to think of as a "bushcrafter". I think he harks back to the bad old days when we were labeled as "survivalists" and to be given a wide berth if someone came across our camo'd asses in the wilderness. He seems to want to conquer nature rather than be part of it. Plus Peter Duncan is going to be a hard act to follow as Chief Scout.
But hey, enjoy and live and let live.
Goatboy.

 

[big_swede]

I'd love to have his head on a pole in my yard.

That is very unhygienic.

 

[Goatboy]

He's not even a proper woodsman.He runs about so much his clothes actually fit him and arn't even green or oversized There is no sign of a dutch oven anywhere on his programmes. I prefer the little fat bloke who stuffs his face with double big macs and carries 50kgs of cast iron with him at all times. He's a proper bushcrafter.

Oh that is just too good :yelrotflm

 

[hog]

Mmmmmmmm, that ember is suspect.

 

[firecrest]

Oh that is just too good :yelrotflm

I know, I love Bill Oddie to.

 

[Goatboy]

Shame bear can't do the bow drill yet. Check out the following video of him failing miserable to use the bow drill and then faking a bow drill ember, which looks nothing like a friction ember I've ever seen!

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/dis...w-and-drill-fire-building-technique-video.htm

The guy's a prat and a fraud.

Hey Littlesthobo, just watched that clip and at the end when he's "looking chuffed" with himself don't you think he's like the courageous but unethical reporter Damien Day in Drop the Dead Donkey? Are they related, I think we should be told.

Firecrest, please tell me that was sarcasm as the things I'd never tire of doing to that odious little twitcher shouldn't be posted on a family forum.
Love some of the artwork on your website by the way, though looking at the pastels frustrated me a little as I should really be taking my chalk and charcoal out on my wanderings - I'm not very good but I enjoy it.

Goatboy.

 

[bushwacker bob]

Mmmmmmmm, that ember is suspect.

Do you mean me? I'm a very suspect mmmmm'ember

 

[VtBlackdog]

Mears is a tree-hugging wuss; BG actually takes on the enviroment instead of just sitting by the campfire playing some hippie crap music on a harmonica.

I sense a lot of penis envy directed at BG.....

 

[Chopper]

Mears is a tree-hugging wuss; BG actually takes on the enviroment instead of just sitting by the campfire playing some hippie crap music on a harmonica.

I sense a lot of penis envy directed at BG.....

What !!!!! :AR15firin :AR15firin :AR15firin :AR15firin :AR15firin :twak:

 

[TeeDee]

Ah , yes Penis Envy, so perceptible of you. Yes your SO right , BG is a Big C#ck.

When BG takes on the environment is that a fair fight? Don't you think we should handicap him is some way to give the environment a fighting chance?


HMGSMFA

 

[hog]

SIR Ray sits by the fire and eats heartily, Les Stroud plays the harmonica... very nicely.

 

[durulz]

That idiot did not have to kill the snake, it was done for sensationalist TV...

True. But what about the animals Ray kills and eats? Is it acceptable just because Ray does it? Bear does at least eat the animals after he (or whoever) kills them - they're not wasted. As does Ray, of course. So what is it your objecting to in the killing? Don't see the difference myself. Neither of them HAS to kill and eat the animals, BOTH of them are doing it for the TV.

 

[Asa Samuel]

That is very unhygienic.

I'll roast it first. That should sort any bugs out

 

[wanderingblade]

Your all missing the point.
Bear provides a vital service, at least in my household.

Whenever I watch an episode I constantly huff, puff and point out exactly what he is doing wrong and why he's endangering himself (backflip off a cliff into an unexplored pond etc) thus proving to the missus I do read up on bushcraft things and really don't just use it as a cover to spend all my time looking at porn.

 

[Chopper]

Your all missing the point.
Bear provides a vital service, at least in my household.

Whenever I watch an episode I constantly huff, puff and point out exactly what he is doing wrong and why he's endangering himself (backflip off a cliff into an unexplored pond etc) thus proving to the missus I do read up on bushcraft things and really don't just use it as a cover to spend all my time looking at porn.

:yelrotflm :yelrotflm :yelrotflm :yelrotflm :yelrotflm :yelrotflm :yelrotflm :yelrotflm :yelrotflm :yelrotflm

 

[littlebiglane]

I am no card-carry fan of BG...but I watched the latest episode last night and learned two new things. I also had a laugh about the possibility of him falling to an untimely demise and getting struck by lightening. Now...I might have fallen asleep before the end (just after I wet myself when he was prodding the bloated carcass of a buffalo) but I get less satisfaction from watching Britain Has Got No Talent....

Keep'em coming.

 

[jonnno]

BG is about the excitement of survival RM is about gentle bushcraft living. I don't think the shows are really about the same topic so I never compare them.