Your Top Ten

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Apart from the first two they are in no particular order.

Petzl Headtorch (always setting up late)
SA Trangia Stove/takonka burner (quiet, relaxing, always reliable)

Snugpak Bergen
Crusader mug
Titanium Spork
58 bottle
KaBar USMC knife
Firesteel
Camelbak hard bottle
Koppaberg Cider
 
In no special order

1. Sami fur boots
2. Julius Petterson brushcrafter knife
3. Leather day pack (made it in '86, still going strong...)
4. Gränsfors full size axe
5. Janus wool sweather in the classic "black spots on white" pattern
6. Seal skin overmitts (worn outside Lovikka or thinner knitted ones).
7. M58 wool pants
8. Wool shirt (homemade)
9. Remade aussie felt hat (cheapo, I "re-felted" it to fit my specs)
10. Buckskin shirt (not actually a technically good garment, but I like it anyway)
 
Egyptian cotton pyramid tent
Titanium "Fourdog" stove
Bell Wildfire canoe
Granfors Bruks small forest ax
Suppressed Ruger .22's
Bark River Copperhead knife
Exped downmat
Western Mountaineering Sequoia sleeping bag
Clark hammock
Hot young redhead wife who likes the outdoors
 
Cableas socks
Urban Angler Hat
Arc'teryx Fleece
Goretex shell
Light weight cook Kit - Snowpeak Spork, MSR Kettle, Pocket Rocket
or Ghillie Kettle
Waterproof Box - Spyderco UKPK, Firesteel, Compass/Whistle, GI Can Opener, Stubby Snowpeak Spork, Tea, Coffee, Sugar, Mini Lighter, High Quality Cuban Cigar usually Cohiba
Northface Lightweight Trousers (plastic)
Polaroid Glasses
Le Cham veganord outlast or Viernord extreme Boots (season dependant)

Still to find, Gloves and decent midlayers, allthough I have spent hundreds on them and have loads I cant find any practical enough

Nice choice of Cigar!
 
1. SASS ventile'ish smock
2. Bison guide shirt(Autumn one)
3. Altberg Field and fell boots
4. Lance Ockenden bushcrafter knife
5. Honey stove/Tatonka burner
6. Laplander saw
7. Maxpedition Sabercat (modded a lot)
8. Guyot stainless Nalgene bottle
9. Vargo Ti-lite mug
10. UCO candle lantern

Harder than you think to pick just 10 :)
 
Mine would have to be:
1. Elma camp knife and matching firesteel (or JoJo Woodcrafter?)
2. John Millington friction folder (with unusual additional locking pin)
3. Oval fire steel and flint (Eric Methven?)
4. Ghillie Kettle
5. Home made gypsy pot holder with extension (wood drill extension bar cos'
I made it too short to start with!)
6. Zebra 12
7. Lapplander from Tengu in Black Sheep pouch (orange so I don't lose it like
my green one which is somewhere in my kit room (aka study!))
8. Swazi Wapiti
9. Chris Brasher boots, perect fit and comfy
10. Leather belt (Dougster) with leather FAK Pouch (??) and leather
possibles pouch (Leon1)

Mind you I do swing the changes every now and again, well OK........almost every trip, as I like to try out all my kit over a year!
I wasn't known as a kit monster for nowt!
 
This will be a hard task ...

1 Exped down mat
2 13 yr old Meindel boots soon to be retired
3 Wild country ultra voyager (bomb proof and light)
4 MSR whisperlite Stove closley followed by the MSR pocket Rocket (for when I cant do with the faff)
5 Buffs Simply Brill
6 Lance ockenden bushcraft knife
7 Leatherman Tool
8 Silk sleeping bag liner
9 Rab primaloft Gillet
10 Paramo Velez Smock

Good thread its hard to pick 10 though!!
 
1. Henessay Hammock
2. Opinel No6.
3. My bike
4. A big Trespass outer jacket bought from StuartF in Killin.
5. biscuits fruit.
6. Craghoppers winter breeks.
7. My wee stove kit (pocket rocket in a pot kit from Blacks)
8. A selection of little gem field guides.
9. Snugpak 3 season sleeping bag.
10. A hat (either my leather bushhat for summer or my cap with furry lug
warmers from M and S for winter).
 
1 Brasher boots
2 LED Lenser P7 torch
3 Sprayway gortex GTX jacket
4 Sigg alu 1L bottle
5 Knife with DIY oak floorboard handle and black leather sheath
6 Maxped jumbo versipack
7 Hexi stove
8 Army gortex bivvy
9 Thermarest
10 Laplander folding saw
 
Top ten??

I have nothing fancy but use this stuff all the time, here goes;

* Hi Vis hooded jacket with whistle on the zip pull. people can see you for miles and you don't suddenly appear when they've been daydreaming. If you break an ankle as I did last spring you'll be seen easier. In summer etc a waxed barbour type waistcoat (hi vis vest folded in pocket)

* Lined trousers or cords.

* Folded down wellies or old pair of workboots.

* Battered cricket/sunhat, baseball cap or fur hat (tesco).

* Home made catapult and pebbles/ball bearings.

* Furry rabbit seeking missile called Treacle (for missed shots with above).

* A noisy packet of crisps (when the dog goes selectively deaf he will hear this opening from miles away).

* Lock knife, folding saw, canvas eco folding shopping bag (for tinder etc), fire and brew kit, wee FAK, old "Moonbag" sleeping bag and a basha/bungees all in a wee daysack.

* Sometimes a walking stick/staff.

* Occassionally a telescopic fishing rod or air rifle (I have permission on the local estate).

That's about it really. It doesn't look tactical/survivalist nor does it make me look like a yuppy weekender.

Unfortunately I was questioned late last year by the old Bill as they thought I was a "Traveller". And here was me thinking I looked like a Council workman - had I been asleep in a van this may have looked more convincing.

:)
 
This one goes up to 11! In no particular order, and perhaps with a slight winter bias:

1. Pendelton 100% wool shirt
2. Crusader mug + cooker + DIY micro meths burner + windsheild (whaddaya mean, "that's not one item"? They all go together, or not at all.)
3. PreMac Pocket Travel Well
4. Laplander saw
5. Paul Baker New Graduate knife
6. Filson double hunting pants + suspenders (errr... trousers + braces, that is...)
7. MagiKelly hammock system + BCUK Underblanket (they get packed together, so they're also one item. ;))
8. Rab Quantum 200 down doss bag (not at this time of year though!)
9. Howies 100% merino baselayer
10. '58 Pattern water bottle
11. Biscuits fruit. Oh yeah!
 
Ack - I need to go to 12 for my beloved, never-leave-the-house-without-them Oakley Custom M-Frames! How could I forget those?
 
my top ten

1. canvas 10 by 9 foot tarp
2. lightweight sleeping bag
3. wool army blankets
4. 58' pattern water bottle
5. army surplus cooking billy/ 16cm zebra billy and hobo stove
6. mora frost clipper
7. wood genade
8. drapper 1.25lb axe
9. brew kit
10. battery powered moblie phone charger

things i would not leave the house for the woods without
 
Kai055,

Please excuse my ignorance, but what's a wood grenade?

Also what's EDC? I've seen it on the forums but can't for the life of me work it what it stands for.

Cheers

Liam
 
A wood grenade is something you whack into the end of a log to split it.

EDC stands for every day carry.

In no real order

civilian trangia
Aluminium fuel bottle for above
Samekniv
custom made camp knife
petzl head-torch (not got much life left in it now though...)
Small sharpening stone
Hammock
silva type 4
ortlieb mapcase
Thermarest sit mat.

These came to mind as they usually come with me to the woods, but it can vary.
 
1. Thinsulate beanie het

2. Fiskars 14" hatchet

3. Wind up led torch

4. Army arctic sleeping bag

5. Army cold weather boots

6. Army goretex jacket

7. DMT folding diamond hone

8. Bacho Laplander

9. Highlander Forces 33

10. PLCE bergen
 
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My top 10 Items are(In no particular Order)

1. My Snugpack Softie Sleeka Jacket (I'm warm blooded and intend staying that way...lol)

2. Mora Frost Knife (Can't believe how sharp this is)

3. DD Travel Hammock & DD XL Tarp

4. My Snugpack Softie 12 Osprey Sleeping bag

5. A Goretex Bivvy Bag

6. A Kukri

7. Instant Brew Kit (All in one coffee, Sugar, Cream)

8. Bahco Laplander Folding saw

9. Goretex Jacket & Trousers

10. My MealKit which fits nicely inside a PLCE Waterbottle Pouch.
It Comprises of:
A 58 Patt Waterbottle & Plastic Mug
A Crusader Metal Mug
A LMF Spork
A LMF Fire Steel
A Hexi Stove with mug stand attachment
A Strip of Puritabs
A Mil Can opener
 
Hmm...Nothing too flashy, and some of it may change based on the new gear I've bought but haven't tried out yet.
1. Vic Farmer SAK
2. My hevily modified Swiss Bread Bag
3. Fiskars Pocket Saw
4. Mora Craftsman (hoping to get a Svord Economy Drop Point)
5. My self "made" Target Sugar Can Billy
6. Duluth Trading Company Bamboo Knife
7. Cargo pants
8. A good book
9. My 5.11 Tactical Vest
10. My Altoids tin PSK
 
In no particular order:

1. The knife my best mate made for me
2. Swedish army firesteel
3. Sabre 45
4. Small forest Axe
5. Crusader Mug
5. Fjallraven Forester trousers
6. Bear Claw Possibles pouch and all the tat I keep in it
7. My first Mora
8. Filson Mackinaw field pants
9. My laptop - because I learn and organise so much via it
10. Woolpower 200gm base layers

and if I could have 11 it would be my Lowe alpine mountain cap.

Barry
 

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