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Come along to the amazing Summer Moot (21st July - 2nd August), a festival of bushcrafting and camping in a beautiful woodland PLEASE CLICK HERE for more information.
in a word "YES".....
sorry....
No problem, im competing with a friend so it'll be a good excuse to see who can make the better shelter to be judged on here.
I have a katydian silver impregnate cermaic filter, that doesnt use any idonine which messes with thyroid, and I cant use city drinking water is what I meant about Cholrine. Cholrine is a very unstable purifier in the woods because the shaking in a backpack renders cholrine and bleach useless. I normally try to camp near springs now and just drink that water straight, dig egyptains wells, tap tree saps in early spring, and use a turkey oven bag in direct sunlight for about 6-8 hours after debris filtering. a turkey oven bag fits easily in a wallet ad you can cook in it as a pot as well. Make rock oven, the lay a cirle of rocks on top flat rock, add sand or mud, lay over turkey bag, and you got a crock pot for cooking that literally fits in your wallet.
I am not sure, some inda of cooking plastic. Everyone here places oven bags in crock pots and in oven pan with turkeys to cook in Reynolds Oven Turkey Bags arge size holds 3 gallons of water, can handle very high heat if a flame doesnt directly hit it. Very tough bags, I threw 3 gallns of water in bag and they dont bust unless you hit sharp objects. I used 550 cord as a handle. Just go into a grocey store, look in ziplock bag section, and you will see oven bags. best survival thing ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRTdvGnz0lg look at my video on it. you will see it on my survival wallet video. I have a lot of videos with my traves in woods, desert etc. and the way I think about survival after 25 years of doing it. I dont have video camera so I have to make these when Icome out of the woods using video cam on laptop, but the oven bag is in this video
had a really good weekend with Stu and it was awesome to him and his family again...
we started of with a stroll into the woods, from there we walked the whole area and collected some bits, a tin to brew up in some haze nuts (very early though) and some tinder (reed mace head from last year or before). found a good spot and started on the shelter, horn beam was the wood used as thats what was there, and when burned wet it gives of the most amazing sweet smell by the way. the shelter was just a main poll tied with bramble (thorns removed and yes it hurt more than once...lol). then polls layed up against the main beam about 6" to a foot appart the brush and leves then threaded through and more on top.
the bedding for me was more brush and leaves, Stu opted for brush and furn.
when we had our walk round i collected some white willow for the fire which worked very well, it was first time using white willow and i may now be a convert..
also found a beer can for brewing up, we made some nettle and mint tea, i can say it was very very very good and it will be getting made at some point for the house.
tried our hand at fishing with the cordage inner strands and paper clip hooks, we had no good bait and so had no fish...
when in the wood i had a root around and found some woodlice and the odd worm. the worms where not great but woodlice are wonderfull and i will eat them again for sure...
all in all a very very good weekend, so mean meany thanks to Stu.
regards.
chris...
we started of with a stroll into the woods, from there we walked the whole area and collected some bits, a tin to brew up in some haze nuts (very early though) and some tinder (reed mace head from last year or before). found a good spot and started on the shelter, horn beam was the wood used as thats what was there, and when burned wet it gives of the most amazing sweet smell by the way. the shelter was just a main poll tied with bramble (thorns removed and yes it hurt more than once...lol). then polls layed up against the main beam about 6" to a foot appart the brush and leves then threaded through and more on top.
the bedding for me was more brush and leaves, Stu opted for brush and furn.
when we had our walk round i collected some white willow for the fire which worked very well, it was first time using white willow and i may now be a convert..
also found a beer can for brewing up, we made some nettle and mint tea, i can say it was very very very good and it will be getting made at some point for the house.
tried our hand at fishing with the cordage inner strands and paper clip hooks, we had no good bait and so had no fish...
when in the wood i had a root around and found some woodlice and the odd worm. the worms where not great but woodlice are wonderfull and i will eat them again for sure...
all in all a very very good weekend, so mean meany thanks to Stu.
regards.
chris...
coppiced out some smaller trees/saplings to allow the bigger ones to become more established, and used some lower limbs which helps open up the path a bit...
no large trees where used, we also used allot of dead wood where we could.
destroying stuff for fun is not for me...
regards.
chris.
And the winner will get this....
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am i the winner
am i the winner?
no no no, you are a special boy....lol....
thats yours J, i posted the wrong pic by mistake, the give away blade has my LM stamp in the blade. if you want your blade to have one let me know and i will do that for you
thats yours J, i posted the wrong pic by mistake, the give away blade has my LM stamp in the blade. if you want your blade to have one let me know and i will do that for you
oooh yes please, the LM will give it that extra provenance when the antiques roadshow value it for my great grandchildren
All set to go tomorrow for my camp
Items to take - Knife, Saw, Blanket, Billy, 1 litre Water bottle (full ).
Freebies - Bag, Phone, FA kit, Clothing as allowed.
Todays constant rain should make things interesting with fire lighting, still looking forward to it though.
I'll post up on Sat.
Items to take - Knife, Saw, Blanket, Billy, 1 litre Water bottle (full ).
Freebies - Bag, Phone, FA kit, Clothing as allowed.
Todays constant rain should make things interesting with fire lighting, still looking forward to it though.
I'll post up on Sat.
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