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    Pump Drill and Bear comes clean

    Very very good And funny too And you live in quite a posh house :) George
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    Quicks classic hunter recurve bow

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    Rice harvesting and Trapping in Borneo

    Nice post BOD. How did they thresh the rice? George
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    Anyone remember a big yankee truck?

    Try here: http://www.bushcraftuk.com/community/showthread.php?t=12861 George
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    Cliff Face Tent

    Pumbaa you might find the sort of thing you're looking for here http://65.108.204.95/FAQ.htm not a big wall hammock or portaledge but a fairly interesting idea. These guys do a single point hammock too - a bit like the old Troll big wall hammock http://www.mosquitohammock.com/ look down for...
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    plans for wood burning stove from a gas bottle ?

    There's a high temp glue that stove shops sell - can't recall the name of it, but these guys sell it http://www.fluesystems.com/sundries/info/fire_rope.htm George
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    Rawhide mould remover

    Vinegar should work as well Toddy. It certainly works on the hams that I cure and they're effectively rawhide on the outside George
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    plans for wood burning stove from a gas bottle ?

    Hi RB To get a good seal I run two parallel beads of weld metal around the outside of the door opening to make a channel that the stove rope can be glued inside. Use 10mm stove rope and the door will seal down nice and tight against it. Alternatively you could run the beads on the inside of...
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    New years clear out : lots of stuff

    PM sent re safe. George
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    Papua New Guinea native firemaking with string

    Had a look through a few books and some field notes - nothing on Bulu Tamian. Looks like BOD is the best bet. George
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    Papua New Guinea native firemaking with string

    Bulu Tamian - pretty sure its a local name not Malay. I'll see if my wife has anything on it - she's done a lot of work on tropical ethnobotany. George
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    Panthers

    I've seen video footage from a local garage security camera - no doubt at all it's a big cat of some sort. People get fed up of being ridiculed for talking about something that's taken for granted round here. George
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    Panthers

    See here Jon: http://www.bushcraftuk.com/community/showthread.php?t=8954&highlight=panther Quite a few people have seen signs of them. George
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    Paddling Outrigger Canoes

    Hi BOD The indian stroke is meant to deal with exactly the problem you talk about with the pry stroke stopping forward motion, especially in higher winds. Because the paddle blade is always in the water you can correct anything as you paddle rather than correcting during the next stroke...
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    Paddling Outrigger Canoes

    Bod - the Indian stroke is pretty effective in an outrigger, see here for a description: http://www.gregcons.com/canoe/techniques_strokes.htm You can use a pretty short stroke with it and should avoid hitting the aft outrigger boom. George
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    Well thanks toddy!!

    +1 George
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    How to restore and old hand-axe?

    Hi Eelco - Dave and the others have pretty much covered the restoration questions but I might know a little bit about your axe. It's a packing case hatchet that would have been used for making and opening shipping crates. I used to have one that I was given from an ex dockworker in...
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    Boar?

    A few years ago my wife was working in the forest in Brazil where there were a load of white lipped Peccaries (wild pigs) around. They had a really bad reputation - going around in large herds and mauling any unfortunate botanists that came across them. Local advice was to climb the nearest...
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    Time to say Goodbye_from Abbe!

    Another one bites the dust eh? Best of luck Abbe - maybe see you out there. George
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    What vehicle for bushcraft?

    I find myself strangely drawn to one of these: http://www.rokon.com/products/trailbrkr.htm George