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    One handed first aid

    I find that packs of sterile gauze are easy to open with one hand and teeth or even just pin it down with another part of the body, say kneel on it and then tear open with one hand. Likewise melonin non-adherent dressings
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    Adder - Vipera berus

    Forgot to say earlier that both dogs were bitten on the inside "thigh" of rear leg. I presumed they had been running around as usual and trampled over the poor snake.
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    Adder - Vipera berus

    A few years ago I bought a house in rural Fife. It had a large overgrown garden (well small wooded hill really). I started to clear it up including the piles of flood deposited branches in the lee of the tree trunks. Both my dogs were then bitten (i presume by an adder), one envenomated, one...
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    Cold weather bivvying for dogs !

    My dogs live outside all year anyway. But then they are Pyrenean mountain dogs (3) with huge fur coats. They tend to sleep on an old piece of carpet under a tarpaulin in the garden but only if its raining. Normally they just dig a shallow hole in whats left of the lawn and sleep in that :eek: ...
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    Maximum £20 for a medical kit

    my first cheap FAK was just a list of the things I always ended up going to the chemists to buy every time anyone cut themselves. So it should be a good start. micropore tape 2"x2" non adherent dressings steristrips antiseptic cream and add various plasters for minor stuff. just use...
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    BCUK Meetup - Archive

    :( Found out at 5 pm on Friday have to work Sat and Sun now as well. Oh well, there is always the next meetup I suppose.
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    BCUK Meetup - Archive

    Still dont know if I'll be able to make it or not :( Current plan if I can get away is to come down to Bridgend by train (from Manchester) on Sat morning. Walk to the site and then have to go back the same way on Sunday. Bummer. But at least I may be able to get one night in. Oh, well...
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    My next probing question. Maglite, Petzl or another?

    I am never without my Petzl Tikka Plus as it lives in my jacket pocket. But if I had to buy again I'd probably go for the Tactikka plus for the night vision benefits everyone else has discovered*. Cant fault it as an outdoors light and the benefits of still having both hands free cant be...
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    Cheshire/North West

    I'd be interested.
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    Green obsessed...

    My kilt is a bit of a cheat really. Its made with modern dyes but has been dyed to look like what my green clan tartan would look like if made from natural dyes and had aged through use and faded. So its mostly browns. Very subdued.
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    KMnO4 Toxcitity

    iodine - Toxic - may be fatal if swallowed or inhaled. Corrosive, causes burns. Harmful by inhalation and through skin absorption. UK OES short-term 1 mg/m3 (0.1 ppm). Readily absorbed through skin. Very destructive of mucous membranes and upper respiratory tract, eyes and skin. Severe irritant...
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    KMnO4 Toxcitity

    bit of confusion here. loss of electrons is oxidation and gain of electrons is reduction. these are terms from electrochemistry originally from behavior of metals particularly in corosion but later applied to all materials. A free radical is short of an electron and it therefore takes this...
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    KMnO4 Toxcitity

    Good explanation. Mine would have been too scientifically correct and therefore completely pointless as no one would know what it meant. You actually got the meaning about perfect for understanding. What you have to remember is that everything is harmfull in a high enough dose even water and...
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    KMnO4 Toxcitity

    Cant give you an exact value as the KMnO4 in my lab is much finer than sugar sized so I put roughly that amount in a vial and weighed it. Weight about 5 mg thats 0.005 g. So for a severely bad dose of 5 g you are at 0.1 % of that. So to ingest the equivalent of the 5-10 g dose reported you would...
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    What Folder..

    I EDC a Spyderco UK Penknife and since I always have it on my person it goes to the woods with me as well. Much more capable than I had originally thought. I also carry a Benchmade mini-RSK but to be honest the penknife has made this superfluous as I dont need the lock any more (if I need a...
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    Stainless or not?

    I tend to use titanium when hiking/camping and stainless when bushcrafting. The Ti beacause it is rediculously light weight and the stainless since it is easier to scour with sand or grass roots to clean and that puts scratches on Titanium. I use and abuse stainless but considering the cost...
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    RDA's and foods

    Cant remember which one but I do remember that rice is massively short of one of the vitamins if eaten as white rice but that brown has loads. At one stage about 20 years ago one of the ethnic immigrant populations in the UK had much poorer health that that usual in their "original" country...
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    Should kit be subdued or bright?

    begining to spot a pattern here. I seem to be with the majority - subdued clothing worn but carry a high vis vest for emergencies or walking along roads.
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    Girl stuff!

    Take a look at the first aid advice in a lot of preparedness sites. Tampons make great emergency dressings. They are also highly compressed and so make great tinder. Lets face it many of the male bushcrafters here may well have a tampon in their gear. In my FAK I have 2 tampons and several...
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    Review.. Karrimor Saber 30

    unfortunately phoned the nearest 3 shops to me yesterday. 2 do not stock karrimore products at all and the third does but was sold out :cry: