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I also prefer that type of blade, and I have one Tram and billhook modified that way.18" Ontario is yet to be done.

At the time I voted I had some 80+ blades (knives, axes, machetes, etc.) But since then I have learned to forge an usable knife, so most of my commercial blades (knives, kukries, most of the machetes) were given away except billhooks and axes-those are yet to be forged if I ever learn how. But...

Strong Turkish coffee. Two or three times a day. And water.

So last weekend the three of us went to near pond planing to make some kind of sutvival raft/boat.Only What we had was tarp, 2x 3 m.So, we have gathered brachen and some dogwood saplings.We placed bracken on the tarp, bundles on each side, rolled up sides, and tied front and rear end.On the top...

From http://www.boston.com/: Is it safe to refill single-use water bottles? The bottles are safe to reuse as long as they're cleaned with hot, soapy water and thoroughly dried every time you refill them, to quell potential bacteria growth, says Jennifer Killinger of the American Chemistry...

I don't like serrations.For ropes and safety belts,OK, and bread cutting,but not for general purposes.For example, it is far more easily to make shavings with plain edge.And half serrated blades are something that I don't understand purpose of.

Fly agaric (Amanita Muscaria) is extremely rare deat poisonous,not more than few deaths are recorded ever.Level of toxins vary from region to region,and from season to season,so some old books do mention that mushroom was commonly eaten in some part of Italy,after cap skin was peeled and...

Linseed oil will do,that I use on,my father in law soaks axe head in old motor oil.

I use a flat chainsaw file for dents and edge rolls,but in normal circumstances a scythe stone is up to all my needs.Same is used on a billhook and on an axe

I'm 44 now, 45 in 2 months.Kids are getting older,and I'm having more and more time for myself.

Solo trips is what I like the most,only thing that I could be worried about is to be accidentally shot by hunters (or poachers).

British MOD survival,120eur in Croatia,and old Solingen bowie,about same price.

I have many of potassium permanganate,and it is from almost dust to sea salt crystal.and I think the size doesn't matter.As for water sterilization,I think that the colour is what determines amount,not weight.Light pink,if I remember well.I use for washing feet after being dump for prolonged...

I voted Bird/nature watching,but that is not exactly what I do.I like to track down the animals,sneak to them as close as I can,make coffee,hunt mushrooms/bow woods/arrow shafts,make coffee,and collect feathers/birch bark/fatwood and make coffee and go home.If I don't stay overnight.But then I...

12" Ontario machete or hatchet tarp firesteel cooking pot paracord

I like straight handles,both axes and hatchets.Not that I remove curved one when I buy axe/hatchet,but as soon as it worns out I replace it with straight one.I feel I have better control that way then with curved one,especially when cleaning branches from felled tree,when need various of axe...

Thumbnail test is what I use on most knives.I use also thumb pad to feel the edge.Or slide at back on my head.If blade is sticky to hair it is OK.For folders and butcher knives I shave hand.Hair splitting is useless for my needs,and wife and children was not impressed with that skill,so now I do...

Yes,here we give fennel seeds tea to baby colic treatment.

Thanks,I will try another one.

How the beef jerky is supposed to be eaten,and taste?The first one that I've made tasted like hot and salty wood shavings,hard to chew.Something went wrong,I guess. Traditionally we smoke dry pork,so I decided to try something new.