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OK it will actually be off lambs or hoggets depending on the time of year but I found a guy on Colne market who does his own butchering at his farm ( which is o ly a few miles away) who says he can supply with any amount of suet from around the kidneys for very little if not completely free to...

I've just picked up a Trangia small messtin to make up a basic emergency kit to be carried in a drop belt pouch or pocket rather than in a pack. What I want is shelter ( got a Sol emergency bivy so thats covered) the capacity to make 3 hot high energy drinks and a days worth of my personal...

Since the sewing kit was out i knocked up a case for the steel frying pan with the folding handle. I left one bottom corner square to allow for the somewhat sharp edge on the folding handle. I'll cut a other round cutting board to fit in the pan. Atb Tom

Since the one that came with it was crud I've knocked up a waxed canvas case for the mini grill I got a couple of weeks back. The top folds in so it seals up pretty well to keep the soot and Ash off the rest of my kit. Also made a couple of leather belts long enough to go over wool bush...

Years back i picked up a 4 sided file block new thinking it would be ideal for removing lots of material from say a chipped blade. However it slid about so I thought I'd make a holder to go in a vice like a old school sharpening stone. It's taken me until now to get round to it. The tops...

Picked this up today from Colne Tools where Mike had put it aside for me. Unfortunately I have managed to misplace the photo of the only definite example of a rush knife I've come across from a book on primative lighting that i had to get on inter library lone many years ago and which I...

Information were you got yours would be as good as the item itself here ( and I can live without " google it" Or "Ebay" here ) but I'm looking to make a trivet to go inside a 15 inch spun steel camp oven. Currently I am using a flimsy pizza tray held up on bolts but since postage from Oz is...

I was waiting for a chap on ebay who makes lids for the crusader mug to put up the auction/sale thing for his mess tin lids but stumbled on a knackered old British issue large mess tin in my scrap metal stash. I knew the Dutch set was slightly smaller than the UK one and a test fit showed this...

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but would anybody be interested in a large sized Buffalo Sleeping bag and matching winter liner? I say Buffalo but the outer could be the Survival aids version which i believe came out of the same factory in Sheffield. The outer has the two...

Probably the wrong place to ask but do any of you make a lid for the crusader mug from steel and if so do you sell them? I've made one from aluminium but it's a bit crap. If you do I'm happy to pay or swap for one. Atb Tom

A long time ago I picked up a pretty much unused a Lichfield Combat 1 tent for a fiver on a carboot with the intention of letting the sons use it rather than them liberate my more modern stuff. However further finds of better tents meant it was instantly redundant so its languished in a...

Strictly speaking I could live with up to 200 x 160 but what my Google fu has so far failed me to find is a 200 x 130 cm Foot print to go under my shiny new super light weight A frame mesh tent. Normally I'd make stuff I can't find myself but I can't face the idea of hand stitching two lines...

Having been fortunate enough to upgrade to a DD 4 x 4m tarp and A frame mesh inner I've been giving some thought to how ro hold the ridgeline they will be fixed to. Finding two trees with the right distance between and orientated the way I want to keep the rain off, wind out or view I wanted...

In the past I've been fortunate enough to secure a large number of the old red or orange plastic* screw band Kilner jars. I much prefer these over the metal lidded sort but we are now almost out of the rubber seals to go with. I've been poking around the net looking for them but had no joy...

I was poking about the net looking at various ( over priced ) tinder makers. Basically they are small cheese graters for preparing tinder more quickly than with a knife. Non impressed with any I thought, how about a small Microplane coarse grater? Now I've a large woodworking Microplane...

Just ordered on of these to be delivered on Monday https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Traditional-food-in-Northumbria-by-Peter-C-D-Brears-Hardback-Amazing-Value/383800575169?epid=156621900&hash=item595c4c04c1:g:1oEAAOSwBB5hF2P7&pageci=fbec3e34-62e7-4d76-9b5e-6e350ce481b9&redirect=mobile Normally its...

Just a small thing but something I've been meaning to do for a while which was to make some coils of waxed thin natural cord tapers. I found a roll of about 1.5 or 2 mm jute string under the work bench and had a double boiler with a vouple of pounds of freebie beeswax so thought why not? Hemp...

Since I'm finally losing weight and my waist is shrinking at a pleasing rate I've been considering getting something that previously would have made me look even more ridiculous than even my thick skin could take the comments on , a Molle carrier / vest for bimbling around the woods in. I've...

Since herself has a couple of dehydrator and a decent vacuum sealer we thought we would have a go at making our own single portion add boiling water meals. Could anyone advise on where to get suitable mylar bags in the UK, which ones to avoid and where to find recipes/ lists of ingredients...

Since it was sunny out P finally got around to waxing some two for a pound charity shop waxed zipped bags and made some beeswax impregnated food wraps. I d washed and dried some 100% cotton, about dress shirt weight and cut it into roughly a foot square pieces with crimping scissors. I used...