So you think you're a bushcrafter? Water Challenge

[Satyr]

My first thought was moss or clothing then to hold some in my mouth. Not going to have the chance to try it over 300 yards for a week or so due to travel commitments but I will see how long it takes for a litre (plus a bit of backwash wont bother buttercup as we have already snogged....)Comment removed

 

[greensurfingbear]

Inconceivable!


Orric

 

[Llwyd]

You keep using that word... I don't think it means what you think it means?

 

[mountainm]

You keep using that word... I don't think it means what you think it means?

 

[greensurfingbear]

I do not mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?



Orric

 

[Llwyd]

Do you always begin conversations this way?

 

[greensurfingbear]

You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.


I love this movie lol..... Did you guess?

 

[Llwyd]

You seem a decent fellow... I hate to die.

 

[greensurfingbear]

Sorry seemed to have hijacked your thread 😀


Orric

 

[Llwyd]

Whatever? It's more fun than the other pages. Life is better with good friends and silliness.

 

[mountainm]

Update on the elder bucket idea.

a 10inch elder wand can carry approx 10ml of water. Requiring 100 wands to carry a litre or 50 with 2 journeys, 25 with 4 journeys etc.

Each wand takes about 5 mins to ream out with a suitable stiff stick. Finding a suitable stick may take up to 30 mins.

Extrapolating out.

30 + 5*25 = 155 mins
About 2 and a half hours plus the time for four journeys.

Not really a practical solution. This doesn't include time for bundling up the sticks or chopping and finding the elder.

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[S.C.M.]

I can think of one way to get the water, but I have no streams near me (that I know of), so can I cheat and use a tap? and I'll have to do it next weekend

 

[Harvestman]

Not too many solutions here making use of the axe. I'm tempted to try to hack out a quick and dirty bowl using a rotten or part-rotten log.

Will have to give it a try and see how easy it is to find a suitable log, since it seems to me that a lot of the 'foraging' solutions depend on luck, i.e. you come across the right thing and recognise what to do with it. I'm in a slightly different situation where i want to try a specific solution, so I can pick a location to try it that gives me chances for success.

Anyway, it will be interesting to give it a go.

 

[The Survivor]

Sorry, a bit off subject...What type of axe is that?

 

[Llwyd]

The worst one I own. A Cold Steel trail hawk.

 

[Trencakey]

There are some seriously **** poor attitudes being shown here.

 

[The Survivor]

A Cold Steel trail hawk.

Cheers.....

 

[Greg]

So Llwyd, for clarification before i attempt this trial...what is the container NOT aloud to be made from?

 

[Llwyd]

Plutonium 238 for sure...

Other things you should be reasonably sure not to find in say 48AD or so. The challenge was to make something from natural materials found out in the bush.

 

[Greg]

so strictly speaking..clothing or cloth that has already been made shouldn't be used...because although it is origiinally made from natural materials it is no longer natural because Mother Earth didn't produce it ;-)
I think that solves the wet shirt or leather cap argument..
What you want is for us to forage and find and make a water carrying receptical...
Sounds like a fair enough challenge to me