You Know You're A Bushcrafter When...

[durulz]

Just for fun, because none of us take ourselves or our activities too seriously...

You Know You're A Bushcrafter When...

You eat all your meals with the wonky spoon you bloody well made and are bloody well going to bloody use.

Over to you...

 

[forestwalker]

When you eat your morning porridge with a spoon you made yourself
When all your felt hats hang on natural-grown wooden hooks
When your children get high quality sleeping bags for their birthdays
When you have more sleeping bags than tweed jackets
When it is possible to shave with your kitchen knives
When you light your woodstove without newspaper, prefering fuzz sticks and small pieces of birchbark.
When a power cut is no big deal; you have more headlamps than familly members (and you know you are a medieval reneactor when you have hundreds of candles, tens of candlesticks, and several firesteels but no bic lighers).

 

[Miyagi]

We're Bushcrafters?

Do any of us actually get out and "bushcraft"?

Or, do we spend most of our spare time on here?

Right I'm off for a bimble....

 

[rik_uk3]

We're Bushcrafters?

Do any of us actually get out and "bushcraft"?

Or, do we spend most of our spare time on here?

Right I'm off for a bimble....

Yep, I'm off to Sennybridge in the morning for three days camping in the woods

 

[wattsy]

Yep, I'm off to Sennybridge in the morning for three days camping in the woods

i used to live near sennybridge in Llanwrtyd nice area. used to get kept awake most nights by the army bashing away on the range lol

 

[Ogri the trog]

.... When you can't walk, drive etc past a skip without glancing in to see what might be useful.....
.... When you shake your head in disbelief when you see workmen chipping perfectly good carving wood / fuel, cordage material from having trimmed the trees along a roadside....
.... When you call in to work to say your snowed in, but spend the entire day outdoors building iglu's, snowholes, fires and so on...
.... When your clothes are mostly natural fibres with a permanent but feint smell of woodsmoke...


Bound to be loads more

Ogri the trog

 

[Bushcraftsman]

I like the woodsmoke one Ogri! My mum first caught on to me fire lighting years ago because of it and told me ( constantly ) to stop, I tried...I really did! but couldn't she now accepts it's just something I'm going to do regardless of what she says, but I think she was just worried I was going to set the whole woods on fire!

 

[wanderingblade]

........when you take great delight in being the only one who could get the barbeque going properly.

 

[John Fenna]

When your chin is hairy and your left arm is shaved...

 

[Toddy]

When your chin is hairy and your left arm is shaved...

Oi!!!
Not one hair on my chin and Mother nature didn't provide enough to show if I try to shave an arm

You know you're a bushcrafter when.......

your handbag has a laplander in it
your pocket has a length of cordage (right now it's willowbark)
your dinner usually has something that was growing ten minutes ago
your friends don't comment on the eau de kipper anymore
your other half considers a request for another knife as a good idea to remember for a Christmas present
"That looks useful " is your usual reply to spotting something interesting.
O.D. is never out of fashion

cheers,
Toddy

 

[salan]

When your chin is hairy and your left arm is shaved...

LOL whats so sad is that its TRUE!!!!
Alan

 

[mr dazzler]

.... When you shake your head in disbelief when you see workmen chipping perfectly good carving wood / fuel, cordage material from having trimmed the trees along a roadside....

When you light your woodstove without newspaper, prefering fuzz sticks and small pieces of birchbark.

:You_Rock_ You know me too well....

 

[Cael Nu Mara]

You have fungi in your porch... just till you find out what it is
You fix things that arent broke, but could just do with...
A pie iron is not an alien object


Sam

 

[stevesteve]

When a power cut is no big deal; you have more headlamps than familly members

'Ti true.

Also when SWMBO had to go driving to work on a snow-day I was able to lay my hands on water bottles, stove, bowl, tin cup, lighter, noodles, torch, survival blanket from my ready-to-bimble kit almost at arm's length!

I too drive past skips thinking that's a nice piece of wood/metal/container etc. And what's more I'm not too embarassed about knocking on a door and saying "Excuse me but I just happened to notice in your skip..."

How about you know when your a bushcrafter when:

- You just feel most at ease sitting and moving quietly through the woods.
or
- You walk past a hedge thinking "Could eat that, could eat that, nettles for cordage, brambles for autumn, hazel for staves, etc".

Cheers,
Steve

 

[ickyan]

ready-to-bimble kit

good idea!!

 

[Walks with dogs]

When a walk with the dogs leads to you eating parts of the walk.

 

[tjwuk]

When all your clothes are green
When you can't go out without taking a brew kit
When you can start a fire just by staring at it. Oops sorry, day dreaming again

 

[Shewie]

You know you're a bushcrafter when you can't resist checking out the stainless steel kitchen accessories when you go to a home store with the mrs.

 

[PREPER]

When you have just spent most of the weekend dressed in green with a knife, axe or laplander in your hand, had bannock for lunch and smell of woodsmoke.

PREPER....

 

[Rob_Beek]

When you don't mind sleeping in a 15 year old ex army sleeping bag that has been stored in the the back of a scout hut and that some stinkin soiled soldier has been farting in.


No offence intended.