Recent content by badawg

Hey guys, I went 4 hours last night and it's barely touched. This may very well turn out to be a good kit candle that takes no space. WAY better than the tealights!

Very nice work!

I will let you know in a few days. the big ones last forever, but this is new. there is about 3 1/2 tealights in there though.

We all can use a quick access candle for fire lighting or just warm light in the campsite Here is one example of using trash to make a nice one. I made this one tonight as a prototype. "Altoid smalls" boxes are tiny and cool, but I have had a hard time finding suitable uses for them. I eat a...

I keep a 3 month supply of food in sealed drums in the workshop, and most of the camping gear is there. I have a "get home" bag in each of the cars and the jeep which has 2 gallons of water(Desert living) and essentials for walking 20 miles should the roads be impassible. Since I do 130...

Carp are about 7/10ths intestine. Yukky muddy flavor to them. The Asians put them in clear ponds for a week or two before harvesting, as it clears the mud out...

Have had 10 or so over the years. Current pocket holds this one: http://tinyurl.com/yajfrqd last year i got my boy his first tinker!

And here I was picturing you skewering them and hanging them on the walls...

I am very happy with a keychain liquid fuel lighter I picked up last year. it seals up tight so it always has fluid in it. Have even carried it into courthouses and on aircraft as it's so innocuous. http://www.countycomm.com/sslight.htm

Wood fest has a "whole 'nother meaning" in the US. Usually involving frat boys... Thanks for the laugh on a cold and blustery Monday...

Isn't this a higher risk with all the gum trees? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow3A1UcvCC0 One of the biggest fires we have had in southern California in the lats 20 years started exactly this way.

My next yak will be one of these. Just waiting on the new workshop... http://yostwerks.com/

Check out this one, I made these with a scouting group years ago, but mine have vanished... http://www.imrisk.com/teacandle/teacandle.htm

Miss-spelling... I "bought" The oil lamp that fits inside the UCO Candle Lantern... http://www.campmor.com/oil-insert-uco-candle-lantern.shtml?source=CI&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=87535WC It is brighter than the candle and the little lid over the week does keep the oil inside the lamp and not...

Here is a pic of my rig on a trip into Canyon De Guadalupe, BC Mexico in March. It's a 1974 Jeep Wagoneer, 4x4 AMC 360CI v8 and I got it for $500.00 Note that we were camped about 30 miles from the epicenter of ll those Mexicali Quakes. Canyon De Guadalupe is a little slice of heven in a very...