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    Cheap DIY Tree Huggers

    Ask your local plumbers merchants to save you the single use lifting straps used to deliver bundles of pipe. Not lightweight....but free!
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    Stitching on DD tree huggers

    I don't suppose the OP is involved in scouting in the south? If not, I was chatting with someone telling the very same story 2 weekends ago.
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    Bought myself a Hoochie

    ha - recognise this pic from SOTP
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    Big Boots

    just as a update, I had a sneaky try on of the Salomon boots. nice. very nice. stiffer that I expected them to be around the ankles, expecially given the weight. and not as boingy as id expected. that said I have been wearing a pair of cheapo karrimor trail shoes with ridiculously soft...
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    Big Boots

    Quite tempted by the salomons...although imagined a taller more military style....but getting drawn!
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    Big Boots

    thanks all for taking the time...and keep em coming what are the Lowa desert like in the wilds of britain - do they struggle? if not are they light and sguidy enough to justify being a non-wproof comfort pair? - eg a pair of patrols for winter and Graded deserts for summer? (assume...
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    Big Boots

    I said booTs dammit. Had a few feet issues over the spring. a badly fitting pair of retro adidas football trainers gave me what i self diagnosed as a corn (eventually) and treated with a combination of some jollop from the chemist and a level of poking about with a penknife. However a...
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    Hootchie Coochie man

    Hmmm...same picture as the one that "manufactured them for the ADF" but this lists as 2000 hh. Hmmmm. I wonder about their trade desciptins act! This was closer for the visiting rellies, and is winging its way home...
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    Hootchie Coochie man

    odd. last reply didnt appear! this is what im looking at (we make em for the ADF...) http://www.kitbag.com.au/products/Auscam-Hoochie.html the link above, when emailed with the same question, replied with "only governments can aford mil spec". im finding the whole thing quite amuzing
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    Hootchie Coochie man

    heres the offending article. TBH the tarp requirement fell off my list of immediate "need" to buy kit, but the opportunity to have something a bit different sort of popped up (plus i have a bit of a crush on auscam). from what i can work out, there are 2 type of oz hootch - lightweight, and...
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    Hootchie Coochie man

    anyone know anything about the australian hootchie/tarp, or their surplus supply chain generally. I might have the oppurtunity to have one brought back from Oz, but am finding the finding of one a bit tricky. in terms of what its for, ive been umming and arring over a DD-tarp for a while but...
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    Crusader cup lids FS.

    Id be interested to know if these are still available. Tempted to try myself. And when I've made a mess of it....