Recent content by Moondog55

I've eaten Mars bars five years past their best before date and they've still been edible; mind you I was very hungry, but I didn't die or suffer any bad effects

Any cheap Chinese made poncho; all I've ever bought are for shorter than "standard" fit. Also not as wide

My solution was to buy and fit a roof box, I just bought the biggest roof box I could afford

I think all of this discussion is ignoring the really big elephant in the room, just like Australia your tiny island has a population in excess of it's real carrying capacity. Here in Oz we have a population of about 30 million in a country that can only truly support about half that. I think...

A good bushcrafter should be able to stealth camp anywhere. What I have noticed lately here in Oz is that none of the current crop of lightweight tents are in anything other than bright and/or neon fabrics. No field grey or olive drab at all. Lots of camouflage stuff in surplus military or boy...

About 100ml more, probably within the usual 10% manufacturing leeway. I've got Australian waterbottles that have different capacities due to differences in the thickness of the plastic, The important dimension is the outer size so it will fit into the cup they come with so differences in volumes...

The Alpinist was a great pack. Nice to see something rise from the dead too

https://www.mitchellsadventure.com/clothing/base-layer/thermal-underwear/australian-army-undershirt/ecsg078.aspx These are OK I have a couple in XL and they work but the wool against my skin sometimes itches so I wear them over my Patagucci UL

Why not get a Swiss poncho-cape and cut it short? While I don't use my own Swiss cape much it lives in the car in winter or in my winter deer hunting pack for sitting static and it would be easy enough to take a pair of scissors and remove as much as needed from the bottom

I find that cheap cake racks can be bent to shape quite easilly

Personally I like the Mors K take on survival kits. His is simply huge when compared to the tiny tinny thingie

If only ALDI sold mints in the big stainless steel bento box thingies. The Aldi bento box fits inside a large mess tin to get the best of both worlds

Yep He should have used diesel or napalm

One DIY suggestion is to source some good hessian, sew up a few 10% oversized bags and then boil them for an hour in an alkaline copper sulphate solution. I use cloudy ammonia as the alkaline element. Just last year I did this with some surplus WW2 "economy" web gear and it all turned a really...

I think that anybody having an emergency under more that 5 metres of water won't be helped by a strobe or flashing light. Under "Normal" circumstances I'll stick with red as it's the nominal "danger/help" signal we are all used to. The caveat being all of these signals are wattage dependent so...