Recent content by OldJimbo

Awesome! Great to see you back!

I think you've got this pretty well sorted. Anyway here's my trout and bird - a Gerber tool steel with cast aluminium handle: Obviously it got a bit of use over the years... The one that I thought was a super design, and handy to carry was the Cold Steel with the loop, but a proper handle is...

I've been thinking about getting one of those! While lots of fungi glow in the dark, it has to be really dark to see it. Here if it's dark then I like to be by a nice big fire or walking home with a big flashlight so I'm not going to notice.

That's an incredible piece of work!

Surprisingly while I require a knife to be very sharp here in order to whittle fine fuzzies in this wet place, I find that if a knife such as a simple Mora is honed properly to begin with, that you get a lot of cutting done before a few minutes to strop the edge that night. And that cutting...

I heard back and now I will test. Just out of curiosity how would you test such an axe?

$hit always happens. And when it happens you must always be prepared to go in and clean up your stuff. If with explosives great. If not then you go in and do it the hard way. I always figure on having to do things the hard way, because it's not the exception.

I started trail clearing after seeing how people were trying to deal with leaning trees with a chainsaw. The problem here is that narrow strips of trees are left after clear-cutting either following a coastline or valley. And people trails go through those strips as do animal trails. Along...

just -1C here now and slight snow. And that's an incredible improvement on when it was the same at the START of September in Alberta. I'm one of those evil smokers. So anyway I went to Alberta in the hot August summer and then got trapped there without my winter gear. Luckily well under...

Thanks for a wonderful review! Perhaps we should investigate why such a device is so important to many people? I think I can give valid examples.

I watched a show from a Canadian documentary series, "The Nature of Things", a few days ago. The specific episode was called "It Takes Guts" and was about the trillions of bugs living inside us. Those little critturs have far more effect on us than most would believe since they send...

I don't have much to add to Red's article on "The Science of Water". Well maybe some observations.. The purest water in the world discovered so far seems to come from springs near Elmvale Ontario: www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/jun11/purest_drinking_water.asp I'd drink it right from the...

What you have to remember is that a canvas bag on a steel frame weighs a little over 4lb empty. I was warned about that when I bought mine, but to me that's great, because I wanted a smaller DURABLE frame pack to use both for hauling stuff in the bag, and just as importantly carrying in firewood...

Years ago I wrote a review about a Svea which was given to me: http://www.oldjimbo.com/survival/svea.html Probably the most telling part of the review: "I guess that a little update is called for, even before we get started. I keep the stove in the back of my truck - inside the coffee can pot...

I'd been wondering what mine is, but I guess that's it. Mine is stamped 1983 and has a canvas bag in excellent condition.