Recent content by Pattree

Do you know an electrician? You might get something from an 18mm galvanised connector (double female) and some threaded conduit. You’d need the thread cutter if you wanted double male. These connectors have held the tipi up for 16 years. Note: this is not an M18 thread. It is specific to...

That’s great! I would like a lid for my M40 kit which is very like your crusader lid but oval. Might you consider a commission? There is a guy making lids for the M44 but they don’t fit the SS M40 and I’m looking for one for the pan rather than the pot.

Nowt. The operative word is “need”.

From the OP. OF COURSE an axe can be useful in a homestead or a semi permanent camp. On the move would I select what I picked up. If allowed to forage then I’d take 35mm material max. In days gone by, if I wanted a camp fire on an overnight then I’d look for 200mm material max. In my...

Good question. I’m a car camper and have a little (650gm) hatchet in my fire drum. I can’t always forage wood (for example it is discouraged at Rough Close.) so I carry in cut logs. My Kelly Kettle uses 20mm kindling so I slice up a log with the hatchet then split it down and cut it up with...

Thank you @Toddy I took your point about the boot liner being a useful groundsheet. While fossicking in a resource box I found some heavy duty poly cotton The piece is big enough to wrap the tent without any modification. Just two old luggage straps and the jobs a goodun. Since last posting...

That brings back memories. I don’t believe that the idea was adopted much - if at all. Scouting books and magazines were full of ideas that probably hadn’t been built or tested. Scouting for Boys has an illustration of something like a Welsh dresser made of poles and sticks. How long out of...

Totally agree @Longstrider . Blade held still in left hand. Stone, puck, hone or steel etc moves over the blade. Tapered scythe/sickle stone, steel or diamond hone slides in straight diagonals over the tool edge so that the blade “microteeth” point back towards the hilt. I use a circular...

This is very timely @Dave Budd , thank you. Last year I was given a set of diamond sheets of various grades. I’ve only used two but I will bear your advice in mind with the unused sheets when I eventually use them. My son printed a wonderful box for them. It has two lids. The top lid closes...

Yeah, a blue glow around the edge of the scythe as DEATH strops it on the wind and it cuts the molecules into ions. If you are working regularly with a tool you get to know the best angle without thinking, in my experience. If your pay is related to output you learn even quicker. However it’s...

I wonder how much tension your wrists are putting on the straps when on slopes. Could they be affecting blood supply or nerves to your hands. My early attempts with my poles caused pain in my thumbs and wrists but that was because my thumbs were taking a lot of weight rather than adjusted...

The Pacerpole looks very much like my walking stick. I tend to use it a little longer than recommended for my height and posture. Could you shut down a pair of telescopic poles to do the same thing? I think I’d want to take a look at a Pacerpole in the flesh and see how I can make something for...

Hi, Welcome Bob.

My hiking days long predate walking poles. In fact in the days when I could move thirty miles in a day (road walking) and happily manage twenty across country I thought of staffs and sticks as a nuisance. Then, much later, when I started our annual winter trip to the lakes or the peaks...

Check with Tony. The Mind Moot has been cancelled.