Recent content by Rob_Beek

my mate has the MSR dragonfly, sounds like a jumbo jet taking off.

My misses will never come out on a 'bushcraft' camp with me. However she likes camping in a tent so long as she can stand up in it, and that there is a toilet block near by. 'Not my cuppa tea' she says I think bushcraft is a set of skills you learn, then take with you to a camp, any camp.

it burns white gas, kerosene, and unleaded auto fuel. But i think you knew that already and just wanted to show off your new stove, which i like.

hi and welcome, i need to get myself a canoe.

I've just found my 3/4 thermarest prolite 3 which was hiding in a plastic bag in the garage, so i'll see how it goes when i start using it again. The only times i've used it before i've been very drunk at the bottom of Snowdon, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis after a long days hike so i would've...

Hi Chris, welcome, not far from me in south cheshire. Wouldn't mind a night or two out around your area. I know of a massive forest in the west mids somewhere.

At least 2 tins of beans has come along with me everytime, sometimes soup and tuna i love tinned stuff. It's cheap! I made a sausage and bean stew the other week.

Bum, belly, beak, bang!

good stuff, gonna do one myself soon. And welcome.

Thanks, mine warmed up a tin of soup in 7 or 8 mins, probably boil water in 10 mins so it will do for me, i can also put a burner at the bottom and lower the cooking pot. Got the idea off silverfox bushcraft (you tube).

I thought a hobo was another name for a tramp, so it would be a tramps stove. Therefore a hobo stove could be any, of many designs.

Check mine out, it was easy. You just need a flask, drill and a hacksaw and two tent pegs. http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53011

Check it out guys, took me a couple of hours with really bad tools.

Thanks guys

I'll keep it then