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Rebel light hearted mickey taking is all very well but I think some things are best left round the camp fire This board is highly active and repeatedly turns up in google searches, Google searches available globally, Google searches made prior to purchasing an expedition, writing a school...

Fair play John, sounds like you have quite a few interesting jobs in your time, mine would be of very little interest to anyone here or indeed anywhere so I won't bother describing it :) Red, I know that John is more qualified to review fabrics and build qualities of clothing in relation to...

strange definition of ripping off you have John

I agree with tadpole. Who cares how much Ray's shirts cost. Have a look around, lots of shirts cost around the £100 pound mark in high street shops, lots of shirts cost more. Some people like to spend lots on clothes, some people spend little. No need to get offensive and make make personal...

techno camper - well yeah I guess so. My formative years have been spent living in an urban environment and I work in an office - I take a high tech stainless knife, gortex bivi bag, nylon hammock, titanium mug and spoon, merino and synthetic base layers, synthetic sleeping bag...

So if I stumble across an infected rabbit should it be put out of its misery or are they best left to die on their own - are they in huge amounts of pain? Its not something I would take lightly so I would only want to do it if it is realy worth it for the rabbit.

I presume all the people criticising people who th-front or with spelling difficulties also feel the need to bite at people who speak with a Newcastle accent or a Welsh accent or indeed speak with a lisp or stammer. While you are busy having a go at people who do not speak "perfect" English...

Hi Josey, the subject of a scandi grind on a falkniven f1 has recently been discussed in much detail, check out this link I recently bought a F1 and was very disappointed with the way it carved wood, but I was prepared for this after reading all the discussions around the f1. I did have a...

I boiled the leaves in the kettle for a while, was this where I went wrong? I did collect the leaves by torch light so I cant be 100% sure I got the right plant, :eek:, it was prickly though. Nice pictures Toddy, good resource for tree id, I find the pictures in my book hard to work from...

Thanks Andy I will try the other options you mentioned. Although I did try blackberry tea a while ago and I found it made a cloudy liquid with quite a drying nature so I didn't drink it, does that sound familiar to you I am wondering if I missed a trick or had the wrong type of blackberry, come...

I made some pine needle tea the other day and enjoyed and would like to make it whenever I am out and about and see a pine tree. So what I am wondering is any tree with needles safe to make tea out of or are there some to avoid. My evergreen tree identification skills are non existent, they...

Looks a bit nasty looking, like some kind of klingon fantasy fighting knife. People have a hard enough time accepting sharp tools being used outside of the home or workplace as it is, I think carrying something like that is just going to get you into a lot of trouble at some point, or at the...

Thanks for all the advice guys. Thanks for the heads up on Dick Fine Tools Oetzi, the ones on there look better quality and if I get one it will be from there. Sargey, that looks like a good alternative to a bill hook, specially as sharpening the curve of the hook requires different...

jojo asked about this a while ago in the middle of another thread but got no bites so I thought I would try again :) Has anyone tried one of these Japanese hand axes? hand axe on axminster I am wondering if it would perform in a similar fashion to a Roselli short axe. Not sure if...

Well said Red. I feel the onset of a serious axe addiction :) I cant stop filing an d polishing my rubbish hardware store hand axe thanks to old jimbos inspirational writings on the subject, I have a gb sfa on order from outdoorcode and now I want to buy this mini wetterlings from toolshop.de...