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    no job and no well

    I'm sorry to hear your bad news, I hope you get back on your feet soon.
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    todays wanderings

    I hope this is a stupid question but you are using the back of the knife aren't you? Sorry if that is insulting. What make of steel is it, I have the Swedish FireSteel never had a problem.
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    Screech........

    ROTFL :) :)
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    advise about jungle boots needed

    Mine didn't. http://www.surplusandoutdoors.com/shop/outdoor-footwear/hi-tec-magnum-footwear/new-hi-tec-magnum-genuine-combat-547917.html
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    O2GO drink sachets

    I used to get those biscuits with AB on the green foil pack, we use to refer to them as biscuits airborne :) the other was biscuits fruit, which were garibaldi. I never saw them marked with -S
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    advise about jungle boots needed

    Hitec Magnums, the canvas ones
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    wanted Billhook (Type thingy)

    Pignut where are you in the UK?
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    tesing thread

    :) aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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    how do you harvest birch bark?

    Tor Helge, make a good point here, I don't think taking down a tree in the wilds of Finland in any way would be harmful to the enviroment, I often fell perfectly healthy trees to thin out woodlands and promote growth in the trees we leave standing. Of coures there is the issue of ownership to be...
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    small puffballs ?

    I'd would have had those critters in a frying pan by now :) bon appetite. I read once that the Amanita Phalloides in it's very early stag can look like a common puff ball, before the ring has seperated from the cap,however it's easy to tell them apart as when you cut into them, the puff ball...
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    how do you harvest birch bark?

    I work for an enviromental conservation charity, in that role I have been involved in traditional rural skills such as hedge laying where a hawthorn is almost but not quite completly severed to lay the hedge, a small strip of bark will as you suggest insuer the survival of a tree, but that said...
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    Bears knife.

    I would say nothing Buy lots of wine :) also I would argue that you could say a lot more than 250 just buy a frost and save 340 :)
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    Midlands Winter '08 Meet.

    I'm up for this it will be good to meet some of you guys :) Attending the meet: Addo Andy2112 + Snarf tents/tarp Bodge + kids + hammock and orange tent thing decorum - Somewhere under the 'Eden Project' Firecrest - rubbish tent. probably not phil. Humpback (Alan Gough) - Hammock...
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    I admit I know next to nothing about canoes

    The plans are here, I'm about halfway through making mine http://www.bushcraftuk.com/downloads/pdf/14%20foot%20canoe%20plans.pdf
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    I admit I know next to nothing about canoes

    I'm in the process of making a canoe, from the plans I downloaded from here, the 14' plywood one, not the folder. I wasn't going to name it but a couple of people said I should, so I'm toying with "das boot" because it may end up being a submarine or "The Black Pearl" because that will...
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    how do you harvest birch bark?

    You need to find a dead standing tree, the bark will come away from that easily, remember dont take to much as you should leave some habitat for our creepy friends. Please don't harvest bark from live trees regards