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    Is a psk really needed in the UK?

    PSKs predate even Lofty. RAF personnel adopted tobacco tins, Now de riguer Altoids to carry basic EE items in a flying jacket. Obviously, a bug out bag didn’t facilitate climbing over the main wing spar of a Lancaster to join the caterpillar club. There were some additional items sewn into the...
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    Knife Batoning Hack

    Celebrity appearance on NAKED AND EMBARRASSED with guest moderator Sir David Attenborough In blue shirt and khakis whispering quietly
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    Knife Batoning Hack

    I find it insulting to all the longtime YouTube community- Canterbury included. They spend years building up a library and subscribers. Then some recipient of the lucky Genes club shows up like a community college freshman Failing English lit while dancing at the local nudie club making more...
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    Aluminium Potjie

    Bushcraft, should be about slowing down from 2023 and studied deliberation . I’m tired of melodramatic’ caught in a storm with minimal kit’ you boob episodes. It’s called a WEATHER REPORT. When my camp is made and fire down lto coals , THEN I enter cooking with the focus of a master swordsman. I...
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    Knife Batoning Hack

    This is an old option. Dave is running out of fresh material. But then, a lot of the channels seem spent. YouTube land is still enamored with Constructing Celtic hillforts AKA My SECRET bug out camp posted on social media. There hasn’t been any new ‘ how did I get along without ‘ the latest...
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    I, Robot , I Soldier.

    Mother Nature, Gaia ; choose name given by a sentient species that has the hubris to think itself superior and destined to do some great thing, eventually, when we get around to it. Climate change brought on by us is Already screaming a futile attempt to get our attention. Our clever little toys...
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    Cabin Design

    In the USA ‘tiny houses’ have become an alternative to cash strapped people. It has spawned a new industry in prefab units, plans etc. There is even a group manufacturing cardboard shelters that fold out for the homeless.
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    Twasnt me who stole my Landladies jeans...

    Is Chumbawamba reuniting?
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    Dinner

    Chef Ramsey banging table with hand shouting GET OUT of my kitchen, oh my god you are so, what the F**** and leave your Bushcrafter jacket
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    Indoor lamp oil recommendation

    Remember, buildings during the period of oil lamps were draftier affairs. IE lots of fresh air vs well insulated and airtight buildings today.
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    Kit variance with activity?

    As a five year old, I always had my Daisy 1000 shot RED RYDER lever action BB gun watching ‘Oaters’ On the TV Now, I hold my Bushcraft knife watching Naked And Embarrassed Survivor etc. my kit varies by Econich. California holds so many, a short drive can demand desert kit or snowpack.
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    SAK hacks

    The pins were sourced from a forgotten army reserve along with tactical bicycles next to a chocolate factory. Varusteleka tried to buy them, but Victorinox pulled nationalist rank and stuck it to them.
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    Pathfinder way of securing a ridge line

    Cordage is another ‘ use X or look stupid item.’ Mors Kochanski promoted paracord. He was teaching a lot of RCAF aircrew with Kit called parachutes. Later Mors discovered Muletape. Bankline? My Cajun shipmate introduced it to me wasaaay back in 1975. They set marine traps with it. Said service...
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    Julian Sands found

    I posted earlier during our heavy California storms, about British actor Julian Sands disappearing. He decided to hike up Mount Baldy during heavy snowfall. Yes, he was experienced. Yes, he had appropriate clothing and some gear. No, Mother Nature is still neutral. She’s not out to kill us, but...
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    Feuerhand Lantern Instructions wanted

    Good intentions removed
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    Lanyard beads

    ‘Prayer Beads’ are a common tool in many religious traditions. When my memory of a knot suffers a senior moment, reach for an item left at home, extract a ferro rod gone feral; I thumb the beads on my knife scabbard and mumble the universal cosmic ( brought on by comic planning) supplications...
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    XL summer hats - definitely not Tilley!

    You may want to think outside the (hat) box for sources. I am unfamiliar with import duties, but do Commonwealth members get any breaks? Australia’s Akubras have larger sizes and, while felt offer superb protection. My source is www.davidmorgan.com in Seattle Washington for a good look see. They...
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    Random confessions

    Real horror? A medical office has a McDonalds on display . I forget details, but it’s sat there many years unspoiled because of all the Preservatives. A coroner lecturing said humans are so full of them the normal decomposition times had to be recalibrated. I’m off to the market. Fresh food only!
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    Gobsmacked

    Do the Saville Row Tailors have a patron Saint? I went down to Hollywood. There are several shops that bid on surplus studio wardrobe collections. A lot is knackered with makeup or special effects, or off the rack costumes useful to a steampunk or rennfaire type. Anyone enter a shop and an item...
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    Cast Iron Leather

    I guess this means no little ones Showing up next to a proud papa. I suppose you think these come from a foundry or something?