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Bere we go, its about sixty years old and I don't know about the first years but it's been used a LOT in the last five. Day to day use, shuttering, on roofs, commercial property fit outs, pub fitouts, you name it. It's very dark, but much of thats from usage. The modern Estwings with leather...

I've had a few Estwing hammers with stacked leather washer grips over the years. The varnish they use on them at the factory is absolutely mingin, it's slippery wben new and soon ends up as a crackled mess. So I sand it off and replace it with Danish oil or sometimes a Danish oil/Boiled linseed...

Personally I quite like the look of the Petromax version. It's stainless steel, got a decent handle and most importantly it's got feet to raise it off the ground which stops or at least greatly lessens the circular patch of burned grass underneath it. I know you can faff on with the Kelly ones...

Driving through the lake district and you'll see a lot of trees have been planted recently on the fells, much of them are native species. That slows the water down a good bit so the land soaks the water up and is less likely to flood downstream. The grouse moors up at Knaresdale, Croglin and...

Yup, Boston did it with guncrime and made huge strides in not many hears. Thats where Glasgow police got the idea from. But yeah, it also involves community funding and actual targetted effort instead of some eejit just standing up in Parliament and banning something.

Serrated knives ban? So thats breadknives then eh? And insulation knives? I have a Hultafors insulation knife to cut ichy wool insulation.

Its worth noting that you can steam bend (or in this case steam straighten) wood. Bung it into a length of pipe with an inlet and outlet (might need a bigger diameter pipe to straighten something than you would to steam for bending something thats already straight) steam it til its hot and...

It also comes in railway orange Hi Viz. I have a very good railway orange goretex jacket thats easy as tough as my Tilak Odin Ventile jacket and I also have a cable jointers gore tex jacket thats about the toughest jacket I own. Hi Viz green and the pockets are at an odd height though. Saying...

I've got the wax pellets to make some up (after watching Reds excellent tutorial)) but so far I've been rushed off my feet this crimbo and not had xhance to mix and melt up a bar.

All tgis talk about coldwater swimming and freediving has reminded me of something that recently popped up on my Youtube feed. Its about the best bit of cinematography that Ive seen for a few years and I was utterly enthralled. Yeah, she's easy on the eyes as well, but thats not really the...

The Italian Method? I thought that was to flog it down the 60 mph zone in third in preparation for an upcoming emmissions test?

First time I walked past, apologized for disturbing them. Thing was that they just weren't setup to survive and everytime I saw them they were in a worse state. I'm in my 50s now and they just looked like kids to me. It's possible to convince yourself that beggers up town have a flat to go back...

Well, just over a week ago whilst walking my dog before going to work ( at about ten to six in the morning) I spotted a homeless couple with two dogs sleeping under a bridge. They didn't look like they'd last the month let alone the winter. I've dropped off an army poncho and two kip mats to...

Worth driving a van over to France in some cases as even the prices in Normandy were so much cheaper than in the UK that its just not funny. Me? I bought a 219 quid barrel stove from Machine Mart. Needs the same care and attention as the more expensive stoves but its not rocket science. Tiny...

There's a lot said about these fabrics thats just plain misleading. Gore Tex for instance. I have one very lightweight gore tex jacket and a couple with pretty heavyweight and strong, abraision resistant fabric. One of those was given to me by a cable jointer and is spark, fire resistant as...

Ahh, (misty eyed nostalgia mode ON) I remember back in 2015 when you could just buy stuff from anywhere in Europe and know it would be dead easy and what it would cost. Good job we stopped that though eh?

Wet the leather, use an Indian wooden block printers stamp clamped in a vice but use wooden soft jaws to avoid getting the knurled vice jaw pattern on the leather. Dead cheap and loads of patterns and sizes.

Pretty sure this isn't doctor recommended but I sometimes just fire a bit of climbing chalk on which dries it up and staunches bloodflow from most cuts. Or sawdust. Dunno why but most plasters are tiny, to the point where they're no use at all cos they only cover the kind of cuts that I just...

Some info about one of his other estates. Bit of a pattern forming here... With luck this'll work.

Chanel 4 coverage about this. Mostly referring to one fairly close to me, Knaresdale, near Alston. From what I hear its indirectly owned by Louis Bacon of Moore Capital fame who claims to be a conservationist. Satellite tracked bird of prey gets killed on Knaresdale estate (which is absolutely...