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I've been using them for over 40 years [ they are after all an Aussie development] and the trick is to use at least 4 of them, fill as quickly as possible and turn one into the other quite quickly but to start the pile off with rough twigs and small branches and use a short length of PVC sewer...

Why not just fix the cuffs of the shirt you already own?

I've read an internet description of a largish worm farm made from an IBC container and plastic crates. The top was cut from the IBC giving a container of a thousand litres. The plastic crates were placed on the base and covered with fine mesh and Geocloth and more crates stacked inside and on...

I was told by a local expert that worms can process food scraps faster and more easily if ground small, so I sometimes use the Magimix in the scraps bucket. Also worms love coffee grounds but only if not too acid some I sprinkle a little lime in the tub every now and then. Rats got into my worm...

Worms mate by accident so you don't want the worm population sparse. Don't split into 4 sets until the worm population at least doubles

Today I went looking for the short section of steel tophat I saved a few years ago, only to remember I put it out for recycling a month ago. Rule #1 Never throw anything structural away

I don't think that there is any one knife solution really. But a survival knife is the knife you have with you when you fall into a survival situation, otherwise it's just rough camping. My chopper is a 15" khukri or more usually a 2.1kilo Tasmanian pattern axe from Plum USA But recently I...

A fly doesn't need to be WPB so why not just use a basha?

Hmmm NVA here is North Vietnam from the war era, what does "NVA" stand for when talking about Communist East Germany please ??

If I was looking for an inconspicuous outline break-up pattern and if it was still available it would be a lumberjack check in grey and pale brown but my experience Sambar hunting here is that large checks work better than the oatmeal look of tweed, but plain drab colours work just as well when...

From a different perspective, my experience is that the mid-layer makes little difference if your top layer isn't windproof. When I was issued a woolly-pully and it was cold we tended to wear them under our jungle greens if we weren't issued the M-65 field-coat. So while all those alternatives...

My Australian experience is that you are best to keep your 12V systems separate from your house system. The car based system is a quad of 100Watt panels a controller and two 120AH Lithium Ion Phosphate batteries. The house system is 3 banks totaling 12.6KVA running through a 240V converter and...

Just quickly reading the DHL website it seems you CAN send blades if you have an existing account. Try a phone call to a local freight forwarding business and ask. But it does also look like a UK specific bit of nonsense as I looked at the American and Australian sites to see no mention of...

Looks like that is a UK only ban. I find it interesting that they say knives and blades are in the same class as nitroglycerine.

KKK in Nepal use DHL to ship their khukris Have you tried DHL or is it simply a UK limit thing??

For any serving or ex serving members a query. What is or was the fabric used as camouflage over these mittens? Here in Oz I've seen several different types over the decades, from US cotton M-56/M-65 cotton and the later NYCO shell to plain and textured nylon to Tyvek, the best of these were...

Well those British over mittens have arrived and I just tried them on over my XL Highcamp trigger finger gloves. They fit but they wouldn't want to be any smaller. These surplus ones are definitely smaller than the now unavailable OR Mt Baker shell. Also and it is important when the weather gets...

Strange, I've never had a problem taking big knives into and out of the USA or Australia. Mind you it's three years since I visited family over there.

The easy answer is to take a short holiday to the USA and take it with you in packed luggage and sell it while over there. Arrange the buyer in advance. The crazy prices the Yanks pay for these would pay for the fare

The market for these is really America