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Tent pegs work too and we usually carried a couple extra each.

A lot of new Old Stock Old Hickory still available here in Oz, maybe I should get a bank loan; buy it all and then release in a few years as antiques on the Evil Auction Site

Well all the Australian "Tommy" stoves are steel, but they rust and wear out pretty quickly anyway, back in my day they were made of a thicker steel but that added excess weight to the pack. Actually we didn't always get issued them when we got our fuel rations doled out, we mainly dug a small...

One knife to rule them One knife to do it all. Although I suspect that most of them also carried a small folder in a pocket for cutting string and such, castrating calves, etc:> I actually have my Great grandfathers small pocket knife in my drawer, a true "pen" knife and it has been sharpened to...

Lots of Sabatier carbon steel knives got dumped on the market after the rules for kitchen knives changed in the EU and all commercial knifes were supposed to be stainless steel and dishwasher safe for hygiene reasons. As a professional cook I think that is actually a reasonable thing but SS...

My EDC; the old style German issue Swiss Army Knife isn't legal in the UK by 3mm and it's the smallest knife I own. So I'm watching this thread to see if something pops up that I can both afford and feel comfortable with

When my own were toddlers that sounds about right. Something from my climbing days way back when, we carried a great big frame pack of the American style for the base camp gear and carried our sleeping bags in a small separate pack lashed underneath. So the day pack was chosen to fit the frame...

This. In the past I scored a cashmere jumper in my size that lasted 3 full ski seasons as my cold day base layer and good quality wool and wool blend jumpers should be readily available. Are Marks&Sparks still around? I bought one of their Shetland/Orlon blend sweaters in 1980 and it lasted me...

Locally it's 3 soluble aspirin for a suspected heart attack and "YES" they did cause quite severe heartburn and luckily for me it wasn't a heart attack, it was however something else that needed quite extreme analgesics

Just finished sewing up the haversack modification. I'd post pix but I don't use a third party so can I upload directly from my own computer? Might sew up one of the water bottle carriers like the unit Herman has posted.

I do like and use my big blades all the time tho

I've got one, it's like an axe compared to many of my other and preferred blades and I ordered mine to be made sharp, preferable scalpel sharp and they ground it more like a sabre. The steel is reasonable so when I get access to a Linishing machine I'll regrind it to a better profile. The blade...

Just as an aside thought. I like khukris and have a couple at the moment. While mine are from KKHI and are reasonably good large blades just be aware that while most big khukris are excellent tools the Nepalese don't seem to place much value on small blades and I've not yet found any small...

Different times and places need different sizes and shapes of rucksack. But if you pick winter hill walking as the most extreme choice and buy a pack for that; then it will have plenty or room for most other times and places. My favourite day pack is 42 litres with options for extra pockets to...

Adding the utility pouches as side pockets; either by sewing or using Chicago screws and/or to the front of the pack in the same way. In my limited experience [ Artillery not Infantry and CMF] the large pack was too small and the small pack wasn't large enough. Even when I was a kid of 17 my...

I have accumulated quite a bit of old pattern 37 gear. I find the small pack just a tad too small and the large pack unwieldy and a bit too large to use as a haversack; although I know people do; I have one spare I'm thinking of modifying and I'm asking what size I should reduce it too. I'm also...

Agreed that if I make another better batch [ no Almond meal, no wholemeal ] for long term storage I'll bake like old fashioned hardtack, but for somehting eaten within a fortnite of baking I really think I am safe

Sure and rancid oils can cause bowel cancer as do over heated oils but I still eat shop cooked fish&chips. Some things perhaps are simply not worth stressing over.

While perhaps true in the long term, but irrelevant over a month or so, if cooking for the long term I'd use bacon fat or suet dripping or copious amounts of BHA and Ascorbic acid combined with vacuum packaging in foil and paper.

Called Tararua biscuits across the Tasman. I'm headed up the hills in a few days for a weeks ramble and I just baked up a batch of bush biscuits. There is some discussion locally on whether you have better food value just picking up rocks by the side of the track and if Dwarf battle bread might...