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That is where art comes into it... ;)

In the Army clingfilm and ziplock bags were enough...

Not a worry for me, if I have something, don't need it and passing it on won't do any harm, I've no problem with helping someone else out. It's a bit cliched, but... what goes around comes around. On that tack... if you - or others! - find yourself in great need of bracken, Himalayan balsam...

There is an interesting youtube channel called 'Townsends' that centres on 18th Century food and covers British and North American stuff, it often involves food for keeping and also for journeys. If any have a particular interest in the naval side of things. 'Feeding Nelson's Navy' by Janet...

That made me laugh... I have blackthorns by the thousands; I leave it to itself whenever I can, and only cut / lay / clear it when I have to. So I don't want anything for it. But as and when and assuming you do get it, if you really want to do something for it, put the postage cost in any...

@Tengu I have to clear a fair length of an overgrown track going down to the river some time this year, if I find a suitable one you're welcome to it - but I'll almost certainly be lifting it outside of the cold season*. (reason being that to take vehicles down there without ploughing, I have to...

Nowhere near the population density over here, but the same sentiments - and I know that reads just as many may expect from a 'f*****g farmer', but... we have had people camping with and without permission and have regretted allowing almost all of it. However, we have never done so on a...

Yep, they aren't cheap, it's a quick learning curve...

Hmm... I have had lots of blades eventually snap, but they last quite a long while*. If they are 'catching', it could be because too much downward pressure is being applied. The vast majority of what I cut is hazel, hawthorn, blackthorn and, probably most of all now, ash - in varying states of...

That pic of the power points reminds me of a tree in Zim, I think it was in Wankie, which had grown over / around a stand pipe and part of the tap on top; it looked for all the world just like a brass tap appearing out of a tree - and it still worked! I guess it had been put in some time after...

I have several of the dubiously named 'Silky Big Boy'... :rolleyes: and have three different types of blade for use with seasoned wood / timber and greenwood about the place. If you are going to be using yours in the field, the '8' is unquestionably the best choice. But I can't advise on blade...

It's a hard life...

You'll need a load of sinew, some ironstone (of whatever variety), cordage of various sorts and sizes & as much leather / skins as you can get. Take a camera too, so we can follow... ;)

This is my experience; Mrs GNJC has an entirely uncanny knack of discovering things that I'd rather she didn't... usually things that she regards - entirely wrongly - as a 'waste of money', which I think is pretty rich coming from someone who spends cash on such stuff as 'body butter'... :rolleyes:

Not strictly bushcrafty, but something I use to make stuff for the field... I finally got around to making a few swaging, fullering and anvil tools that - having made them and found how much easier they make things - lead me to yet again wonder why I was so daft as to have not done it years...

More importantly, and amusingly, does she follow BCUK... and will she get you? :nailbiting:

Thanks for that.

No, generally turnspit dogs - and the most famous contemporary illustration, by Thos Rowlandson, is of one from near to here in Newcastle Emlyn - were for turning spits during the down-hearth period of cooking, rather than at the time of raised bar-grates when bottle-jacks came to be used. They...

Yep, I have a few of those and some by Salter too, very good kit. I forged myself a copy of a much earlier - pre-clockwork - version called a dangle spit, as featured in Seymour Lindsay's 'Iron and Brass Implements' book It is more robust than a the brass ones, but needs twisting every 15 mins...

I'm very glad you think so.