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Just wanted to give a shout out to "dead hedging". It's much more low tech/skilled but still a really valid technique to encourage biodiversity of fungi, insects birds and mammals in any site or garden. One added benifit is that you get to use cleared brush or tree prunings that would...

It seems then youy understand all the available kit choices, your personal skillset, and you've nailed down quite precise expectations from your one night away too. That's great. Sounds like your good to go.

Are those mutually exclusive posistions then?

Loose the jetboil / woodstove. Add a firesteel, (just a bit of steel when you get confident to spark from that.) Knife? Add a fixed blade knife. Always! Split and cut a bow drill set - bootlace for bow-cord. You now have at least three ways to start a fire. A fire will warm your whole...

Nige expressed intrest but incommunicado. Great reduction for someone to just £43 - bank transfer please.

For one beautiful moment I thought this was a classifieds post.

Wow you nailed it! Really nice detail at the end of the spoon handle. Future design classic.

Great profiles you've donedon these two. They look very handy.

Sure, happy to Sir. These are done with a 1,1/4 inch bit. Probably about the biggest easily findable size for a brace. The traditional option is to pre-make legs and season them so they get clamped in when the seat drys. For spontaneous conctructions I drill nice and deep (about 3...

Good-o. Thanks Ian. Yep, Ok -will do

Cheers everybody. I'd like to gauge desire for a three-legged stool making class at the Moot. Do people think that would go down well? We'll go through tool and timber selection, greenwood construction and fundamental carving techniques. Hopefully enough fun to encourage our next...

New life for a felled sycamore at the local community centre. -An exclusively hand-powered challenge!

Utter bargain. I can tell you that TLIM is an exemplary bladesmith with a high standard of metallurgy theory and application. From material selection right through to heat treatment. The guy is fastidious. His work would still be stone cold bargain at three times the price. Add to that the...

If it's that dry rain, you'll be absolutely fine.

Shake out often. Very often. Hang it on a line often. Allow air to get to the skin side too (don't keep it on the floor inside) Roll it up hairy side in to carry. Simples Definately store it unbagged, somewhere it can breathe.

A midnight reduction. Now £55 to your UK door

Sold pending funds to shaneh. Good catch Sir!

Good. All important questions Sir. Used occasionally and carefully on native green wood. As you hopefully spotted from the pictures, properly looked after. Used, as designed, to process smallish limbwood for fire as well as to prepare blanks for spoons and bowls. -Also capable of making...

Gränsfors Bruks Small Forest Axe. Forged by expert axe-smith Kjell-Åke Sjölund This is Gränsfors most popular model axe for good reason. Stippling has been added to haft for precise grip in all weather conditions Great condition. Extremely packable. Perfect for accurate cutting...

Some pictures for you.