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i made a baldric/ shoulder holster for two knives, it involved a bit of tinkering but wasn't challenging at all...

shows that the english/ british mastered firemaking 350000 years before the french :P

once upon a time i thought head torches were silly (that was before LED's became common and they were bulky monsters): in 2006 i got a "petzl" which i had for 12years (and which convinced me that trying read at night with a wind-up torch isn't a good idea)

in 2010 i worked for a few months on a farm in the Top End (of the NT), which had permission to shoot them (agile wallabies to be exactly) sue to their incredible high number -- ssoo i found myself in the position of being temporarily a semi-professional hunter and decimating their numbers with...

some time ago i posted a thread regarding the same issue after Greg Ovens released a YouTube video on the subject -- i once had a pair of "meindl" boots featuring this flaw and tucking my laces in didn't work (as they always came out again), i got caught on the other boot's hooks more than once...

there's places with a golden arch over the entrance where a red-haired clown serves strange stuff... personally i prefer fer-de-lance soup!

stop wearing socks?! (sorry, couldn't resist.... but i've the same issue, so often that's my solution)

i bought his book ("giant steps") about his walk along the americas and across the bering street in 2007 in Aotearoa, it has accompanied since then on my wanderings...

i can fully agree with this: even the poorest guy who can't afford anything else has at least one machete, axes/ hatchets (and saws) do exist but they're (usually) of shoddy quality (and design); in southeast Asia the locals often carry a small utility knife along with their parangs but over...

seeing that i left europe over 20years ago and have been in a few different environments since then (currently costa rican rainforest) i'm always interested in posts covering other parts of the earth disc...

i used a slingshot to launch a sinker with attached line; make sure you wear eye protection (in case of ricochet) and there's nothing behind you don't want to hit!

looks like a well-made pouch! did you use your own design? (=i'm tinkering with the idea of making a small belt pouch myself at some point; although in fabric due to the humid climate i'm in...) as i can't make out all details on my small phone screen: what are the exact contents?!

o.k., thanks :-) no advantage over my silkys then!

how do you resharpen them how do you resharpen a laplander?! (just curious... never owned one, but using some bahco carpenter's saws someone brought to central america -- they're getting a bit dull, so touching them up would be nice (the files used in the olden days to sharpen saws don't exist...

well... i chucked my mini mag away due to the fact that i had twice to replace the socket due to the same failure... i DO however agree that nowadays LED torches are (often) overbright "fuel guzzlers" with too many settings! my personal fad are ferro rods: bought one (from a swedish company...

i sadly know only a few wild edibles of the carribean, but currently beach grapes and jobos (=a small orangy- yellow fruit with a large stone, somewhat sour but the monkeys love them) are producing

thanks for enlightening me :-) google tells me it might be originating in Scotland, which might explain why i never heard of it before (= never hunted deer myself, only smaller animals (including a short time as pest shooter chasing wallabies on a farm in the Northern Territory); but the deer...

it's called phormium tenax in latin and while i suck at cordage making and sadly never learned weaving baskets (from it) during my 3trips to Aotearoa i often used strips of it to tie things together as it's incredibly strong (it was once grown commercially before synthetic ropes became...

w what's the second blade (from left) for?! looks like a somewhat unusual shape...

over here in central america we get a REALLY tiny variety pestering humans (and me), fortunately they're only annoying but don't spread diseases; on cane toads (bufo marinus) you get a big fat variety and not too long ago i removed one from the back shell of a small turtle...