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I just watched episode 5..

I call my Toyota FJ Cruiser "the girly truck" because my grand-daughters like driving it so much, and because every other one I've seen around has a female driver.. And it has a fuel gauge which gives low fuel warnings with 100km to go.. Nevertheless it would give any other 4x4 I've driven...

A super review, thanks! While going back to petrol might seem a step back to many, something basic which works is what I prefer. Somewhere around I have a box of various jet flame lighters, from cheap to quite expensive - which all failed under tough conditions after working perfectly in...

Typically though, with some searching and extra expense a person can get what they want. The scary parts are that: 1. It can be tough to find good tools locally. 2. The move to cut costs can go into fields which you might not want to think about...

Darn, yet another gone under! I had a copy of the web page he made after a falling out with Jerry Busse and have had many chuckles over the years. Thanks, Sandbender. Hopefully everyone sees that it's a post about not losing the use of a knife which is in constant use, and not just a rekindling...

Somewhere on the (1990's) archives at Bladeforums is a post by Ron Hood who was (and still is) running a survival school. That was at the start of the big heavy duty knife craze. In the post he explains that while his school could get liability insurance for people using large knives, they...

Total ban on all fires right now here in the rain forest, otherwise I would be!

One of the strangest stories ever with axes is with the Canadian "Warren Axe Co" which produced axes under their own name and for Sager Chemical until they closed in 1951. They forged axes which are basically too hard to be filed, yet tough (not brittle). Supposedly they had a special...

Other than the vinegar which will last and some people like, the scapes are a very seasonal treat and gone in a flash, probably due to our condensed growing season here. I'd never heard or thought of preserving them..

Wow that really is a blast from the past! - Notice the thickness of the blade - Notice that the blade is black. That means that the grind is left deliberately rough to hold the coating. It also means that there will be a steep secondary bevel to form the edge - the shiny bit. - Notice the knot...

I'll second that! I always miss them now that my friends who used to grow garlic have moved away. They make incredible flavoured vinegar, and super pesto.

I'd pointed out earlier to look carefully at the logged off areas close by - and where there are logged off areas there are decent logging roads. The advantage of having the guys on tree farm licenses is that then they can legally cut conifers. All said and done, though, with conditions...

I've used a 6 3/4" stub tanged Bowie for over a decade and it's still here. Nevertheless you could break one easily. I manage with mine because of the convex work I've done on both the flats and edge bevels. That mitigates the 90 degree angle to the tang. I like it because it's wide bladed...

I'm sure that decent fresh water is available within a short space. The thing to remember though is that they are there in October when the rivers and even tiny creeks have been flooded with salmon - and ALL Pacific salmon die after spawning. Add to that giardia are now present everywhere...

Without spoilers, I really enjoyed this one!

I think that only the Ray Mears' shows can hold enough of an audience to proceed without huge drama. The "Life Below Zero" series is good - but that's because no drama has to be built in, in N Alaska.

I should feel that way since this is one of those "competition shows". What turned me around when I started watching (after initially dismissing the show), was that I am interested in how people make out. I don't care who wins, but I am interested to see a condensed version of how people with...

Over the years I've known a lot of people who came out here for a good career working indoors and living in weatherproof warm houses - who quit because they couldn’t take the perpetually grey skies and constant rains of fall. It took an immense amount of work to keep them going until they could...

Let's do this bit by bit.. As the show should soon show, rain here can be a whole other experience. I was in Calgary with my sister last summer for my grand-daughter Lyssa's wedding and she had her first experience of real rain. It's scary when your rain-fall bounces a foot in the air after...

Yep I was there in the 70's and spent quite a while at Clo-oose, since we could get huge crabs at the Nitinat narrows for a couple of bucks and cohoe from fishing boats which anchored in the bay for about the same. Planked salmon and fresh crab, it was like heaven. Now there's apparently the...