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Aye and it would appear various bushcraft suppliers have had a similar idea and there are various others scattered around the internet also exploring the rather sensible concept Chuckmuck - Leather Fire Steel Tinderbox Pouch - 85mm - Beaver Bushcraft & Leather As ever the voyage of modern...

Well I managed two weeks with a collapsed tooth crown that later required a foot filling using cloves to keep things ' bearable', so yeah cloves for tooth related stuff, mind peppermint can also work I have discovered - I spent some time relying on DIY dental. Am always using Comfrey for aches...

Strikes me a chuck box could also be the emergency car kit where in using as a chuck box, familiarity is gained plus note is kept of emergency kit contents .

House pongs a bit from making char cloth, yeah I know that one. But the flint striker, mine own comprises of an engineering file I just had to break up and painted hunter orange to save me losing it in the grass, to say yeah it strikes an ember or few every time with a bit of char resting on...

Having coming across this rather informative video describing UK animal sounds at night, I though others might might be entertained to hear, especially campers, potentially new campers The Strange Sounds You'll Hear While Camping

Yeah I noticed in the case of the frying pan the duossal is near three times the cost of the raw alloy pan with hard anno coming not far behind, where seeing as my little ' 27 frying pan is not in the best shape....I had had it 30 years and some things are not shape they started out as.

Bargantia as opposed to Brigantia - lol.

From what I remember the surface of aluminium is that it is kind of porous so will pick up colour as that is anodising works but usually after anodising the surface is somehow sealed, I forget how. As to hard anodising, I don't know the process involved in that or how it compares to just bog...

So who is involved in say Scouting to be in a position to teach the kids what perhaps they're not learning, for sure if folk don't get involved we can't expect the kids to learn what we think they need to learn

Instead of commerce existing to serve the consumer perhaps a transition has occurred for society to be conditioned to serve commerce where we may even come to find our governance

I think from what I have learned I should be more careful of plastics in storage given what can leach out of plastics when they age or are subjected to conditions the plastic is not particular designed to exist in. Seeing as I tend not to leave my trangia spirit burner ' fuelled up ' when it's...

Thank you everyone, several washes comprising bicarb of soda and hot water appears to have done most of the job. Most as in the washes didn't seem to remove a rather neatly shaped crescent of discolouration on the bottom of the kettle to have wondered, what caused that and why are the...

In such as walking to the station to be caught by a downpour, ever thought about wearing a poncho or carrying a brolly? I carry both a poncho and a brolly in my day bag for just such scenarios.

Imagine, we seize upon the latest wonder chemical to strip away the sebum that forms our natural waterproofing that not only waterproofs but keeps our skin elastic and slows aging and then we grumble over skin complaints caused by dry skin to slap on another wonder chemical in a bid to restore...

Any solutions for improving the taste of water boiled in Trangia 27 aluminium kettles? Yeah after hauling the thing out after a few years of storage I thought I'd better test it in the kitchen than find out in the field to be very glad I did. Not that the kettle was visibly dirty, it wasn't...

Yeah but we tend to perhaps overly use mild detergents to strip away that natural waterproofing

Problem with getting wet is wind and how wind can rob you of heat leading to hypothermia.

Back in the day even Survival Aids put a water repellant coating on it's Ventile garments to say don't wash the thing in the washing machine with washing detergent as it would break down that protective coating.

With experience of double ventile albeit in the old Survival Aids Arctic Ranger form (MK2), I can second that experience of fabric stiffening when soaked, to also say the inner layer can also allow the inward passage of moisture in areas subject to external pressure say where the backpack straps...

And I recently acquired one I have always been after and in a natty 1980's pink and blue Silva compass case; the Silva type 4/54 sighting compass the one with the raised capsule incorporating a compass card as opposed to needle.