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over the years there have been many occasions where i had to treat minor problems with medicinal herbs,recently i got a book on this subject about the medicinal plants of Costa Rica. which made me (not the first time) realize that there's a lot of common herbs and spices with dual use... while i...

i was hauling about 25kg of supplies back from town and when i came down from the path i saw a river otter on the palm log in the middle of our moat (=the river); it was sitting there for about 20seconds before slowly getting in the water. a few seconds later i saw one of our dogs and her...

make sure you don't just drink -- it's important to also eat at least a snack! otherwise it's possible that a combination of heat and (too much) physical activity can lead to the body not absorbing the fluid == you keep drinking until you :drool: (seen it happen to others and been there 3times...

nothing spectacular (this time): yesterday i encountered a ca. 3" long turtle rather high in the mountains with a large tick attached to it's back shell -- it's the first time i've seen that...

like all those toxins used by the banana mafia on a daily base (lots of their employees get employed just under 3months, then 2weeks off before another 3months employment so they don't get retirement and can't sue Dole, Chiquita etc. for health damage due to exposure to nasty herbicides etc. ...)

thanks for everyone's advice (tool maintenance isn't common around here except for chainsaws (somehow you have to cut down those rainforests...), so asking locals isn't working...), seems the mineral oil will be my solution then :finger:

yesterday we had another crazy thunderstorm passing through and when i returned to the farm in the afternoon i encountered a mess of branches and vines on the path -- and a two-toed sloth in the middle.... .closer inspection revealed it to be unable to move due to a hind leg trapped under a 4"...

coconut oil is sold in small stalls along the highway (but can be mixed with palm(?) oil...), mineral oil and wood varnish for furniture in 1l tins (not sure of composition) is paraffin wax the stuff used for candles? (if yes: i had candles go mouldy as well...)

nut oils aren't common around here and i presume they'd go mouldy on the handle in this humid conditions...

old motor oil is available even over here (it's actually SOLD at patrol stations and car mechanics as locals use it to treat wooden buildings with it against termite infestation), so i'll give that a try :finger: , although probably not on the handle of my Gransfors SFA first (bought long before...

as per title: what would work as a substitute for boiled linseed oil to TLC wooden tool handles (especially in tropical climate) as B.L.O doesn't exist in this corner of the world:rolleyes: (nor does bees wax, so a mixture of wax and plant oil is no option either...) only thing i could think of...

relax, so was i :encourage:

i'd say Felix Immler has proven you wrong;)

didn't know about the warranty -- do you have to send it directly to the factory or could you go to a place which sells them? (=i 'live' in central america, so shipping and ridiculously high shipping and import fees (+red tape) are something to consider...)

reminds me of Cousin Itt :P

about 3 months ago we had a boa getting into our chicken coop through a hole in the floor (=it's raised on stilts), we patched it but two weeks later it was back... . the owner of the farm told me i'm not allowed to have snake soup for dinner (sigh....) so i removed it (boas aren't venomous but...

i currently don't own one -- i carried one for 29years (with a 2" main blade) until it was lost during an armed robbery in nicaragua :eek:-- (and wish they'd upgrade to a better steel) but it came in use many times when using my multitool or belt knife in public wasn't possible and can anyone...

today i harvested some cramp ball fungus -- i've no idea if it's daldinia concentrica or a tropical relative, but they can be found on several tree species around here (f.i. citrus trees and "cornisuelo" (no idea how that's spelled)) funny thing is i saw them often in europe but didn't learn...

it's a kind of (japanese) trowel, but they look like a knife. they don't have a sharp edge (some versions have a partial serration meant for cutting roots) so while you can't cut someone with it you could technically still stab them. Japan has rather strict knife laws, too but i doubt walking...

apart from a serious hit of our economy (as tourism shut completely down and lot's of businesses closed) it meant having to get my documents (to apply for costa rican citizenship) three times from europe (as two sets were lost in the mail) and caused the kidnapping of my beloved munchkin (=dog)...