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i remember reading somewhere that native americans in the boreal forest used spruce roots, but i haven't tried it myself...

there seem indeed several makers for them, the one i got issued was brandnew and made by victorinox-- which meant it sadly got lost as soon as i found out :P i only wished they'd skipped the bottle opener and made the saw full length...

tyres have been used in the past to make sandals (Ho Chi Minh sandals and huaraches f.i.) but modern tyres have steel wires in them, which makes them tricky to cut...

a thicker string works better (as it doesn't dig into my thumbs), but yesterday i FINALLY got my first ember with thumb loop hand drill, using cacao

reminds me of a quote i found somewhere: "the surest sign that intelligent life exists somewhere else in the universe is that nobody has tried to contact us (yet)"

what pouch are you using for your 500ml nalgene and webbing belt is your setup based on?!

normally they're (more) nocturnal, but lately there's a lot of nine-banded armadillos out in broad daylight, one of them walked almost over my toes a few days ago without feeling concerned... yesterday afternoon i had a 5ft. boa stretched out across the (dirt) road at a nearby place: they're not...

hmmm... i saw plenty of mistletoe on oaks in south korea in 2010.... isn't mistletoe also one of the ingredients of the magic potion brewed by Getafix (=the druid in the "Asterix" cartoons) :-) ?

iirc there's a scene in "hot shots2" where they give direct blood transfusion to one fellow, forgetting to unhook the donor until he's empty... (no idea why that comes into my mind right now... :P ) i also read/heard somewhere that green coconuts were used in WW2 in the Pacific as substitute...

it's more than 25years ago since i used the stuff(and forgot the name) but one place where i worked in central europe used some commercially made foul-smelling concoction to protect young trees in spring when deer rub the velvet of their new antlers, it lasted only a few weeks without renewing...

thanks for enlightening me :-) my local substitute for a kuksa is a coconut shell and if our river ever freezes we're having a new ice age... (as i'm still in costa rica)

i've short hair (+a full beard), but wear headbands as they keep the sweat of my face (especially in our obscene tropical humidity) -- if i'd gotten one cent every time someone feels obliged to make a "rambo" joke i'd be rich enough to leave central america... to keep in line with the subject...

forgive me my lack of knowledge, but what's a "kupilka set" ?! any more infos about the fishing rod, please -- is it meant for ice fishing?!

a.k.a. "the 300-pound alcoholic in the red suit" (to quote my great hero Al Bundy :P )

me neither... there's a long list of famous people through history who had beards, i know at least of three named for their facial hair (=Friedrich I / Barbarossa, Sven Forkbeard, Edward Teach / Blackbeard)

i lost the lid of my "zebra" billy about 7years ago in a flood (and use a cheap stainless steel plate as replacement since then -- works, but not perfect...): i've a piece of thin stainless steel, so i'll have a go on making a better lid following your instructions soon :-)

no ember, yet (my guess is humidity and wrong wood -- i'm drying a new set of cacao) but no more blisters :-)

i shall give this one a try -- i guess any type of cord will do...

sorry for my late reply as our internet is in "mañana" mode lately.... my drills are about as long as my arm (=from armpit to tip of my hands) when i start; i already spit on my hands to reduce blisters.... .part of the problem might be our obscene tropical humidity....

bow drill fire starting is absolutely no deal for me, but sadly i'm struggling with the hand drill (i DID have success with hibiscus tiliaceus in northern Australia and limited success with cacao over here) . my main problem is that my hands get too hot no matter what i try and i end up with...