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No one in particular, around post #18 somebody made a question about The Buck.

The fact many people tend to forget when speaking about the dollar as world's reserve currency is the huge amount of them tied into crude and less crude oil. That is the reason why US is fighting to retain Dollar as the reference currency for oil.

As both silver and copper have similar effects on microbes (ie. killing them) one would expect that an alloy of silver and copper would behave nicely as a bullet as it should have the killing power and greater strength than pure silver. Apparently casting the bullets is a little tricky as the...

I would prefer a half way heavy working knife like a parang or variations thereoff. A billhook with double edge works, one has to be a bit careful with that beast though but it is handy.

The idea of stump treatment is to stop the spread to new root systems, it does not stop or eradicate existing fungus.

A worry: I might have Heterobasidion annosum fungus in some parts of my lot. Next to impossible to get rid of. The standard cure is to cut off all pines and spruces in the area and and let birch to conquer and then wait. Not an idea I like. Have to be careful when cutting anything in the...

Methyl eugenol has a very high boiling point which would indicate that at room temp it evaporates at a slow rate. From the woods I am more familiar with juniper seems to retain its distinctive smell longest, several years, but it does fade. In fact that one can smell something means it is...

Green and with just a wiff of stevia in it. I can well relate to the idea of smells bringing up memories, only not any more. That bloody Covid took out almost all of my sense of smell, only occasional and fleeting sensory indications that smells still do actually exist.

I think there is a minimum set of skills required but beyond that short term some prepper set helps and long term I think a set of social skills (and of course how to for food) might pay off. Even in our quite sparsely populated country if I have to fall back to my trekking, hunting and camping...

My understanding is as H30 said, I have seen many reindeer herders to actually carry three knives, the big one, one about 15cm and the smallest one about 8-9cm. Those carried on person, I suspect that a smallish axe might be carried in reindeer ahkio or nowadays in snowmobile. The knives are...

You people do not think like engineers, of course you have to charge yourself the same polarity as the tick to repel it!

At my summer cottage, which is right in the middle of ticky area, I have widened all my paths to about 1m (3ft) and cut them weekly. That has had an effect on ticks found on people and dogs. Of course once you go outside the cut area they are ambushing you as ever. I had borreliosis some...

Just wondering if licensing includes kitchen knives and without that I do not see how the idea would help in knife crime.

Hmm ... I may have to find my Aladdin lamp, I think I saw it some years ago somewhere. Gives reasonable ligh with good efficiency and no noise. Otherwise my cottage is fairly self sufficient even without electricity. I have about 6 hectares growing firewood, do not run out easily. I guess I...

I kind of agree with DD in principle but some acronyms are fairly well established: example, has anybody ever heard "British Broadcasting Corporation" instead of "BBC".

It does if it works, legalities are a different matter. They burn quite nicely after drying for 3 months. I think ours says something like "dispose properly" without defining it.

I just left them in the sun, dried up fairly fast.

I got rid of it in a fairly large area by tearing up the root system and for the next three years tearing up all shoots.

I doubt my trekking, camping and general bushcraft skills would be of all that much use. Instead I would fall back to pre-electricity type of living in the countryside. Not necessarily all that far off but still different. I am old enough to have lived in the tail ends of that era so BTDT...

Looks like boiling the wood in a mixture of non polar solvents (ethers, ketones) might leach most taxines out but I don't know if that is a safe bet. That treatment would make most woods more stable with moisture too. I guess changing the wood would be safer. That trick of using acetone...