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    Dowsing

    ● once unsuccessful (and without any instructions) ● a friend found his water source this way ● as usual i'm clueless
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    Film recommendation

    ●Bud Spencer/ Terence Hill movies ●ten canoes ●crocodile dundee 1+2 ●the gods must be crazy 1+2 ●mad max 1-3
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    RATS!

    i have eaten local rodent species who made the mistake of invading my cabin -- meat tasted like rabbit (before anyone tries at home: rodents can carry diseases, so only try with healthy (looking) ones and cook well!)
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    RATS!

    ratatouille...
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    RATS!

    somewhat unrelated to rats, but a few years ago our neighbor's horse died under somewhat mysterious circumstances (he presumed poisoning): there were loads of vultures attracted to the carcass BUT they didn't touch it, not even his psychopathic dogs went for a bite (and i've seen them kill and...
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    Beach Foraging Pole.

    climate wise i'm not complaining and nobody cares in the countryside that i've a machete on my belt, but moneywise i'm living a hand-to-mouth existence and would have left long time ago if i'd the means or a place to go :-(
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    Beach Foraging Pole.

    not too many seashells along the coast here (=flat and sandy) and i'm not aware of anyone looking for edible ones (meaning if there would be any the locals would get them), only blue crabs -- during mating season they run around on the coastal highway to be collected in bags or squashed by...
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    Beach Foraging Pole.

    thanks for enlightening me :-) i'm currently (stuck) in the carribean and around here it's flat sandy coast with very little tidal differences, so they're unknown in this backwards corner of the world...
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    Beach Foraging Pole.

    how do you cook them?!
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    Beach Foraging Pole.

    please forgive me my ignorance/ lack of knowledge, but what is it used for?!
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    How would a person make cord for snares

    i remember reading somewhere that native americans in the boreal forest used spruce roots, but i haven't tried it myself...
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    Folder with just a knife and saw?

    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...
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    What is the best DIY sole for home made shoes?

    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...
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    handdrill technique question

    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
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    Intelligence in nature - is there a ranking?

    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)"
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    My belt kit.

    what pouch are you using for your 500ml nalgene and webbing belt is your setup based on?!
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    What wildlife did you spot today?

    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...
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    Seeding mistletoe

    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) :-) ?
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    Blood Transfusions

    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...
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    Deer deterrence

    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...