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  • The awesome MakerMoot is coming up (13-15th Nov 2026), Visit the TORM & ARM markets,and have space back at camp to work on projects and enjoy great company. PLEASE CLICK HERE for more information.
  1. Stew

    Home Solar

    I’ve gone small, currently. A micro inverter with cheap panels in an imperfect location that’s angled the wrong way but making more than nothing that procrastination would result in. So far I’m 10% of the invested costs back in a months worth of generation. That’ll tail off over winter but...
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    Fox skeleton articulation (attempt!)

    I might give it a try. Unlikely to be permitted from the sound of it. It was halfway across the field. We’ve speculated on poison or just fatigue across a very exposed space in the heat. It’s moved and I very nearly threw up multiple times…..
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    Fox skeleton articulation (attempt!)

    I had forgotten about the restrictions. I’ll still be keeping the skull that I already have, found in the woods. I think the chances of being told off for that are slim.
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    Fox skeleton articulation (attempt!)

    Bit tricky leaving it in the middle of a school playing field…..
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    Fox skeleton articulation (attempt!)

    I'm about to move a dead badger from a field. I knew it was there last week. We have kites here - I was hoping they would dispose of it. I had reports on Tuesday of it stinking. I popped over - quite inflated and maggot covered. I wasn't going to touch it for fear of bursting. By yesterday it...
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    Wales based survival TV experience.

    If anyone wants a show to watch, I found myself on old series of the island a while back - the bear grylls one. He has some interesting mixes. Upper class and lower class folk and another gender based. It’s quite interesting to see the differences and how they respond. Might not be what you...
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    Major Oak

    I visited quite a few years back and you could get nowhere near so I really find the visitor ground compaction quite surprising.
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    British folder?

    Are you in custom budget territory?
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    Major Oak

    I hope so to. When the Sycamore Gap caused such a big outcry, I'm there wondering why they're not crying about the masses of trees chopped down for HS2. (And I did nothing about it.)
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    Major Oak

    Sad to see but it'll still be supporting other life for some years to come. I hope these feature trees help make people think.
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    Coke Can fire

    I seem to remember giving it as an activity to my eldest quite a few years back too. Child labour rather than me having to do it. Such a small amount of reflection and really small focal range.
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    Coke Can fire

    Not successfully! Back in the early days of the internet I remember an article about starting a fire with a can of coke and a chocolate bar. I tried it. The chocolate was to be used as a polishing agent to make that mirror surface. I failed. I tried buffing with better products -...
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    Sold Original Bushcraft UK Ventile Jacket

    Get in line….
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    National Risk Register/National Resilience Update - Nothing new to us.

    I think quite a few peppers want everything to collapse….
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    National Risk Register/National Resilience Update - Nothing new to us.

    You mean like all the doom and gloom predictions that there have been on BCUK? Seems like every week there’s a suggestion that the world is ending, society is over, etc, etc.
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    National Risk Register/National Resilience Update - Nothing new to us.

    Accidentally removing it is a bit different to actively not reading it which loads of people have said they did (or didn’t)
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    National Risk Register/National Resilience Update - Nothing new to us.

    The number of people saying they didn't read the alert - yeah right! If you didn't get it then fair enough but if it popped up, you read it.
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    Sold Original Bushcraft UK Ventile Jacket

    and if it is, this is the review that Bardster references: https://bushcraftuk.com/community/threads/bcuk-ventile-jacket-a-short-review.23673/
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    Can you help me choose a small multipurpose camp knife?

    You’re right about sizing and the name. The accepted idea of a camp knife is that bit bigger but not huge. Just like a necker being that smaller size but not necessarily an actual neck carried knife.
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    Stew's Works in Progress!

    Definitely worth doing it before you need it!!