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It’s been a while since I’ve been out on the trail - day or overnighting but even I am finding changes to my kit in response to the current weather. We used to be all about keeping cool or warm in waterproofed gear. Is our climate becoming any more (usefully) predictable? I’d be interested in...

How being in nature improves life satisfaction.

Just been re-reading The Forest by S E White (1908); something that I do on a regular basis.. It’s very basic because that’s what they had. It’s a great way of keeping things simple. He describes month long hikes in the “virgin“ Canadian forests. On arriving at his chosen camping site, lays...

My hiking days long predate walking poles. In fact in the days when I could move thirty miles in a day (road walking) and happily manage twenty across country I thought of staffs and sticks as a nuisance. Then, much later, when I started our annual winter trip to the lakes or the peaks...

For someone who probably uses a knife less than anyone else on the Forum I’m spending a lot of time here in Edge Tools :lmao: On the other hand I have some experience in (literally) every day Industrial sharpening in the field: Axe, cross cut saw, circular saw, chain saw, sickle, scythe and a...

You might have seen that I recently moved on a 1950’s butcher’s knife. I didn’t sharpen it but if I had I would have used a sharpening steel as would its original owner. I use a sharpening steel on my kitchen knives and on the big carving knife. Opinel recommend a sharpening steel for their...

<———- 300mm / 1 foot. ————> I bought this from a junk shop with the intention of cutting up the blade to make a couple of folding knives. It’s 300mm long total. 200mm x 30 - 35mm blade. 3mm at the spine flat ground. (seeing eye)TAYLOR WITNESS SHEFFIELD ENGLAND It’s kitchenware and so...

Eurohike Sandero 4. Purchased to replace my Gellert Atlantis 3 (4 person) tunnel tent. OK so I’m a ground dwelling tent snail. I can live with that. I’ve always had a fairly large Tunnel tent to back up the tipi which I am continually modifying. This next modification, a new and redesigned...

I don’t suppose for a minute that this is an original thing but it has recently been very useful: Saw (used unopened) Ferro Fatwood Thing. Anyone who has been camping this winter and who has been dependent on fire will know that lighting a fire in the rain isn’t difficult once you have a...

After more than eighteen years the PU surface of my crazy quasi tipi is degrading to the point where seam seal tape won’t adhere. It’s become a shower unit rather than a shelter. The tipi was a con. When I bought it, it wasn’t waterproof at all, the centre pole made it unusable and i could...

I’ve only been here a couple of years so if this has already been discussed then please ignore. I’ve just seen this Swiss Eagle multitool. At £30 it vastly undercut the Swiss Army knife. The blurb talks about Swiss engineering but that could be eyewash. Anyone tried one? Would heretofore...

4000 posts? 4000 posts? I’m not even a real bushcrafter! I don’t know enough for 4000 posts - but thinking about it that has never stopped me from writing about anything. :) May I use #4001 just to say a big Thank You to all here who let me tag along. Pat.

Sorry if this is old news but I’ve just received it: Hope you can see it - I don’t have Facebook. Dunno how many times it’s been copied. Burkholderia is a nasty bug.

@TLM I hope you will forgive me for shifting this discussion from Steve’s New Year post. Here in UK recreation is rapidly overtaking production in our major forests. Only 19% of our timber requirements are home grown and significantly less than 10% of our hardwood needs (I don’t know the...

I’m probably showing my age here. Do you arboriculturalists still use Arbrex cut sealer or similar? Would you use it in an urban setting on a decorative cherry (Kaizen?). There is silver leaf nearby. I’m currently advising not to prune.

If not, what is? Don’t ask me, the TV doesn’t go on on the 25th.

520 million year old fossil found with brain intact!

Over the two years that I’ve been here I’ve noticed that pull saws probably rank among the top ten items discussed. I use a Japanese pull saw for domestic carpentry. I use a similar pull saw in the garden for pruning. I have a little 120mm Opinel pull saw which I very rarely use. I have just...

It’s anyone here using Duck Duck Go? I have just done a superficial search: Where is the Wurkkos manufactured? DDG showed me many examples and reviewers of their products. The only geographical information was that it is manufactured at the same factory as the Sofin products. When I made...

They were found arranged parallel and close together as if a leather pouch had rotted away. I wonder if they showed off their kits and compared them?