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as already mentioned in several posts before: i'm located in a tropical rainforest (or rather what's left of it). lately it has been ways more rainy than average and our river has been up to over my nether regions for one week.... . keeping stuff dry during river crossings is important, but...

over the years there have been many occasions where i had to treat minor problems with medicinal herbs,recently i got a book on this subject about the medicinal plants of Costa Rica. which made me (not the first time) realize that there's a lot of common herbs and spices with dual use... while i...

as per title: what would work as a substitute for boiled linseed oil to TLC wooden tool handles (especially in tropical climate) as B.L.O doesn't exist in this corner of the world:rolleyes: (nor does bees wax, so a mixture of wax and plant oil is no option either...) only thing i could think of...

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...

... released a video called "10survival tips that could save your life..." on YouTube. one point he addresses is an accident he had recently due to his boot laces of one boot getting caught on the hooks of the other boot. this feature is commonly found on many boots and i've to agree with him...

according to a YouTube post from "ReallyBigMonkey1" the winner of season 2 of "alone" passed away a few days ago; iirc he was once a member of this forum under the user name "pict" ...

i'm currently rereading "Robinson Crusoe" and in chapter12 he finds cave, to explore it he uses self made candles. to ignite them he uses a tinderbox made from a musket lock "with some wild-fire in the pan". i've no idea what he refers to and my google search for "wild-fire" directs me to...

the same jerk who screwed me over with the knife last year (see my thread in the knife section...) also turned up with TWO aluminium water bottles in 2022 when i asked him to bring me a Nalgene "oasis" (despite extremely clear instructions); this morning he left for next half year to go back to...

after several months of research looking for a backpack for overnight trips (and an upcoming longer trip; volume ca 45 liters) and manufacturers telling me they either don't have a dealer in Costa Rica (or cheerfully telling me about the nearest dealer in Ecuador or the US...) and sellers only...

i know this might sound like a stupid question...: i normally prefer to sleep on the ground and only occasionally used a hammock in the past as a back-up for the few occasions when i could find no suitable spot on the ground. last year i got a hammock in a trade for carving some spoons and as...

in march i started a thread about the quest for a new knife. it was supposed to be brought from europe as payment for some work i was doing for a guy, BUT sadly he didn't keep his word.... :-( in october i posted an update regarding this matter with the sole intention of letting the folks...

today i helped a friend of mine to sort her belongings -- she's leaving the country and needs sadly to get eid of most of it in short time :-( most of it will hopefully raise some cash for her in an upcoming yard sale, but my "personal score" is a brandnew-looking stove. there's no description...

hi! recently i posted a thread about getting a new knife, and my favorite so far is a blank of the "brisa trapper". i'm planning to put on the scales myself to give it some individual touch -- so far i'm not sure between micarta and G10... which one is better?! (i'm currently living in a...

as already mentioned in a few posts in the past: during a trip to nicaragua 4years ago i lost my five most-used knives and my pocketboy when being robbed by bandits... my carving knife i replaced with a homemade replacement, in late 2021 i managed to replace my pocketboy and last year i got a...

hi! i've been absent from the forum for about five month for various reasons (see my thread " ruediger roll and a rant" for some details): after one incident too many i left my previous employer and moved to an off- grid farm in the jungle -- the owner found himself facing an ocelot in his...

one of the items in my bag is a fuji xp80 pocket camera (supposedly waterproof and bought in 2015 after posting a thread on here looking for a new toy :-) )which i carry to take occasionally pics of wildlife. i noticed since a while that the screen got blurry around the edges, today (after not...

in a recent thread in the firecraft section i mentioned my frustration with my current situation. what keeps me stuck in this place is some paperwork (as its easier to sort close to town and with internet access vs. living out in the countryside without those things in easy range). well, that...

it's raining here all afternoon and i'm stuck inside, so time to grab a book --Bernard Cornwell's "the bloody ground" (about the US civil war) to be exactly... on page 324 (of my copy) is a mentioning of one character stuffing a mixture of spider's web and moss into entry and exit of a bullet...

about 30years ago i watchedd a programme featuring Ruediger Nehberg teaching kids basic survival/ bushcraft skills -- one skill featured was the "ruediger roll". we gave it a try afterwards -- poplar seed "wool" and ashes iirc -- but had no success, my guess is bad technique.... i never tried...

as mentioned several times in the past, three years ago several tools were lost in an armed robbery in nicaragua... one of them was my original "supertool" which i carried for nineteen years around the earth disk and which is sadly not in production anymore : -( recently i mentioned my...