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Homemade hatchet mild steel with an en9 carbon steel bit welded on. This has been equal to anything i've needed to do not the best for splitting but for carving work its great. The handle is from a downed ash tree and i thought i'd bung a ferro rod in the end always handy to have along. This was...

Been making a coracle . Made one a year or two back which was a heroic failure apart from the footage the kids got of me upside down in the river:p:p The videos are poor but give a bit of an idea of things

This is well worth a look some right old characters here

When i was a kid they were all the matches you could get, now they all seem to be safety matches. So for non safety where do you get them and what do you recommend

https://youtu.be/L1io2ezWjU8 Can't understand the spoken language but the universal language is plain enough ;)

https://youtu.be/JlO5bBW7PLc long before Mearsy built his, this had been filmed. Its an absolute gem............Enjoy

The wife and i like to have a night out in the woods from time to time. However we have yet to find something comfortable to rest our heads on. So what do others do for packable pillows and where do you get them...

http://youtu.be/qfXYBheE_Fs great old film of Sheffield knife grinders .......Grip

http://youtu.be/8bez-pMf8Rw interesting film on handmade knives

Having a big spruce log to split and no wedges i had a rake thru me scrap pile and welded a couple up.40x6 flat, first welded into a t shape then welded two bits down from the underside of the top of the t to about 30mm up from the base quick sharpen with the angle grinder and bobs ya uncle...

Just bought a husky hatchet, what a cracking tool for the money.I have a gb small forest and its great but the little husky is all the axe i'll ever need. Mind its a little rough round the gills but nowt that a wee bit of fettling wont put right. So if your in the market for a bushy axe and...

http://blog.lighthousesurvival.com/library/bushcraft_leather_work_pdf.pdf Enough stuff here to keep ya fingerends stinging for months. The chapter on homade tools is a great resource for those of us on a tight budget. Absolute gem!!! hope its not been posted before.......Grip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpeyhC-UIFg&feature=g-user-u watch this old boy at work.Fantastic

Just wondered if anyone else uses the outer fibres from the butterbur for cordage? When green it is very strong, and plentiful along river banks in my area in summer.

when i was a kid we used large white grubs found living under the roots of docks .As i remember they were deadly bait for trout.I wonder if anyone else used these and do they know what these grubs turned into in their final life stage .Cheers grip

Could someone tell me how to prepare this to make tinder. Thanks grip