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I bought a USAF surplus Propper ABU shirt. It has a good, pixelated, tiger stripe pattern, but was far too light grey. I over-dyed it Olive Green. It came out quite well, and it looks good, although there is a clearly defined wide stripe on each arm that didn't take the dye well. It must have...

I have used fence posts and signposts

The Scouts used a selection of axes to split hardwood (beech and chestnut) rounds and to make kindling yesterday. The boy's/forest type axes were a very useful and effective size for splitting, even for the smaller scouts. A few of them made good use of the 16" 1.25/1.5lb axes for a bit of...

The 40cm handle gives a much more useful swinging ability than a 30cm handle.

As I posted, earlier, I agree with Hillbill on the usefulness of smaller axes. These get used by our scouts and leaders for a range of tasks. The nicer (HB) one on the left is 1.25lb (560g), the one in the right is 1.5lb (680g). They both have 16" (40cm) handles.

Here are some of mine: https://bushcraftuk.com/community/threads/restomod-hatchets.168326/ https://bushcraftuk.com/community/threads/small-forest-axe-budget-interpretation.168325/ https://bushcraftuk.com/community/threads/cheap-felling-axe-project.165254/...

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It all depends upon what you want to do with it. I have found that a fairly small axe head with a 16" handle is a very useful tool and easy to carry. I wouldn't bother with anything smaller. A 2-2.5lb head with ~20+ inch handle is big enough to fell small trees, to chop and split logs and more...

What thickness of wood do people use for the scales? Thanks

I made a selection of maces from sports balls (and a larger one moulded in a big plant pot) postcrete and sledgehammer handles. I turned a wooden Persian Meel on my Dad's lathe. I bought a couple of steel clubs. Sandbags are great. Mine are old army kit bags of different sizes.

It probably depends upon the leaders, but we have a Guides group who meet in a church hall next door to our scout hut. They do different activities to Scouts, possibly more traditional ones, and their leader has apparently made reference to girls going to scouts instead if they want to do some...

I was in Boys Brigade as a boy in the 1980s-early 90s. I am now a scout leader. Activities depend on the knowledge/skills/enthusiasm/availability of the leaders. We do bushcraft activities with our group. There is a lot more regulation, requirement for qualifications for some events and...

Welcome. Whereabouts in The US are you?

The home-made bush shirt is still going strong. It is one of my favorite items of clothing and is used regularly.

So that your clothing can Communicate with the internet?

Does the Boker Tool 7 have scissors? I find the scissors on my SAK very useful and use them very frequently.

My in-laws use their bludgeons on a glass one.... I did once, many years ago, offer to sharpen them and advised using a more suitable board.They didn't take up the offer.

We have a big, thick, end-grain blocks, wooden chopping board from Debenhams that we have had for around 20 years. It lives on the kitchen worktop. I added rubber feet to it soon after we got it.

A battered version of this lives in my pocket daily and is used at least once, often more, every day. How/why do people Manage without a pocket tool? I have added a pocket clip to the ring and the mini screwdriver to the corkscrew. For Scouts/light outdoors stuff I have a Svord Mini that is...

As I cycle to work, I need to dress for the conditions so I'm quite aware of what the conditions are like. It has been quite cool, but rarely sub-zero or frosty this winter in the low-lying SW Manchester area. Snow was a short-lived affair. It hasn't felt particularly unusually wet here...