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I had various first aid trainings. I guess here in Holland they have a bit of a different system of courses, but I am confident that I can be useful in case of emergency. In any accident you have to improvise anyway, so boosting your knowledge and confidence by doing a course is very useful in...

hmm, well, The size is something I could handle, but when I'm out there in the winter I carry way too much anyway. Adding another two or three pound is not very appealing to me.

As an update, i did by the CS kukri machete. The shop I went to did also have the CS kukri and some original kukri’s but still I chose the machete. The CS kukri was € 299,- (= 200 pounds) that’s far to much money to take out in the woods for me. No way. They had some fine...

Well, it's not about age of course but about experience. Age is no cure for stupidity. Get someone to show you how and get some experience before doing potentially dangerous things, like chopping, shooting, driving a car, go bullfighting of ****ing of my granny. :lol:

Well, I have to admit that I was looking for some combination tool for some time too. Not the Rambo Bowieknife, but something to cut, slice, carve, saw and chop with. It does not exist. At least not in the quality that you can really cut, slice, carve, saw and chop, keep your tool intact and...

I used Thermarest for several years. I did well usually but in winter it's still very chilly. You lose a lot of heat via the ground because your sleepingbag is compressed and it will provide limited insulation. I have a exped down mat now and it is great. Much much better. You get 3 times the...

In Holland (where I live) we have plenty of boar in the forrested area's. And because, as you know, nature doesn't realy get a lot of space over here, man-boar encounters are quite common. Most of these encounters end when the pigs head for the underbrush. Others end quite deadly, usually for...

O.k. to ad something a bit more useful, I am (a bit of) a sailor and I do know how a sextant works. But it’s not very Bushcraft! A Sextant is a tool to measure the height of a star. If you have determined a star (so you know what star or system it is) and you also know where it should...

An elderly couple is sitting on a park bench at night, silently watching the stars. He slowly bends over to her and whispers: “Do you want me to show you the Great Bear?” She jumps ups and shouts: “You will not! You dirty old fool!" (bit off topic, sorry :wink: )

I thing the basics are covered by the post above. Everything depends on the amount of stuff you carry, your pack, terrain, climate, etc. Usually you want the heavy stuff close to your shoulders. Your sleeping bag is the most bulky and you can pack it first and you’ll unpack it last, so it...

A lot of response girls, thanks a lot. To summarise: - original kukris are the best (and since Nepal has hardly any economy except the mount Everest and Ghurkhas, it’s the right thing to do to import their’s) - CS is not bad at all but there are unclear/inconclusive things...

You’re probably right. I’m sure he will lecture me about American copies of indigenous tools, that a real kukri is something very different and that the once from HI of the army or whatever are much better. :oops: I’m sure they are, but I’m not looking for a authentic collectors item...

Here’s one for the knife nuts that own and tried everything. Surfing a bit for big choppers I ended up at Cold Steel. They have a small Kukri called LTC Kukri for $ 154,99 and somewhere else on the site a Kukri machete for $ 19,99 (you can order just the sheath for $ 11,99 so I guess the...

I have no idea. Why the reply? Well, I live next to a diamond polishing factory (I live in the former Jewish quarter of Amsterdam) and about once a week they punt a crate on the side walk with their old grinders, waiting to be picked up by a van coming from Antwerp (the other diamond capital...

In my experience, willow is not without its problems. I knew someone who cut himself a lot of willow to construct a fence next to a path passing his garden. During the summer the willow ‘exploded’ :shock: The willow wasn't quite dead is seems at least it started living again. It...

Thanks for the (new) replies. On my last trip I did stuff the saw blade next to the frame of my pack and doing it very carefully noone got hurt. Even the blade was still straight after being bent a day or so. But I still thinks it is not very practical to use it. I did try to make a deacent...

Yep, it's for the knee's. I sp[end more time hiking than bushcrafting, actually the bushrafting is something I do when I arrived at night after a day of hiking. My problem was always pain in my knee’s after a day or so walking with a heavy pack in the mountains of hill’s. I also...

Why don't you just hold it upright with another stick? If the stick you want to split does not stand on its own take another stick, use it to hold you kindling to be in its place. Stick in your left ax in your right and slam it. The worst that can happen is that you: a- mis it to the right...

What good is solar power in nuclear winter? :roll: I mean exept for the initial blast of course... :wink:

Yep I have a Rucksack too. It's got everything you need in a pocket knife and nothing more. The blade is big enough and it lock's! Non-locking knifes should be banned in my opinion (I understand that in Britain somehow it's the other way around :-| ) I have mine with me always and everywhere...