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After performing some armchair bushcraft (sitting reading about bc, or watching Ray Mears DVD's) for a couple of months I thought to give the hand drill an other go. I've had a good couple of blister-jerking attempts earlier this year and never had anything else then smoke and dust yet...

I've had an invitation by a friend who is staff member of a scouting group in the local area to give a bow-drill tutorial. Did some demo's with bow-drill, fire steel, charcloth (thanks Rich59, the charcloth match-idea works great with birch bark as well!!) and made a team-efford succes...

Finally finished my first spoon! Lacking a proper spoon knife I finally decided to give the 'blow on an ember' boring method a chance. It worked beatifully I must say. You can however still see some scorch marks on it, but hey! What the heck. It's made of garden-wood (wolmanised pine?) on...

Is this a NO-GO question on a UK site? :confused: I am planning on spending a june weekend walking in the forrests and am looking for a nice place where I could spend some nights inside one. Any tips / experiences are welcome. Bob

I was enjoying a vakation last week and could finally spend some time in the woods. I really enjoyed it. Everyday between 13:00 and 15:00 I was hiking away, when my pregnant wife and son were doing their nap. I noticed a special phenomenon: I needed to pee at least two times in those two...

There are really a lot of (sub-)species of maple. Can you harvest and drink the sap of all of them?? I have one in my garden, but am not sure what sort it is. I would love to have a go at tapping it, especially since I don't have easy access to birch trees here. Bob

I have recently lunched using a sober hartkek (military biscuits?) meal and have found that it seems to drop my blood-sugar-level at the end of the day. I feel really weak then, and it is hard to keep my hands steady. This seems strange to me, because when eating less (for instance a...