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Rush lamps and candles would have been in every household here in North Wales, probably all of Britain? Not that long ago. Rushes are abundant and everywhere. There are a couple of old rush lamps in the attic of my parents farmhouse somewhere along with the old paraffin lamps and other redundant...

Don't know if that strap will fit but I did mine with one I had off Amazon and I'm sure it was pretty straight forward to find one that fitted. I had to buy a special tool to fit it though. It's like a little flat headed screwdriver with a v cut into the end. Was quite a fiddly job I don't think...

I haven't had much time to practice any sort of bushcraft (or anything apart from work running my farm really) in the past year or more so I was pleased to have some time to waste in my little wood about a week ago. It had rained and snowed in the night and was still blowing a gale but was...

Well I haven't been on here in over a year, time flies. Well it's given me plenty of time to test the bulldog and it works well. Sharpens up nicely but being a cheaper brand doesn't hold that edge particularly well but plenty good enough for making kindling out of junk wood with occasional nails...

I like the look of that a lot :cool: And a late happy birthday too :thumbsup:

Any big cats released into the UK would be artificially fed on the livestock that are everywhere here. They wouldn't touch the deer they are meant to kill when there are so many slow moving sheep for them to eat. Yes there is a Scottish wildcat and there are apparently some on the berwyn...

How are they fitting back into the ecosystem in Sweden? Right back in without a hiccup I would think? Luckily they are unlikely to swim across the channel :D Though I have read of a polar bear that ended up on one of the Scottish isles in a particular cold winter in 1800 something I forget the...

As a beef and sheep farmer this is great news even though I am far away from the proposed release site. As someone who appreciates nature and all wildlife I am a bit torn. Britain is missing large predators but as Robson valley says the wildlife here has been adapted and somewhat evolved to not...

As it happens I had reason to go in my dad's wood shed this weekend. And found he has bought a bulldog hatchet like I had been looking at from the exact same place I had seen them. It's not that bad it's a hell of a lot better than the tool tech or something cheap thing he had. For how much the...

I think what I have is more of a people problem than an axe problem :banghead:

That's a good idea. I dont think I have an old ace head lying around but I do ah e a strip of weld on loader bucket edge that I could use to do that with. I used a part of it to make a blade for a log splitter and it can he made quite sharp with a grinder and is really hard steel. I feel a...

Funnily enough thats what i did first! Great minds think alike ;) I have 2 small husqvarna axes both bought for kindling. One to keep at work with my chainsaws and other bigger axes on the farm were I cut all my logs and one for home to do some kindling. I came home one day about a week after...

It will mostly be for splitting kindling for the house. I have nice old really good quality axes and I don't like wrecking them doing kindling (broken furniture, pallets and other junk wood sometimes) sometimes the wife uses it and I hate seeing her trying to beat through a nail with it...

Saw some bulldog brand axes in a local hardware shop yesterday and they were cheap enough but does anyone know anything about how good they are? Don't expect them to be gb quality obviously but I have some old bulldog shovels, spades and garden forks and they are as good as anything. Don't know...

Dropbox downloaded. Will take a picture of the axe head tomorrow or Monday and try and upload it here.

I'm not a full member. I did have Dropbox on an old phone but I haven't had this one very long I will have to see if this one came with it. If it does I'll see if I can get pictures up that way or download something that can do it. I'm enjoying this forum so a way of getting pictures up would...

I'm on my phone it doesn't have an upload file button there :thumbsdown: just post reply and more options. I use another forum that is a very similar format to this but it does have one on there. But there are quite a few things different on that even though it's similar.

Had a bit of a go at the axe this afternoon. Took of the very poorly made handle and grinded off the run weld that had been out on it and sanded all the nasty black paint off the head with a flappy disc on the grinder. It's been abused badly at some point the paint was hiding a lot of dings...

Thanks I assumed it would be a decent quality axe but I'd never heard of them before. Some idiot has put a run of weld across it on one side over the severquick writing but it doesn't look to be a very deep weld and doesn't go near the edge so I hope it hasn't damaged it too much. I have nothing...

Good to know I'm not alone :) but I still don't get it. If she asked for more shoes or a handbag I'd buy in for her no questions asked. Btw I bought my own Vic ranger a while ago and it's my most used sak of all of them :biggrin: