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Hi, would be interested in a meet if there are few going. North Hampshire M

Hi all, My brother and I are off to the Cheddar Gorge camping at the weekend. We are quite experienced hikers/campers/buschrafters. Any recommendations of good places to visit (we will be hiking from Priddy Wells BA5 3BP) Also was hoping to do a little camp fire to do a spit cooked phesant...

I got the Homebase one and have sharpened it up nicely. Looking forard to using it.... need to find a leather sheath for it from somewhere now.... Mark :D

Hi I am looking to get an axe super quickly at the weekend and want to go and choose it. I live in Basingstoke and work in Farnborough. Can anyone recommend a good place to go. I wouldn't mind a small Gransfors or cheaper equivelant. I would be using it for splitting small logs/branches rather...

Thanks - we'll not bother with the hex burner then and just use the MSR Dragonfly. Will probably take a Bivis and a tarp. may have to re-think due to the cold conditions though..

Hi, On a similar but slightly seperate issue as the Flying thread aldready posted, wer'e flying up to Aberdeen in March and hope to pack a backpack including things like knives, full cells (for one of those tiny hex burners), Wire saw etc - as you can see it's just my little survival pack...

Just bought this handmade knife in South Africa. Came to about £30. Made by P VD Westhuizen I really wanted a nice utility knife and this one seemed pretty good. Quite a small handle but means it fits easily in the hand and is easy to use for things like cooking and cutting...

My Brother and I are hoping to go wild camping in Scotland in Feb. Anyone any good suggestions of where to go? Cheers! Mark :-)

I still love using mine - really easy :-)

good point :D

I know it may not be exactly what you are looking for... wbut why not just buy a warmer sleeping bag? :-)

Just a quick question from a newbie... I thought the angle of the supports on the hex burner should be vertical - otherwise you risk them collapsing and spilling things... ? Mark

Thanks all - yo uare probably right it's not going to be the most effective idea but at least it'll be fun rocking up at the campsite with the biggest firestarter ever hehe I'll be setting to it with the 30mm drill tomorrow to make the air hole etc, and we shall see... - I almost want to start...

- It's not a great diagram.... The idea hopefully is to keep the log in one peice and burn as shown above, but then it should burn in half leaving 2 seperate peices of log we can use as a star fire... does that make a bit better sense? I was hoping it will burn the log in half rather than just...

Hi, We are going camping soon and as the place we are going doesn't have much wood it would be unfair to be cutting thier forest down... So I have a large log that was spare and wondered if I drilled out as showing in the picture below would it split/burn so we could do one of those fires...

Hi. It does indeed clear it up. I've got some general pupose oil that I'll use. Sharpened my Khukuri today for it's first proper use and it ate through a 6" peice of wood in no time! Amazing! (Looks similar to this: Mark :D

Thanks :-)

Hi all, I have been entrusted with my father-in-law's (rip) sharpening kit and I have been using it with great reslts. I like the way I can get a uniform angle on the edge. However the oil is running out... can I use general multipurpose oil or do i need some specialst stuff...

Hi, I am new to the Forum. I would like to come along to one of these meets. Where abouts is it? I live in Basingstoke and can't find places that are ok to build fires. Any ideas anyone? Mark