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Can anyone tell me how to tan the skin of a bird, with the feathers on. A friend of mine came across a roadkill crane, and skinned it for me to make myself a craneskin bag. He packed it in salt until he could get it to me.

Does anybody know of any uses for this plant. It keeps showing up in my garden. I usually just pull it up and compost it. But surely with such a pretentious name, it must be good for something.

Hi, guys. You have a lot of good information on here about starting fires. But once you get the fire started, you need to know how to have it do what you want it to do. So I invite you to share your tips on maintaining and using a campfire. Perhaps I could start the ball rolling with some...

I started working on a deer skin this week. And iIhave run into a problem almost immediately. The inside of the skin had no meat on it, so I rinsed it and put it in the bucket of alkali for 48 hours. Then I rigged up my scraping beam, and got a blunt knife, as per instructions, and started...

This is a prototype of the Hammock-chair I designed to prevent an epidemic of numb-bums. It can be made in Human size using quite thin string. And ther are only three types of knots in it. So before you next venture out to the woods, get knotted. I mean knotting.

I had to cut back a tree in my garden last year. Well when I say 'I', I mean I supervised and the lost boy got on with the work. But anyway, I ended up with some lovely straight branches, which I put in the shed to do something with later when the wood had seasoned. I also have a willow...

I was visiting a friend of mine a few weeks ago, and she was picking my brain on gardening stuff. While we were walking around the garden I idly picked a leaf off her Harekeke plant. I think ye call it New Zealand Flax up here, and I had never wondered about the name. Anyway, it started...

hello, out there, this is my first time ever using a forum, as i am new to the world of computers. I have always been an outdoor person, and interested in bushcraft. but access to the bush is rather difficult, since i am disabled and live in an isolated village with no public transport...