A homage to sticks....

[R3XXY]

While I was scraping noodles out of a mess tin with a split stick, it occured to me just how many things I use sticks for when I go out camping.

You can do and make so many things with a stick: pot hangers, walking sticks, tent pole, cook sausages, fire poker.......

The list goes on, what innovative and ingenious uses have you found for our friend the humble stick ?

 

[Toddy]

I've always had a digging stick For roots, tubers, runners, fungi, etc., it's unbeatable

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Bushcraftsman]

poking dead things

okenest:

Hitting Friends

:twak:

And having fun sword fights with friends in the woods

:swordfigh

 

[Trunks]

I always find a stick to go mushrooming with, you can expose the gills without using fingers.

James

 

[Shewie]

Emergency toothbrush

Bear showed me that one okenest:

 

[Trunks]

Emergency toothbrush

Bear showed me that one okenest:

Duck & Cover...

 

[Toddy]

So long as it wasn't Yew you used



cheers,
M

 

[durulz]

Yeah, good point - let's here it for sticks!

I don't tend to do anything particualr refreshing and exciting with them - poke people, whittle them, draw swirls in the dust.
But I've had a great time doing so, and thankful to each and every stick that has yielded to me.

 

[mikethescout]

fire poking...

and of course Marshmallows!!!!

 

[drewdunnrespect]

and best of all is you can burn the blighter when finished

 

[bushcraftbob]

stick a couple of sticks in the ground and hang your walking boots upside on them!

How do you make one in to a toothbrush then? where do you put the batteries....

 

[fred gordon]

Good friends always 'stick' around

 

[Rob_Beek]

My next mission with sticks will involve making a camp stool or chair.

maybe like this

www.ropeworks.biz/reader/campstool.pdf

 

[_scorpio_]

arrows, spears, firewood, whistle, ummm.... fish tank decorations, reptile viv decorations, bird perches.... everything else others have said.....
shall be thinking of more...

 

[jdlenton]

How do you make one in to a toothbrush then? where do you put the batteries....

LOL but seriously

Alder wood has some sort of bacteria in it that attacks the bacteria in your mouth. Find an alder tree break off a live twig about 6mm in diameter chew the end to separate the fibers and then clean each tooth individually with the end of the stick/brush.... job done.


and

no one has said this yet aren't stick where many of us start our knife skill you know the equation:

small boy/girl + pen knife = lots of twigs - minus bark + made pointy

 

[Pcwizme]

Toasting Fork, Knife for spreading, Tea Spoon, Welly Pegs, Bashy Stick (Mallet type thing when on HARD ground, Peg... the list is ongoing!

A Stick can be most useful fellow,
Be it Green or Brown or Yellow,
With there help we can stand Tall
With a stick in hand we shall not fall,
From Trees we gather them new,
Be they dry or damp with Dew
Every Stick has its use,
maybe not for catching moose

 

[maddave]

Fishing rod
Baton
AtlAtl
Tarp poles
Kite poles (ala Cap'n Badger)
One of Toddys trays
Barby skewers

Long live the humble stick !! (And it's not illegal to carry one in the UK.....YET)

 

[Rob_Beek]

Baton

Depends what you use it for.

 

[Globetrotter.uk]

and if your bored "pooh sticks"

http://www.just-pooh.com/poohsticks.html

 

[jdlenton]

And it's not illegal to carry one in the UK.....YET