A sunday in spring...

[oetzi]

... on february the 18th.
I went for a leasurelywalk with a couple of colleagues and the dog.
1h on the feet, 2h in front of the fire in the sun and another 1h back home.

Ravioli, Steak, Baquette, garlic butter, turkish coffee, chocolate. We ate more than we burnt .

 

[fredcraft]

Woah, seems like you had a good time and a good snack

You have amazing weather for a feb. 18th ! We are barely starting to have temperatures around 0 celcius... and 1 foot of snow is set to fall on next friday

 

[spamel]

Last picture, that black smock, is that the swedish smock that has full length buttons that I was told couldn't be dyed? 'Cos now I want to get one as they look awesome dyed another colour. I tried one on and it was really big but comfy!!

Who else is cringing at the 'tin opener'?

Looks like you had a good time, I find dogs spoil the trip for me a bit, I never could get on with picking up dog poo!

 

[Grooveski]

Looks like a nice wander .
It really was quite a day. I went for a paddle on the 18th and couldn't believe how warm it was for the middle of feb .

 

[BorderReiver]

Last picture, that black smock, is that the swedish smock that has full length buttons that I was told couldn't be dyed? 'Cos now I want to get one as they look awesome dyed another colour. I tried one on and it was really big but comfy!!

Who else is cringing at the 'tin opener'? Looks like you had a good time, I find dogs spoil the trip for me a bit, I never could get on with picking up dog poo!

Me

(If this appears twice,it's cos the server is playing silly buggers again)

 

[British Red]

Me 3,

Thats ...just...plain...wrong!

Oetzi, PM me your addy, and I'll post you a British Army "baby can opener" from the old compo rations.

Weighs about 5g and worth 1% of what it will cost me to post - but if you promise me never to do that to an axe again....its worth it

Red

 

[scottishwolf]

I like the tin opener...lol

Very similar to mine

 

[Butchd]

Me 4 >.<

I don't get on with my dogs and bushcrafting either, I have to say, not because of the dog poo, after all if you can deal with your own a dogs is simple enough, but it's probably because they are terriers and therefore share two traits in common - they chase anything that moves (squirrel, rabbit, pheasant, deer, tractors etc) and they don't do what they are told worth a damn (you'll see few terriers in the dog obedience classes). I'm always surprised just how fast a pheasant can run as it happens.

 

[xairbourne]

ahhhh the axe shot made me flinch...

looked a nice day out. but take Red up on the Tin opener

 

[Snufkin]

Me 5
I'm willing to be British Red came over all faint and had to sit down when he saw it .
Looks like a nice walk though .

 

[scottishwolf]

Red, some us do use our axes for silly things like opening tins but it's only because we have not yet felt the force like you have.

Obe wan Red, please show us a tutorial on caring axe use....please, or do a group but on those military tin openers...lol, my poor we fiskars axe canny take much more captian..

 

[British Red]

Yeah, I think my next thread may well be axe sharpening.....I've been asked a few times so why not? I've got some time coming up in a few weeks so keep your eyes open!

Sadly the old tinned compo rations with free tin openers are no longer issued (any forces person had dozens.....along with dozens of tins of posessed cheese ). I'm fairly sure though you can get em in camping stores on a card with two on. Stick one on your keyring and you are sorted - they are a great bit of kit!

Red

 

[oetzi]

Last picture, that black smock, is that the swedish smock that has full length buttons that I was told couldn't be dyed? 'Cos now I want to get one as they look awesome dyed another colour. I tried one on and it was really big but comfy!!

Who else is cringing at the 'tin opener'?

Looks like you had a good time, I find dogs spoil the trip for me a bit, I never could get on with picking up dog poo!

Yes, its a swedish army winter smock.
http://www.raeer.com/cgi-bin/katalog/9b8d119e559ab2e6
I paid € 12,- for it and spend € 8,- on the dye! made waterresistant with greenland wax its my favourite garment for everything exept very heavy rain.

Red, myself I always use a SAK!
I really cringed when I saw the pic with the axe, not having noticed the way the did open the cans. i would have shown them my fresh scar.There is no reason not to open a tin with an axe, but not this way!

Picking up dog **** in the woods? Not in a month of sundays!
Sam the obedient and cuddly monster liked being out with a lot of people. He was the center of this trip!

 

[spamel]

The can openers can still be found in the ten man rations.

 

[fredcraft]

The can openers can still be found in the ten man rations.

Hehehe
Heavy duty tools for a heavy duty job

 

[Snufkin]

Strange choice of wood for the boardwalk .

 

[oetzi]

In the woods here, this kind of birch is more a nuisance than anything of value.

 

[Snufkin]

In the woods here, this kind of birch is more a nuisance than anything of value.

It's not so much that I deem birch valuable, it's just they put alot of time and effort into building something that's going to be rotten and unsafe in a few years.

 

[oetzi]

Its supposed to be "art", part of a lot of installations in a local forest.
The makersy probably didnt know about the different kinds of wood or didnt have the money to buy good stuff or the local forest authorities would have gone ape**** if they had taken good and expensive fagus sylvatica for the job.

 

[Snufkin]

Ahh. They did make a nice job of it though.