Best kit of the year

[Hodge]

It's that time of year again! What has been your best purchase other year in terms of Bushcraft kit? My best purchase has been a North gaze tipi style tent from onetigris. It has enabled me to use my winnerwell stove safely and has been big enough to allow me to use a camp cot. This has been a game changer as the cot as supported my muscular problem and enabled me to attend the moot.

 

[Danceswithhelicopters]

In a similar vein, upgrading from a smaller Onetigris tipi to the larger Rock Fortress. I kept the Woodswalker folding Ti stove and the vast increase in head height and space overall has been brilliant. Can't fault either of the tents for their value and design.

 

[Van-Wild]

That looks awesome!

 

[Danceswithhelicopters]

Overnight temperature!

 

[Falstaff]

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Overnight temperature!

Yeesh! Cold. I've just bought one of those and found the split ring is steel & affects the compass.

 

[Erbswurst]

That's approximately what you have to expect if you nowadays buy a Silva product. Did I already mention that it's Chinese garbage?

That's why I recently bought a Breithaupt Conat 4 compass, directly in the factory in Kassel, because it's cheaper there than in other shops.
It should work fine for the next 40 years, or whatever. Buy once, cry once.

Spare parts for older Breithaupt models are still available by the way.


And I managed to get a used Arwy Sting in DPM and very good condition for 70 €.
And I got some Falke TK1 wool socks in beige. That's very nice!



The Conat 4 is made in Germany, the Arwy Sting in Belgium, the Falke socks also in Germany. The stuff works how expected.

 

[Cuckoo996]

My new OneTigris hammock setup.
Kompound Hammock, 13x10 tarp, Night Protector Underquilt, and the down blanket.

So far they have all been brilliant

 

[Billy-o]

A green mackinaw wool vest made by Filson - I have had it a while but only really got to understand it recently. Same with a Danielsson 7-12 reel. Just takes time for things to sink in.

 

[forrestdweller]

i did NOT buy it -- it was a gift from a very kind and generous form member -- but for me it's the Ben Orford "woodlander" i got in november

i also acored a brandnew "optimus" stove when helping a friend to sort her stuff for a yard sale and in march i got a hammock + 7.5 ft tarp in change for some wooden spoons

 

[Woody girl]

The folding wood stove I got at the wild in us festival, and the one tigris smokey hut from dances with helicopters.
Then there is the swandri coat I have saved and saved for two years to get, which has kept me deliciously warm out in the woodland so far this winter.

 

[Tengu]

Im not sure; Ive been too busy working to do much in the outdoors.

Local OS Maps
Gerber folding stanley knife
paracord odds and ends
vast quantity of belt waste (ie leather thonging)
A tunic and lukha I made from a blanket Tombear sent me yonks ago.

 

[Ozmundo]

I got a Swandri shirt for Christmas, since I can look the part whilst swearing as I fail to get my tinder lit!

I must have been very good as I also got a helikon claymore bag. Now my default bimble luggage instead of a canteen and utility pouch on a belt.

Just got them but I like them a LOT.

I’ve been using a multimat 38 in my bivi bag. I cannot see using anything else outside of summer. Just very comfortable.

 

[GNJC]

Not strictly bushcrafty, but something I use to make stuff for the field...

I finally got around to making a few swaging, fullering and anvil tools that - having made them and found how much easier they make things - lead me to yet again wonder why I was so daft as to have not done it years ago...

 

[Minotaur]

I must have been very good as I also got a helikon claymore bag. Now my default bimble luggage instead of a canteen and utility pouch on a belt.

That really nice. It a shame it does not have double molle on the sides.

 

[Ozmundo]

To be honest I prefer it being relatively slick. There are enough sections to lash things on the outside or attach clips.



Mine has a USGI Canteen cup and stove in one front pocket, nylon tarp set up plus folding mug in the other. Fire kit, wind shield, bcb stove & snacks inside. Whistle, rubble sack, first aid items, note paper and pencils in the outside slots. Sit mat bungied on the bottom. Enough room in it for a meal satchet too and a folding saw or axe on the outside without getting heavy.

The trouble with the bigger satchel was that it is easy to overload it for a comfortable single strap shoulder carry.



Goodbag but mine got used as a mobile filing cabinet. There are cheaper bags for that! Does work as a Break down kit but it I had to walk home I’d rather have a 20L pack.

 

[Van-Wild]

Claymore bags are underrated. I had one years ago (genuine issue) and used it so much I had it tailored, adding a map pocket to the back with velcro closure, velcro closure to the front, and elasticated straps on the inside. On thinking about it, only god knows what happened to it.........

With a quick modification, the genuine issue claymore bag also makes a very good chest rig.......

 

[Ozmundo]

When you look at them it’s really a small development of an age old design. Bags of similar shape and dimensions turn up in Bruegel paintings (as do bumbags), medieval pilgrim scrips, likely Iron Age wool satchels and they probably had them woven from grass in prehistory somewhere.