BOMB PROOF EQUIPMENT

[Erbswurst]

Which Equipment do you use since more than 30 years and it's still fine?

 

[Tengu]

Bulldog billies

SAK

 

[beachlover]

Barbour Border Jacket
Barbour Westmoreland Waistcoat
Barbour Durham Jacket
Berghaus Munro
Optimus 8R Stove
Trangia 25 Cookset

 

[John Fenna]

Trangia burners
Home made billies - old biscuit tins with wire handles
SAK
Silva compass

 

[Robson Valley]

My Coleman "green box" and mantle lantern both turned 40 last summer.
Still convenient. Kids are gone so I've bought a Coleman 533 single for my own outings.

I've been using a butane cartrige unit in power failures that I bought in Australia in 1969.
Not the greatest heat output but 100% reliable.

 

[Janne]

Trangia
RedWing Setter boots ( on third soles though)

 

[nobby8126]

Norgie shirt (not quite 30 years but close)

 

[Ettrick reiver]

My 88 year old fathers catapult that he made when he was 7 ! It’s had a few changes of elastic mind !
Ettrick Reiver

 

[MrEd]

My Land Rover

 

[Erbswurst]

Don't you use it or did you replace every single piece of it, or is it a car from the sixties?

My brother has to buy a new Ford Transit motor after he used his brand new Defender for round about 180 thousand kilometres.
That had been more 3 years than 30 !

 

[Janne]

How did he manage to destroy his Defender?
Even if he ruined the engine, they are easy to replace.

 

[Nomad64]

Today I’ve mostly been using;

Stihl 024 AV Super chainsaw made in W Germany sometime in the 1980s



Nash billhook and Gilpin axe made in UK probably in the 1960s



Ferguson TE20 Tractor made in the UK early in the 1950s.



Hopefully the Stihl will prove as durable as the Brit kit!

 

[Janne]

Aaahhhh, a Ferguson tractor. Iconic.
Post WW2, it was the tractor that most larger farmers got in Western Europe, as the Germans had taken the prewar tractors.

 

[oldtimer]

Sierra cup -45 years
Bushmans Friend - 50 years
Silva compass - 55 years
Wife - 58 years

 

[Broch]

Karrimor Panther 65 Rucksack (Old style, old Karrimor as in K SF now)
A Saunders Spacepacker LW tent
Series 3 Land Rover 88" (all 100% original except the consumables)
Frost hunting knife
My Grandfather's Gilpin's axe
1892 John Harrison & Sons felling axe
My double kayak that I built when I was 16
Numerous wood-working tools 80 to 100 years old ……..

The list goes on; I love old gear with a bit of soul

 

[robevs73]

Berghaus Roc
Cold Steel Recon Scout and master hunter.

 

[Erbswurst]

Janne, his Defender is fine!

It's just the Ford Engine in it, that's broken.

God bless America!

 

[MrEd]

Don't you use it or did you replace every single piece of it, or is it a car from the sixties?

My brother has to buy a new Ford Transit motor after he used his brand new Defender for round about 180 thousand kilometres.
That had been more 3 years than 30 !

its a late 80's defender. engine change because the old one was a non-turbo diesel and it was gutless, i rebuilt and dropped a 200tdi diesel engine in. Apart from service items, and the odd wheel bearing etc its all original. Its my second car and as such only does about 5000km a year.

defenders after the TD5 (about 1999) are shite.

 

[MrEd]

Today I’ve mostly been using;

Stihl 024 AV Super chainsaw made in W Germany sometime in the 1980s

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Nash billhook and Gilpin axe made in UK probably in the 1960s

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Ferguson TE20 Tractor made in the UK early in the 1950s.

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Hopefully the Stihl will prove as durable as the Brit kit!

you win

 

[GuestD]

My Land Rover

As a matter of interest, how much is original ? Any 30+ year old Landy up here would be on chassis number 2 or 3.

My Trianga is 35 years old, and my Kelly kettle is about the same