Cambridgeshire

[Whittler Kev]

I'm at BMF in Peterborough this weekend

 

[rickyamos]

Have a good one Kev, pop in if you get the chance for a coffee, only down the road at Wittering

 

[Whittler Kev]

Thanks for the offer but hopefully I shall be partying too hard to drive he he

 

[rickyamos]

Big up the Harley bushcraft chapter

 

[Whittler Kev]

I know it's hard to believe but the Quad reg document and tax arrived today from the DVLA (only took 7 months of hassle and they still gave me a Q plate so it's dearer to insure dagnabit). Got it insured though for £130 so wohoo. Guess how I'll be getting to the woods now?

 

[Crowe]

Good result Kev, should help the access issues. Will a Goldy trailer fit ? !!
ATB Crowe

 

[Whittler Kev]

Got a towbar on it but no light socket at the mo. Could do with one of them to fit behind the bikes as well

 

[Whittler Kev]

Looks like a day down Upwell Road at Skolding Woods is called for this weekend me thinks

 

[Whittler Kev]

Have you seen this about the air gun ban in Scotland (I saw it in another thread)? Some reckon it's coming here soon

 

[Damascus]

Logistically Kev, a bloody nightmare and costs, the country as it is strapped for cash, to implement this and enforce it would cost millions and millions. I would be surprised if it did come into force and as we know criminals will be the first to ensure their gun is registered, bit like the hand gun ban!

thats not to say it won't happen, but that will run into politics then............

 

[Whittler Kev]

I hope your right. Don't use mine hardly at all but like to keep them about

 

[Whittler Kev]

Been down Skolding Woods today to settle the mind as such.
Everything still wet and needed the wellies on. Loads of dead on the ground and new trees blown over


Stinging nettles are over 4' tall in places ( as high as the Quads bars)


The trees have some new growth about 1/2 way up. Brill as the canopy's so high


Anyway had a play and made a pot pourer I saw on an American scouts website

This is it pouring with the pot horizontal

and had a go at using my swiss army knife to get an ember.
Scraped the inner bark to get dust off of some dead willow bark using the can opener and used the magnifying glass to get an ember. Very little undiffused sun in the woods but managed it


Click these two links to watch the videos



Not sure if this is a new badger set or a fox hole. All the sites say a badger set is D shaped with the flat bit at the bottom but this is rounder.

Been too much rain to get paw prints

Can't make out the tracks very well but not many bones about like a fox hole would have


Does have a latrine dug though I reckon

 

[Leigh Robinson]

Saturday at the lakes was a wash out. I did get the bow drill working though

The tracks are swamp so no access for a while
[video=youtube;Mw_KKfFBUXs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded& v=Mw_KKfFBUXs[/video]

 

[Crowe]

I like the pot holder. That's really clever
Crowe

 

[Whittler Kev]

I love this bowdrill vid - Form not effort!
[video=youtube;PlxujVPiN6U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlxujVPiN6U[/video]

 

[Leigh Robinson]

I will see your Bow drill vid and raise it with a hand drill vid

[video=youtube_share;AooZSDchZhs]http://youtu.be/AooZSDchZhs[/video]

Even uncle Ray doesn't have this good form! So many bad hand drill demos out there.

I've got a working bowdrill set now and quite comfortable with it so this is my next project. I can't wait to have a go.

 

[jacko1066]

I will see your Bow drill vid and raise it with a hand drill vid

[video=youtube_share;AooZSDchZhs]http://youtu.be/AooZSDchZhs[/video]

Even uncle Ray doesn't have this good form! So many bad hand drill demos out there.

I've got a working bowdrill set now and quite comfortable with it so this is my next project. I can't wait to have a go.

See the hand drill has always fascinated me more than the bow drill!! Iv never managed to get flame with a bow drill but never actually tried the hand drill!! I must have a go at some point!!


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[Whittler Kev]

And by the look of his boots everywhere was wet :Wow:
and it was raining

 

[Whittler Kev]

Here he makes a hand drill set (Burdock on Willow) - ember in the snow :Wow:
(So much for RM saying it'd too wet in the UK. Reckon he does the fire plough as well)
[video=youtube;bHPwkuH3tXg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHPwkuH3tXg[/video]

 

[Whittler Kev]

His courses seem pretty reasonable as well.
Knife making is starting with a piece of steel, shaping, heat treating and handling for £140 for the day. Take your own hand made knife home with you