Comparison camping

[ex-member Raikey]

brilliant,..

the first comparison i will make is our report,...

Dave went into detail on his set up,...where as i seemed more preoccupied with the monsters and noisey wildlife...

lol at the grandma tho,...

bummer with the forgotten breakie,..my moorhen ommlette was lush ta very much,..

cheers to you too mate,..maybe we'll sling the hammocks in the same woods sometime ...

 

[Retired Member southey]

Hey you never know,sorry i mean, you will never know im there!:yikes::borgsmile

 

[Retired Member southey]

I wish i could have had a fire, Later in the year it wont be a problem, were you chilly at all mate, my feet were freezing in the morning, but that may have been down to them sitting slightly above the underbag,

 

[SCOMAN]

Great tale guys, kept my spirits up on a bleak Monday morning. It also spurred me on to consider my hammock, I haven't had it out since I moved up here and whilst it was in the back of my truck during my recent foray to the Outer Hebrides I couldn't find another thing to hang one end of it off(the other would have been the truck itself).

 

[ex-member Raikey]

i got the usual early morning chill, but in honesty nothing that would have kept me awake,...

and all on a bed of leaves and my magical woolen blanky,...

i did have a fair few clothes on tho,.....layers,...its all about the layers man!

vest, tee, long sleeve tech layer, hoody, and a dutch army coat, two pair of sock the old damart ljohns, and some jeans,..

thats not counting the stone of fat i,m carrying nowadays,..

plus my fire was still smouldering at 6am,..but that may have been more phycological than owt else,,

 

[Retired Member southey]

Word to the fire! I was (warning!! mental image !!warning) in my undies socks pants and a tee shirt and a pair of thin gloves, but i think i need to dig out me bivvie boots, never sufferd with cold extremitys befor though, Uh OH! is 31 getting old? am i going to have to start making noises when i sit down?

 

[ex-member Raikey]

lmao,...there you go then,...its the nakedness that kept you awake,...hahahah ***!..

i,ve been making noises when i sit down for ages,...

One of the lads who normally comes with me is 43, and he was most upset that he did,nt get an invite this weekend,

so we,ve planned a two nighter without the kids tho cos its gettin nippy,....

looking at second week in Dec,

and then were gonna do a snow one,...

the first weekend we get where theres snow down were off,...he has visions of building a shelter with a fire and reflector,..

i need to do some reading 1st tho,...

 

[Man of Tanith]

Uh OH! is 31 getting old? am i going to have to start making noises when i sit down?

i already do that and i'm not yet 29!

Raikey i'm planning on doing a few tests with reflectors and fires the next few times i go out camping and plan on pposting the results when i have done them see this thread
for details of my nerdy plan

 

[ex-member Raikey]

i already do that and i'm not yet 29!

Raikey i'm planning on doing a few tests with reflectors and fires the next few times i go out camping and plan on pposting the results when i have done them see this thread
for details of my nerdy plan

yes mate i read it with interest,..i think i posted on there too ,..

i,m waiting for the result of your test before i venture out!!

learn from other peoples mistakes and all that,...

keep us posted man,...

Stu

 

[Man of Tanith]

first test this weekend
need to get my mits on another thermometer so i can have two set up one in front of fire and one a goodly distance away from fire so i have a control temp.
fingers crossed i will find one tomorrow in millets/blacks then good to go. specially as lisa's dad has donated a pile of logs that look ideal for the reflector(s)

 

[Retired Member southey]

Hey what about three, one either side of the reflector and the one in your shelter perhapse,

 

[Man of Tanith]

cant justify buying another two when its only for a little experiment
one in shelter one five metres away from fire should be sufficient, one to give outside temperature one to give temp infront of fire in shelter thus allowing me to do some maths and find temp difference

 

[ex-member Raikey]

thus allowing me to do some maths and find temp difference

Stephen Hawkin ?? pah!!

 

[Man of Tanith]

all my D grades in maths at gcse (i got 4 of em) is being used in this experiment!

 

[ex-member Raikey]

all my D grades in maths at gcse (i got 4 of em) is being used in this experiment!

hahah serious tho man,...a good valid one this, i,m lookin forward to it...

is it this weekend??

 

[Man of Tanith]

seriously i got four, was made to resit it three times after the original D grade, some would take the hint after the second or third but my very clever teachers insisted until i refused to resit it a fifth time.
its this weekend for the first experiment of reflector with just logs, if i get bored it may turn into a full on all three ideas test out

 

[Nat]

Great piks guys you lucky buggers.

 

[Ronnie]

Excellent thread, lads.

I want some of Raikey's insulting tape - be useful on so many occasions.