Desert Island Kits

[Montivagus]

Based, of course, on radio 4’s Desert Island Discs……

Right…In my best Roy Plomley/Sue Lawley/Kirsty Young (!!??) voice let me welcome you to the program and ask you to choose your Desert Island Kits.


Choose the EIGHT items of kit you would save from your kit bag, or wish were in your kit bag, should your ship sink.


Choose a book. I’m giving you a copy of Bushcraft and a copy of Robinson Crusoe in place of the bible and Shakespeare. (No you can’t burn either!)


Choose a luxury. Same as the program rules, it must be inanimate and of no real practical use.


N.B. Fire kit does not count as one piece of kit tinder, steel, wax etc. are all single items!! So think hard!

Da Da Dada Deeeee, Da Da Dada Deee, Da Da, Dada Daa Daaaaa….

 

[copper_head]

Hmmm, desert island eh, well for my eight items I would have
1. My kukhri
2. My large billie pot
3. My tregor PTX knife
4. My fire steel
5. My potassium permangenate (chemical of a thousand uses )
6. my fishing kit
7. My hat
8. A shed load of paracord,

As for my luxury item id go for my didgereedoo (sp)
And for my book its got to be Lord of the Rings (omnibus counts as one yeah? )
Think Id quite like the shakespere still tho

 

[Graham_S]

1. my gransfors sfa
2. my svord drop point
3. bow saw
4. 14cm zebra billy
5. firesteel
6. paracord
7. fishhooks
8. water bladder

the book, robinson crusoe.

the luxury item?
my penny whistle.

anything else i need i can make

 

[Ahjno]

I'm on a tropical island with a white beach, blue-ish water, clear sky and a bright sun, loads of palm and fruit trees etc.

1. Machete / parang / whatever you want to call it.
2. Hammock
3. Mosquitonet
4. Tarp / basha / hootchie (see 1).
5. Fire flash / fero rod (see 1 & 4).
6. Billy can
7. Jungle hat
8. Goggles (so you can see the fishies )

Book: a cookbook with 1001 coconutt recipes
Luxury: toothbrush (I'm a bit of fanatic ... )

 

[outdoorgirl]

OK, my list:

1. GB SFA or similar (only because I'm not skilled with a parang)
2. fixed blade, drop point knife
3. paracord
4. bow saw blade
5. large billy / pot
6. firesteel
7. potassium permanganate
8. beeswax

Book:"Little Grey Men" by B.B.

Luxury: penny whistle

 

[spamel]

My list is purely functional

1. My wife!!
2. My machete for chopping everything!!
3. Zebra billy can for cooking, collecting and even digging!
4. Tilley hat, I'm ginger, I burn!
5. My sharpening stone for 2.
6. A comprehensive fishing kit for 1!!!
7. My fire flash, lasts a lifetime.
8. Hammock.

Book: Difficult one, I've read some really good books lately. Currently reading No Surrender: My Thirty Year War by Hiroo Onoda, it would be a shame to leave it halfway through, even though we all know what happens in the end!! (We can all thank Ray for spoiling the ending on that one!)

Luxury item: 1 is blonde, so I'll take a brunette!!

 

[Toddy]

1. Broad bladed billhook
2. Knife (can't make up my mind on which one, I kind of have "not quite reliable" issues with my laminated blade these days ) maybe my trowel instead
3. Big mozzie net

everything else can be made/ made do, but it'd be nice to have

4. Tarpaulin
5. Wok
6. Antihistamines
7. Firesteel
8. Length of cloth

Luxury item, bottle of rose oil
Book, John Seymour's Self Sufficiency

cheers,
Toddy

 

[kb31]

i would take-1 my woodlander bushcraft knife 2 a firesteel 3 cold steel parang (ya did say island )4 waterbottle 5 metal mug 6 fishing line 7 one of them xmas chocy bars that's like a laptop 8 a phone for when it runs out! jokes aside its a good idea that makes you think-i've got too much gear! could have went on all night if it was'it 8 my book would have be lofty's sas book -luxury item- a shaver

 

[EdS]

If I'm going to be stuck there:

lots of rum
surfboard
canoe
more rum

and a toothbrush.

If I was gonig to be stuck on a island by myself for the rest of my life I might well have t ogo with Joe Simpson's luxury of enouhg booze to drink himself to a happy death.

 

[jdlenton]

If I'm going to be stuck there:

lots of rum
surfboard
canoe
more rum

and a toothbrush.

If I was going to be stuck on a island by myself for the rest of my life I might well have to go with Joe Simpson's luxury of enough booze to drink himself to a happy death.

after having a conversation about a similar challenge at the moot I was thinking of giving the best answer i ever heard to a item challenge like this the items were a boiler suit and 7 bottles of scotch
( thanks sargie ) this challenge means i can add the luxury of a crystal glass to drink it from and an arm chair to sit on.

but i think i might be sensible

1. My 3m x 3m basher.
2. Fishing kit.
3. 16m zebra complete with lid and inner bowl.
4. Fire flash.
5. GB wildlife hatchet.
6. Woodlore clone.
7. Sharpening stone.
8. Para Cord.

Book. - I think I'm going to have to go for a copy of lord of the rings too
Luxury. - a photo of my son

 

[wentworth]

:
3. 16m zebra complete with lid and inner bowl.

a 16 meter zebra!? thats one big billycan! you could sail to safety in that one

 

[Feral]

9' Castnet
Valiant Survival Golok
Hawian Sling ( I carry this almost everywere)
Fire Steel
Mora
Billy
Googles
Water Bladder

Book: Farmers of Fourty Centuries by F.D.King
Luxury: Photo of Family

 

[leon-b]

well

laplander saw - building shelter, cutting wood for pothanger etc
clipper knife - cutting anything
firesteel - get a fire going
12cm billy can - cooking
fishing kit - get me some food
load of paracord - has many uses
3x3 tarp -
hammock

luxury - lighter

 

[Chopper]

Jennifer Love-Hewett

Nothing else, wouldnt have the time to use it.

 

[zackerty]

Mission MPK
Any good diamond sharpener
Paracord
A T10 Parachute with shrouds attached (multiple uses thereof is intended)
Two OZ Hootchies
20 GB MP3 Player loaded with everything by Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper etc
A solar panel for the MP3 player

 

[falling rain]

1 - Army model firesteel
2 - Saami knife
3 - Large Billy - (would make do with Billy Piper from Doctor Who if I couldn't get a large one )
4 - Hammock
5 - Outwell Tarp :umbrella:
6 - Diamond sharpener
7 - Surf rod, reel and assortment of hooks weights , floats (does that count as one? ........please)
8 - Girl Friday (just for company of course)

Luxury item - Extremely Large crate of Beer (inanimate and of no practical use )
Book - Deep survival - Laurence Gonzales

No need for a mozzie net - smudge fire would do the trick - no need for para cord as you'd have an AWFUL lot of time to make cordage

 

[Simon E]

1: Wetterlings #26 Limbing axe (Light enough for 1 hand a relatively fine work, but better than the SFA for heavier work.

2: Laplander saw

3: Large mosquito net

4: Pot (1 qrt)

5: Fire steel

6: Fallkniven F1 or S1 (Stainless)

7: 100m Paracord

8: Pain Meds

9:Book- Eye of the Tiger by Wilbur Smith

10: Luxury 1L of Bundaberg Rum

 

[Zammo]

Isn't it a bit overkill to use three slots for cutting implements?

 

[falling rain]

Isn't it a bit overkill to use three slots for cutting implements?

Quite right Zammo - a few people seem they'd take several cutting implements - a good strong sharp knife (used properly and with imagination) can be pressed into service for most cutting jobs - wrist thick trees can be sliced in a carving type action through, or hacked in a 'V' and then come at from the other side It'd take time but is perfectly possible. A 9 " Saami is a good all round knife or a machette/parang

 

[Zammo]

Ok heres mine:

1. Woodlore knife.
2. Fishing kit.
3. BCB Survival kit.
4. First Aid kit.
5. Billy Can.
6. Tarpaulin.
7. Hammock (one with built in mosquito net and cover).
8. German Army Sleeping bag (converts into a parker).


Book: SAS Survival guide.
Luxury item: Golf set.