Hello there, I'm new to Bushcrafting and could someone help me.
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as its spring why not put some energy into learning wild edibles. collins gem do a pocket size field guide called food for free an its tidy.
Hi ferdinand,
i'm 16 too, relatively new to the forum and from east sussex (as you can see from my username)
My #1 tip: get into scouting quick. there is soo much it can offer you and i pretty m uch dedicate my life to it but you can get involved as much or as little as you wish. Scouting is what really got me interested in the outdoors from camps spent under makeshift shelters in the woods using just my knife and anything i could find. There is only a few guidelines which i really live by. Equipment is helpful but it costs and weighs you down so only take what you need. knowledge is free and weighs nothing. finally, when your take something from nature you should always repay the favour. that way you know that nature will always provide for you when you need it. what's you msn address?
i'm 16 too, relatively new to the forum and from east sussex (as you can see from my username)
My #1 tip: get into scouting quick. there is soo much it can offer you and i pretty m uch dedicate my life to it but you can get involved as much or as little as you wish. Scouting is what really got me interested in the outdoors from camps spent under makeshift shelters in the woods using just my knife and anything i could find. There is only a few guidelines which i really live by. Equipment is helpful but it costs and weighs you down so only take what you need. knowledge is free and weighs nothing. finally, when your take something from nature you should always repay the favour. that way you know that nature will always provide for you when you need it. what's you msn address?
Tengu lass, I think you and I are among the few who aren't gear freaks.
I can sew thanks to my late mother who was a tailoress but never tried stitching leather - it's on my to do list.
Car boots and charity shops are the way to go.
Liam
G'day Ferdinand
If your College studies will lead you into a career that you find interesting and will fund your lifestyle as an Adult, IMO give it all you have
Also IMO, there is simply no substitute for doing. You can read all the information in the world, watch all the shows on youtube, TV, DVD etc but they will not take the place of actually getting out & doing Bushcraft for yourself.
I hope you can find a location & mentor locally :You_Rock_
Kind regards
Mick
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Don't envy me too much, I'm still trapped in college which is BORING
If your College studies will lead you into a career that you find interesting and will fund your lifestyle as an Adult, IMO give it all you have
Also IMO, there is simply no substitute for doing. You can read all the information in the world, watch all the shows on youtube, TV, DVD etc but they will not take the place of actually getting out & doing Bushcraft for yourself.
I hope you can find a location & mentor locally :You_Rock_
Kind regards
Mick
You two are right up there in the gear freakers movement
You two love your gear. Your budget doesn't make you any less a gear freak. You can still get quality gear on zero budget, and you treasure it all the more. The same can be said of saving to get something of quality that you will treasure in the same way. It's the disposable gear freaks and the ones that buy it to keep it all new for the odd day out and as a bushcrafting fashion statement that drive me nuts.
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You are both still gear freaks though
Thanks for adding the word "gear" into the first sentence there.
Yes me too JD, I despair of the disposable afficionados. Though when lugging kit back up the cliff at Andybysea's place I sometimes, just sometimes, wish...
A lot of my gear is 70's/80's throwbacks.
The fact I'm cutting a dash through the cuds in flared jeans is lost on many, as they are tucked into my folded down wellies.
Shang-a-lang!!!
Liam
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Now don't go quoting my quotes before I've edited that quote to quote what I was intending to quote originally. Now re- quote my quote as per the quote that I originally intended to quote with more panache and elegance.
Besides, those flares of yours are actually long trouser skirts.
Le Loup
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The only way to have it so is to do the work yourself. One can wear ready-made clothing, he can exist in ready-furnished rooms, but a ready-made camping outfit is a delusion and a snare. It is sure to be loaded with gimcracks that you have no use for, and to lack something that you will be miserable without.
It is great fun, in the long winter evenings, to sort over your beloved duffel, to make and fit up the little boxes and hold-alls in which everything has its proper place, to contrive new wrinkles that nobody but yourself has the gigantic brain to conceive, to concoct mysterious dopes that fill the house with unsanctimonious smells, to fish around for materials, in odd corners where you have no business, and, generally, to set the female members of the household buzzing around in curiosity, disapproval, and sundry other states of mind.
To be sure, even though a man rigs up his own outfit, he never gets it quite to suit him. Every season sees the downfall of some cherished scheme, the failure of some fond contrivance. Every winter sees you again fussing over your kit, altering this, substituting that, and flogging your wits with the same old problem of how to save weight and bulk without sacrifice of utility. All thoroughbred campers do this as regularly as the birds come back in spring.
And their kind has been doing it since the world began It is good for us. If some misguided genius should invent a camping equipment body that none could find fault with, half our pleasure in life would be swept away.Horace Kephart.
It is great fun, in the long winter evenings, to sort over your beloved duffel, to make and fit up the little boxes and hold-alls in which everything has its proper place, to contrive new wrinkles that nobody but yourself has the gigantic brain to conceive, to concoct mysterious dopes that fill the house with unsanctimonious smells, to fish around for materials, in odd corners where you have no business, and, generally, to set the female members of the household buzzing around in curiosity, disapproval, and sundry other states of mind.
To be sure, even though a man rigs up his own outfit, he never gets it quite to suit him. Every season sees the downfall of some cherished scheme, the failure of some fond contrivance. Every winter sees you again fussing over your kit, altering this, substituting that, and flogging your wits with the same old problem of how to save weight and bulk without sacrifice of utility. All thoroughbred campers do this as regularly as the birds come back in spring.
And their kind has been doing it since the world began It is good for us. If some misguided genius should invent a camping equipment body that none could find fault with, half our pleasure in life would be swept away.Horace Kephart.
Bless up, that's some of the best advice around, it was Scouting that got me into this kinda thing, I'm 30 now and those roots grow deep !! And generally there'ssome wisdom in there too.....good stuff Eastsussexscout, if you're the future we're lookin good, biggup yourself !!
i would say if your going to get out and about as others have said you realy dont need much for a day trip appart from your self.
what i would say is get a good pair of boots if you dont already, a good pair which will last is well worth the money.
ref fire craft, i started with a fire steel (fero rod) and learnt how to get a fire going in the realy wet conditions. then i move onto the bow drill and flint and steel knowing the basics when its wet and horid helps loads and make you apreciate things all the more......
one last thing, if you are totaly brassic asp people, others have helped out from thr site before for begginers and people starting up..... the worst people can say is no...lol
good luck and all the best. keep up with the posts and let us all know hoe you get on.
regards..... chris
what i would say is get a good pair of boots if you dont already, a good pair which will last is well worth the money.
ref fire craft, i started with a fire steel (fero rod) and learnt how to get a fire going in the realy wet conditions. then i move onto the bow drill and flint and steel knowing the basics when its wet and horid helps loads and make you apreciate things all the more......
one last thing, if you are totaly brassic asp people, others have helped out from thr site before for begginers and people starting up..... the worst people can say is no...lol
good luck and all the best. keep up with the posts and let us all know hoe you get on.
regards..... chris
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