Kit that's allowed to be carried on the outside of a rucksack...
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1.Kerosene lamp
2 Sleepingbag
3Towel
Carried by me sometime back in the early 90,s in the mountains of Swaziland.
Also
Waterbottle.
Who cares , if it works do it, not a fashion show.
2 Sleepingbag
3Towel
Carried by me sometime back in the early 90,s in the mountains of Swaziland.
Also
Waterbottle.
Who cares , if it works do it, not a fashion show.
If It's good enough for Knobber Charles Hawtrey to have his pots n pans hanging off his Rucksack it's good enough for me
Also any chance of a Rucksack I.D. Please
Also any chance of a Rucksack I.D. Please
Fantastic Lucan , His legs are bigger than mine mine look like 2 fags hanging out of a packet !
Great when a thread, takes a serious note and makes infrequent posters voice their opinion ( isn't that the whole point of a forum?)
I would love to think the pack was an early Campri ? like the one my parents forced on me as a child for Ten Tors , he also looks like he had the same waterproof , an awful Peter Storm , fold up in it's own chest pocket thing (rubbish ) in yellow !
Great when a thread, takes a serious note and makes infrequent posters voice their opinion ( isn't that the whole point of a forum?)
I would love to think the pack was an early Campri ? like the one my parents forced on me as a child for Ten Tors , he also looks like he had the same waterproof , an awful Peter Storm , fold up in it's own chest pocket thing (rubbish ) in yellow !
I think after reading this thread I'm going to strap my steel mug and any other metal items I have to the outside of my pack so the constant clinking can act like a lepers bell, warning others that a knobber is coming!
I don't know what's funnier, the thread as I read it, or if people are actually serious about it! Lol
Cheers
Mat (knobber extraodinaire)
But my dear chap this is a serious issue - how can anyone possibly be a real bushcrafter if they look like a travelling scrapheap?
It realy is not the image that a dude with any kind of cred could possibly contemplate - remember we wear a uniform out there to show how credible we are as real outdoorsmen (and women)!
Or is that credulous?
Lol. Nah, Bear isn't really that big, it's a down jacket
Not sure it he was refering to Bear.
I suppose you could hang expensive Titanium mugs, pans and kettles from your pack, put them on show sort of thing. Also if you've splashed out mega bucks on a really expensive high altitude/five season/Antarctic sleeping bag for your spring overnight camps in the home counties that should be on the outside of your pack too, label on display obviously.
Aw, Ivan. That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said about me.
The knobber bit I mean, I assume the rest was cruel sarcasm! John, you've brought me to a painful realisation, bushcrafting is a young mans game, and there comes a time when you have to accept it's time to step to the side of the path and let the new generation go marching by.
it's funny, *chokes back the tears* I always thought I'd know myself when it was time to hang up my ferro rod and become just another.... camper. But I guess it just kinda crept up on me..... Anyway, I'll phone Ray in the morning and tell him I resign my position in the bushcrafter ranks. To be honest now it's down in print, it, it feels like a weight's been lifted off my shoulders, and I don't think I could take many more of Rays beatdowns for uniform infringements. I was in hospital a good week last time, and that was just for tying my laces incorrectly!
Well it's been great knowing you all, and I wish you many more happy years of bushcrafting, and not too many beatings.
Your friend
Mat (exbushcrafter)
John, you've brought me to a painful realisation, bushcrafting is a young mans game, and there comes a time when you have to accept it's time to step to the side of the path and let the new generation go marching by.
Anyway, I'll phone Ray in the morning and tell him I resign my position in the bushcrafter ranks. To be honest now it's down in print, it, it feels like a weight's been lifted off my shoulders, and I don't think I could take many more of Rays beatdowns for uniform infringements. I was in hospital a good week last time, and that was just for tying my laces incorrectly!
Well it's been great knowing you all, and I wish you many more happy years of bushcrafting, and not too many beatings.
Your friend
Mat (exbushcrafter)
I have decided!
Well - if bushcrafting has been hijacked by the young then us 50+ers should band together and become "Bushcrafters" - note the capital!
Bushcrafters do it their way!
LOL at the entire thread...serious or not it's an entertaining read.
However, there is definitely one thing that if attached to your sack would make you a VERY unpopular knobber...and that would be a pair of abandoned poo laden kecks...
Sack
However, there is definitely one thing that if attached to your sack would make you a VERY unpopular knobber...and that would be a pair of abandoned poo laden kecks...
Sack
Although your not retired yet John you will be a 'Snowbird' (retired and enjoying life) in the not so distant future so here you go, welcome to the club
I want a red horn...
I think wooden spoons should be binned or shoved somewhere they cant be seen. Only titanium spoons to be hung on the outside.
I think wooden spoons should be binned or shoved somewhere they cant be seen. Only titanium spoons to be hung on the outside.
I am sure that Bob is just having some fun fellas!
Btw, I think the shoes are Grensons, 'The Good Shoe'!
da C.
Btw, I think the shoes are Grensons, 'The Good Shoe'!
da C.
Many thanks RikAlthough your not retired yet John you will be a 'Snowbird' (retired and enjoying life) in the not so distant future so here you go, welcome to the club
Unfortunately it looks like I will never retire - no personal or work pension and the State Pension seems to move further away every year!
I just need to win the lottery!
Perhaps I should buy a ticket.....
That badge would look great embroidered onto the outside of my pack!
Although your not retired yet John you will be a 'Snowbird' (retired and enjoying life) in the not so distant future so here you go, welcome to the club
Ah. But to be a true snowbird, you have to migrate south every Winter. That's why the retired yankees and Canuks all come to Florida for the winter.
"Ah. But to be a true snowbird, you have to migrate south every Winter. That's why the retired yankees and Canuks all come to Florida for the winter."
I'm British and I'll be in Gran Canaria every year though its more SSW The weather is just as good but it doesn't get the tornados
I'm British and I'll be in Gran Canaria every year though its more SSW
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