Mixed Stuff

[TheViking]

Take a look at these links containing different camp gadgets, pionnering models etc. :biggthump

Camp Gadgets
Bridges
Miscellaneous
Gateways & Towers
Camp Cookbook

Well, a bit to spend the evening on. ack:

 

[Stew]

Cor, I haven't done any pioneering since I was in Scouts.

We used to make Monkey Bridges fairly often.

Nice find!

 

[mr dazzler]

Me neither Stew. Did you do aerial runways as well?? Health & safety would have a fit if it was done now how we did it back then. No-one was ever seriously hurt though-just dislocated fingers or shoulders every now and then, cuts, bruises, rope burns etc. What a buzz though whizzing downhill through the trees at mach 2. You were supposed to have a brakeman but sometimes he'd sort of quit, and laugh as some nervous lad went to his doom (usually over the edge into the river).We used to make them gadget type things pot holders, cooking canopies from pioneering poles, (although we always took the poles to the site and never cut our own). French arrows (another H & S shocker!! :roll: ) They go through tents even :roll:
Ah, happy memories of being daft and 14. Maybe "happy scouting anecdotes" would be a good thread??

MR D :wave:

 

[bushwacker bob]

Well done Andy.your a fount of information :biggthump

 

[Stew]

Me neither Stew. Did you do aerial runways as well??

Only a few.

French arrows (another H & S shocker!! :roll: ) They go through tents even :roll:

Do tell more!

Ah, happy memories of being daft and 14. Maybe "happy scouting anecdotes" would be a good thread??

One pioneering memory that does stick in my head was an unsuccesful attempt on camp, but at building what I can't remember. Skip (our Scout leader) wanted to start by getting a rope looped over a high tree branch.The tree was unclimbable so he tied a mallet to the end of the rope, then threw it up high.

It got stuck.

We must have had the entire troop hanging off the rope and yanking it about. We tried everything.

Would it move? Would it buggery.

Of course by the time we had decided that it was stuck forever, it was time to finish!

 

[mr dazzler]

Well what happened was we all made these French arrers out of thin saplings and playing cards,sharpened the points & launched em with boot laces, and they didnt half fly, right through tents as we discovered when we held a french arrer archery contest to see whose would fly furthest, using the camp site as a firing range. We got really into it-trying different trajecteries, string lengths etc. Luckily no one was "at home" when the missile hit. It was good character (????) building fun-all them lads did well later on in life (apart from one who shot someone dead). :roll: