Small Meet in Aberdeenshire [Pic Heavy]

[Pandabean]

Four of us (me, Charleslockerbie, CBJ & his brother) decided to go for a couple nights stay over nearby. Dingus Magee & daveblack came over on Sunday for a cuppa and a chat.

We arrived Friday evening and would have set off on time but someone got lost. Aint that right Craig?
It was a bit of a climb to get to the site and about a mile or two's walk from there to a nice isolated place....only saw 2 people all weekend but none down the path where we were.

We practiced a few bushycrafty things, made a table and bench, nearly all natural until we ran out of spruce roots and used paracord for the bench ties, we tried a swedish fire torch using birch bark, split sticks and pine resin, made some pine glue.

Saturday was wet to say the least. Rained from when we got up til 4-5pm, luckily Chaz had brought along his parachute so we set that up over some poles as there was no suitable places to hang the rope from.

The midges weren't too bad.

Plus I also realised I either need to get a new small camera or start lugging the SLR around as the small one is starting to die now after 7-8 years of use.

Enjoy the pics.....

Since there was peat underneath we set the fire up one some cut logs and layers of moss and wet logs. Did really well with this and no resulting fire scar.

My bed for the weekend:

Bushcraft TV

Chaz well on his way to becoming the undead...

Torch:

Yummmm lunch.....

 

[charleslockerbie]

Was a great weekend, good to catch up with Dingus Magee and DaveBlack on the Sunday too.

 

[danny358]

looks like a great weekend out. and good pics.

 

[Toddy]

Looks like a good weekend, despite the weather

How long did you manage to get the spruce roots ?

Thanks for sharing the photos

cheers,
M

 

[HHazeldean]

Looks like a great weekend.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[kiltedpict]

Looks like a good time was had by all!

 

[toilet digger]

nice, fire is particularly impressive.

 

[Barn Owl]

Great pics.

 

[Pandabean]

How long did you manage to get the spruce roots ?

Craig managed to get two long ones from an uprooted pine and we quartered them so that was enough for the four corners on the table. I would say they were a good few feet long.

 

[Partickpebbles]

Nice little trip that and like the pics,very clever! Thanks for sharing.

 

[PaulSanderson]

looks like a great time was had...thanks for sharing...

 

[Pandabean]

Seems work has banned access to photobucket and flickr uploading

Anyways attached are a few more pics.

The two views are from early in the morning, shortly after being woken by a barking deer. The third pic shows the full use of the table, which could comfortably take two people no problem.

Hopefully Craig has a few more, especially of the glue.

 

[CBJ]

Me get Lost!!! never I was exploring alternative routes .
It was a great weekend even though it rained hard on the Sat. The scenery was beautifull. We learned lots of stuff and were able to make a few things up which I was very impressed with.
The light pics came out great mate.

Toddy: the spruce routes were about 2-2 1/2 ft long it was unfortunate that we ran out as they held the bench up very well indeed.

Here are some of my pics enjoy

On the trail:

Our raised fire:

The camp site:

The glue ( Made from pine sap, charcoal from the fire and horse manure)

The Table and bench:

The swedish torch:

"Captin Bushcraft" even made an apperance:

atb
Craig

 

[Pandabean]

Great pics Craig. Never got any of the glue though.

The picture of the stick with the black stuff in the middle is actually 2 sticks joined together and it was pretty strong.

 

[Graywolf]

Looks like a great time was had by all,thnx for sharing .