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Course not mate... none of us would... Getting caught would not go down well with the Mrs.
2008...Defo the peak of all things BCUk lol.It does seem to me that 2008 was a good year for joiners!!
I was thinking this site is quiet. Once I used to have to come on here every couple of hours to keep up with discussions. Now it is maybe once a week at most!! However the value of the content can be very good or of no interest depending on your varied interests and POV. I think I will continue coming here but the frequency will remain lower until things start to pick up to 2008 levels. I hope it happens.
I am on Reddit too. I think Reddit has taken over where forums have lost out in the modern world as it is now. Some reddits are highly active others are 13 member strong zones of online death though. If you hit the zeitgeist you will do well. When it leaves you then you are left to the hardcore remainers. On here those are very knowledgable people. However I get the impression some older members have lost interest as things repeat themselves over the decades people end up visiting here. I will keep dropping in and out like all the forums I used to find were busy but not now. Some less so as they are still busy but with political warriors not talking about the subject of the forum unless they can get an argument going. This becomes tiresome at times. This is not here fortunately so I will come back.
PS in case you have not found out about it, you can ignore me if you so wish.
Things wont pick up, if we just wait for it to happen Paul. Ever.
All of us older (membership wise) lot, must have 10 years of stuff to talk about we've never mentioned.. easily. Doesnt have to be repetitive. Might not all be bushcraft related, but we have a section for that. Forums don't thrive when restricted to a sole topic, Even though said topic is the reason the forum exists.
So why not tell us what you've done/found in the woods? We never stop learning John. What have you learnt, that's new to you in the last year or so? Do you still write for magazines? I still have the copy of Gunmart on my book shelf that you reviewed one of my Eagles in.
Some things are interesting to many, others to only a few. It's always been that way. IF a post is a bout some hi tech gizmo, only a few will care, if a post is about something more general which most can relate to, or at least contribute to, it will do better. Kit chatter is kinda boring, bushcraft chatter is kinda middling, other chatter is more relatable to all of us. Needs to be a balance of each... as i said before, people are people, we all have lives, and lives are often similar. threads like How to keep energy costs down... or, i have a load of apples, what can i cook with them, how can i preserve them... apply to more people than someone needing a certain torch with a billion lumens and a battery that lasts for days.. which might only matter to a couple.
Cant have the good threads if people dont ask the questions... and even with the good threads, theres always gonna be the more specific niche stuff. Standard forum life.
Only reason theres a lack of the better threads, is because people have stopped asking the better questions.
That does help lol. Nice photos mate. and that barn/hut and bench are awesome. Rustic as they come. Love the log crotch window.I’ve been about for 15 years and still post drivel regularly. 15 years ago it was all Ray and Bear, making shelters, hammocking, firesteel firelighting etc. I’ve still got 3 hammocks, but you wouldn’t find me out in the woods under a tarp scraping away at a firesteel and tinder. But I do still post pics of walks, or campervan life and outdoors stuff. Today, to cheers Mark up, the closest I’ve got to bushcrafting
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I’m sat in this hut with the dog eating a sandwich. I have with me a tiny Ti stove, a pot, some Bovril, and water but it’s not a cold day so I’ll not bother with a hot drink.
Also on board is an ESSE3 knife, a FAK, and a folding walking pole.
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Spent many a night in a campervan or static the last few years... our lasses parents are mad for them. Bit small for me... being 6'3. The beds tend to be a little on the shorter side, but still, makes a nice change. Hope you're well mate. Good to see you still around.
Fully retired now but still making stuff - see https://bushcraftuk.com/community/threads/my-covid-19-and-later-projects.154805/
Still going into the woods - next trip starts tomorrow - but do not post about my trips as none of the others I go with are members of this site and there are "privacy Issues"...
When I do post stuff then it tends to get a little footfall https://bushcraftuk.com/community/t...fire-windlass-and-more-things-to-make.166634/
Ive got a job in the Scottish Iron Age and am moving up there permanently.
I struggled to find a job, but it seems all I needed to do was wait for the right one.
I struggled to find a job, but it seems all I needed to do was wait for the right one.
For veterans, chewing old gum is not interesting, there are few new ones. The trend is gone, it's real. Just like the skateboarding or surfing hype. Millennials live on the internet.
I have had running buscraft forum in other languages at best time was 50 every day online and 14000 total members. Finely was 3 online best content was just stolen and put in FB or YouTube
I have had running buscraft forum in other languages at best time was 50 every day online and 14000 total members. Finely was 3 online best content was just stolen and put in FB or YouTube
I really love that way of approaching it, yes!
Like a knife or a hat or a kettle, none of them nag for my attention, they just stay until I need them.
A boiling kettle is sometimes a reason for fairly fast action.
So not a member of SBUKFS (Society of Bushcrafters Unnecessary Knife Fondling and Sharpening? Well done! Keep up the clean living!
No shame for those that are members….
My mother used to be a pirate radio DJ and had a huge amount of vinyl. I'd give a lot to still have access to that collection.I still miss my vinyl; I should never have given it away
I drove past near there in June fully intent on popping in; sorry, but seriously, I couldn't make head or tail out of what was there from the website (no opening times, no details of what was on, no pricing) so decided to wait until it's more established. The web site is now much more informative and helpful and I will stop next time I'm up that way, promise
Our story is a little different. We had a good long look at our lives & said if we hanker for a cabin in the sticks, why don't we get as close as we can. So we gave up the corporate jobs & went for it 15 years ago. It's not really Bushcraft but we heat & cook with wood, grow & preserve our fruit and veg, raise & slaughter livestock, butcher deer in the workshop & forage the foreshore, hunt & trap That said it's more like homesteading than Bushcraft. We document a lot of it on YouTube & Instagram because that gives a small income to pay the council tax etc. We also write for magazines for the same reason. I still love Bushcraft but I think self sufficiency & homesteading makes the simple life a daily occurrence rather than an occasional escape. It's not easy or cheap & it's not for everyone, but it suits us
I used to post a lot more than i do now, the main reason being a few years ago i was knocked sideways by sudden onset severe illness and im currently awaiting multiple surgeries and am now medically housebound until such time i turn into the bionic man after my operations, so i'm basically limited as to what i can do.
I post up my spoons and whittling but i don't post all of them as i'm conscious that it can get very repetitive/boring to look at yet another wooden spoon/try stick/feather stick/wooden flower/wood wizard etc etc etc, my shrafting is basically limited to what i can see from a couple of windows (thankfully i back onto fields and farmland so there is always something to see) or what i can do/make sat at a computer desk or the dining room table with the limited materials friends and family can gather from my workshop/wood pile or garden, hopefully once i've had my surgeries I will be a lot more mobile than i am now and i can get a few more posts up that have varied subjects.
I do enjoy reading posts about peoples adventures or their crafting projects and i'm certainly guilty of just hitting that "like" button more often than not, rather than posting up a reply, i guess it's just the convenience of the button that's made it the preferred and lazy option to typing in a reply.
Likewise, i read a lot of the posts but tend not to comment on them most of the time, guess as i've gotten older i can do without the drama queens (thankfully few and far between on here) and i stay out of emotive threads on purpose, bar the odd "like button" here and there to show support to well written replies, which most of the time say more or less what i think or would have typed in as a reply anyway.
With all that being said and as others have alluded to, BCUK has done well to survive the onslaught of unsocial media where people want instant gratification and the thrill of being an overnight internet (in their minds) celebrity just because their latest post of them 'smuggling peanuts' got a couple of thousand likes.
Perhaps i should post more of what i get up to, it might help others in similar situations, certainly the limited housebound shrafting i can do has helped keep me sane, even if it's just turning a half inch Hazel stick into a a quarter inch hazel stick and producing a pile of shavings, one of the things i enjoy at present as i can lose myself in it, is to grab a stick, carve it roughly to remove the bark and leave lots of facets and tear outs, then carve that stick so it's as smooth as i can possibly make it, it's totally pointless, but it keeps my mind occupied and the hands and arms working, but it's not really worth a post (or is it), who really wants to see a smooth stick, it's not that interesting to anyone apart from me.
Enough of this babble, time to hobble to the kitchen for a coffee and some Digestives to dunk (Barneys Biscuits and Brews and yes Barney i sang that in my head as i typed it)
I post up my spoons and whittling but i don't post all of them as i'm conscious that it can get very repetitive/boring to look at yet another wooden spoon/try stick/feather stick/wooden flower/wood wizard etc etc etc, my shrafting is basically limited to what i can see from a couple of windows (thankfully i back onto fields and farmland so there is always something to see) or what i can do/make sat at a computer desk or the dining room table with the limited materials friends and family can gather from my workshop/wood pile or garden, hopefully once i've had my surgeries I will be a lot more mobile than i am now and i can get a few more posts up that have varied subjects.
I do enjoy reading posts about peoples adventures or their crafting projects and i'm certainly guilty of just hitting that "like" button more often than not, rather than posting up a reply, i guess it's just the convenience of the button that's made it the preferred and lazy option to typing in a reply.
Likewise, i read a lot of the posts but tend not to comment on them most of the time, guess as i've gotten older i can do without the drama queens (thankfully few and far between on here) and i stay out of emotive threads on purpose, bar the odd "like button" here and there to show support to well written replies, which most of the time say more or less what i think or would have typed in as a reply anyway.
With all that being said and as others have alluded to, BCUK has done well to survive the onslaught of unsocial media where people want instant gratification and the thrill of being an overnight internet (in their minds) celebrity just because their latest post of them 'smuggling peanuts' got a couple of thousand likes.
Perhaps i should post more of what i get up to, it might help others in similar situations, certainly the limited housebound shrafting i can do has helped keep me sane, even if it's just turning a half inch Hazel stick into a a quarter inch hazel stick and producing a pile of shavings, one of the things i enjoy at present as i can lose myself in it, is to grab a stick, carve it roughly to remove the bark and leave lots of facets and tear outs, then carve that stick so it's as smooth as i can possibly make it, it's totally pointless, but it keeps my mind occupied and the hands and arms working, but it's not really worth a post (or is it), who really wants to see a smooth stick, it's not that interesting to anyone apart from me.
Enough of this babble, time to hobble to the kitchen for a coffee and some Digestives to dunk (Barneys Biscuits and Brews and yes Barney i sang that in my head as i typed it)
