To me it looks a little heavy
Just weighed the tacpac and all gear inside...2.75kg or 6lbs
that shouldnt give me any encumbrance penalty based on my strength attribute
To me it looks a little heavy
Just weighed the tacpac and all gear inside...2.75kg or 6lbs
that shouldnt give me any encumbrance penalty based on my strength attribute
Hewards Handy Tacticalpack+3 Webbing of Popeye should be worn.
I wish I had has a grappling hook in Aldi's last week.
I wanted some pop but the last bottles were at the back out of my reach.
So I had to take my bandana off and lasso them with it.
A grappling hook would have been so much more convenient
Sadly I had most of the kit in that article. All good fun. I loved Survival Aids!Here's an article from a 1984 Survival News. The basic concept remains the same I guess.
(the pdf will probably open upside down...my aging scanner software tends to flip everything)
I rember reading survival aids on the bus to school when I was 10Sadly I had most of the kit in that article. All good fun. I loved Survival Aids!
Happy days.Sadly I had most of the kit in that article. All good fun. I loved Survival Aids!
The Survival Aids catalog needed me to win the lottery. The time I spent drooling over that.Sadly I had most of the kit in that article. All good fun. I loved Survival Aids!
If you still have one of those catalogues, I would love to buy a scanned/photocopy?! I was fortunate enough to work for the company for a while and we were given a 50% discount on any gear we wished to buy. We also only worked a 4-day week and were encouraged to have a long weekend each month to take gear out into the hills and test it. Great days and the MD who established the company was a true visionary. He pioneered the way for a lot of good and hard-to-find gear to enter the UK market.The Survival Aids catalog needed me to win the lottery. The time I spent drooling over that.
I might have a copy, it would be in the loft at my Mums if it survived the various binnings. I will try and look at the weekend because I am curious as well.If you still have one of those catalogues, I would love to buy a scanned/photocopy?!
Did you have the Rucksack which had a waist belt that was a climbing harness?I was fortunate enough to work for the company for a while and we were given a 50% discount on any gear we wished to buy. We also only worked a 4-day week and were encouraged to have a long weekend each month to take gear out into the hills and test it. Great days and the MD who established the company was a true visionary. He pioneered the way for a lot of good and hard-to-find gear to enter the UK market.
Thank you, that would be great if you have one - I had a stack of them, all gone now. I like old-school catalogues from that era as they often had more than just a technical sales pitch in them. There was a Swedish company called Caravan that used to run stories of canoe camping and trekking in the Scandinavian wilderness, as well as providing specs on their Gucci down sleeping bags and waistcoats! Like the old Fjallraven catalogues did too.I might have a copy, it would be in the loft at my Mums if it survived the various binnings. I will try and look at the weekend because I am curious as well.
Did you have the Rucksack which had a waist belt that was a climbing harness?
Always wondered what that was like. For a long time one of my dream destinations was the shop and I never managed it.
Yes correct, the Aldershot shop was right beside the station. I think there was another branch in Glasgow.I visited the Euston shop lots. Unless my memory is playing tricks, I think they had a place in Aldershot? I'm pretty sure I got a Berghaus Cyclops Roc there.
Anyway, back to survival tins: here's another idea I've come across recently for the first time. This guy has catapult bits in his, which I think is quite interesting.
That would be great!For anyone interested in the survival kit launched onto the market during that era, I will scan the surviving SA catalogue I have from '82 and post it on a separate thread.
i know the one you mean, you could connect the knife to the scabbard to forma wire cutter, I wanted one for years.How I drooled over the webbing in the local camping shop was to pricey as a kid think ur was mag nor ? Or something similar green with plastic clips and the Wilking sword survival knife .
I had a cheap survival knife where the catapult was on end of the scabbard .
That was only because I found £20 in the new forest as a kid