Good day all,
It's been a while since I posted anything on the forum, so I thought I would change that and post about my morning in the woods. Hopefully this gets me back into posting on a more regular basis.
After a visit to the woods on bank holiday Monday I came home with some hazel to make a buck saw (the design in Mors Kochanski Bushcraft). Tuesday sitting at home in the shed I set about making the buck saw, Wednesday I headed to the woods with it in hand ready to use.
Walking up to the area I was intending to spend the morning I saw an old oak had recently come down (taking down a few other trees on its way to the ground) perfect test material for the saw.
The saw performed well bar two issues.
Issue one. The constructor knots didn't last and came lose, so one of the braces slipped out once. I replaced the brace and tightened and it lasted the rest of the work.
Issue two. The hazel was slightly oval in cross section (something I noticed when I built the saw at home) the slight oval caused the upright to twist after some use, which you can see in the photo of me hold the saw in my feet. Again it lasted the the task I put it through but I think in time I could twist too far and be an issue.
After processing a good amount of firewood I thought I would move my attention to some of the other materials that were brought down by the oak.
Firstly I found some nice reasonable sized Y branches, fitting them together to make a study cooking tripod. Then in the offcuts I was looking for a hook with a Y for a pot hanger.
The next item I needed was something for binding the Y together to make the pot hanger. A skill I have struggled with for ages is making withies, many failed attempts and some mixed successes. Today I finally got the crank action working to make a quick and effective binding for the pot hanger.
Job done.
Fire next.
This had two jobs, boil water for a coffee and then coals to cook a steak. I had loads of oak, so that wasn't an issue to get some nice coals, I thought I would try and upside down fire, with a mixture of oak and softwood to get the water boiling and then allow to oak to turn to coals.
While the oak was burning down I gathered some green sticks to place over the coals to cook the steak.
Steak done
Sat down under tarp to enjoy lunch
Hopefully this write up turns out ok as its the first time using Tapatalk on my phone to post.
ATB Tim
Sent from my moto g(6) plus using Tapatalk
It's been a while since I posted anything on the forum, so I thought I would change that and post about my morning in the woods. Hopefully this gets me back into posting on a more regular basis.
After a visit to the woods on bank holiday Monday I came home with some hazel to make a buck saw (the design in Mors Kochanski Bushcraft). Tuesday sitting at home in the shed I set about making the buck saw, Wednesday I headed to the woods with it in hand ready to use.
Walking up to the area I was intending to spend the morning I saw an old oak had recently come down (taking down a few other trees on its way to the ground) perfect test material for the saw.
The saw performed well bar two issues.
Issue one. The constructor knots didn't last and came lose, so one of the braces slipped out once. I replaced the brace and tightened and it lasted the rest of the work.
Issue two. The hazel was slightly oval in cross section (something I noticed when I built the saw at home) the slight oval caused the upright to twist after some use, which you can see in the photo of me hold the saw in my feet. Again it lasted the the task I put it through but I think in time I could twist too far and be an issue.
After processing a good amount of firewood I thought I would move my attention to some of the other materials that were brought down by the oak.
Firstly I found some nice reasonable sized Y branches, fitting them together to make a study cooking tripod. Then in the offcuts I was looking for a hook with a Y for a pot hanger.
The next item I needed was something for binding the Y together to make the pot hanger. A skill I have struggled with for ages is making withies, many failed attempts and some mixed successes. Today I finally got the crank action working to make a quick and effective binding for the pot hanger.
Job done.
Fire next.
This had two jobs, boil water for a coffee and then coals to cook a steak. I had loads of oak, so that wasn't an issue to get some nice coals, I thought I would try and upside down fire, with a mixture of oak and softwood to get the water boiling and then allow to oak to turn to coals.
While the oak was burning down I gathered some green sticks to place over the coals to cook the steak.
Steak done
Sat down under tarp to enjoy lunch
Hopefully this write up turns out ok as its the first time using Tapatalk on my phone to post.
ATB Tim
Sent from my moto g(6) plus using Tapatalk
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