Tricks of the Trade

[h2o]

dont eat yellow snow!!!!

 

[Barn Owl]

dont eat yellow snow!!!!

Made £100 in kid on money in one night when taxi-ing lol

It was a long shift.

 

[shep]

A small roll of gaffa tape can replace the following things in your medical kit (for a short trip):
blister dressings (even all plasters if you're not more than a day away)
styptic
triangular bandage
splints (need to have access to sticks though)

 

[Eric_Methven]

You only ever need two tools for anything.
Gaffa tape and WD40.

If it moves, and shouldn't, use gaffa tape.
If it doesn't move, and should, use WD40.

Eric

 

[John Fenna]

Eric - does this work on stomache upsets?

 

[g4ghb]

Eric - does this work on stomache upsets?

If you get the waterproof variety!

 

[gorilla]

You only ever need two tools for anything.
Gaffa tape and WD40.

If it moves, and shouldn't, use gaffa tape.
If it doesn't move, and should, use WD40.

Eric

aaaaaaah.........the land rover mantra

 

[shep]

Eric - does this work on stomache upsets?

I'd say if your stomach's working overtime (ie. moving when shouldn't) gaffa tape will do a pretty good job of stopping it.

And if it's not going, I suspect WD40 will get things going from both ends.

I suspect, however, that the long-term health effects of either 'treatment' might outweigh any short-term benefits.

 

[PJMCBear]

Stupid question, I know, but how do you knock out a chicken?

 

[spamel]

Use a priest!

 

[Red Kite]

For repelling all mossie type insects raid the missuses (does this word exist?) make up and nick her Avon moisturising cream.

Apparantly only avon brand works - some mysterious combination of chemicals.

No bites and you come back looking 10 years younger

 

[Matt Weir]

Stupid question, I know, but how do you knock out a chicken?

Apparently a classic style karate chop to the back of the neck works. I don't know though, I just neck 'em the standard way. They flap a bit but can't run anywhere.

 

[loz.]

Stupid question, I know, but how do you knock out a chicken?

sleeping pills in it's coffee - then just wait..............

 

[John Fenna]

Red Kite - that looks too much like Miss-use to my eye...

 

[ForestNH/VT]

Hello! I worked on a farm for many years as a boy and the farmer's wife had a neat trick she said she had learned from an old Polish farmer. She would pith the chicken with an ice pick before taking the head off. The chicken would poof all out like a cold bird. The meat was as tender as could be and the feathers pull out by the handfulls. Kind of gruesome, but highly effective!

 

[Tourist]

Stupid question, I know, but how do you knock out a chicken?

Two ways:

1. Talk to it about this thread and it will doze off, or

2. Hit it with an object, like a truncheon sized piece of wood or a wooden spoon - remember you are trying to knock it out and not brain it.

I know that commercial chicken operations use an electric zap to stun them.

 

[Damascus]

What have I started, I think a few of us need some out therpy the winter cabin fever has come somewhat early this year

 

[w00dsmoke]

Anti freeze in an old coke can and placed upright in the embers of a fire...(or squirted onto a hot exhaust!

 

[Matt Weir]

A tip directly relating to the BCUK forums is to put this in your favourites...

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/search.php?do=getdaily

That way you get all threads updated in the past 24 hours

 

[Burnt Ash]

Robert, I first saw Mother demonstrate this back in 1968 at the Hameln Military Training Area. We were visiting the exercise for the day when a headless chicken came running from a mess tent chased by a cook. Eventually the hapless cook caught the hen which had finally dropped from terminal decapitation.

My mother saw the baskets of live chickens all awaiting the same treatment. As she had spent some of her formative years working on a farm and then as head cook in a Sergeants Mess [where she met dad] she offered to show the cooks how to kill and prepare fresh chicken properly. The offer was gratefully accepted.

You basically just whack the chicken on the head with a blunt instruement and then decapitate it..........unconscious chickens don't run. Dunking the chicken in hot water quickly makes it easier to pluck.

And how conscious is the chicken with its brain stem removed?
Twaddle!

Burnt Ash