what does everyone do ?
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mick
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a lot of what i do is done through scouting as a helper.
the only problem is that a lot of groups are moving away from the more adventurous aspects (bushcraft) and into the more mainstream activities.
the only problem is that a lot of groups are moving away from the more adventurous aspects (bushcraft) and into the more mainstream activities.
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Ginja
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I'm a partner in an environmental and design consultancy - part of our work involves undertaking field surveys, where we're tasked with surveying at the landscape scale, recording features such as field and hedgerow pattern, biodiversity, geological features, settlement pattern, etc, as part of what you call a 'Landscape Character Assessment' - basically identifying and recording the features that make one landscape distinct, or different, from another (what's known as 'sense of place'). The link to bushcraft is in the field survey itself (plenty of map work and yomping over hills 'n' valleys), combined with biodiversity work, involving species indentification, understanding habitats, etc.
Sounds bl**dy dull when I put it like this!! But it's certainly changed the way in which I 'see' the landscape around me, which in turn has helped my understanding of the landscape/environment, in terms of the inter-relationships between people and places.
Not exactly bushcraft ... but maybe bushcraft awareness??
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Sounds bl**dy dull when I put it like this!! But it's certainly changed the way in which I 'see' the landscape around me, which in turn has helped my understanding of the landscape/environment, in terms of the inter-relationships between people and places.
Not exactly bushcraft ... but maybe bushcraft awareness??
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The same as mick with the scouts but I also try to do little bits myself by practising fire by friction, testing cordage material, learning tracking, foraging and basically tring to learn as much about my on location as possible and then branch out.
It's not every day or even every week but anytime I get I am out there.
James
It's not every day or even every week but anytime I get I am out there.
James
Does my work relate to bushcraft in anyway?...not even remotely...I deal with those neurotic creatures often referred to as luvvies...
and their world is a strange, strange world indeed.... :shock:
and their world is a strange, strange world indeed.... :shock:
mick said:
Quite, and it's the scouts loss, really. I try to get my lot interested in outdoors stuff, and there are a few who are becoming genuinly interested, but most of them don't seem to have the attention span needed to absorb the skills. :roll:
I spent several hours preparing an activity for the weekend we had at a secret nuclear bunker, and they abandoned it after 5 minutes. Ho hum.
On a more positive note, there's a group of us leaders in my District (three of us now members of BCUK (hi Monkeyboy!)) who are keen on the skills and WANT to pass them on. We're doing a leader camp in some local woods in November to chill out, and practice and share ideas.
I'm a self-employed ecologist, mainly do vegetation surveys, but also protected species surveys e.g. badgers etc and site condition monitoring. Great for plant id skills as you have to know all the plants in a 2mX2m quadrat right down to the incy winciest (is that a word?) moss/liverwort. Just back from a major survey of Glen Affric - boy was that knackering!
I am a forester on a estate, which is great as i have access to private woods. I also cull the muntjac on the estate, which is also good because i get to keep a some i shoot when i need some meat. I d like to get involved with some more traditonal woodland management activities and the idea of helping scouts with bushcraft sounds good but i dont think im quite at teaching level yet!
Steve
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Steve
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I too help out at the local scout group and like Womble found that a few are really keen on learning about the craft ( 8 out of 47), again their attention span is so short that if they cannot see that they have moved forward with a task, they do not think about approaching the problem another way they just give up, they have much to learn.I think they are used to instant success in other parts of their life, just look at the way kids are taught in schools, most research now done on the web, no more searching through books , writing down bits and pieces and forming an answer, oh no would take too long and is too boring, now thats a thought, I wonder how my own kids would get on if I banned them from the internet for a month ?
Homework only of course because they spend the rest of the evening on MSN.Thats why I'm rarely here in the evenings.
Homework only of course because they spend the rest of the evening on MSN.Thats why I'm rarely here in the evenings.
Being retarded, err, retired, yeah that's it, I have plenty of time on my hands and spend a good portion of it hiking, walking, camping, roving and hunting in the bush. So.........I guess you could say I'm a student. 
I run the website for an outdoor equipment supplier, which somewhat ironically means I don't get to spend as much time outdoors as is good for my health. 
When out and about I mostly track & forage and cook & camp out when I can. I do some birdwatching/plant/animal spotting as well. I am looking to do some voluntary work with the Forestry Commission next year as a Weekend Ranger.
I have spent a lot of time in the mountains - Scotland, Wales, Lakes, mainly going up and down big lumps of rock. I have got a bit bored with this and have become more of a mountain traveller, taking less kit and travelling 'off-path' - looking for the quiet spots with good wild campsites. Although I spend more time, currently, in the woods than the mountains.
When out and about I mostly track & forage and cook & camp out when I can. I do some birdwatching/plant/animal spotting as well. I am looking to do some voluntary work with the Forestry Commission next year as a Weekend Ranger.
I have spent a lot of time in the mountains - Scotland, Wales, Lakes, mainly going up and down big lumps of rock. I have got a bit bored with this and have become more of a mountain traveller, taking less kit and travelling 'off-path' - looking for the quiet spots with good wild campsites. Although I spend more time, currently, in the woods than the mountains.
No connection to bushcraft in my day job, sadly, but I do write short stories and novels which are bushcraft-related (although until I joined bcUK I would have said 'survival-related'. We live and learn! 
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And before anyone asks ... no, I haven't had any of my fiction work published yet (but if any publishers are reading this, I am open to offers! :-D)
)And before anyone asks ... no, I haven't had any of my fiction work published yet (but if any publishers are reading this, I am open to offers! :-D)
By day, I manage a department of bio-chem scientists who provide assistance and support in a high tech plastics industry. The rest of my time is spend pursuing a wide variety of interests. I am a sea kayaker, bowyer, flintknapper, leather worker ( sheaths, holsters etc. ), hobbie gunsmith and maker of fire pistons with interests in archeology and photography. I fly fish and bow fish. I hunt with bow and arrow, modern and as well as vintage long guns and pistols. I have taken several deer and turkey with all of the above and a one rabbit by apple baited snare. I enjoy flintlock rifles, wilderness camping, sailing my 7.3 meter S2, Dutch oven cooking and pretty women. Since achieving success with the hand drill, the next as yet unsatisfied goal is to take a buck using completely hand made primitive archery gear and flint arrowhead. Every item of my acrhery tackle is primitve except for the bowstring - I have to spiral lace-cut three squirrel hides or one ground hog in order to make primitive bowstring string and I'm really short on time. :roll: I do however roll my own dacron flemish bowstrings....
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mick
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Like another thread said. bushcraft is contagious. It was three of the scouts that got me into it!
We once even had these scouts doing a fire by friction demonstration.
On the oposite end of the scale I was once demonstrating how to skin a rabbit (some may disagree with that but that could be talked about later) and a couple genualy believed that meat comes pre wrapped in cellothane and wouldn't eat it because it had be killed just minutes earlier :?:
We once even had these scouts doing a fire by friction demonstration.
On the oposite end of the scale I was once demonstrating how to skin a rabbit (some may disagree with that but that could be talked about later) and a couple genualy believed that meat comes pre wrapped in cellothane and wouldn't eat it because it had be killed just minutes earlier :?:
Kath said:
Is there any mileage in putting one or two on the web and using the evidence of interest in them, shown by the number of accesses, to help reel in a publisher?
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JAI
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My work is related to Survival situations , but with regard to todays soceity. I deal with all the undesireable people that this so caring soceity has created. I keep the streets safe for the good honest people.
Then on my days off I spend as much time out in the woods away from people, with just nature as my company. And although nature is unforgiven, cruel and kind, there are always reasons why.
Nature is easier to understand than people and alot less destructive. :?:
Then on my days off I spend as much time out in the woods away from people, with just nature as my company. And although nature is unforgiven, cruel and kind, there are always reasons why.
Nature is easier to understand than people and alot less destructive. :?:
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5.10leader
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By profession I am a Chartered Engineer with a background in bridge design although now I am involved in the health and safety side of the construction industry.
Like, I suspect, many others I grew up with scouting being fascinated by backwoodsmanship as bushcraft was known. I graduated to mountaineering, particularly big-wall climbing, whilst at university. Since then career pressures have pushed and pulled me in several directions until Ray Mears rekindled my interest in bushcraft/survival.
Like, I suspect, many others I grew up with scouting being fascinated by backwoodsmanship as bushcraft was known. I graduated to mountaineering, particularly big-wall climbing, whilst at university. Since then career pressures have pushed and pulled me in several directions until Ray Mears rekindled my interest in bushcraft/survival.
I work for a 'Specialist Outdoor Retailer' - the specialisation being the correct fitting of walking boots (rather than the i'll fitting, blister-forming things that most people wear...).
What I mainly do is fit boots for elderly ramblers, and modify the boots so that their golfball sized bunions don't hurt, but occasionally I get to speak to a fellow bushcrafter - which breaks the tedium of talking the ramblers out of their beloved Brasher Hillmasters and into boots that actually fit their feet.
Unfortunatly, since I started working for them a year ago, i've spent less time outdoors than i have in any of the previous ten years! But when i do get out, its camping, foraging, tracking, animal and bird-watching.
The major benefit is that I do get to see cool kit sometimes six months before its available in the shops - and occasionally the Reps give us stuff to test. For free. That more that makes up for dealing with lots and lots of stinky feet.
What I mainly do is fit boots for elderly ramblers, and modify the boots so that their golfball sized bunions don't hurt, but occasionally I get to speak to a fellow bushcrafter - which breaks the tedium of talking the ramblers out of their beloved Brasher Hillmasters and into boots that actually fit their feet.
Unfortunatly, since I started working for them a year ago, i've spent less time outdoors than i have in any of the previous ten years! But when i do get out, its camping, foraging, tracking, animal and bird-watching.
The major benefit is that I do get to see cool kit sometimes six months before its available in the shops - and occasionally the Reps give us stuff to test. For free. That more that makes up for dealing with lots and lots of stinky feet.
Scout adult leader. Includes teaching "Wilderness Survival" and "Woods Tools" to Scouts and other Scouting adults.
