Woodlore Hootchie

[SquirrelBoy]

Ausi hootchie has been reduced to £35 - its a special offer to clear stocks so be quick. Its the olive green varierty.

Also they are doing hootchie cord £10, 4x4m thin guy line & 1x7m thick ridge line.

Hope thats of interest

 

[donkeyporge]

Thanks for that, just ordered mine.. Now to just find some reliable Paracord!

 

[Hawkram]

Thanks for the heads up SquirrelBoy, just ordered one.

 

[gurushaun]

Hi DP

Joe at ODS has some Blackhawk paracord on order at the moment, pop over to the Dealer Classiried section on BB and you'll see the colours, lengths and prices.

Cheers

Shaun

 

[donkeyporge]

Thanks for that, just ordered mine.. Now to just find some reliable Paracord!

 

[Womble]

is there an echo in here?

 

[Womble]

cho in here?

 

[donkeyporge]

Damn, that's pressing back and refresh on my Browser. I'll be a tracker before i deserve it!

 

[Rob]

One for me and one for Mel ordered.

It's a good thing I have the motherload of 550 Paracord on the way :-D

 

[SquirrelBoy]

Ahh, was it you Rob who got that huge roll of 550 Para cord on eBay

 

[Martyn]

survival school were/are selling the genuine Aus issue OG hootchi (same as RM is selling) for £25 quid.

Out of stock at the moment though.
http://www.survivalschool.co.uk/

 

[Rob]

Nope....wasn't me.....although I do know of the guy who was selling it.

I would be heading for a divorce by now if Mel wasn't pretty chilled out - especially with about 1.1Km of 550 heading towards my garage (got to keep all the 3D's tied up you see)

 

[TAHAWK]

"Two great peoples separated by a common language."

Hootchie Cootchie (a dance), Hootchie Mama (a "hot" woman), Hootchie Devil (a fishing lure than "dances").

What do YOU folk mean by "hootchie"? Some sort of shelter? (Just when I figured out that "basha" thingee. :roll: )

 

[Martyn]

"Two great peoples separated by a common language."

Hootchie Cootchie (a dance), Hootchie Mama (a "hot" woman), Hootchie Devil (a fishing lure than "dances").

What do YOU folk mean by "hootchie"? Some sort of shelter? (Just when I figured out that "basha" thingee. :roll: )

Dont worry, I'm confused too. I think basha is a Brit army word for an improvised tent or shelter. I'm struggling with the root for it, but it's my guess that it's probably been assimilated into common use army parlance from the Brit army's time in burma/india/china.

Hootch is the following...

Hootch: Used generically, a dwelling. On a U.S. base, a hootch was usually a rectangular building made of 2 x 4's and plywood with a corrugated tin roof. Also used in reference to Vietnamese civilian houses.

 

[TAHAWK]

Hootch is the following...

Hootch: Used generically, a dwelling. On a U.S. base, a hootch was usually a rectangular building made of 2 x 4's and plywood with a corrugated tin roof. Also used in reference to Vietnamese civilian houses.

"Hootch" ( not to be confused with "hooch") I recognize. So "hootchie" is the diminutive of "hootch"? A small "shack"?

And "Ausi"?

 

[Martyn]

...the diminutive of Australian.

 

[TAHAWK]

A small Australian in a small shack - or a small Australian dancer? :?:

 

[Doc]

Don't know about hootchie but 'basha' is from the Urdu for hut/native house.

It's interesting to note the persistence of Hindi/Urdu words in British army slang, even now, long after Indian/Pakistani independence. I remember our RSM (from the Scots Guards) used to shout 'Get moving -JALDI!' (jaldi being Hindi for quickly).

Interestingly, 'tickety-boo' is also Hindi - from 'Thiik hai, babu' ('That's fine, sir.)

 

[SquirrelBoy]

Hootchie , Tarp , Basha & Flysheet are all different terms for the same thing really - a rectangle of material that has various loops, fastners and eyelets around the edge.

Doesnt matter really what term you use, its all pretty much the same thing.

Hope that clears things up

 

[Hawkram]

Ordered one at 10-15am yesterday, delivered 8am this morning.
Can't beat that for service.

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