Your bushcraft blunders and failures

[Harvestman]

Sort of bushcraft, many years ago when at scout camp, in the days when cooking over a fire was the norm, we used to make an oven with one of the old square biscuit tins covered in mud . We cooked the chicken perfectly but the pudding was tinned treacle sponge, and neglecting to read the instructions we did not pierce the tin before putting it in the oven.Some time later the oven door blew off as the tin exploded, and the rest of the day was spent removing said treacle sponge from the outside of the tent, which if i remember correctly was a canvas vango force 10 mk 4

Ooh, hot treacle!

 

[nic a char]

While just starting out on a DofE night hike, my second suggested we put our torches on. It was a clear night and there was a reasonable moon coming up so I said not to bother as our eyes would adjust soon enough, at which point I walked in to a harrow, measured my length, smashing the bottle of "medicine" in my chest pocket and narrowly avoided missing smashing my face.

Lesson learnt - either wait 10 minutes or use the torch

Farmers are irresponsible about leaving farm equipment about to rust and damage people