My daily bushcraft

[AL...]

Aye yer better off infront of the TV with a mug of coffee for sure lol


Cheers
AL

[FishyFolk]

Made a batch of charcloth. Home made meths burner from a small tin can is excellent for cooking it :-)

[Hushwing]

Started work on a handcarved spoon

made and used my converted stainless steel container (£2.97 from Tesco) into a 'billy can', with a wire coat hanger handle. Seems to take longer to boil than a pot of water (is this due to heating a column of water compared to a wider shallower level of water???) but has the advantage that can be left to its own devices for a while before I have to rush over to it and make my brew. Believe me during a busy bird survey that sometimes is good. anway it is another cheap pot.

Have dabbled with my prototype conversion of my failed (as in it stopped keeping heat in) metal 'thermos' flask. This conversion also seems to work but is very slow to heat up. But it then is slow to cool down so maybe again there has to be a bit of give and take depending on what the brew-up situation requires.

[FishyFolk]

Sanded the varnish off She-that-must-be-obeyds cheap, useless, piece of human dung, Leuko handle, so it won't go flying out of her hand when she sets forth to chop down a birch tree for her fire, and put an edge on the blade...(which will disintegrate as soon as you pull it out of the useless sheath and try to cut hot butter with it)...

But she refuses to let me buy her a real leuko...even if this is the kniofe she uses for just about everything...( the lass grew up with an "ithoo" Thai/Cambodian "machete" in her hands similar to this one, so she knows what a sollid knife is supposed to do....

[AL...]

Tidy lookin tool there FF
Thanks for sharin

Cheers
AL

[Tony1948]

Nice FF

[paulthefish2009]

carved my first spoon today from a birch burl I "found" last weekend, bit of a fun if nothing else.going to save the rest of the burl for my next knife. paul

[AL...]

Tried out my new Ehh hemmm !!! Firebox which is a stainless steel veg Colander !!!!!
Worked so well that I made a cuppa coffee on the fire along with my first batch of Charcloth . Real happy with the result of both the Colander and the charcloth . ..
Got the Charcloth to take with one strike of the steel on the flint
So well chuffed

Cheers
AL

[FishyFolk]

Well done on the charcloth...now what the h... is a veg colander?

[AL...]

One of theese
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colander
Got it in my fave Bushcraft shop ..... Pound Land lol

Cheers
AL