My daily bushcraft

Aye Ive done that a couple of times myself . Mainly when Im tired and not thinking straght!
If ye forget yer 1st aid kit you can fifd some Razor strop fungi and cut a thin slice off it . makes a handy plaster.
But ye proubly already knew that :)

Cheers
AL

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Aye Ive done that a couple of times myself . Mainly when Im tired and not thinking straght!
If ye forget yer 1st aid kit you can fifd some Razor strop fungi and cut a thin slice off it . makes a handy plaster.
But ye proubly already knew that :)

Cheers
AL

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Actually I did not. I don't even have a clue what one look like. I can identify two, perhaps 3 edible ones. And I know nothing about wild plants, except the ones we use, like 3-4 different berries etc.
If I could not fish or shoot something, i would probably starve to death in an abundance of wild edibles...

Same for medicinal uses of plants. I know that willow bark is supposed to help against headache, but I'd rather pop a paracetamol...else I am totally igniorant. I should educate myself on this, but I find the subject to be intensely boring...

I have the same problem with knots. I'll try and practice them, but to me it's like watching paint dry. And I can never rember them, unless it's something I use daily or often, like knots used for tying a fishing line to a hook.

Oh and unless I have something to do out in the muck, I get bored there too. You won't find me sitting for an hour admiring a sun set....I'll look over, say thats pretty, snap a photo and get one with something else, or go home...

Ha ha
Hope that clarify a few things about me and the great outdoors....

That looks like a great wee project for when I get back into my workshop... getting a new kitchen and bathroom put in at the moment so workshop if full of stuff and I have nowhere to hide :(

Cheers
AL

Waterproofed my leather tinder pouch by rubbing beeswax into it and melting it in with a hair dryer, left it to soak in the goodies, re-heated and wiped off excess. Makes it a tad sticky feeling, but that will go away once the rest gets sucked into the leather or worn away.

Also my new leather belt pouch is underway, at least arrived in country. Toying with the idea of making my own dye for it as it is not dyed at all. It will be the new home for the tinder pouch, leaving more room in the EDC bag. Th EDC bag has the modern firkekit anyway. It contains matches, lighter, LMF firesteel, strips of bicycle innertube, petrolum jelly cotton balls and my peroleum jellied hemp twine, all in zip lock bags.

So then i will have one traditional firekit on my belt, and the other in the EDC, with all the cooking gear. And with the huge leather pouch out of the bag, and in my belt pouch, I'll have room for a first aid kit there intsead...lol

Wen't mushrooming with the wife yesterday evening. Found a few chanterelles, but they where all very small, so we chance that nobody else finds them a wait a few days more. Look like they just popped up.

Chanterelles are great for frying, as you don't need to add any fluids. They'll fry in their own moisture content :)

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Originally Posted by crazysaint222

Chanterelles are great for frying, as you don't need to add any fluids. They'll fry in their own moisture content :)

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Got to try them some day Adam. I am always worried I will pick the wrong bloody thing though :-) just fancy a couple of those with my bacon sandwiches.

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Originally Posted by TreeCamper

Got to try them some day Adam. I am always worried I will pick the wrong bloody thing though :-) just fancy a couple of those with my bacon sandwiches.

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That's the best way to be mate. If you're not 100% sure, then leave them well alone. Looking at pictures or videos doesn't always help either. Fungi can look quite different from one location to the next, even if it's only a few hundred yards away. There are a few mushrooms that look a little like the chanterelle too, which can spoil your day.
My advice, is to do as much research as you possibly can. Get to know every part of the fungi (like shape, colour, size, texture, gills, etc), then try and go out foraging with someone that knows about the fungi you're looking for. It's a lot easier to have someone there that knows what to look for, and then to show you.

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Originally Posted by crazysaint222

That's the best way to be mate. If you're not 100% sure, then leave them well alone. Looking at pictures or videos doesn't always help either. Fungi can look quite different from one location to the next, even if it's only a few hundred yards away. There are a few mushrooms that look a little like the chanterelle too, which can spoil your day.
My advice, is to do as much research as you possibly can. Get to know every part of the fungi (like shape, colour, size, texture, gills, etc), then try and go out foraging with someone that knows about the fungi you're looking for. It's a lot easier to have someone there that knows what to look for, and then to show you.

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Thanks for the advice mate. I bought the little gem mushroom book but it does not really help with confidence in choosing something you could eat. I think I will have to take a good mate with me to try things out first ;)

There is one mushroom that people mistake for chanterelles here ein Norway, that can really make your day sour. I do not know the name of it, but a piice the size of a dice is enough that a week later you die a painfull death from kidney failure...so better be on the safe safe.

Nicked my leuku on one of the last trips. So had to reset the edge on the curved part of the blade. Got it reasonably sharp again, but will have to work on it over a few days, as I do not have the patience to stand there and nible away at it to get it back into razor sharpness...besides, it the chopping end of the blade so i deos not really need shaving sharp...