Going all bushcraft next year
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- TheBrownDog
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Going all bushcraft next year
I'm thinking I might have another go at BAM from January and I might do it all bush-crafty. So just a tarp and groundsheet, or my hammock gear, and if I need pole and stakes,, I will fashion them from the environment.
And my cooking will be done in a little twig stove ... and I'll use a fire steel to make the flame from birch bark. I might even carve a few more spoons to eat my stuff. And I reckon if i give myself the time I could quite happily do one of those shelters from sticks and boughs and leaf litter.
My first question of course is whether I'm being a pretentious prick. I think I know the answer.
And my cooking will be done in a little twig stove ... and I'll use a fire steel to make the flame from birch bark. I might even carve a few more spoons to eat my stuff. And I reckon if i give myself the time I could quite happily do one of those shelters from sticks and boughs and leaf litter.
My first question of course is whether I'm being a pretentious prick. I think I know the answer.
I'm just going outside ...
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Re: Going all bushcraft next year
Sounds like the start of an epic video diary thread. I wish you all the luck in the world and am very much looking forward to watching
Do one where you're rearing your own geese for down to make bothy slippers and smelting your own iron ore to make a nifty bottle opener/axe holder for your frame.
Do one where you're rearing your own geese for down to make bothy slippers and smelting your own iron ore to make a nifty bottle opener/axe holder for your frame.
Re: Going all bushcraft next year
Plus you must only eat what you can forage (and not from shops). And drink only recycled water
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Re: Going all bushcraft next year
Is there a bushcraft way of getting enamel coating onto a mug? If so do that too.
And, obviously, you have to spin your own twine for dangling the aforementioned mug.
(Biggest ball of twine details here if anyone was wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggest_ball_of_twine )
And, obviously, you have to spin your own twine for dangling the aforementioned mug.
(Biggest ball of twine details here if anyone was wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggest_ball_of_twine )
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Re: Going all bushcraft next year
Evil evil man ........................ ok. Leaves it is
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Re: Going all bushcraft next year
Sounds good Tim
I never tallied it up, but probably did two or three years of bushcrafty BAMs back in the day. Great fun!
I never tallied it up, but probably did two or three years of bushcrafty BAMs back in the day. Great fun!
Re: Going all bushcraft next year
Sometimes I go bikepacking and do that sort of thing.
I enjoy riding a bike I enjoy camping I am still doing both only the ratios change
Nice spot some pootling, go for a swim etc whats not to like ?
I enjoy riding a bike I enjoy camping I am still doing both only the ratios change
Nice spot some pootling, go for a swim etc whats not to like ?
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Re: Going all bushcraft next year
Umm, are you saying you have to drink piss?And drink only recycled water
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Re: Going all bushcraft next year
Corking idea Tim. But that chair's gonna have to go I'm afraid. Need to knit a wickerwork one everytime out of hazel twigs.
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Re: Going all bushcraft next year
Isn't all water recycled? Unless he takes oxygen and hydrogen cylinders and makes it from scratch
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Re: Going all bushcraft next year
I was thinking about a shorter recycling cycle.....
With your logic everything is recycled, it's just the time to recycle it gets longer
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Re: Going all bushcraft next year
You can get a guide book and everything. Should while away a few hours on those long dark nights - just make sure you've got a good torch.
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"My God, Ponsonby, I'm two-thirds of the way to the grave and what have I done?" - RIP
The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....
"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
The sign outside the asylum is the wrong way round.....
"At least you got some stories" - James Acaster
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Re: Going all bushcraft next year
Do we alert the fire service first?TheBrownDog wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:46 pm
And my cooking will be done in a little twig stove ... and I'll use a fire steel....
I hope you think you know, what I might of exactly meant.
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Re: Going all bushcraft next year
Are you doing this because you think it'll be fun, or just to get likes on social media?TheBrownDog wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:46 pm My first question of course is whether I'm being a pretentious prick. I think I know the answer.
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I'm not sure Im actually doing it yet. I need to grow a hipster beard first and source an ultralight coffee grinder. Social media? Like this place? No like button. Fix that will you Stu?Landslide wrote: ↑Thu Nov 26, 2020 1:47 pmAre you doing this because you think it'll be fun, or just to get likes on social media?TheBrownDog wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:46 pm My first question of course is whether I'm being a pretentious prick. I think I know the answer.
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Re: Going all bushcraft next year
Surely you can grind your (locally foraged) coffee beans using a couple of rocks?
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Re: Going all bushcraft next year
No way, Jose. No chance, Lance. I've been on the youtube which is on the interweb and I simply cannot be grinding my beans between rocks. I will be far too busy crafting kuksas.
I liken this project to the life of the Amish ... those lovely people who have decided that technology had gone far enough sometime in the mid-19th century, and that was that. Fair play to them, by the way.
For me, it's about blending the stuff I can whittle and burn with the the things I can bring along. On that note, @reg: as such, my chair is coming with me. I can't risk not finding a pitch with a suitable tree stump.
I'm just going outside ...