In a nut shell the bushcraft craze is an attempt by urbanites to be able to take a walk in a park without hurting themselves. I don't look at it as a bad thing, we all had to learn somehow and most of us had fathers and family that showed us. I did not have a single outdoors person in my family to teach me anything so I learned the hard way and the urbanites of today are probably much the same. I started out learning when I was about ten but today's bushcrafters are trying to learn as adults.
I have it on good authority Woodie has a thing for the Bier Madchens.
Originally Posted by kaywoodie
Originally Posted by Reloder28
Two German girls I follow on YouTube that are BushCrafters. One of them is an absolute expert with a slingshot. That one also served a term in the military. If you're interested I can send you a link.
Yeah, but can they carry 4 full Bier deckels in in each hand???
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I have it on good authority Woodie has a thing for the Bier Madchens.
Originally Posted by kaywoodie
Originally Posted by Reloder28
Two German girls I follow on YouTube that are BushCrafters. One of them is an absolute expert with a slingshot. That one also served a term in the military. If you're interested I can send you a link.
Yeah, but can they carry 4 full Bier deckels in in each hand???
Bushy and otherwise!
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
Oh yeah, all fixed up. I've got more planned. Have you used the safety wedges before? The round ones.
I also learned another new word, batoning.
It's amazing what someone can do with a knife in 45 minutes that I can do with an axe in 30 seconds.
I don't use anything but wood wedges. My reasoning, right or maybe wrong, is I don't want anything to cut across the grain in the direction of the most force. I cut the slot for the wedge until it is around 2/3 the way through the eye of the head add Swell-Lock and set the wedge. Saw of the excess and call it done.
Batoning works if you don't have an axe, I just always have and axe. Even my wife can make kindling with a full sized double bit axe. I think I can make tinder with a pocket knife and start a fire with out a match, lighter or a gallon of gasoline even in the wet Pac NW. I have been doing it for years.
Have you watch this? It is the best I have seen concerning axe restoration and hanging.
Have you used the safety wedges before? The round ones.
Hard to find around here, few know what they are.
I've been using them for a growing collection restored, re-hafted blacksmithing hammers,...all sizes
....they are SUPERB , and a WAY better setup than all the old conventional types,...
Been making up my own on the lathe, out of old bits of seamless hydraulic tubing.
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Chit most of knew when we were 12. At least if we wanted to go go hunting we have prove we could deal with basics like starting a fire in pouring rain, basic shelter, using a compass, navigation, sharpen a knife, field dressing.
"Life is tough, even tougher if your stupid" John Wayne
All the "bushcraft" videos I've seen inevitably end up with some hipster trying to see if he can destroy a $200 knife trying to use it as an axe or splitting maul.
As for axes, my brother just cleaned up an old Collins (pre-Mexico) and made a nice boy's axe for my son.
Speaking of axes, any of you used one of these?? It's the shiznit for splitting... (oh, and the handle won't come loose)
No I haven't but I am old fashioned and like a wooden handle. I usually make my own from ash or hickory if I can find a good piece at the hardwood store. I also make my handles much thinner that the clubs you see in stores. Thinner handles have spring and are easier to use but you have to have good straight grain and it has to be going in the right direction. I do most of my wood splitting with a double bit.
To heck with grinding an ax. Show us how to get tinder and start a fire without a match.
Flint and steel, ferro rod, there are lots of ways. I have even made a bow and drill but my wife swiped my drill.
Nothing wrong with using a match if you know how to go about starting a fire without one. I practice a lot using other methods because I find it fun. Was camping in a park last year. Wife and I had a nice little fire going. The campers behind us were trying to start a fire with a weed burner and not getting it done. even with gas. I split some kindling from one of his pieces of wood, made a little tinder from one of the kindling sticks and started his fire with a blast match.
Blast Match This is the only fire starter I know that will work one handed.
It's the modern word that is a substitute for the word woodcraft which is a better word. Yuppies use it and the rest of use are kinda forced to so people will know what we are talking about. Also another way to get a premium price for something. Bushcraft and tactical are two words that people have taken a huge [bleep] on.
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You tell me how I ought to be, yet you don't even know your own sexuality,, the philosopher,,, you know so much about nothing at all. Chuck Schuldiner
Even my wife can make kindling with a full sized double bit axe. I think I can make tinder with a pocket knife and start a fire with out a match, lighter or a gallon of gasoline even in the wet Pac NW. I have been doing it for years. 
