Here a quick overview of the typical setup I used. The hammock sometimes may vary as well as the tarp, but the way I set it up never changes. This method is my favorite after trying out several different kind of setups, and I’ve been using it now for several […]
Monthly Archives: March 2013
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This morning, I decided that it would be a good time to test out the axes and knives that I made previously. – Click here for the knives – Click here for the axes It was during the night around -12 / -11 Celsius, and during the early morning hours […]
In part 1, which I posted about 2 months ago, you can see me doing a burn test on a 70% wool blanket. Result was some burn marks. Now, in part 2, I did the same test again but on a 100% wool blanket, with the result again burn marks.. […]
Last weekend I decided to try making knifes from a old horse shoe that I had. So I cleaned up the horse shoe which was all rusty, until it looked like this Then I put the horseshoe inside the coal basked together with an old file that I also […]
For a while I have been using my restored hatchet(s) on some of my hiking trips. They are nice for the small work, but chopping through a bigger tree (dead ones) was not easy. So I decided to restore a couple more axes but with longer handles, and use them […]