On first christmas day I received a new backpack that I asked for, it’s the “JÄGERRUCKSACK” with about 35 liter capacity. I decided to try it out during a few hours walk in the forest with my dog, while looking for a nice burl for my future kuksa. From that […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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As a christmas gift I decided to make a rose from metal for a special lady. Did some ‘research’ on youtube on how others did it, and went ahead. Turned out quite good 🙂 And the video how I did it.
Hi, today I send 3 hours on the sewing machine, using the guide lines mentioned in the link below, to make a hexagon summer tarp. It’s easier then it looks, and the result is great 🙂 If you are thinking about making a tarp as well, use the linke below, […]
The plan for this trip was to relax a bit, do some fishing, and perhaps try some trapping. We arrived on Friday night in the dark, made a fire, and had dinner. The weather did not cooperate much, and during most of the saturday we had slight rain. My 2 […]
This winter I want to do a lot of metal works, so my simple forge and anvil needed some work I told myself. Also some protective clothing would be good, since I have holes in all my working clothes. On the local ebay here in Czech Republic I bought a […]
Winter is coming, and I have lots of wood to cut and chop again 🙂 Previously i always cut all the wood to size on the ground, which is far from ideal. At the hardware shops around here (3 different ones) to check on a sawbuck, they had mainly wooden […]
Here’s my review on the Czech Bed Roll. Mine was an un-issued one. Dimensions rolled out: – 195 cm long x 70 cm wide Dimensions packed: – 70 cm long x 30 cm wide x 15 cm high Materials: – Bivy bag, waterproof bottom, water repellent nylon top – Blanket, […]
I used a Italian bread recipe, but with a few personal adjustments, and made bread in the Dutch oven. Turned out quite well, but the crust was a little thick. Next time I will try to make it thinner. The chicken was also delicious 🙂
In March 2014 I made this knife, together with the neck knife which is not shown during build. For half a year I tested it on my hiking trips. Splitting, chopping and processing wood, processing food, fish, etc, was no issue. Now I am quite confident that the knife is […]
For this trip my friend Bart who is also a Dutch guy but living in Switzerland, joined me and my dog Buddy. We did the “Prättigauer Höhenweg”, which is a 72 km hike. Usually people who do the hike stay over in cabins or pensions along the route, but we […]
The original plan was to go for a hike with 8 people again, but 2 where not sure from the beginning, and 2 cancelled the day before departure. So here we are, with the remaining 4 participants, for a nice relaxed 3 day hike. We started out on Friday afternoon, […]
Once again on a hike where we found previously the grenade. The bomb squad detonated it there, but we found the place again en some souvenirs. and not far from that place, we found another one…. Other then that, we did a lot of skill testing / refreshing. Our camp […]
During the last night of this trip, it started raining and continued till the end of the next day. Next day morning it was only drizzling, so nothing a rain poncho can’t fix. I collected some smaller and bigger branches from the ticker forest next to us, since it was […]
For dinner on this trip I brought some chilli garlic pasta, for which I needed a spoon. So the carving started. A nice test for my carving skills.
First time that I tried the 1 stick fire with my axe it took me about 20 minutes. On this second try my goal was 10 minutes, but it took me 12 minutes and 18 seconds. Very close..
First time I did the 1 stick fire test it took me about 20 minutes. On this second try, my goal was now to do it within 10 minutes, and I just made it within the 10 minutes.
What started out as a 1 overnighter, turned out to be just a day hike. So only thing you will see in this video is some nice nature here in Czech Republic 🙂 I was not prepared at all for snow, and also was not able to find a dry […]
New winter coming up, so I took some time to make a new tarp with doors and a hammock with integrated underquilt. Tarp design is from www.diygearsupply.com and the hammock is my own design. Tested it last week, in a big windy storm and +1 celcius / 33.8 fahrenheit temperatures, […]
Hi, after being inspired by the canvas bag for the axe and buck saw, by ray mears, I made my own version of it from an old Czech army tarp, which I have for many years now, but during the last few years never got used anymore. While working on […]
And here the last diy aluminium saw. It’s a “browning clone” type. The materials: Everything cut to size with a hacksaw, and filed the sharp edges off. Superglued the side pieces into place, and then drilled the holes. the superglue was used to be sure that the holes and the […]
The materials. Put the screws on both ends of the sawblade, with some superglue in between to make sure they will not slowly come loose. The parts of the screw sticking out, I cut off with a hacksaw. The middle part cut to size, to fit in between the 2 […]