With 3 friends from Holland, we went on a hike for 4 nights, 5 days. Weather forecast showed loads of rain, so we where prepared for it, but still we got pretty wet half way through. Here are some pics. Re-packing at home, adding the food we just bought etc. […]
After I cleaned my Dutch Oven properly and gave it a fresh seasoning, it was time to make a pot lifter and 2 pot stands. For this I used old iron, some horse shoe’s, and a hand grenade. How it was made:
Due to the tree’s in my garden being still too young and thin to use them for my hammock, I liked the idea of having a hammock stand. I could not find any design online that I really liked and which was completely fold-able. So I spend some time drawing […]
My Dutch oven stood for a whole year outside in the fireplace, where it could not get wet, but still it rusted. I tried several things in the past few weeks, like scrubbing it with a potato and course salt, and even electrolysis, but not luck. Then I tried something […]
I took the shrapnel knife plus billy can out for some testing. The knife, still shaving sharp and no damages to it, and the bread form the billy can was good.
Together with 2 colleague’s we went for a day walk in the Krokonose mountains here in Czech Republic. Michal, who is very familiar with this area, and Shahzad, who never was here or walked in any hills / mountains. Early morning at the beginning of the trip. On the next […]
Normally I wear always in the outdoors some old army pants. Not cause the look cool or army stylish, but because they are very robust, and do not seem to get damaged. But after all these great stories about fjallraven pants, where people have them for 15 years and still […]
In this video I’m showing how I hand forged a knife from a piece of grenade shrapnel. Knife specifications: – Metal: Shrapnel from a 122 mm grenade used by D30 Artillery during the Bosnian war around 1994. – Total length: 328 mm – Blade length: 180 mm – Blade width: […]
The modifications work fine, which I showed in this topic. But inspired by people who bake bread in their billy cans, and to have the possibility to steam vegetables or fish, I bought some ikea ‘steamer insert’, made out of stainless steel. First I removed all the ‘scales’, simply using […]
In the last 2 weeks I have been restoring an old axe head for a starting bushcrafter in The Netherlands. I’ve made a short video of all the steps, hope you like it.
Together with Mirek and my dog, we spend this weekend in a rocky area, north of Prague. Here and there was still some snow, but the temperature was slightly above 0 Celsius. The landscape was amazing, and in total I made 166 pics, of which you will find here only […]
For quite a while I had this hewing axe laying around, which needed a big cleanup. So I started with the head, putting it in my electrolysis bath. After 4 hours. After 24 hours. Cleaned it up with a wire brush, and dipped it up side down back in a […]
A couple of years ago, I bought a batch of axes from an old man, who also gave a block of rust in a shape of a big knife. I had it laying aside all the time till last weekend, when I decided to clean it up by using electrolysis. […]
From an old pair of Sony speakers, a simple amplifier (2x 25 watt rms), 16 mm MDF, and a very old suitcase, a new sound system was born.
My first tool roll for my carving set does not suffice anymore, since I have a couple of additional items to add to it. So I made a new one from a leftover piece of NVA tarp.
On the 15th of January my son was born. I’ve been planning to make a time capsule for him which he can open on his 18th birthday. Here is what I have put inside. Global overview, and junior is sleeping in the box. The content: – Bottle of Hennessy given […]
For the mancave, a source of music was still missing. You can’t just chill with a whiskey & cigar or pipe, without listening to your favorite tunes. So through the local ebay variant I bought this old radio / record player from 1961 which did not work anymore, for about […]
Time for a nice long weekend without running around through nature, but just stay in 1 place. We arrived Friday before dinner time in a relative flat area, where we’ve been before a couple of times. We tried to find in the dark the same place where we stayed twice […]
Since a couple of months I own a zebra billy can. During the last couple of hikes I have been using it, and made some modifications to make it work better for me. Here they are: Complete set. The metal square holder was removed, and replaced with a 2 mm […]
The plan was to do a 3 day / 2 night winter hike with Tomas and my dog, in the mountains of Czech Republic. According to the weather forecast there was supposedly no more then 5 cm snow, and during the hike it would be around -3 celsius and no […]
With Jan, Linda, my dog and me, we did a 5 day hike. 3 days in snowy mountains, and 2 days in a rocky area without snow to relax a bit from the hard work in the snow. We arrived Thursday afternoon, parked the car, and went to the pub […]
From one of the birch burls I found earlier this month, which has been drying in the garage, I started carving my kuksa. The previous one cracked when I pored boiling water inside of it.. Won’t do that again. The burl harvesting you can see here. The tools, my carving […]
Every year with some friends we rent a couple of canoe’s and go canoeing, fishing, camping, etc, great fun. Those canoe’s are the heavy thick plastic ones which I don’t like too much. For the same money as renting a canoe 10x, I could also buy a used one, which […]
Sunday early morning my dog and I went for a long morning walk in a forest north of where I live. Took some water, my axe, my DIY folding bucksaw in the hope of finding a nice burl for my kuksa. The one I made previously, cracked. The area is […]
Weekend hike with 2 friends from Holland and my colleague and his son. Sleeping place of the 2 Dutch guys. Sleeping place of my colleague and his son. My sleeping place. We hiked in at night, made a fire for dinner, and slept over, and this is the next morning […]
Just a simple nice hike in a beautiful area, with my friend Mirek and my dog. The hike went a bit different then planned, but nevertheless still nice. After we arrived on Friday evening, we put up our hammocks, and made a fire for dinner. Dinner existed of meat on […]
Enjoying a nice cigar in the forest, due to me having a successful eye laser surgery 2 weeks before. Doc said all healed well, and my vision is better then standard now 🙂
For a long time I planned to make some birch oil and use it for my axe handle. The method is simple, bigger can which you can close with a hole in the bottom, and a smaller can under it to catch the oil.
Nothing special, just some progress on some knives that I worked on previously and started working on. The big boy is made from a grenade shrapnel, from the kosovo war. And as last making a firesteel and testing it.
I’ve always had a fear of heights. And this limited me in certain area’s which are great for hiking. So a couple of months ago I decided to start with climbing in an indoor place, together with Mirek who is more advanced. He taught me a lot of technique on […]
Together with a couple of friends we did this spring hike. About 44 km, several castle ruins, up and down man hills, and lots of fun.
Some time ago I bought a Polish lavvu, M size (170-180), and used it a couple of times in the garden to test out some sleeping pads, Czech army bedroll, etc. Problem was the space. Me being 177 cm tall, would barely fit it in. Time passed and I attended […]
What was supposed to be a hike, turned out to be more a lazy weekend where we decided to stay in 1 place due to it’s great surroundings. Made some fire, cooked on it, and relaxed. Mireks son also joined us for a day only.
During the last few weeks on every day hike and dog walk I collected pine resin to purify it on a later date. Now I collected enough, and decided to go for it. The plan was to melt it in the old big pan, filter it with the filter, and […]
Every now and then I like to try my fire making skills with the firesteel, so today I took 6 different natural materials that are commonly available and tried to ignite them.