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 Topic: Homemade hatchet aka scrapchet |
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 Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Fri Aug 06, 21 9:25 am Subject: Homemade hatchet aka scrapchet |
| Sounds good. My son has just made an axe sheath, as he is into leatherwork as well as green wood turning. A short video he made of it; https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=346499810288242¬if_id=16 ... |
| Topic: Homemade hatchet aka scrapchet |
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Thu Aug 05, 21 8:41 pm Subject: Homemade hatchet aka scrapchet |
That looks good. Good idea to have the firelighter steel in the back.
I have a very small Gransfors, but they don't make them any more as they were so difficult. The head is a nice size to fit in ... |
| Topic: Homemade hatchet aka scrapchet |
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Thu Aug 05, 21 8:34 pm Subject: Homemade hatchet aka scrapchet |
| The en9 for the edge is arc welded on. I tack it in place with an open root weld it from one side with a copper backing bar thoroughly clean and deslag the weld then weld from the other side. I then h ... |
| Topic: Homemade hatchet aka scrapchet |
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Wed Aug 04, 21 9:09 pm Subject: Homemade hatchet aka scrapchet |
| Here is a little hatchet . Its fabricated up from mild steel with an en9 carbon steel cutting edge welded on. The handle is from a a wind blown ash tree harvested from a local wood i fitted a ferro ro ... |
| Topic: Tree ID ? |
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Wed Aug 04, 21 8:57 pm Subject: Tree ID ? |
Juniper perhaps  |
| Topic: Home made coracle |
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Tue Aug 03, 21 7:21 am Subject: Home made coracle |
Yeah thanks. This is the second one we made. The first, a year or two back was a heroic failure, it was too round on the bottom and was very tippy we've corrected those faults this time.
We have h ... |
| Topic: Home made coracle |
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Fri Jul 30, 21 8:07 pm Subject: Home made coracle |
We made a coracle out of local willow with a tar covered callico skin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8xZMFsbuc4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZVawLTZJKchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjTi84Ohq ... |
| Topic: Woodburner shelter |
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Tue Dec 11, 12 5:50 pm Subject: burner shelter |
| Thats mega ,that ,mate. see you are a fellow pallet burner. well done.......Magnet |
| Topic: 10mm Steel tube |
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Forum: Trading Post Posted: Sat Dec 08, 12 9:40 pm Subject: tubing |
| Are you sorted? if not we use that size of tubing at work so i can get you some................ Magnet |
| Topic: Fixed spool reels |
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Forum: Fishing Posted: Sat Nov 03, 12 7:24 pm Subject: reels |
when i load my reels i put backing line on first to take up a bit of room on the spool, i just use old line, this line is never cast off the reel the new main line is just tied over the top.
Infact ... |
| Topic: Wanted Mini van |
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Forum: Trading Post Posted: Thu Nov 01, 12 9:27 pm Subject: Wanted Mini van |
i hope you're sitting down
http://www.theminiforum.co.uk/forums/topic/238003-1980-minivan/ hes got to be joking at that price  .Never mind the search continues.......Magnet |
| Topic: Wanted Mini van |
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Forum: Trading Post Posted: Thu Nov 01, 12 8:55 pm Subject: mini van |
| There like hens teeth now, i had one years ago and what a grand little workhorse it was. The one i had was fitted with a folding rear seat i'm not sure if they all had them in so at least you could ca ... |
| Topic: My Hunting Gun Of Choice. |
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Forum: Shooting and Trapping for the Pot Posted: Thu Nov 01, 12 8:13 pm Subject: Bodgers survival gun!!!! |
Not many on the forum shoot or hunt but I agree with what you say.
My chosen weapon for the UK would be my Weiracht .177 air rifle. A bit heavy to carry around but deadly acurate for rabbits, pigeo ... |
| Topic: My Hunting Gun Of Choice. |
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Forum: Shooting and Trapping for the Pot Posted: Thu Nov 01, 12 6:53 pm Subject: muzzleloader |
| The flintlock is the best survival gun ever made in my opinion. Surviving what exactly? Unemployment? Unexpected illness? Hurricane Sandy? An ice storm? A drought? Or, the even more likely plague of ... |
| Topic: firewood bonanza |
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Fri Oct 12, 12 7:45 pm Subject: firewood bonanza |
Due to the recent floods in the area our local beach was piled high in wood.So last weekend we managed to get two pickup loads away.
With it all cut and stacked the hard work was worth it, more so n ... |
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