I was watching Echo Mikes Infantry/Bushcraft Field Cooking Equipment video and was introduced to Fire Maple cookware. The stainless steel kettles I use were from japan and very hard to find and took me some time to locate a seller. These seem well priced and can fit a gas bottle into the internals for storage, which I thought was a great idea for the 1.2 litre version.
$60 in Australia
Would this make a good alternative to a Larks Head with less chance of slipping ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgZwddeE_Zg&list=LL&index=51
One of the 10Cs from Dave Canterbury is a bag needle. Heres a great way to thread it.
A great tip to get rid of bugs and mosquitos out of dried cattails.
There have been many videos on you-tube of late about improving ridge-lines, however not many looking at improving guy-line set ups.
I like the idea of an upside down guy-line to have the tensoining knot permanently attached to the tarp corner and then use a quick loop to attach the tent peg further down in the ground.
I have tripped over my guy-lines in the night several times and prefer them to be tied lower. The timber in Australia is much harder to carve tent pegs. Im also switching over to trying bank line for the guy-lines. Ive had hottchie cord become so tangled after pegs pulling out in high winds, it took hours to untangle. That I swapped to 3mm paracord, however It still become too bulky and also tangled. I’m hoping the bank-line being not being as flexible will fix that problem.
Below is a friction hitch that improves on using the Taut Line hitch for a permanent knot attached to the tarp and Ive been playing around with several knots for the tent peg, between a Clove Hitch variation, Anchor hitch and Slip knot but have settled on a Pile Hitch being the fastest and easiest to remember.
Friction Hitch Variation
Anchor Hitch
Slip Knot
Pile Hitch
Another knot Ive been looking at for improving the adjusting of Guylines.
Some more knives to do reviews of if I can stay out of hospital long enough. I found the daggers on sale and couldn’t resist. I like to keep up my collector status. When I sold my Carbon Garberg I ended up regretting the sale and brought the stainless for my training course blade. The GNS i still havent made my mind up about it. Im going through a 6 inch blade thing at the moment.
I don’t believe I included the Slipknot into the Bush Knots Series. I had minimal use for it, however BCBOCRAFT recently put out a video of the practical applications.
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