Edits..

So this is a Edit of a old project..

The handle on my yakut knife was to short so I grafted a extension to it.

Just some random bit of wood and some Gorilla glue..

I decided to paint it, makes it easier to find plus it will look super cool once it gets some "patina" (such a ass word)

 

Pack works

Replacing the strap buckle on my Exped Thunder, got a spare from the EU 

Customer Support..

Added some mountain man flavor to the straps..

Got a sternum strap to buy im not sure if i dig it.. That pipe fit is sort of dubious and the leather and bone one i made works really well... Its dog proof..

 

I usually clip dogs leash/carabiner to it..

Thats also how the original one broke, dog bolted after a deer and ripped it clean of..

 

Bones..

 Bike dickings..

A piece of deer bone..

Bone shifter. Might tidy it up a bit with some sandpaper.. Also i might not..

Boatys

 Packraft repairs.. A customer put a bunch of holes in one of the boats.. No biggie just something to deal with 

Spodaggler

 For poking around..

Food forest planting tool 

Permanently temporary is forever

 Redoing one of those permanent field repairs.. OMM rain pants that got torn on whatever that got fixed with black duct tape and a bit of exped repair tape..

A lot of tape residue.. Wich is not all bad.. It will make the fix stick..

Keep all the loose flappy bits in place with some masking tape..

You should have one of these by now.. 

Handy box of repair tape..

I think i bought a exped mixed patch kit and the rest is those you get when you by a tent/sleeping bag/air mattress 

I picked grey for the inside as backing..

Its like its not even there..

..And black for the patch. Much better than the "temporary" fix since its more flexible, the tape was quite stiff..

Cool beans, now my 15 year old rain pants can keep on trudging..

Notes

If you maintain and take care of the things you make they will last a long time..

Coating the inside of a planter box with rapeseed oil using that plastic brush i found on my walk yesterday..

 That said, I should take my own advice..

Food Forest

 Another long term project..

First seeds that will go to the community alotment patch. Pumpkins, squash, beans etc. Some will be grown at home like cucumber and tomatoes..

Then Theres the re-planting stuff..

The big can is a mix of harvested wild carrots, parsnip thyme, etc.

The small glass jar is about 1000+ chard seeds i harvested last summer. Im going to see if i can get them established some where..

Just stuff..

..to organize other stuff..

Tape buddy™

 

Alis finest..

 New A express stove pipe for the stove..

I figure that a 50cm longer pipe would cool down the embers burning holes in my tent.

Three outings and about 10 holes so far.. 

The Eagle Eyed observer can spot the small 

Sil nylon patches.. It a fix but a longer stove pipe is a better one..

 

Edit: You are instructed to shape/set the stove pipe by firing up the stove. I tried using my MSR pocket rocket just going over the stove pipe with the flame and it worked ok/good enough to pre-set it..

More coms..

 ..nerdery..

Lilygo T echo/meshtastic device.

Pretty easy to set up but you can most definitely rabbit hole this tech if you want to 

I live a bit outside of the local mesh but could access it and get messages out with no problems, so thats extremely good..

Update: I managed to brick it within 24 hours wich suck.. 

I also managed to flash it with the latest firmware wich is cool..

I forgot..

 ..to post this fix..

Cremated my sleeping bag a bit. My go to is to put tape on stuff like that but then i remembered that i had a tent peg pouch in the same colour..

Best fix ever..

My bag look homelessy but it does the job.

Also 1100 wiews this week.. I dont get it. Why does the bots come here?

Various..

..states of the Fox-Box™

Top pic is from todays food run .

Plenty of tracks from where the den is and all the food is gone..

Below is from after a couple of days of heavy snow fall.. Zero tracks to the Fox-Box™ and all the food from previous runs where still there. My guess is that my guy just stay in the den during conditions like these..

Before the snow falls..

 

Onwards

 Did the trip and dug it out..

Pretty straight forward process to re attach it. A piece of pipe, a weld and two holes..

And again.. 

This game of moving bits of scrap pipe and metal that already served a purpose in another way is the best thing..

This is bat country..

 Peak prepper stuff..

..or "Your dads first shitty Baofeng kit"

Mostly for snooping on those Rangers in their trucks this summer. The cell phone reception in the park is a bit patchy, wich i love but i think they might be using stuff like this to communicate.. 

Also good for boating saftey..

Dead easy to put in the PMR channels etc via the app, I tried but could not fuck it up..