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My girlfriend was along for this one.
Built a fire up using natural tinder and a ferrorod, render out some pin pitch, made some char cloth, checked out an old shelter I build and is not in a state of disrepair some, and cooked up some food.
The way I like to make pine pitch glue is to boil it, all the good stuff will float to the top and things like bugs and bits of wood will sink so I just dip a stick in and pull the stuff on the top of the water that float and scrap it into another can with the chopped plant materiel and charcoal, melt it all together again and pour it off into a better tin.
Making a great meal of roasted veggie as I mess around.
Wow that stuff can really burn! Cleaning out the cans I use.
Some perfectly done char cloth.
So a little bit about this spot, it's an area that I really love to go to cause it is really quite, close, and it's an island that no one for the most part goes to at all.
Up until the 60's cattle was raised on it, I found a few piles of bones, one of a cow and one of a coyote. The coyote struck me as odd, it was just curled up as if it went to sleep like a dog does and just passed away in that position, since there are no other predators on the island the remains were not scatters about.
In bones need to be outside a really long time before they sun bleach in western Oregon.
I think if I added a thick layer of leafs and did some reinforcing this shelter would get back to its old self in no time!
Looks like there is an unwanted visitor eating my shelter.
Built a fire up using natural tinder and a ferrorod, render out some pin pitch, made some char cloth, checked out an old shelter I build and is not in a state of disrepair some, and cooked up some food.
The way I like to make pine pitch glue is to boil it, all the good stuff will float to the top and things like bugs and bits of wood will sink so I just dip a stick in and pull the stuff on the top of the water that float and scrap it into another can with the chopped plant materiel and charcoal, melt it all together again and pour it off into a better tin.
Making a great meal of roasted veggie as I mess around.
Wow that stuff can really burn! Cleaning out the cans I use.
Some perfectly done char cloth.
So a little bit about this spot, it's an area that I really love to go to cause it is really quite, close, and it's an island that no one for the most part goes to at all.
Up until the 60's cattle was raised on it, I found a few piles of bones, one of a cow and one of a coyote. The coyote struck me as odd, it was just curled up as if it went to sleep like a dog does and just passed away in that position, since there are no other predators on the island the remains were not scatters about.
In bones need to be outside a really long time before they sun bleach in western Oregon.
I think if I added a thick layer of leafs and did some reinforcing this shelter would get back to its old self in no time!
Looks like there is an unwanted visitor eating my shelter.
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