stabman
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On Saturday, I headed into the woods with my brother and a friend (one other friend was supposed to show, but came down with the plague or something...)
We had all sorts of knives, and even two machetes, but I have learned from the internet that you'll die if you don't have an axe in the woods.
I don't want to die...hmmm...there were some stones I saw on the way in...time to make some axes!
But while making the axes, let's not waste time; why not set up a trapping pit?
As luck would have it, we managed to trap that most elusive of woods treats...The Wild Canadian Black Forest Ham!!! :thumbup:
We roasted it on the fire along with the sausages we had brought in with us:
Mmmmm...sausages...
Cut that ham with the Grohmann #4 Survival Knife:
A shot of the area; if you look in the fire, you will see the aluminum that we failed to melt (we wanted to cast aluminum axe heads as well...had Styrofoam forms, sand and everything):
Fire!
My axe, along with the SmF that did much of the work, in the pic for scale:
It's a true stone celt Fokos:
More fire!
The pole-arm style axe my brother made didn't hold up as well when we tested them by chopping some trees:
I took my axe by the geology department at the university...apparently my caveman instincts are good, as it turned out to be chert. Flint is a form of chert, and was often used to make stone tools.
So there you have it; we walked into the woods with no axes, and hiked out with two!
The plan had been to walk out with four axes (2 stone and 2 aluminum), but we were probably about 30 degrees short of melting temp; the aluminum sure glowed bright red in the dark.
But walking out with two axes and a belly full of Wild Ham ain't too shabby.
We had all sorts of knives, and even two machetes, but I have learned from the internet that you'll die if you don't have an axe in the woods.
I don't want to die...hmmm...there were some stones I saw on the way in...time to make some axes!
But while making the axes, let's not waste time; why not set up a trapping pit?
As luck would have it, we managed to trap that most elusive of woods treats...The Wild Canadian Black Forest Ham!!! :thumbup:
We roasted it on the fire along with the sausages we had brought in with us:
Mmmmm...sausages...
Cut that ham with the Grohmann #4 Survival Knife:
A shot of the area; if you look in the fire, you will see the aluminum that we failed to melt (we wanted to cast aluminum axe heads as well...had Styrofoam forms, sand and everything):
Fire!
My axe, along with the SmF that did much of the work, in the pic for scale:
It's a true stone celt Fokos:
More fire!
The pole-arm style axe my brother made didn't hold up as well when we tested them by chopping some trees:
I took my axe by the geology department at the university...apparently my caveman instincts are good, as it turned out to be chert. Flint is a form of chert, and was often used to make stone tools.
So there you have it; we walked into the woods with no axes, and hiked out with two!
The plan had been to walk out with four axes (2 stone and 2 aluminum), but we were probably about 30 degrees short of melting temp; the aluminum sure glowed bright red in the dark.
But walking out with two axes and a belly full of Wild Ham ain't too shabby.
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