Week Assignment: RECYCLE

[Joezilla]

This week's assignment comes with a little bit of good old earthyness attached. Post your best use of recycling something, whether it be a tin can made into a candle holder, a sand worn wine bottle into a sharpener, making a kukri from a truck spring, or going to the junk yard and picking up an old tractor hub for a fire ring.

It can be as primitive or as complicated as you want, post it up and go!

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[coote]

I wanted to have a wood-fired cooker for my camp that was relatively safe compared to an open fire. This one is made from an old aluminium pressure cooker. Inside the pressure cooker is a bit of pipe with a bottom welded into it. This bit of pipe is the actual firebox. It has holes drilled through the walls of the pipe to allow air to get to the wood. It also has legs to keep it off the bottom of the pressure cooker.

The pressure cooker lid has a hole cut in it to match the diameter of the firebox pipe. There are three bolts sitting in holes in the lid for the pan or kettle to sit on. And the base (pot) of the pressure cooker has a hole in the side with a sliding sheet-metal flap to regulate the air into the fire (not absolutely necessary).

Naturally I discarded the rubber seal that normally sits around the lip of the lid.

The cooker works quite well, but I have to keep feeding it with small bits of wood or bark. At times it makes a bit more smoke than I'd hoped for. It is good for a quick cook-up (like frying a steak), but for a long slow cooking project it would be better to have a bigger firebox.

Here's another one. I had a need for reasonably comfortable toilet facilities for a camp. I got an old plastic fishcase, cut a hole in the bottom of it, and fixed an old toilet seat over the hole. I fixed some timber inside the case to strengthen it. This case sits over a hole dug in the ground. If people do their business then sprinkle some earth, ashes, leaf mould or sawdust over what they've deposited, this makeshift toilet can be quite bearable to use.

 

[SouthernCross]

A recycled wine bladder with a removable tap makes a great around camp water container.

An old stocking makes a great soap container for around the camp (stops dirt and other material sticking to the soap)

Kind regards
Mick

 

[Bushman5]

I'm recycling a 20lb steel fire extinguisher into a charcaol hibachi. Pics hopefully in a few days.

thread on WS&S somewhere....

 

[jca21]

A recycled wine bladder with a removable tap makes a great around camp water container.

Kind regards
Mick

Ahh goon bags. How i miss thee

they also make great pillows for when you pass out from a night of gooning.

i remember drinking plenty of boxes of wine when i was in australia. good stuff.

 

[zombie_killer]

hahaha i drank 3l of red goon and forgot how the hallway worked ahahah i ended up crawling down it

 

[Diomedes Industries]

Recycled Altiods tins stuffed with recycled inner tube, recycled stumps of fatwood, a recycled bit of fungus, some recycled old t-shirts, and a recycled bead from a necklace for the handle of the firesteel. All of that together with a few other things makes a sweet tinder kit.

TF

 

[zombie_killer]

we er "recycled" a 44 gallon drum and steel frame to make a wicked fire pit for a party i went too . cut the 44 gallon in half with an angle grinder and cut off disc. was quite fun actually . i spent the night tending the fire and drinking beers with my mates . used my fiskars hatchet , a couple mates , cold steel vietnam hawk , and a big crowbar to get the wood

 

[valcas1]

I am in the process om making a crook knife from a recycled sawzall blade. I will post pictures later tonight if all goes well. It is a fun project. Great post Joe.

Paul

 

[OkefenokeeKnives]

I have a HSS saw blade that I want to make a Hatchet on one side and a saw on the other, would be great for setting up treestands. Not sure if the handle will be strong enough.I was thinking of using a shortened axe handle. What do ya ' ll think ?

 

[TreeChopper]

Denim neck pouch made out of parts from jeans I wore out. I used the watch pocket, button holes from the fly, belt loop, and a length of fabric from the leg to make a strap. Various pieces were added here and there for reinforcement purposes.

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Both tins fit in the pocket, the mirror is included because I tend to get stuff in my eyes a lot and it slides in behind the tin. The leather it is attached to is scrap. The bead is one crafted from scrap fabric, same with the one on the fire rod. The plastic safety release buckle and the D ring on the strap were reclaimed from a worn out cat collar.
I can fit most of the stuff(not the mirror) in the picture in either tin, the small one won't fit the whistle....I intend to hang it on the outside anyway. Will include a bandaid and a tube of glucose paste for my dog. This is just part of my mini kit for walking the dog out on the back 40. Lots of configurations possible. I could add a pocket to the back and may make it from jute strapping in case I need to cut it off for tinder.

I found a leaf spring in an old farm dump on property where I live. Matt (ML Knives) pounded a piece of it into a knife for me. Top one in the pic.

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[Switchblade61]

My take on the recycled coffee can stove.
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[Tim the Slugman]

I recycle peanut butter jars. I put everything in them, from trail mix to reloading supplies, & fire making kits !

 

[Bushman5]

My take on the recycled coffee can stove.
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CLASSIC music! :thumbup:

great video Switchblade61!

 

[TreeChopper]

Found a giant roll of concrete reinforcement mesh in some bushes, has 6x6 holes, now I use it to support anything in my garden that will grow vertically.
I cut a piece of inner tube and covered my axe handle for protection.
Plastic protein powder jugs and larger cannisters = food storage for bulk purchases.
A worn paddle-shaped cutting board + scrap leather = my strop
Scrap leather + part of used paint stick = mini strop.
Used a piece of scrap neoprene to make a protective cover for the chainstay on my mt bike.
Leftover plastic veterinary squeeze bottles will be used for alcohol -- alky stove
Spent smartwool sock stuffed with catnip = toy they can sink their claws into.
I've made jewelry from leftover fabric, used dryer sheets, leather scraps, plastic, pieces of CDs, metal junk I've found. Crafting tools made from butternut shells I found in the woods, spongy packaging, wood chopsticks, etc etc.
I'm sure I've left out a lot.

 

[coote]

TreeChopper's use of denim reminded me that I made a really useful quiver for my arrows out of a 'leg' cut from some old jeans. I just sewed up one end and added a strap. I cut the bottom half off a plastic soda bottle and jammed it into the bottom of the quiver to stop my broadheads cutting through it. Cant find a picture sorry.

Plastic packaging strap, well some of it anyway, is good for making small animal snares. I've found that some will split nicely to make a narrower strip. If the strip hasn't been kinked too badly, the snare you make from it can be made to stay open nicely.... whereas plain cord snares are floppy and you have to come up with a way of holding them open. To make a snare all you need to do is to tie an eye in one end of the strip... say an overhand loop, and pass the tail end through the eye to form the noose. Here is a brustailed possum caught in a black polypropylene (?) packaging strap snare:

A plastic soda bottle can make a fairly good sound moderator for a .22 using subsonic cartridges. A small horizontal slit is made partway down the bottle....just big enough so when you force the end of the barrel into it, if fits snugly around the barrel. The neck is then pulled up against the barrel and lashed into position. The first shot makes the exit hole, which then can be slightly enlarged with a small, sharp knife if desired (anybody here still carry a small sharp knife? ). I've posted this picture before, but here it is again. Instead of a gun barrel, I've simply made a mock-up using a tomahawk handle.

 

[vector001]

typical bastard-trash found along my urban wilderness river walk. cut the bulbous top off a water bottle.

put four relief cuts in the "bulb" so that it would set nicely in the cylindrical body of the bottle.

two components mated together, after about twenty minutes setting in some weeds where bait fish were seen.

scored two mosquito fish and some invertebrates. for some tasty Bait/Soup.

no curs were injured during this fishtrap experiment. :thumbup: this one was eyeballing the catfish a little too hard though and went in a couple times....

great thread, brother 'zilla.

i love cleaning up the woods and beaches while making useful things.

vec

 

[coote]

Yeah Vector..... why do we get so much trash dropped where it shouldn't be? I find it hard to understand why people do it. Up a nearby valley where I like to take our dog for a walk I have seen abandoned cars, old appliances, furniture, offal and other sundry junk.
"Bastard-trash" is a good name. I hope you don't mind me using it in future.

Perhaps filling these old bottles with gravel or lead shot then using them to bludgeon the people who dumped them would be a satisfying form of recycling .

 

[angle iron]

All of our vegetable scraps, stale bread, coffee grounds & filters, paper and cardboard trash, eggshells, newspapers and used grounds from starbucks go into vermicomposting bins and become worm castings. These are quite expensive in garden shops and make excellent fertilizer and compost tea and producing them at home yields an endless supply of bait for fishing and chicken treats. The bait is MUCH fresher/ livelier than any I have ever bought.

 

[vector001]

Yeah Vector..... why do we get so much trash dropped where it shouldn't be? I find it hard to understand why people do it. Up a nearby valley where I like to take our dog for a walk I have seen abandoned cars, old appliances, furniture, offal and other sundry junk.
"Bastard-trash" is a good name. I hope you don't mind me using it in future.

consider it all yours, brother.

i try to tell myself that the wind blew through camp and took alot of this stuff away, or birds or something did, etc. - if it is any consolation, the woods would be in worse trouble if these folks didn't come out, litter or not.

ugly as it is, a lot of the crap they leave behind can be helpful until you haul it out.

Perhaps filling these old bottles with gravel or lead shot then using them to bludgeon the people who dumped them would be a satisfying form of recycling .

i think that was the outside voice...:thumbup:

bastard meat makes fine fertilizer for the veggies....

vec