What can you do with wine corks?

Keep one in your pocket, with the wax of the day, for trail touch-ups to your cross country skis.

Jeff
 
We used to hang a few champagne corks from a branch with butchers string as moving targets for the trusty red ryder and pellet gun as kids. If you hit the cork square it would swing up and wrap around a couple times. Fun for a farmboy in saskatchewan.


that cork boat is crazy jhakken!!!!! did you ever sail on it?
 
You can make a compass with a needle and placing the cork in a cup of water.

You have to magnetize the needle by rubbing a magnet on it in the same direction a couple dozen times. Place the cork in the water and then place the needle on top of the cork. One end will point north.

It's up to you to figure out which end!

:D:D
 
sambo. said:
i use a champagne cork as an ersatz "fishing reel" in my survival kit.

shove a piece of coathanger wire through the middle of the cork and trim it off (only for strengthening the cork), wind fishing line around the cork, tie a hook on the end and stick the hook into the cork for safety.

voila. small, light and cheap.
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Cool idea, there.
 
I always have one in my hunting bag for face camo. Goes on quick and it cleans up much easier than those face paints.
 
Watchful said:
Well, it has nothing to do with survival craft, but no one else mentioned it so I am clearly the only one on earth with this.

I can place a wine cork in my lips, puff my cheeks, and create enough pneumatic pressure to shoot the cork at a ridiculous velocity up to or even over 30 feet. If I aim at somebody, I can hit 'em with a stinging force.

For some reason, around 1999, it occurred to me to do this in a fairly snooty restaurant. The cork shot off to the other side of the restaurant, straight over some doofus' head, and when paaaaang! into a sconce just behind him and bounced out onto their table. Scared the crap out of the poor guy and his date.

My wife really let me have it for about two hours afterward, but it's never failed to cheer me up, because to this day he probably thought the light exploded and a wine cork shot out of it onto his table. He probably still tells the story to this day, and doesn't have any explanation for what happened.

Anyway. That's what I can do with a wine cork.
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Its good to have those memories to cheer you up on a rough day. :thumbup:
 
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