Bushcraft and Survival Thread

[pinoyapache]

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Endurance training last May 23, 2010 from Guadalupe to Mt. Babag. Everytime there is a downhill part, I would run down the trail and it is a good exercise and a little bit extreme. Know this that one side of the trail is the hillside while the other side is the awning or cliff and one misstep is not a part of the script.

Trail Running in Napo

[pinoyapache]

Two activities in Mt. Babag for Camp Red -

June 6: Bonding time Jungle Wild Adventures

June 12-13: Freedom Climb 2010

[pinoyapache]

An alcohol-fed stove made by bushcrafter Ernie Salomon of Camp Red. Made of a discarded softdrink aluminum can, the volume of flame can be controlled by a plate valve which can be adjusted manually.

See the rest of the pictures here

This is the video

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The Trailhawk demonstrates to Boy Toledo and Ernie Salomon how to make a useful tool for survival with a knife, in this case, a wooden spoon carved from a hard piece of driftwood locally known as "lubas". Work area is somewhere in the foothills of the Babag Mountain Range in Cebu, PI.

Wood material: Local hardwood called "lubas"
Cutting tool: Mantrack jungle knife


Chopping to the desired shape


Scraping away unwanted thickness


Gouging out the spoon head


Hardest part of the work and most delicate


Cutting away the rough edges


The spoon and the cutting tool


A gnarled portion on the right chipped itself away.
I'd still say it's a nice piece of work.

See the rest of the pics here.

[pinoyapache]

Gills and I have a swap deal and now I have one of his prized knife blanks made of T-5160 steel. I decided to polish off and fine-tune the shape of the tang to my specs and so I made an outline of the knife in its original shape on the paper.

What I did is I shade the part that has to be done away including the punching of two holes into the tang to secure the scales later. Below is the result of the rounding off of the tang and the holes.

[Gills]

very nice Jing. what handles are you going to be putting on them?

[pinoyapache]

very nice Jing. what handles are you going to be putting on them?

Good question. I go for the traditional material like wood or maybe adhere bits of an albino carabao horn into the wood.

[pinoyapache]

Doing bushcraft cooking in the wild side of the Buhisan Watershed Area, Cebu, Philippines on May 30, 2010. You might heard of rice being cooked inside bamboo but I insisted to cook milled corn which have not been done anywhere else in the world.

YouTube - Cooking in Bamboo, Part 1
Part One

Will post Part 2 and Part 3 later. Please pardon the carabao English.

[zubanu]

thanks for shring sir...i would really love to join one of your treks maybe soon, please let me know how..

[pinoyapache]

Bushcraft cooking video but more close:

YouTube - Cooking in Bamboo, Part 2