As you know im enthusiastic about survial and Schotland allowed me to practice with my survivor's paraphernalia. An auspicious start is
always welcome to an emergency situation. Thought I'd show you what i did. Photos below:


Attempting to split the tree with Commando Wire Saw. Needless to say after nearly 50min of suffering the tree was victorious. I was enriched with the knowledge of the "tickler's" limits.


Trying to utilize the condom as water carrier by filling it in
stagnant water. To add I should have contained the Durex within a sock...but I like dry feet.

The result was mediocre in comparrison to attaching it to a tap.


Creating a simple water filter of a discarded water bottle a moss in
order to purify the captured liquid. Sadly in today's enviroment we
need man-made filters to prtect against man made chemical found from the tropics to the inhabitable poles.


Cutting a spoon out of a branch. Natural curve assists a waved form
spoon. About halfway from finishing now...

Also wanted to make a shelter a cook nettle soup in my personal
survival tin but bad weather prohibited it.

Have a great day,
Reinhardt

thats one whoping log your trying to saw ! All i used to saw with my wiresaws where much smaller branches. These days i saw branches with folding saws and bigger stuff with a manual chainsaw. But i never succesfully saw anything that thick ! i did broke off a tip and bended a blade trying to saw thick logs, though....

indeed! What kind of wire saw is it, if you don't mind my asking reinhardt? Did you quit because the saw broke, or because it was just too tiring? It is a pretty large chunk of log

One thing you might consider is bending a length of wood and notching the ends. Now, you have what looks like a bow and arrow bow and you don't have to wear yourself out as much <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Plus, it keeps the wire straight which I think is less prone to breaking

Anyway, there are lots of woods around where I live as well, so I ditched the wire saw and went for a more robust pocket chainsaw.

Yeah it was big alright! But I got over halfway! It just figured that you would not want to expend that much energy in a survival situation so I quit. The saw did not break. Its a standard BCB "Commando" saw.



Sorry, how do you mean? I got to sticks at each end through the folded loops as handles. Adequate as I did not get blisters. Its quite decent as a tree beater now.

PC2K I hear your saws get guite a bit of abuse from you then? <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

i think he ment, making a bow saw out out of your commando saw. Personnaly i got trouble with securing the saw ( or string if it's just a bow for something else ) to the bow with a good tention. It's either fixed, but no tention. Or it's tight, but falls off to easily.

and yes some of my stuff does see hard use. But i usually make sure that it's the cheap stuff that break... <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> I got to say that steelsaw blades are more flexible that i have i thought.

Yep, that's what I ment. I haven't tried it, which is why I was wondering

Reinhardt_Woets:

Fantastic picture quality! What resolution did you use? They loaded fairly fast on my dial up V92 protocol modem.

On that big tree you were cutting, you might want to start from the underside because when the wood finally gives way, you won't pinch the saw.

Bountyhunter

Nic pictures.

I did find this statement a bit ironic

"Also wanted to make a shelter a cook nettle soup in my personal
survival tin but bad weather prohibited it."

Aren't you supposed to practice in bad weather??
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Nooo you found it! Well yes but Im a bit of a good weather survivalist :P
Seriously though two days later I had to leave for Holland and with the weather being raining and very foggy I didnt want to pick a cold, honest.

Bountyhunter and Burncycle,
both of you thanks for the tip. I cant remember exacctly what resolution I shot with something like 1260xsomething. Thanks for the compliment though <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />