Arzosah and Jansman, hope you both get sorted sharpish, I may buy a tarpaulin just in case my roof blows off
What preps are you doing this week? Part 3.
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No worries Jansman, a roof is far far more important!! You don't want to rehydrate the dehydrated goodies via the roof
Arzosah and Jansman, hope you both get sorted sharpish, I may buy a tarpaulin just in case my roof blows off
Arzosah and Jansman, hope you both get sorted sharpish, I may buy a tarpaulin just in case my roof blows off
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Re: What preps are you doing this week? Part 3.
"Tested" my breakdown preps out last night stopped to help 2 gents out last night having nearly knocked one of them over as he had his backside in the traffic . poor sods had a blow out on a unlit section of a road just after a s bend.. All in black / dark clothing... Unlit nsl A road
The standard Audi wheel brace had rounded off due to the wheel bolts been stupidly over tightened probably by a garage windy gun
Few high VI's jackets passed about. Roof mounted light bar stuck on my car roof. Led road flares passed both cars know one thing once the road flares were down traffic started approaching at a absolute crawl big breaker bar out my car tool bag and the correct socket and 5 mins later we had the bolts cracked loose and his wheel back on... This was after Mrs andy showed them how to jack their car correctly
as I returned from my car resembling peter Sutcliffe with a big ball paign hammer ready to crack the cold weld been the alloy and the steel brake disc and hub
The standard Audi wheel brace had rounded off due to the wheel bolts been stupidly over tightened probably by a garage windy gun
Few high VI's jackets passed about. Roof mounted light bar stuck on my car roof. Led road flares passed both cars know one thing once the road flares were down traffic started approaching at a absolute crawl big breaker bar out my car tool bag and the correct socket and 5 mins later we had the bolts cracked loose and his wheel back on... This was after Mrs andy showed them how to jack their car correctly
as I returned from my car resembling peter Sutcliffe with a big ball paign hammer ready to crack the cold weld been the alloy and the steel brake disc and hubIf your roughing it, Your doing it wrong 
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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Had the annual sort thro of the tins / larder. The winter food levels are about the right level going into summer and we've listed the 'needs plumping up' items for when we go shopping for the summer bits. Not sure why given the amount of hail we've had.............
Given the 'in car survival' packs a good going thro as well
The seeds are sprouting in the greehouse (so no 'mousegate' this year - hurrah!) and the polytunnel has been fully prepped to take everything, veg patches have had the bean wigwams erected so we're feeling a bit smug right now.
Given the 'in car survival' packs a good going thro as well
The seeds are sprouting in the greehouse (so no 'mousegate' this year - hurrah!) and the polytunnel has been fully prepped to take everything, veg patches have had the bean wigwams erected so we're feeling a bit smug right now.
Knowledge is power
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Bit of a miss-match of a post but I think it belongs in here for more than one reason.
Reason one,
We are about to begin my 8 year old grandson's education into wild camping and being able to survive in the green bits that surround our concrete bits
.
We are booked to go to a camp on a normal camping site (no fires
) in August but I may contact my friend and change our camping plans.
I think it would benefit our grandson better if we chuck him into wild camping at the deep end, so to speak, and as such I may take my son, son-in-law, grandson and myself off to Funky's summer wild camp in 3 months.
Reason two,
Having the camp coming up it gave me an excuse to buy the little lad a good kids 3 seasons mummy sleeping bag. Now with his back pack being woefully too small for a decent camp I used some of my 20mm webbing and quick release buckles to make his sleeping bag's outer carry sack into a compression sack.
As my Wife, son and myself have the same 50 liter Molle type packs I also made, and am still making, the compression bags & straps for our BOBs.
Luckily I bought 100 meters of 20mm webbing and 30 quick release buckles a while ago.
I know not everyone goes with camo but I like it and I bought 10 meters X 2 meters of ripstop 95 issue DPM and the same size heavy waterproof black nylon lining material to make the bags and sacks for our packs very strong.
The bags I'm making are to hold our sleeping bags, roll mats, lightweight tents and bashas (well I need a basha as my tent is only single skin and the inner roof surface gets wet without a basha hung over the tent)
That's me this week, all stabbed fingers and thumbs but if I'm really wise I'll ask Mrs Wulfshead to show me how to use the sewing machine I bought her a couple of years ago lol.
Wulfshead
Reason one,
We are about to begin my 8 year old grandson's education into wild camping and being able to survive in the green bits that surround our concrete bits
. We are booked to go to a camp on a normal camping site (no fires
) in August but I may contact my friend and change our camping plans.I think it would benefit our grandson better if we chuck him into wild camping at the deep end, so to speak, and as such I may take my son, son-in-law, grandson and myself off to Funky's summer wild camp in 3 months.
Reason two,
Having the camp coming up it gave me an excuse to buy the little lad a good kids 3 seasons mummy sleeping bag. Now with his back pack being woefully too small for a decent camp I used some of my 20mm webbing and quick release buckles to make his sleeping bag's outer carry sack into a compression sack.
As my Wife, son and myself have the same 50 liter Molle type packs I also made, and am still making, the compression bags & straps for our BOBs.
Luckily I bought 100 meters of 20mm webbing and 30 quick release buckles a while ago.
I know not everyone goes with camo but I like it and I bought 10 meters X 2 meters of ripstop 95 issue DPM and the same size heavy waterproof black nylon lining material to make the bags and sacks for our packs very strong.
The bags I'm making are to hold our sleeping bags, roll mats, lightweight tents and bashas (well I need a basha as my tent is only single skin and the inner roof surface gets wet without a basha hung over the tent)
That's me this week, all stabbed fingers and thumbs but if I'm really wise I'll ask Mrs Wulfshead to show me how to use the sewing machine I bought her a couple of years ago lol.
Wulfshead
Area 4 Coordinator
For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack
For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack
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Sewing on a machine can be very addictive, before you know it you will have a new set of curtains, cushion covers and matching chair covers, in cammo of course
Behind every great man is an even greater woman. She carried you, raised you and made you who you are.
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Thats great untill you try and find the chair....Decaff wrote:Sewing on a machine can be very addictive, before you know it you will have a new set of curtains, cushion covers and matching chair covers, in cammo of course
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sniper 55 wrote:Thats great untill you try and find the chair....Decaff wrote:Sewing on a machine can be very addictive, before you know it you will have a new set of curtains, cushion covers and matching chair covers, in cammo of course
it's under the tabke, that has a matching camo cloth Behind every great man is an even greater woman. She carried you, raised you and made you who you are.
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Last night:
* Started a list of what I want my EDC/arms reach kit to ideally include, eventually.
Today:
Tomorrow I'm going to get a coil of kernmantle rope from B&Q for £8.
* Started a list of what I want my EDC/arms reach kit to ideally include, eventually.
Today:
- bought 80 nail pegs for our "modern" tentage, having exhausted all our previous stock trying to keep a bell tent together in Storm Katie, and losing most of them in the mud
- bought a road beacon for the car
Tomorrow I'm going to get a coil of kernmantle rope from B&Q for £8.
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Meh. Disregard that last. It's not quite the rope I hoped it'd be. 300kg breaking strain would snap if a biffer like me took a lead fall on it, and it's not even much use for hauling heavy stuff, given its bulk. It's almost worse that it looks the part and might mislead the incautious.womble wrote:Last night:
Tomorrow I'm going to get a coil of kernmantle rope from B&Q for £8.
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Many, many thoughts on maintenance ... the two sets of fences, the two places where the roof blew away, and the broken drainpipe (as well as some bedding-in left undone from years ago, which the eagle eyed plumber spotted) are all fixed now, thank heavens.
The next bit of problem DIY maintenance is just keeping up with ordinary jobs, really: there's a tiny little decking area at the end of my garden, with "live fencing" made from cherry laurel. I now loathe cherry laurel
in such a small garden anyway. I've been thinning it, but let that go over the last year cos of the virus. Now, I'm thinning it again, and its grown over nearly the whole decking area. As I thin it, I'm sweeping away the fallen leaves - they must die and gradually be replaced, I suppose, its those. They've been there so long they've been decomposing, and the mould that aids decomposition has actually started to attack the decking I'm slightly surprised, and peeved too, but of course its totally my own fault.
Of course, maintenance comes with its own issues. Did some laptop maintenance with CC Cleaner yesterday, lost my password, after the reset couldn't find the way to update with a new one - had to get our lovely mod pseudonym to help me out - which he did in short order. Thank you pseudonym! Best laid plans and all that.
The next bit of problem DIY maintenance is just keeping up with ordinary jobs, really: there's a tiny little decking area at the end of my garden, with "live fencing" made from cherry laurel. I now loathe cherry laurel
in such a small garden anyway. I've been thinning it, but let that go over the last year cos of the virus. Now, I'm thinning it again, and its grown over nearly the whole decking area. As I thin it, I'm sweeping away the fallen leaves - they must die and gradually be replaced, I suppose, its those. They've been there so long they've been decomposing, and the mould that aids decomposition has actually started to attack the decking I'm slightly surprised, and peeved too, but of course its totally my own fault.Of course, maintenance comes with its own issues. Did some laptop maintenance with CC Cleaner yesterday, lost my password, after the reset couldn't find the way to update with a new one - had to get our lovely mod pseudonym to help me out - which he did in short order. Thank you pseudonym! Best laid plans and all that.