Daily doings of a bushcrafter.

[One Legged Josh]

I searched and have not found a similar thread. If you did something today, that was bushcraft related, but is not worthy of its own thread; post it here.
Not all projects are "self made gear" or any other specific forum category...So I figured general discussion was the best arena.

With that said....what did you do today?

8-15-2011

I got a monster belt grinder from my Dad, I cleaned it, and got it set up in the garage.



Another member had this old double that needed some "love" so I pounded out the old haft, and started hand sanding it.






It is looking much better now, but the only ID marks I can find are "BEN" or maybe it is "REN".

[blue gecko]

LOL, Josh, we did the same thing! Set up a belt sander and Max has been busy putting some knives back into shape. We routinely pick up "junk" knives from flea markets and thrift shops. Max also worked on a sheath he's making for a machete we bought at an auction.

This evening we took a short walk in the woods around our place checking out the mushroom plugs we used to innoculate tree stumps (while we cut last years firewood). Looks like some of them took and hopefully we'll have a nice flush this fall. We're pretty jazzed about that.

[One Legged Josh]

8-17-11

I decided to find out how tough osage really was.....Its very TOUGH!

I made a one stick fire, and started making a spoon while watching the fire...



It is harder than most to carve the bowl on.



But it turned out pretty well.




I used my ESEE 4 and a Mora crook knife. (both need sharpened now)

[hoot]

Ive been restoring two old corn knives I found and I worked on rubbing them down again to try and remove some of the grime on them.

[madmax]

Tram mod. Took a neglected tram



cut



started cleaning it up and seeing where it takes me.

[One Legged Josh]

started cleaning it up and seeing where it takes me.

I will trade you a brand new spoon for that old machete! Im a nice guy like that.

[madmax]

I will trade you a brand new spoon for that old machete! Im a nice guy like that.

I think you probably got more time in that osage orange spoon. Might not be a bad deal for me. We had an old orchard of that on our farm growing up in IL. That orchard is where I learned to sharpen a chainsaw cutting fenceposts. HARD stuff. BTW, fun thread! Thanks.

[Capt. Redbush]

Well yesterday I tried out the hammock straps/tree huggers I made Monday and Tuesday. Also experimented with setting up the tarp I'm planning on using (it's an old dome tent rain fly). Mixed results with the tarp, I'm gonna have to play around some more with it due to the non-flat shape. But the straps held beautifully and it was the first outside hang for my new Byers Moskito. Also sprayed them all with Permethrin. I got outside pics of the setup, but took them with my camera and didn't bring the card with me, but here are some inside shots I took with my phone...

[hootyhoo]

Tram mod. Took a neglected tram

Dude, that's wicked nice. I'm definately gonna do that to one. How do you make the major material removal - a saw??

[madmax]

Dude, that's wicked nice. I'm definately gonna do that to one. How do you make the major material removal - a saw??

Thanks. Tram mods are fun. There are several posts on them. I used a dremel tool to cut it. Belt sander and file to shape.