Outdoorsman Thread

[TripleF]

It'll be a year round cabin. Snowmachine access in the winter.

Ken you won't give up your current location once the cabin is built will you ?

I'll have no reason to ever leave!

Awesome man.....always wanted to do that......happy for you!!

[doglegg]

So what's going to become of that chord of wood ? (Looks perfect for whiskey drinkin' cigar smokin' campfires.)

Oh yes indeedy it is my friend.......it'll be left where it is in the cabin camping area for others to use (like anyone in their right mind
would sleep without AC in Florida, but they do).

Thanks fellas!!

Scott, this is your best mission yet. Very impressive how much work those fellows did. You did good.

[Tony_Wood]

Had to catch a breather this afternoon just before dark.
Hit a trail on my bike with two goals in mind: 1 find a new plant to make natural cordage, 2 use local sourced material to build a fire by hand drill.

I succeeded at one: new cord plant was a go, hand drill ember was a bust.

I did find my first ripe blackberries of the season!

[TripleF]

So what's going to become of that chord of wood ? (Looks perfect for whiskey drinkin' cigar smokin' campfires.)

Oh yes indeedy it is my friend.......it'll be left where it is in the cabin camping area for others to use (like anyone in their right mind
would sleep without AC in Florida, but they do).

Thanks fellas!!

Scott, this is your best mission yet. Very impressive how much work those fellows did. You did good.

Thanks Floyd!!!

Sooooooooooo cool Tony!

[Old Hunter]

Nice Tony! Did you build the knife - it looks very tough and functional? OH

[Dinadan]

Tony - getting out and trying stuff is fun even if everything does not succeed. I have never tried making a fire with a drill - I always thought it would be difficult even with exactly the fight kind of wood and tinder. I like that knife: very functional looking. I have one kind of similar that I like for small tasks.

[Tony_Wood]

Oh yes indeedy it is my friend.......it'll be left where it is in the cabin camping area for others to use (like anyone in their right mind
would sleep without AC in Florida, but they do).

Thanks fellas!!

Scott, this is your best mission yet. Very impressive how much work those fellows did. You did good.

Thanks Floyd!!!

Sooooooooooo cool Tony!

Scott, keep up the good work with those young men, and thanks.

Nice Tony! Did you build the knife - it looks very tough and functional? OH

OH, I did build this one. It is about two years old now. 1084 and Jerusalem Olive with g-10 liners. It rides well on my side, and fills the hand well for working.

Tony - getting out and trying stuff is fun even if everything does not succeed. I have never tried making a fire with a drill - I always thought it would be difficult even with exactly the fight kind of wood and tinder. I like that knife: very functional looking. I have one kind of similar that I like for small tasks.

Mel, I have several fire kits that I have put together over the years. Yucca, cedar, cottonwood, etc. Most of the time I can get an ember with a bow drill, but the hand drill is finicky. Especially with resources picked up in the trail side. It stretches out limits, and tests what one can do with what is immediately available. That is the fun part.
Who is the maker of the knife you speak of? Scandi grind?

Thanks.

[Dinadan]

My little knife (3 1/4" blade) came from Track of the Wolf. https://www.trackofthewolf.com/List/Item.aspx/461/1 I do not know if they actually make the knives.

[Tony_Wood]

My little knife (3 1/4" blade) came from Track of the Wolf. https://www.trackofthewolf.com/List/Item.aspx/461/1 I do not know if they actually make the knives.

That is a nice looking knife, Mel. I have never seen that website and sales company. Thanks for the link.

[treefarmer]

Here is a sad picture for the Outdoorsman Thread:

An electrocuted hawk.

We had finished our breakfast and were doing our morning Bible reading when the power went off. Didn't think much of it as it happens pretty often in our neck of the woods. The power went off at 7:30, I called the Electric Coop and they dispatched a service truck, we were the only ones with an outage reported. The service man found the hawk at the base of a transformer pole that powers another well on our place. When the hawk got between the hot leg and a ground, it put a big burn across its chest feathers and tripped the jack out on the dirt road. 9:30 we were back in business.
This is what the hawk got tangled up in:

This transformer provides service for another well.

There are always hawks around our place, I think they may have a nest in a Pine swamp north of the well as they are always circling, hunting and calling in that area.
Treefarmer

[doglegg]

Used to work on traffic signals and this happened several times in my 15 years. Once one had a rabbit in its talons. Also squirrels and snakes would do the same thing. Always same result.

[Dinadan]

That is a sad photo. Looks like a Sharp Shinned or Cooper's.

[TripleF]

Two of the boys cam oh so close to the Eastern Diamondback on Wed...

[Quick Steel]

Yikes! Good teaching opportunity though.

[jmh58]

Hey Garry.. Sharp-shinned or Coopers hawk in tfs post?? I am going with a Sharpie!! John

[Dinadan]

Two of the boys cam oh so close to the Eastern Diamondback on Wed...

I love to see one of those in it's natural environment ... but it would be scary if I were riding herd on a group of boys! I bet those boys eyes were big as saucers when you pointed out the snake and told them what it was.

[treefarmer]

Scott, did you let that one get away? You should have poked him with a stick and made coil up and "sing" for the boys, that's a sound the will run a chill up your spine! I suppose that snake is not quite large enough to have a big set of rattles that would really sound off when agitated. Seriously, I suppose in a park those critters are protected.
Treefarmer

[Dinadan]

A few years back I read that kids that are bitten by a venomous snake usually do not see the snake until it bites. The article went on to say that most adults are bitten when they are messing with a venomous snake. I think just observing and leaving it alone is a good message to teach kids.

[Quick Steel]

Good call John. I think it is a juvenile Sharpie. One thing tho, Treefarmer evidently lives in the Fl. panhandle. According to my range maps that is a bit beyond the summer range of a Sharpie. Coopers would be the more common. Nevertheless, since I think juveniles roam more I'll stick with our call.

[doglegg]

Scott, that is a little scary running on to that particular snake. But part of being out side. Glad the boy are all ok and have sharper eyes now. Good photo as well.

[bighomer]

Don't like spiders and snakes, bunnies is more my style.

[Dinadan]

Don't like spiders and snakes, bunnies is more my style.

Did you never see Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

[Steve Warden]

Don't like spiders and snakes, bunnies is more my style.

Did you never see Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

[Quick Steel]

Tho we have a few bunnies, a few months ago to huge hares showed up chasing each other violently around the base of a tree. These are quite a different animal. I could hardly get over the size of these things.

[bighomer]

Don't like spiders and snakes, bunnies is more my style.

Did you never see Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

Nope, I missed that one.