As well as teaching our scheduled courses, we often undertake private group bookings and occasionally provide training on a 1:1 basis. We’ve done 1:1 training a couple of times this year now, once in August when we taught the IOL Foundational Bushcraft course (which we wrote about here), and then again yesterday. Yesterday was a little different […]
There are plenty of reasons why cross cutting a tree or large branch is needed. What is important to remember is safety, you really don’t want to have an accident with an axe. Ordinarily I carry the Gransfor Bruks small hunters axe and whilst this is perfectly sufficient to cross cut a tree or limb, […]
I’ve seen a few posts recently on social media that show people wrapping paracord around the handle of their axe just below the head or else wrapping a piece of leather around the same place. The reason being in case you miss with your axe when chopping and then damaging the handle. I see where this […]
