I’ve written posts previously about ash die back in our ancient woodland. Over the last 3 winters we’ve felled in the region of 300 ash trees in and around our main camp. Generally speaking they’ve been small diameter trees and relatively easy to deal with. But we had a bunch of ash along the woodland […]
I always like to find the easy way to do things when I’m practicing bushcraft. Firewood is a good example, why saw if you don’t need to. Here’s a couple of alternatives to sawing firewood. We talk about cutting firewood (or not) fire on our 1 Day,2 Day & 5 Day Bushcraft Courses as well as the IOL Bushcraft Competency […]
Tracking isn’t just about finding the tracks that an animal leaves behind, it’s also about the other clues that they leave that can inform us of their presence. These clues are often refereed to as ‘sign’. Here I’ll briefly describe some of those different types of animal sign. Scat Scat is the term used in […]
When we run our Axe Workshop we teach our students batoning with an axe onto a stump. So last time around I kept a couple of logs to one side and made this short video where I discuss some key considerations around batoning with an axe. We teach batoning with an axe, and much more, […]
Unfortunately ash die back is present in our ancient woodland and so we’ve been felling those that are afflicted. Once felled, the side branches need to be taken off; this is known as snedding. In this short video I demonstrate how to sned with an axe. We look at snedding with an axe on our Axe […]
Under most circumstances I’ll use a saw to prune a tree, you can see a video on the subject here. But there might be times, and I’m really thinking about last resort scenarios, where you might have to look at removing a hazel stem with a knife. So in this video I show you how […]
