Woods Competency
Recently, a client made the comment that he was a “student of wilderness survival, not a bushcraft type”. This struck me as sort of odd, so I asked him a bit about how… Read More
Category Archive: Survival
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Observation is Important, M’kay?
There is perhaps no skill, trait, attribute, or ability of more value to survival than simple observation. If you are not aware, and you are not able to grasp the meaning of what… Read More
The Woodswalkers Bag
My Playground: Empty, yet Full of Opportunity, to the Horizon and Beyond Living rurally, as I am currently fortunate to do, affords some great opportunities for the survival/resilience minded person. Foremost is that… Read More
Otherwise about Axes
Continuing the conversation from our previous article, there are some further notes on axes and hatchets that merit sharing. While entire books on working with and maintaining axes can be (and have been)… Read More
Edgewise About Axes
Axes come up more than a little here on BFE Labs, and rightfully so: There are few tools that can do what an axe does, much less do it well. While there are… Read More
Working with Fatwood
Last week, in the Wet, Rusty, Dirty article, I made mention of fatwood. Fatwood, or pitchwood, is a product of resinous pine trees: After the tree dies, the sap (or resin) sinks to… Read More
Wet, Rusty, Dirty
In the real world things get wet. Things get rusty. Things get dirty. And that can have an impact on how those things, and the people using them, perform. Yet, I see pictures… Read More
Survival/Woodscraft Knife, Version 1
For several years now I’ve been using (some variation of) a particular set-up of edged tools for woods craft, survival, etc. There are several schools of thought on the appropriate cutting tools for… Read More
Realistic Resiliency
“Solutions for Austerity and Hostility” – That’s what it says at the top of the page. But what does that really mean? Primarily we are interested in, and focused on, situations of immediacy… Read More
Ultimate Survival Technologies Sparkie
Ultimate Survival Technologies Sparkie Units in Tan and Orange Ultimate Survival Technologies has long been recognized as a producer of high quality and innovative survival solutions. One of their more noted innovations has… Read More
