Apocalypse Build along

[puukko3883]

Today while scavenging the NW area of the peninsula, I came across a scene that was both tragic and great good fortune ...





tragic for the poor bloke that was holding onto the hatchet when whatever End of Days beast came a calling, what was he up to I wonder ? Beginning to carve himself a bowl ? Going to carve his initials into this big hunk of downed elm ? Who knows how he was passing the time or what monster ended his pleasant endeavor ? From the teeth marks in the sleeve I'd guess it was a Giant Badger that took him.

And great good fortune for me to find a hatchet head !!





After procuring the hatchet head I was scouring around in a big estate garage, up in a storage loft I found a maple baluster, hmmmmm, I remembered the good old days, sitting and browsing the BB Members Projects forum and seeing the beautiful work of papstomahawks and it came to me that the strings of foraging fate were pulling me to make a Ciupaga !! An ApocaCiupaga !!





With this rusty old hatchet head born of tragedy and this solitary maple baluster I will make an ApocaCiupaga !!

[Roadcat]

Apocalypse Diaries Entry 4 are up: http://www.britishblades.com/forums/...-Diaries-Day-4
Now the fun can start! Promise there'll be more photo's in the next few entries.

[leighwill1]

ok so mine is done but forgot to get pics, but a quick description.
old billhook with knackered handle sorta like this one
http://www.timelesstools.co.uk/images/588%20nash.JPG
now dispose of little girly knackered handle and securely mount blade to pick-axe handle and sharpen both both sides.
tested it today and it does all that is listed in first post.
the only problem i have is when opening canned goods, the contents go everywhere
but it was not stated thet had to stay in the can.

[puukko3883]

ok so mine is done but forgot to get pics
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the only problem i have is when opening canned goods, the contents go everywhere
but it was not stated thet had to stay in the can.

leighwill1, yes, yes you're right !! No one said anything about this, the whole idea is to get the goods out of the can !!
From the description (we need pics !!) your marvelous PA (post apocalypse) tool both opens and extracts !!

Pics, we must have pics !! How are we to judge the worth of this PA tool without pics ?!

[Everything Mac]

I leave you lot alone for two weeks and I miss all the fun. The worst bit is that the internet I'm using is rather slow and I can't see any of these pictures which I imagine are awesome! lol.

I'll have to check this thread out good and proper when I get back on shore!

I look forward to it!

Andy

[Richie'66]

I leave you lot alone for two weeks and I miss all the fun. The worst bit is that the internet I'm using is rather slow and I can't see any of these pictures which I imagine are awesome! lol.

I'll have to check this thread out good and proper when I get back on shore!

I look forward to it!

Andy

Now , wouldn't it be interesting what you could make on a rig ?..............There , a challenge for you has been laid down

[Ru Titley]

Excellent work on the blog Roadcat , starting at the begining of an impending disaster certainly gives you more scope for finding good quality stuff .

Ive not managed to get alot done this week so appologies , I need to finish off mu Cubs fang and will then do the testing to make sure it works ok .
The other 2 Id shown had been made up previous to the thread being started so power had been used in the polishing of the blades so I will not be using them .

[leighwill1]

Puukko the pics will be up as soon as i can get them. took a week off work to spend a bit of time with the missus, and this little project scuppered some plans she had made, so i'm not in the good books.
So i'm taking her to york tomorrow for a day out and i might just have a look in the armoury shop

[se7en]

Just read the blog Roadcat,outstanding mate!

[Roadcat]

Thanks for reading it guys. I'm really enjoying writing it and all the scavenging I did today. The dogs are enjoying it too, I think I've walked more miles with them in the last few days than I did the whole of December! Although it's only fiction it's actually quite an interesting project, and sheds a whole new light on my survival skills. I've always thought of myself as quite self-reliant and having spent quite a lot of time outdoors in various climates have thought that I would be reasonably capable in a survival situation, but today was the first time I've actually put some of those skills to practice. Never realized how difficult it is to actually light a fire without matches!

[Arclightuk]

Just read the blog Roadcat,outstanding mate!

Completely agree excellent...as have all the posts this is a brilliant thread :-)

[puukko3883]

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So i'm taking her to york tomorrow for a day out and i might just have a look in the armoury shop

By all means stay on the pages of the better half's good books !!

leighwill1 if you're going to the armory then I'll give you a cryptic tip concerning something you could "forage for" there and use as a lanyard fob, not just any fob but a fob that has almost limitless survival capabilities, here's a list of some of the things it can do;

1. Can opener, 2. Seam ripper, 3. Screwdriver, 4. Clean fingernails, 5. Cut fishing line, 6. Open paint cans,7. Window scraper, 8. Scrape around floor corners, 9. Digging, 10. Clean out groove on tupperware lids, 11. Reach in and clean out small cracks, 12. Scrape around edge of boots, 13. Bottle opener, 14. Gut fish (in the field), 15. Scale fish (in the field), 16. Test for completion when baking on a camp fire, 17. Prying items, 18. Strip wire, 19. Scrape pans in the field, 20. Lift key on flip top cans, 21. Chisel, 22. Barter, 23. Marking tool, 24. Deflating tires, 25. Clean sole of boot/shoe, 26. Pick teeth, 27. Measurement, 28. Striking flint, 29. Stirring coffee, 30. Puncturing plastic coating, 31. Knocking on doors, 32. Morse code, 33. Box cutter, 34. Opening letters, 35. Write emergency messages, 36. Scratch an itch, 37. Save as a souvenir, 38. Rip off rank for on-the-spot promotions, 39. Bee sting removal tool (scrape off with blade).

My user name contains the clue !! puukko3883

[Roadcat]

I've survived another day in this frightening, new world.

You can read about it in Apocalypse Diaries 5 and Day 5 continued!

[se7en]

Compulsive reading Roadcat,best thing i've read for ages!

[Scoutmaster]

My name is Dagr and I am of the clan 66 , a name I chose long ago when the elders deemed me old enough to choose my own name. I am a wanderer , and i wander the land of 'Up there and to the East'.
I escaped the 'cities of plenty' and the 'Man of plenty' many years ago .
The clan elders told me that many moons ago tools of kutters were made in such ways as I will show.
This is my tale.

I broke into a abode of a man of middle ground and found what was a piece of conveyance spring. It had already been partly cut or already broken , and some tools. The most usefull being a chapper , (the elders refer to this as a hammer but we don't because it makes a chap chap noise when used).
The green ground surrounding this abode has alot of wood fuel lying around and I decided to make a kutter as the elders used to make.

I put some dry wood fuel in a busted up metal container and lite the wood fuel with a plastic match that was also found in the man of middle grounds car abode .
The metal conveyance spring was then put into the fire to heat to cherry red. I had to fan the wood fuel with a larger piece of flat wood fuel to get the heat up.
The spring was then bashed with a chapper on a strange lump of metal found laying around in the green ground.

Here are some rotten pictures.....I think the picture taker is on it's way out and needs to be recycled into something else. That'll be a job for another clan member.

Rich
Did you get Colin round to take them