looking for a blueprint of a underhand chop so i can have my local welder build one for me, can't really find much online, thanks in advance
>>2861091Yeah everything is until you chop your foot in half
>>2860653>>2861095Why would you ever chop anything near your feet?
>>2861270IDK, why remain an ignorant retard when you can read a book?https://www.fs.usda.gov/t-d/php/library_card.php?p_num=1823%202812P
>>2860350wtf is thisjust chop it from the top along the grain
>>2860653These log choppers should probably just wear miniature stilts so they get hit instead of their feet. They could also have special talons built in for gripping the logs
Due to being a dwarf (5’8), my proximity to a major river known for having gold and spots to look for it, and the current gold prices I have decided to dwarfmax. Anyone here ever panned for gold? I’m not thinking of getting much to start for supplies just a mesh sifter a shovel and a pan. Anyone who pans for gold around here have any input for supplies or tricks?>don’t quit your dayjobI’m not
>>2862534Digging in mud sucks! All of the spots I tried were far to saturated. I got several "hits" on the detector. They were clear and repeatable in the 90s. A couple were hot rocks with visible iron oxidation. One has a target on one side but not the other. It was to muddy to even try and wash it in the field. I'll throw it in a pan and wash it to see if there's anything in the mud. The rest of my targets, I couldn't find. The mud made digging and scooping nearly impossible. Even if I was able to get the target in my scoop, there's no way I could divide it. So..... I'm back to waiting. With all of the rain we've had and are expecting, there should be fresh flood gold in the creeks once the water levels drop back down. And I'll wait until the soil has returned to a non goopy state before I bring the detector back out. It was a fun, if a bit frustrating and unfruitful day.
>>2862548A lot of what I'll be detecting on are old tailings. Most of the nuggets I'm hoping to find were missed by the old time miners. I'm not sure if there is any true virgin ground around here. It was all hit pretty hard in the late 1800s and again in the 1970s.
>>2862625Washed those two hot rocks. Both are highly magnetic. No gold in any of the mud I threw in my bucket or in what I washed off the rocks. Wasn't really expecting to find any, so not a surprise.
>>2863158I generally notch out the numbers that give a signal on hotrocks on my VLF detector so it doesn't make a noise when you swing over them. All the hotrocks in an area should give similar numbers, and they will give much stronger signals when wet. Small gold, lead shot etc also makes a zippier noise as opposed to the broader noise of hotrocks and rusty iron.
>>2863486Yeah, I haven't used it enough to know what sounds good and what doesn't. So I've just been digging everything. I don't have any discrimination turned on. I'm honestly a bit unprepared. But I'm a member of my local prospecting, mining and detecting group. We have monthly outings. I'll talk to the detector guys and see if they can't show me how to use my new detector and what settings I should be using for the area. The next outing is next Saturday out at one of the Trinity placer claims the group owns.
Google claims this is a real story. Do a reverse image search and see if you can convince it otherwise.
>>2857181googers aren't real, do more research. they were made up to keep normies out of the woods.
>>2861556DNR agrees with you.
>>2857181the rock cat watches you masturbate
>>2857181>remove circular rock from circular hole That's not how rocks work. Fail.
>>2858811Kek
When i was a kiddo, i used to go trailing/hiking with my school every Wednesday. We used to do all sorts of stuff, skiing, starting a campfire, make bread on a stick then coat it in sugar and cinnamon and play tag in the forrest. Sometimes we picked blueberries. Our school had built this open hut where you could sit, right next to the campfire. So many of my core memories are linked with that place. Once, i was skiing with my school, when i flung my skin pole around and I scratched the eyelid of my friend. Thank god she closed her eyes, i could have made her blind. Or the time me and my friend were assigned to create a store, and we decided it was going to be a weapons store. We would pick out sticks that looked like guns and we sold them, along side pinecones that were grenades. Or how I had a tantrum while skiing, because I was utter shit at it and my family was poor so we couldn't afford new winter shoes and my feet were uncomfortable and cold. So i threw myself in the snow and cried. I am thinking about going down that trail for old memories sake. God I miss those times.
>>2863471When I was a kiddo, I used to go hide in my bedroom every night after my father got home from work.
it's been raining all dayall the sticks and leaves on the ground are soakedbut you can still start a fire, can't you anon?surely a seasoned outdoorsman like you knows how to start a fire with wet leaves and sticksright??the baddies from your university backpacking club are cold, wet and shiveringcmon and save the day anonsurely you won't fumble something as easy as thisyour ability to start a fire literally defines you as a man on an evolutionary level
>>2863449>don't worry, ladies>pulls out picrelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851BqHMCaeM
yeah, I'm pulling out notebook with my poetry and kindle the flame in their hearts
>>2863449I went /out/ with one of the girls from work recently and it was raining pretty heavily by the time we got to the camp site. The site itself was sheltered by an overhang but I was pretty fucking nervous about my ability to get a fire going with all the wet wood about.Such a relief when I managed it, and she seemed suitable impressed.
>>2863449Don't worry I have a bottle of lighter fluid and a lighter
Realistically. How do we get poor people into practicing ski?
>>2863310Lots of resorts only check passes on the base-area lifts. I always figured you could hike your shit up to a mid-mountain lift and just ride that all day. if i cared enough about skiing to ever go alone, I'd try this.That, or learn backcountry and get a friend to figure out a car-shuttleable backcountry route you can do over and over.>>2863441Council? Red Cross? Where the fuck are you skiing, the Swat Valley?
>>2863445Car shuttle only works if you have 3 or more people or someome has a gf that just wants to sit in the car and watch TikTok. Dropping off one person in the middle of nowhere and skiing alone is a bad idea.
>>2863444Norway, but yes.I live in a fairly small village, and some of the people living here are (relatively) poor from unlucky circumstances. Mostly their lowlife parents ruining their shit at every turn, but they've been given opportunities to make it out of the shit, and they're making it in their own way.>>2863445>CouncilProbably my English being less than good. The city? Town hall? Anyway, they pay to get the tracks prepared like in pic related: Two tracks for classic skiing, space in the middle is for the people who use the skating technique, there's a big fuss every year because people walk in the tracks or dogs shit there, or people are braking in the skating areas.>Red CrossThe national arm of the Red Cross does a lot of neat stuff, it's not all handing out space blankets, water and nutraloaf in refugee camps in terrible countries:>Secondhand stores>Sports equipment rental>Children's free summer camp>Help phone lines>Youth meeting spots with free activities, help with homework, et c.>Visiting the lonely and elderly, sometimes with therapeutic dogsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2863453Technical competence to match the English, lol. Here's the picture.
>>2863453I was actually going to say Sweden or Norway at first but then felt like I was being closed.minded and needed to spread around the socialism....And "council" in context from a Brit refers to "Government owned/controlled/funded". Its their main source of welfare. They have government owned apartments for The Poors they just call "Council Flats".
Any /carriers/ here? I’ve accepted a conditional offer to be a PTF city carrier in a besotted urban hub in the upper South and idk what to expect. I’m 6’3, 220lbs—fairly fat, problem drinker, heavy cigarette smoker, but I can easily walk 20 hilly miles a day with a 50lb messenger bag and don’t mind the heat. And I can clean myself up if needed. Is this a good job pour moi? Considering I don’t have a CDL and don’t know how to code or anything about any trade obviously. And not particularly worried about braving dog-rich urban neighborhoods. I love rednecks and I love black people
The best tip I can give you is try to to stay in the "goldilocks" zone. That means you dont deliver too slowly, but not too quickly either. Also, it was my experience that management vastly preferred speed to being careful. I got way less shit for being sloppy and fast than for being careful and slow. I would say 75% speed and 25% care is about the right ratio. Its easy to do it right though, honestly. Ask me anything else you want
>>2863359Thanks man. If you’re still checking the thread. This is pretty much what I’ve heard from others. I’m probably going to go for it because I need the money. Were you typically on a different route every day? I’m most concerned about never getting a hold down if that’s the correct term, getting sent out to different stations, just doing pieces of different routes all the time
>>2863382I was a regular, so I had my own route. It depends though, typically since you're new, its gonna be two years before you get a regular slot. I was a CCA for two years before I made reg. And then itll be the bottom of the barrel routes. Until that point you will be put wherever they want you, including different stations. You can, however, put in for a route if the regular is out for any amount of time and then youll do that route every day until theyre back. Thats subject to seniority too though, so if you and another plf put in for the same route and he has more seniority, he'll get it. Honestly I preferred doing different ones every day. Meant when I got a shit route I almost never had to do it twice. Also meant more leeway since they wont expect you to be familiar with the route. Some guys preferred getting on one route asap though. In my city, everyone that wasnt a regular got sent out almost on a daily basis because there was ALWAYS a station shitting itself (we have 13 offices here, you might not have so many). So we would finish all our own work, then have to drive to another office and finish theirs too. I was out until 11pm some nights. Probably wont be that bad for you. Big tipsWear sunscreenStay hydratedDont bother joining the union until youre past probation, they cant protect you until that point and itll be wasted dues Also, put in a bit more hustle until probation is done, once you get there you can relax a bitAnd if you make regular, be careful, thats when management will try to fuck you. Thats when theyll start threatening your pension, etc. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Like I said though, pretend to care more until probation is done. They WILL drop you for little shit until that point.After probation you are almost bullet proof. Union can get you out of nearly any fuck up you can imagine at that point. And be nice to people's dogs. That helps. Those little creatures were the only bright part of my day out there.
>>2863323Based iguanodon
Is adidas terrex underrated as an outdoors brand? I just never really considered them as an option because I just assumed that their stuff was shit because they are mostly an athletics brand but I got some of their stuff for running trails and I'm actually pretty happy with it. I wouldn't pay full price for any of it but their stuff constantly goes on sale so you can get it at least half price. I used to wait for Patagonia shit to go on sale like once a year or get REI's in-house brand but they have been jacking up prices.I only tried basic stuff like shirts and pants so far but I was also wondering if their shoes and jackets are any good. Their warmer jackets use primaloft which I know some people don't like as much as down but I never wore anything with it.
>>2863291If you get it on sale, yeah. They started of as shit but just kept at it, and by now most of their stuff is pretty good.I still don't buy it, I usually try buying things made in the EU. But objectively their stuff is fine.As far as trail shoes go, they're a lot better then the shit Nike, Hoka and Salomon pump out (the road unning brands are even worse).
>>2863291Support small specialized brands and not gigantic, evil mega-corporations.
>>2863363small specialized brands are giga expensive
>>2863370I feel like a lot of the "smaller independent" places use that as an excuse to fuck you over too. Like an in person art store I went to wouldn't price match their own website for me. Ridiculous enough to charge more in store but even more to not price match. I just said fuck it and ordered it off Amazon.
>>2863370Not true. I'm not talking about boutique shit.
Is it possible to live completely cut off from the rest of the world? Not using money or having to work.If so where and what are the basic tools required?
>>2856323The big problem is having enough food and how to store and make it last through winter if you live in that environment.Having some goats or sheep and chickens will provide you with milk and egg, but the animals will also require food so it's hard having many, which also limits the food they can produce. Hunting, trapping, fishing and foraging will provide some, but you need gear, it can be time consuming and the government will frown upon any illegal hunting or fishing without permits if that's required in your area. So you'll need at least some money for that. Stinging nettle, along with other edible weeds, are a good source of food and have been used for survival. You can of course grow your own food as well. Cabbage and similar is probably easiest.
>>2856323I'm sure it'd be far easier to accomplish this outside America. Theres even tribes you could potentially join.
>>2862406This seems to be a product of modern society. You've been ingrained to function in a society. You'd need to slowly ween yourself off or yea, you'll shock yourself.
Lots of fear mongering itt. If you think you have what it takes, go for it OP. People make a huge fuss out of homelessness and make it seem like it's worse than death but it's not that bad. Of course, everyone is different, and have different thresholds of what they're willing to tolerate and put up with and whatnot.
>>2863272>You can of course grow your own food as well. Cabbage and similar is probably easiest.potatoes will grow anywhere and you can survive only on them (if you eat the skin too)
>rain starts to pick up>look up at the clouds>"you're not that guy pal">"just move along buddy">rain stops
Should I eat it
>>2862942thats toilet paper, i had a neighbor mulch a mullan for fun one year and it grew 9ft tall
>>2862953What order tho?
I smoked cbd cigarettes with this in it and i was coughing up all my mucus. Clears them out good and I was like Kirby afterwards
>>2862965My brother in christ this is one of life's little lessons one must learn on there own. Good luck to ya champ!
>>2862953Ass first, it’ll dry while you smoke it
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>>2863235nice carpetwhat's the bottom reel?
>>2863238Dam quick 330. I have a 220 I'm hot rodding for use on rods like this but I exploded the spool winding mono on too tight so until I finish making my aluminum one this is the closest I have
>>2863239>but I exploded the spooli keep hearing about this but it never happened to me, despite owning multiple old mitchells that supposedly are prone to this, am i mistakenly doing something right?i'm getting from ebay one of these old reel that's just a spool on a rotating foot (turn it so the spool face the tip of the rod to cast like a fixed spool reel, and put back to reel in) i want to use some kind of old wooden surface frog lure with it, might even try doing one myself
>>2863210i didn't even know a 12 dollar combo would have the lure rating printed on it.
>>2863243>>2863243>>2863243new thread
Did you put in for a permit this year?
>>2862859> flatten the land> backcountryAre you fucking retarded? Even if that was on the table, space is not the only consideration here. They need to restrict traffic for the sake of preservation; the more people hiking and pitching tents, the more the backcountry is going to get trashed.
>>2862854It is not literally adding sites, the land is federally designated wilderness which by law it has to retain wilderness character. That means room for solitude and land that is untrammeled and has no permanent structures. They dont have a choice, congress has told them to manage it this way
>>2863141You can just stealth camp just dont be an asshole and camp in a designated spot that someone might have reserved i dont think anyone has a problem with this also sometimes shit happens and you can't make it back. Follow stealth camping code, set up at night and be out by the morning and no one gives a fuck campsites are just nicer and if you can reserve a spot you might as well
>>2863145add trash canspay people to go in and clean it up every so often>>2863146abolish the wilderness designationallow maintenance and alteration of all land via power tools along with blazes and signage and shelters and all that good stuff
>>2863153I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you're not from here, or that you've never done any backcountry stuff, and don't really know what that word entails. The demand to use these spaces has unfortunately grown exponentially over the past twenty years or so. Even if they weren't camping overnight, the increased foot traffic alone would trample vegetation to the point where it would significantly alter the area, and ruin the experience for everyone. There are plenty of accessible outdoor areas in the PNW that don't have these restrictions on them. We're not going to let you (or anyone else) ruin the few that are being properly managed and preserved.>abolish the wilderness designationOh you're just a troll.
Has spring sprung for you yet?
>>2862627a bit. she's very shy.>mud season on the trailsgod, I hate early spring
>>2862627Yes
>>2862775Imagine calling for the Devine presence of God, but then neglecting to capitalize His name. You are a redditor faggot
>>2863065you think He feels neglected? He mad?
>>2862775Mud season is the worst. Having to wash the dog’s feet in the tub 3x a day is miserable and so is having to try and predict which part of the driveway will be firm enough to park on each day (it changes).>>2862733My snow is basically all gone, because we got an inch of rain Friday. The rain also fucked up the lake ice bad, so ice fishing requires a boat to get to the ice on some lakes now. The sap is running in the maples though, which is about the only thing I enjoy about this part of the year. And while now the base is gone and the ground is getting soft, we’re not done with snow for the year. The problem is that you can’t really do anything on it because you’ll tear up the soft ground unless we get a foot+, which probably won’t happen.
>gun? heh, I just carry bear spray, it's actually more effecti-
>>2853353>bloodthirsty beastsYour use of emotional language shows how little faith you have in your own arguments.
>>2853716>this retard thinks a peashooter is stopping a BEARnice recoil buddy
>>2849726I asked
>>2849652i think i posted something about it in another threadbrit (and other colonizers) came up with tte consept of a stopping rifle. a rifle designed just to stop a charging beast of any size. usually two barrel, kinda short and in an insane calibre like 600 nitro express. in a scenario like op's video you dont have time to reload any kind of action, you cant always trust an auto or semi auto, but you can trust two rounds of 600 to the face of anything on four legs. for bears a shotgun with slugs or buckshot will work just as well, and you need to carry it in your arms ready to fire at any time when in bear country. its up to you and the conditions if maybe a pump or semi with more rounds is preferable or the speed of firing two rounds instantly is. the blokes exploring africa and asia went for two quick rounds rather than 5+ slow rounds.its a bit confusing to me that the gun knowledge from 3rd world explorers went kinda lost in america and even europe.i think only svalbard has a culture of guns for bear protection and they dont come at you suddenly you got plenty of time to see them and react so they use regular rifles or big calibre revolvers.
>>2863021I think the lack of double rifles in America has to do mostly with the detachment of the safari culture prevalent in colonies, as in the early 1900's when safaris were more popular, most hunters in America were doing it for food and not leasure. In the modern sense of hunting guides I think its just the fact that double rifles are too expensive and things like pump shotguns or large caliber handguns are seen as good enough.
