What's /out/ opinion on boot knives? Thinking of getting one because they're the easiest fixed blade knives to EDC that are also large and easy enough to conceal. Survival knives are too large and look mall-ninja-tier when edc'd and neck knives are usually too small.
>>2860147Try it out, if you don't like it you can always make some scales for it and epoxy them on.
>>2856313I like them. I wear steel toes for my job every day and I leave one in my right boot as a backup knife in case I leave my main one back in the shop
>>2856313Idk man i like the control the rigid spine on normal knives gives you way too much too ever consider replacing any of them with a dagger for serious use but if fun is allowed i find daggers are simply nice to mess around with/throw. Their weight or mass doesn't matter comparing to lugging around a throwing hatchet for luls and it's not as horridly autistic as throwing ninja stars.It's more of a city weapon for me.
>>2860147paracord is 100% a meme
>>2861513No its not, idiot. Its a highly utile cord.
Any experience using Meshtastic devices out on a camping trip or whatever?
>>2858228just get a baofeng radio program it with GMRS and use it at full power. it also has scrambling.
>>2858652>RAQAEWFSGSQSVJAQS FGJQWCOMWEFOWE WCVM WEOFTGJ SASDFSD KSEEE~!!
>>2858228LOL, there is no way you would ever get a signal unless you were "camping" in your back yard in the suburbs
>>2858228have you tried to get anyone of your normie friends to install an app on their phone?
>>2858228Have you tried MeshCore? Runs on the same hardware.https://meshcore.co.uk/
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hDd2G_V1rzc
Seal the other day
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
>>2860396You know they make safety equipment for axe bucking logs, right?https://mailletec.com/product/lumberjack-s/
>>2860653This is retarded
>>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
Post your /out/ edc kit.Just pretend the sleeping bag is a hammock and this is mine
>>2857867LMAO look at this screeching bubba. Settle down kid, this is an adults-only board, don't make me call your mother HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
>>2859472He's at it again. Shoo retard, shoo.
>>2852190BDU is a US4CEs Transitional Im planning on making from a few yards of Protactic/Hyperstealth fabic I accqiured recently by pure luck.
>>2853569rapistcore
Discuss /out/tubers here.
>>2859155Was his wife even real? I'm curious on what she actually died from.
>>2860236being killed
>>2853771That retard unironically believes Maine gets colder than Minnesota or the Dakotas. For fuck sake his last video claims it was -40 when the snow sounded it was 30. Also snow doesn't melt below zero. I don't know how anyone buys into his bs.
>>2861363A quick Google search says you have no idea what you're talking about.
>>2859155do we have any proof for that claim?
/out/ give me recs on leather boots that are stylish yet practical. Preferably waterproof. Been thinking about the danner light 2, but I wanna know whats out there.
>>2857945You need at most 2 pairs. Don't listen to this tard, get yourself some good quality shoes that will last you a long time, one pair for hot weather and the other for cold.
>>2856830Kenetrek Hardscrabble.
>>2856830William Lennon boots, cheap for leather boots and hand made in Europe to your measurements if you get a custom order which is not as expensive as you'd think.I've had mine 4 years now. My Lowa GTXs lasted me 2 before the soles wore flat and they cracked through.
>>2856830I have these Hanwags (or a similar model) and really like them. Good waterproofing, comfy, and pretty subtle looking.
>>2860435One can never hoard enough theoretical information as a quick feel-good in order to delay as much as possible putting any of it in practice. You can't just go to Decathlon, try on boots from the cheapest up until walking back and forth the aisle feels good and get it over with. You have to get the "right" boots. Same for all else, from gear to underwear.
Do you like to look at things when you go /out/?Show us your optics.>monoculars>binoculars>scopes>sunglasses too, I guess>cases/carry systems>cleaning and maintenance>poorfag optionsI have a Vortex 8x25 mono that I like to bring, but I regret not buying the 10x25. Binos are my old Nikon Travelite III 10x25.
I got these Vortex 10x42s on sale at Costco last year. They're no Zeiss or Swarovski but they're really good for the money and a decent compromise between size/weight and optics.
>>2861306Does that latch on the case ever come open spontaneously? I was looking to get a soft case for my binos but the closing mechanism on that one put me off.
>>2861306>good for the moneyliterally all I've ever heard about these, I got the exact same pair
>>2861382Honestly I haven't really used the case much, I usually just have them on a strap.>>2861385Yeah, that's pretty much Vortex in general, they doo make some high-end stuff but mostly they're all about bang for the buck.
>>2858968I have a cheap night vision monocular, a PARD 007 V2. It works perfectly for what I need it to do, namely scout out the nearby fields for foxes, badgers and wabbits. It also works great for looking at the night sky even though the resolution isn't really ideal.Honestly for the price it is a damn good piece of technology, I have also done some night hiking with it, obviously you can not hold it on your eye for hours, but it helps finding the way the path curves if you want to hide from people.
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?
>>2859371>Big gov will always come after youExplain
>>2856323FUCKING KILL YOURSELF.REEEENOT THIS FAGGOT CUNTY FAGGOT THREAD AGAIN YOU UNDERAGE FUCKING CUNT.
>>2859355>survive on tree bits and shoe leather>half the family starves to death>get found by random russians>constantly beg them for welfare and free shit at all times>refuse half of it because of your utterly retarded religious rules which are a relic of an obsolete schism that nobody cared about>get free food, free clothes, and a free house>call a helicopter to deliver anything you want all the time (which they called so often it had to be stopped)I dont know why I thought they would be cool or interesting but those people are fucking PATHETIC. Absolute retarded losers.
I always get a giggle off these threads. 300 lb neets who have never been outside and are so lazy they can’t even take the initiative to search the internet for any clues on how you might do this ask other neets how to live off the grid.You wouldn’t last one week in the woods just get a job like mommy is asking.
>>2861439His shrunken 'urban' brain thinks stealing from cabins counts as 'living off the land' and is genuinely surprised when the cops show up.
You know those threads we have every week about dropping everything and living alone in the woods? Almost in a ascetic manner without internet and no job. Why? What causes it? To me it seems to be wanting an escape of urban life, the responsibilities and never-ending noise, the internet that has been utterly destroyed, to escape corporatism or something along those lines. To utterly reject consumerism and decadence. Now in that sense the desire for that has been noted to have existed since roman times from what i have read. To simpler times, to rural life before urbanization. A romantization of perhaps a gilded past. Don't get me wrong, rural life is superior to urban life but it too has its disadvantages. Especially now when the majority lives in the city leaving only old people out in the countryside rather than the bustling village 100 years ago. The warmth of the village is gone in most places or dying out as is. If you can't find contentness in the now then you won't find contentness in a log cabin in the middle of Alaska.
>>2854897Ted's criticism is on industrial society so any time in history with a "lumber mill" and shiftwork is post industrialization.
What causes social cohesion?You, (OP), have a healthy idea of a norm, where humans are part of a group, after being born into it. Members of the group accept its general beliefs, adopt its mannerisms, identify with it and glorify it without objective reasons to do so. Social instinct, bias, impressionability and herd mentality in humans are pronounced enough to make it hard, almost impossible for a group to fail at projecting cohesion within itself. It begs the question how dysfunctional society, or a group, must be for it to reach a point where all the above feels non-existent or irrelevant to individual members.I believe this is that 'cause' you're asking about.Not everyone experiencing this will wish or even decide to innawoods and wizard. Once those things are gone, that normally make the individual consider those ideas absurd and make the chance of anyone seriously considering that virtually zero, the disillusioned individual might find all sorts of formerly unthinkable delineations equally appealing, after all the group has lost its appeal. It is then merely a question of the individuals character, experiences liking and means how their alternative to life in the group might look like. Some remain shut in at home. Others are out and about but at best superficially interact. Others again seek the distance, or their demise. Drugs and what not.The question should be: Why do people not choose their group and it's traditions, when people are programmed to exactly that? Also >>>/pol/
>>2854897you do find contendness in the woods thoughever notice you never get bored there and even simple things stand out and seem plenty
>>2854858brugly. that's a whole wall of text.
>>2854975>landlording So you decided to just perpetuate the problem for someone else so you can larp on the weekends. Nice. Parasite.
Do you work a job that allows you to experience the outdoors? Do you plan to? Tell us about it. I was a beekeeper for many years. It was such an enjoyable job. No clipping or marking if the queen wanted to leave she could and the hives were always in beautiful spots. Sometimes the rain would destroy the tracks to get in and so we had to hike several hours to the hives. What I really enjoyed was realising the bees remembered me and working on them wearing no protection. Such beautiful little creatures it gave me a strong appreciation towards them.
This thread need to be pruned, see>>2856976>>2856976>>2856976
>>2861308Nice, I always thought the control stuff was interesting. I would have gone millwright if I had local school options for it and I think I would've crossed over into control stuff a little with that. I'm just starting out with machining after getting sick of mechanic work so we'll see where I actually end up in a few years.
>>2861311Some of the best millwrights I know have backgrounds as machinists. Those guys can take a single glance at a machine and instantly have a good idea of how it works internally. If you ever get the chance to spend time with the maintenance guys, that could be a good way to get your foot in the door. Assuming you're in the US, we don't have a very robust standard for millwright training like the Canadians do, so most "millwright" jobs you see are more often labeled "industrial maintenance technician." It'll still have a higher pay ceiling than a machinist usually would anyway.Controls is basically the millwrights' "I'm too old for this shit" exit plan, which is interesting because usually electrical work transfers skills over to controls much better than wrenching does. I came from the IT sector, but I can't imagine that switching a grease gun for a laptop is the easiest transition to make
>>2861327Yeah, I'm in the US, definitely going to keep looking for openings as a tech. Having a mechanic background probably helps my chances too, if only a little. I'd love to work for a machine company or distributor and be the guy who sets up new installs, I like travel and that pays great, and it seems like it'd be fun when it's a small shop who are super hyped about their machine upgrade or whatever. I'm also in an area that's kind of isolated, has a very fast-growing precision manufacturing scene, and doesn't have ANY independent machine maintenance companies or anything so there might be an opportunity there too.The flipside though is that I'm also considering just carrying my associates along into a 4 year degree in one of the Engineering Tech fields. That might only really be worth it for my ego and maybe for the softer job as I get older though (and I'm already almost 40 so that's a real concern) since I've heard a lot of bad stuff about job opportunities and pay for engineering grads, but I'm not sure how that applies to Engineering Tech, which might be more desirable. fwiw I'm not awful at the laptop side of things either, I've got a decent amount of electrical and computer diagnostic experience etc. from my auto days (I worked at a race shop specializing in modern BMW, so lots of computer stuff) and I'm a way better CAD designer and programmer than I am a hands-on machinist, so it might not be the worst idea.
>>2860933i am a conductor/engineer on a regional railroad in one of the most beautiful and wild places in the world.it's all seniority but i have enough to work remote areas with a crew of 2-6. i see all kinds of wildlife, auroras, mountains, sunsets, etc. i like the problem solving and self sufficiency but sometimes it can REALLY suck. walking a mile long train in six feet of snow on the side of a hill sucks, so does standing on a flat car in the dark cold rain for 12 hours, so does tying down a heavy train on a mountain grade.worth it thoand they pay well once you stop getting laid off all the time
I need some XC ski advice. I have done a little research and talked to AI a bit but I need real human feedback.I am currently rocking a beat up marketplace find that beats walking but from using them every other day I can tell they are not optimal.I am looking for a pair of classic skis for staying on the machined track. I am 200cm and 110kg. The weather fluctuates between -40 and -6 celcius where I live so I am thinking I should do fish scales or skins? My boots are NNN.
>>2861357brugly I ain't reading allat. learn on a bunny slope and then go out on your own. And fuck Vail
>>2861357>fish scales or skins?if you are using classic kick and glide on groomed trails you will not needs skins (do they even use skins on classic skis?) I think what you are asking is wax or scales? Depends on how important speed is to you. A good wax/appropriate for the temp will be much faster than scales but scales are very accomodating and good enough for most folks.
Sounds like he got him with that 2nd swinghttps://youtu.be/MLuTyVNPxJA
>>2859688Holy crap, I know that place. I was there in the fall. It's near Terchová in Slovakia, I live not far from there.I heard from people that the man got a 200€ fine for this, because in that national park it is illegal to enter outside the marked trails and you are not allowed to have a dog on the loose. He shouted at the dog "go home!" but the bear had cubs there and wanted to scare and drive away the dog and the man. Fag used bear spray and chopped the bear in the head with an axe. Sad, but that's how it goes.
>>2859703Well, that makes sense, actually
>>2859703People make fun of a draconian european judicial system but the american sentence would have been a much larger fine and could have even included jail time, especially because cubs were involved.
Another bear attack in Slovakia last weekend. A man was injured by a bear and ended up in the hospital. The man and his son shot the bear multiple times. Bear dead. Their dog dead. The bear had cubs nearby that will probably die now, too. There will likely be no fine because it is legal to kill an animal if it attacks you.
>>2859695>guy has to hit behind tree and hit the bear with an axe to get it to fuck offThank God it wasn't really charging that could be been even worse
Is it too late to become outdoorsy at 26? I'm not physically fit at all, I pretty much look like picrel but I'm also tired to be rotting in my room all day, I need to change
>>2860015>mfw I'm a fat ass in my late 40's and still go do multiday solo hikes in the woods and this little derp baby is stuck inside telling himself he "just caaaan't!"
>>2860015>Is it too late to become outdoorsy at 26?Not even slightly. If you can walk, you can walk /out/
>>2860015>I've been an adult for 5 years, am I too old to walk around outside
>>2860015Use your free will to do what you desire
>>2860015You can go from out of shape skeleton to fairly fit in like 3-6 months
You took advantage of this snow storm and toured in the back country, right anon?
>>2859345most of my area's snow got diverted to the east coast, which is a shame, we are going to miss that snowpack in august, and I'm missing the super quiet late night snowy woods walks I usually get to enjoy this time of year.
>>2859345In Johannesburg. Took me decades, but I finally saw snow falling for the first time like two years ago. Was snowing for 30 minutes. Weird ass weather. Pretty damn hot now that the rainy season passed, so hiking gets sweaty.
>>2859345>SW germany>Two days of snow in early january>Ill>Two days of snow in late january>Resting from minor surgeryFML
>>2859345Yup. >>2859383Projecting won't help you here. Just go outside.
>>2860011unless you're mountain climbing microspikes are cheap and fine on plain ice
