Hatchet handle length

[klkak]

The handle of my Hatchet is wraped with hanging twine. I also carry a roll of it in my pack.

[klkak]

I have my truck keys, chapstick, firekit, cell phone, pocket knife and whatever else I happened to have put in my pocket.

[Sourdough]

SAM, I fear I would be the poster child of what not to do. If I start out with the intention of a hike, I might grab some stuff. But the truth is most of the time I just have a cruising Axe or just some walkabout long gun. What happens is I start off taking a break from work, and tell myself I'll just go up to the meadow to check on the bears. But I see some tracks or I decide to "just" go over there, then it is, well as long as I am here I might just as well go on over and check out the mystic magic spring. Then as long as I am here I'll just loop around and go back through that other drainage.

I am like Huck'finn wandering around for hours. And I am shamed to say that 95% of the time I don't even have a pocket knife. No matches, no candy bar, just empty pockets. Not even a jacket if it is summer.

If I start out to go on a day-hike, which is generally a loop out the back door. Well, I take a light day-pack, or put some stuff in my pockets.

If I am guiding then I have 35 pounds of stuff in a external frame Kelty pack.

The thing I most often end up wishing that I had is dry socks and a big snickers bar.

It would be nice to have a cell phone. maybe when I get old I'll get a cell phone.

[trax]

12-14" handle for the hatchet, 12" minimum, the man already knows the difference between an axe and a hatchet folks.

Pre-breakfast beer? whatever the temp is from the beer left over last night, watch out for floaties if they're open.

shooting & drinking beer? No man, that's what whiskey's for

[canid]

now i don't believe in shooting while drinking, but if you put one down to do the other you can get a nice rhythm going.

[Rick]

I think the recoil assists in downing the whiskey. The larger the recoil the more liquor you down at one time. I think we've hit upon some kind of plan here. Anyone have a spare 105mm?

[canid]

just as soon as i can build a big enough bore lathe...

/me goes off into the shop. *clink* *ting* *hammer-hammer*

well i had to use the motor from this shetland pony, but i've got a bore i'm confident will put away one quart of bath-tub jin per shell... i'm negitiating with the army right now for a contract on a machine gun who's gunner can put away 200 jello shots per min.

[Rick]

Ooohh. Jello shots. Mmmmm.

[crashdive123]

just as soon as i can build a big enough bore lathe...

/me goes off into the shop. *clink* *ting* *hammer-hammer*

well i had to use the motor from this shetland pony, but i've got a bore i'm confident will put away one quart of bath-tub jin per shell... i'm negitiating with the army right now for a contract on a machine gun who's gunner can put away 200 jello shots per min.

You've got a pig that drinks bath-tub gin???????

[go2ndAmend]

While flying your plane under the influence, with a can of beer in your hand, what is the proper way to sharpen your knife?

[beerrunner13]

While flying your plane under the influence, with a can of beer in your hand, what is the proper way to sharpen your knife?

Hand it to the copilot, if he's not mixing drinks he needs something to do.

[Sourdough]

Good one Beerrunner

[trax]

While flying your plane under the influence, with a can of beer in your hand, what is the proper way to sharpen your knife?

Now, to me that's a bit more of a puzzle, because I thought it was a trick question. Isn't the appropriate drink for flying either vodka or whiskey? Can of beer? Let's maintain some decorum people......

[Sourdough]

How do you mix a "Decorum". Do you need a blender. And for the record I only fly drunk if the weather is Bad. NOTE: the weather is always BAD in Alaska.

[trax]

I think it must be some kind of rum drink...deco rum?

[go2ndAmend]

I believe you are right Trax. It must be a mixed drink what with all the turbulence in the Alaskan air. Don't even need a blender. Or was it the fact that my copilot just stuck himself in the leg while sharpening my knife?

[Rick]

Is Beo on that plane?

[go2ndAmend]

Beo oh boy, I don't know who it is sitting next to me, but he makes a pretty stiff drink. I'm not sure if I'm flying through the clouds or if my equilibrium just come unglued.

[go2ndAmend]

Actually, now that I've had time to think about it, my copilot is starting to look a lot like an old hatchet head. Is that you over there?

[go2ndAmend]

What does it mean when all those fancy lights and switches overhead start turning red and making noise, that spinny thing with the N S E W is pointing S and out the window I'm seeing palm trees? Trax, I thought we were in Alaska. Pour me another one will ya!