Make your own outdoor gear!

**Gray Wolf** · 09-16-2008, 12:57 PM

Here's a link to making your own outdoor gear that has great directions.
Use the Menu on the left for directions on making the following:
BACKPACKS
SHELTERS
STOVES (all kinds)
COOKWARE
SLEEPING
ACCESSORIES (Headlamps, Fishing gear, Rope bag and more)

http://www.backpacking.net/makegear.html

**pgvoutdoors** · 09-16-2008, 01:05 PM

VERY NICE!!!! Thanks for the link, I'll have to try some of those projects. I see a few I would like to do with the Boy Scouts.

**Tony uk** · 09-16-2008, 01:46 PM

Exellent !, I like the idea of the 'Kiwi Stove'

Thanks very much Gray Wolf

**Gray Wolf** · 09-16-2008, 02:03 PM

Lots of great projects! I like the Altoids Stove idea.

**crashdive123** · 09-16-2008, 02:55 PM

Nice link GW - thanks.

**Riverrat** · 09-16-2008, 03:02 PM

This is a great link to have for those cold winter nights...lots of projects to try out...thanks

**klkak** · 09-16-2008, 05:19 PM

Very interesting and useful site.

**erunkiswldrnssurvival** · 09-16-2008, 07:54 PM

I'll be reading more about this site,good stuff

**Gray Wolf** · 09-27-2008, 10:24 PM

I did the simple MODIFIED ESBIT STOVE, and what a difference. (slaps self on head, should have had a V8).

Now starting the J. Falk's 4 in 1 Cat Stove.

**crashdive123** · 09-27-2008, 10:34 PM

That is a pretty simple mod, and easier than bringing a full wind screen. Nice.

**Gray Wolf** · 09-27-2008, 10:37 PM

It was so basic it's killing me! I've always used a full wind screen, these flaps are nothing to pack.... duhh

**Rick** · 09-28-2008, 06:38 AM

I'm telling myself I would have thought up the modifications to the Esbit with a bit more time. Yes, I would have! Really!

**Gray Wolf** · 10-06-2008, 08:45 PM

I did the "ALTOIDS STOVE" this evening. I used one of the little half size tins, and used the perlite. What an easy stove to make and he was right on two things. In an Esbit stove, the height is perfect, and it does look like an Esbit tab on steroids when burning.
Real easy and inexpensive.

**laughing beetle** · 10-06-2008, 08:51 PM

great site! thank you

**Sarge47** · 10-06-2008, 08:57 PM

Anybody remember those old "Cat's Whisker" AM radios they used to make out of scrap metal & wood? Weren't they also called "Foxhole Radios"?

**Rick** · 10-07-2008, 08:37 AM

They sure were, Sarge. Here's a post I did on them some time ago.

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...=crystal+radio

**Gray Wolf** · 10-07-2008, 01:05 PM

Wasn't there one that you had to touch to a house radiator?

**Sarge47** · 10-07-2008, 07:20 PM

Originally Posted by Gray Wolf

Wasn't there one that you had to touch to a house radiator?

Thanks Rick! I thought it had been posted before, but had forgot where, when, & by who. that's why I'm always looking for ways to keep important info like this to the forefront where we can locate it easy! Okay Wolves, Rick has done all the work for us. Enjoy!

**Rick** · 10-07-2008, 07:32 PM

It's amazing how well those things work...without any batteries. Powered by the radio waves they receive. I bought about 10 diodes several years ago and still have most of them them in my bag. The hard part today is finding an older carbon receiver but having worked for La Telephona Gigantica I've got a few of those around, too.