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We recently moved into our 110 year old Edwardian farmhouse. In episode 1 of the farmhouse series I am working at the homestead, building a saw horse from a cedar log. I use hand tools to process the log into a useable piece of wood to build with. First I use the drawknife to take

A 5-year-old girl barely escaped a charging coyote who was seemingly plotting an attack while she played in her family’s front yard. The dramatic moments were all captured by the family’s home surveillance camera in Villa Park, Illinois, on Tuesday morning. The video shows Christine Przybylski, 5, skipping through the front yard on her way

How fast will thatch burn? We do a test to see how fast it takes for thatch (water reed) to burst into flame. We have recently been building a bushcraft anglo-saxon house and for the roof material we used traditional thatch, similar to what the saxons would have built with. We have been deciding whether

Bipods are now considered an essential piece of kit in precision rifle shooting, but were once considered an instrument of Voodoo that would inexplicably “throw off your shot”. There were also claims that bipods would contribute to the erosion of the shooters foundation of marksmanship. Such an effective piece of gear was seen as a

We build a bushcraft viking house in the woods using hand tools only. Part 1 focuses on cutting the cedar logs for the foundations of the viking house. The foundations are only going to be two cedar logs high. The hand tools we use are an axe, saw, hammer, and wrecking bar. We begin by

Another mountain lion was photographed this past weekend in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, state wildlife officials reported. This makes the 41st verified cougar report in Michigan since 2008. The large cat was wandering through a resident’s property near St. Jacques in Delta County, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources wrote in a Facebook post. Thanks to