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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7167197" data-attributes="member: 15700">Also, I thought I'd share this (I follow this guy, and he's got a lot of good information).  I think it does a great job illustrating how a bushcrafter/survivalist/woodsman can and will have many of the items you might not think they do.  It's not because a city person can't do any of this, but it's something that they probably don't even think about.  For example, if I gave you a knife and that's it, and wanted you to split a log to make a bench and table, do you know how to do that?  (use the knife to make a wooden mallet and carve wooden wedges, and use those to split the log).  or if all you had was a rope and that's it, and I said to make a winch, would you know how?  I guess the point I'm trying to make is to not make assumptions about what a woodsman will and won't have, or how comfortable or uncomfortable they have it, because unless you've got a lot of experience and/or knowledge around those kinds of people, you're probably missing out on a lot of things they do in fact know/have.  So if you've got the time, these sets of videos will show you just some of the many examples, and may surprise you.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_fotv96EswcvokBDiUBTfVDKPR8idSE8" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_fotv96EswcvokBDiUBTfVDKPR8idSE8</a></blockquote>