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Bionic

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Hi. The names James I’ve pretty much had a lifelong interest in the outdoors (only started thinking of it as bushcraft back in the days when Ray Mears was doing snippets on Country Tracks). Living on a farm I started out with an old Webley air rifle at an early age followed by a 20 bore that I wandered around the farm with under the guidance of my grandad who also taught me the rudimentary basics of rabbit trapping etc. I spent most of my youth camping, fire lighting etc with a group of similarly minded friends and carried on in a similar fashion with occasional excursions to wilder places. Bushcraft then took a bit of a knock on the head after I got married and more seriously with the arrival of children and a back injury 7 years ago although I retained my interest in whittling and the outdoors in general. Since then my life’s centred more around the kids and the joys of 4 rounds of major spinal surgery as well as several minor procedures which have resulted in my back now being held together with a load of rods and screws as well as an implant to control the nerve pain that I have to recharge every 3/4 days (hence the choice of user name 😀). Hopefully I’m now coming out the other side and my interest in bushcraft seems to have been rekindled so I’m looking at regaining a bit of fitness and trying to formulate a lightweight system of gear that will enable me to get back to the fold whilst protecting what’s left of my spine. Apologies for the somewhat long and rambling post and looking forward to getting to know you all 😀
 
Hi and welcome to the forum I was wondering about the name, sorry to hear of your back problems but the thing is you're up and getting ready again, a couple of us are looking at lessening the weight we carry this year, mine is continuing from last year but it's a slow process :)

Anyway, I waffle, welcome aboard :)
 
Hi. The names James I’ve pretty much had a lifelong interest in the outdoors (only started thinking of it as bushcraft back in the days when Ray Mears was doing snippets on Country Tracks). Living on a farm I started out with an old Webley air rifle at an early age followed by a 20 bore that I wandered around the farm with under the guidance of my grandad who also taught me the rudimentary basics of rabbit trapping etc. I spent most of my youth camping, fire lighting etc with a group of similarly minded friends and carried on in a similar fashion with occasional excursions to wilder places. Bushcraft then took a bit of a knock on the head after I got married and more seriously with the arrival of children and a back injury 7 years ago although I retained my interest in whittling and the outdoors in general. Since then my life’s centred more around the kids and the joys of 4 rounds of major spinal surgery as well as several minor procedures which have resulted in my back now being held together with a load of rods and screws as well as an implant to control the nerve pain that I have to recharge every 3/4 days (hence the choice of user name 😀). Hopefully I’m now coming out the other side and my interest in bushcraft seems to have been rekindled so I’m looking at regaining a bit of fitness and trying to formulate a lightweight system of gear that will enable me to get back to the fold whilst protecting what’s left of my spine. Apologies for the somewhat long and rambling post and looking forward to getting to know you all 😀
Welcome to our family mate, getting back into the great outdoors is the best treatment you can get
 
Nice intro Bionic. :thumbsup:

Pull up a log around the fire and get stuck in....look forward to your input:thumbsup:
 
Thanks for the friendly welcome chaps, I’ll gladly pull a log up to the campfire 😀. As far as my friendship with Steve Austin goes he’s actually my more upmarket American cousin, think of me as the six quid man 😬
 
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