Hard Kit is all other accoutrements that are not clothing, weapons or armour. This includes pots and tents, and flint & steel, and other things like that.
Greatings fellow rangers!
I though i would share a small project i did over the/my weekend. It's a primative grease lamp i have made from (gasp) stainless. while the steel isn't authentic to our time periods, i fetl like it would hold up better to the out doors. I suppose one could be made from brass or copper as well. measurements are as follows. lenght 3 1/2 inches long by 2 inches wide. the bowl is about 3/4 of an inch deep and holds enough oil to keep it lit for about thirty minutes. of course you can add more while it burns, i've done so safley. any way on to the pics annnd a short video too. http://www.flickr.com/photos/74968682@N ... hotostream
Thanks pete, it was hard work, to get it to even remotly resemble a leaf. if your into hard core wildernes survival skills i suppose you could use tallow as a replacement for oil. but i use mineral oil on my blades so thats waht ill have on hand most of the time.
Not all who are old are wise, not all who are young are fools
Where now is the horse and rider? where is the horn that was blowing?
Bacon Grease! I seem to have a plethera of the substance that I never know what to do with! Now I know...and knowing is half the battle!
I am Ringulf the Dwarven Woodsman, I craft leather, wood, metal, and clay,
I throw axes, seaxes, and pointy sticks, And I fire my bow through the day.
Come be my ally, lift up your mead! We'll search out our foes and the Eagles we'll feed!
As an aside, if you cut an orange in half and carefully scoop out the "meat", you're left with a bowl-like orange peel and something in the center that looks like a wick. If you fill the empty orange half with oil, you can light the "wick" and it will burn for hours. It may take several tries to get it lit, but once it is, it will just burn and burn. I've done it twice now, and it worked both times. It's best to use an oil that doesn't have much of a smell, because you want to smell the yummy citrussy smell of the orange. (Peanut oil just winds up making it smell like peanuts, for instance.)
As an aside, if you cut an orange in half and carefully scoop out the "meat", you're left with a bowl-like orange peel and something in the center that looks like a wick. If you fill the empty orange half with oil, you can light the "wick" and it will burn for hours. It may take several tries to get it lit, but once it is, it will just burn and burn. I've done it twice now, and it worked both times. It's best to use an oil that doesn't have much of a smell, because you want to smell the yummy citrussy smell of the orange. (Peanut oil just winds up making it smell like peanuts, for instance.)
Really?! I had no idea you could turn an orange into a lamp!
PS- Nice work Dwayne!
"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
-J.R.R. Tolkien
Great work, I think I'll have to add one to my kit now.
I was thinking it was copper from the pictures. Was that the lighting or did the stainless turn that color?
I think I'll try my hand at making one of these. Seems like something simple and easy to get into metalwork with.
I've been fiddling around with a few different cooking oils as well as bacon grease in an improvised grease lamp using a tea light. I'm surprised how well they all burn. Slightly sootier than wax, but not enough to be a problem.
Me likey fire
I'm sorry, this is a non-Tolkien reference, this needs to be routed to the correct forum. 
