Thread: Stickmaking

I've found the occasional stick mag in some back country huts I've stayed in :-)

Originally Posted by kimjon

I've found the occasional stick mag in some back country huts I've stayed in :-)

Way too much information

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Years ago when my dad would say to me "go get me a stick" I would get the most flimsey pathetic stick I could find. Because I knew what it was going to be used for.

dad used to use the lump of rawhide off his pikau .or sometimes a switch from the front hedge!
sheeiiit did the message get through arguably a bloody sight quicker than even the fastesdt broadband,as the whack then assorted howls would testify to!

ellllllllllllllllllllllllllll, ours was a nice whippy length of laurel...my eyes still water at the thought...weird thing is I do not remember doing anything that bad to warrant it...no, that's not true, I did accidentally hit the house cow with my arrow...double whammy...not only did I shoot her but I had to milk her as well...

Originally Posted by Gibo

Do you make canes for kids @EeeBees?

Sorry, @Gibo, we digress...!!!

Originally Posted by EeeBees

@puku, lancewood would be great...do you take the bark off...I am not familiar with the grain of lancewood...what I like about the hazel is that it is very strong but not too heavy...

Hazel is good but I prefer the white glass fence peg with insulation tape handle. The best cure for stroppyness in cattle

Originally Posted by EeeBees

Sorry, @Gibo, we digress...!!!

No, this is exactly where i was going

Rich barstards and your sticks...we couldnt afford sticks so Dad had to work till his hands were the size of shovels and had skin like a basking shark to hit me with.

my dad used old split cane fly rod, I cut into 2 inch pieces and ...................................he had another one

Jug cord

And according to everything I've read lately, we should all have turned out to be psychopathic murderers.
I mean being beaten and all.
Any of you want to tell where the bodies are buried ?

In my latest local newsletter a school has found time capsules outlining how corporal punishment was to be administered.

Originally Posted by Gibo

Jug cord

That's the one Gibbo.
And at school the Nuns used a ruler across the knuckles.
And the "Brothers " a big thick hunk of leather strap. [lets no go any further there.]

Originally Posted by Frogfeatures

And according to everything I've read lately, we should all have turned out to be psychopathic murderers.
I mean being beaten and all.
Any of you want to tell where the bodies are buried ?

I was going to write that inspite of everything we all seem to have turned out as well adjusted, sociably acceptable fabulous people...salt of the earth, all wool and a yard wide and so on...