OT: Died trying to live off the land in the UK.

[Arghiro]

Just to keep a fire going all day needs a couple of hours gathering & cutting wood.

Took me an hour this weekend to chop up 7 palettes for our fire with a chainsaw.

Mind you, he'd be might warm cutting them by hand.

Not that there is any wood to burn where he was.

That was my thought too. But given a handy deciduous wood there are usually plenty of fallen branches & there is no need to cut them up for an open fire, they just need cutting into manageable lengths to drag back. Burn from one end or thro the middle & feed unburned bits back into fire. Woodland also provides shelter & possible small animals to trap. Not much of it in UK is open for people to forage in tho & man-made conifer woods aren't so good for wildlife or manageable bits for burning. Loads of kindling & big trunks, but few fallen branches of a suitable size for fuel.

[Mark]

they just need cutting into manageable lengths to drag back. Burn from one end or thro the middle & feed unburned bits back into fire.

Good point. I have to cut mine into lengths that will go in a wood burner which is why it's so much work. Just use the fire to do your chopping.

[ubergeekian]

That was my thought too. But given a handy deciduous wood there are usually plenty of fallen branches...

Many deciduous woods in the middle of Rannoch Moor?

[Arghiro]

That was my thought too. But given a handy deciduous wood there are usually plenty of fallen branches...

Many deciduous woods in the middle of Rannoch Moor?

Ahh, you noticed that too then? As we all said, wrong tiime & wrong place, very sad.

[DaveS]

That was my thought too. But given a handy deciduous wood there are usually plenty of fallen branches...

Many deciduous woods in the middle of Rannoch Moor?

Ahh, you noticed that too then? As we all said, wrong tiime & wrong place, very sad.

Well if the press report is accurate (a big assumption) he must have been found in one of the two railway bothies shown on the map here. (Click on South once.) On the other side of the line is a forest, coniferous rather than deciduous. I've no idea how difficult to cross the fence is. Some, but by no means all, railway bothies have stoves.

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=24 ... pp=map.srf