Ray Mears Bushcraft – Choosing and Using an Axe

Here, Ray shows three axes, all made by Gränsfors Bruks of Sweden. Smallest to largest, he shows the Wildlife Hatchet, the Small Forest Axe, then my personal choice, the Scandinavian Forest Axe. He then shows some techniques on how to use an Axe. I highly recommend all of Ray’s DVD’s. They all include Ray’s thorough wilderness wisdom for numerous types of environments across the world.

Many of the videos also include short stories / reenactments of people in real survival scenarios, where Ray points out what they did right, what they did wrong, and what they could have done. Great stuff.

Ray Mears Vanishing World: A Life of Bushcraft Reviews

Ray Mears Vanishing World: A Life of Bushcraft

Ray Mears has traveled the world for much of his life and has visited some of the most remote and beautiful locations on the planet. Collected here are a selection of Ray’s stunning photographs of the landscapes and indigenous cultures he has encountered, each of which captures an astounding instant of life. Brief explanatory passages accompany the photographs and provide details about the origins, history, and environment of each location. Together these photographs reveal a dramatically chan

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Ray Mears (born 1964) is a British author and TV presenter on the subject of bushcraft and survival techniques. He grew up in Southern England, and started tracking foxes at a young age. It was his Judo teacher who gave him the idea to learn survival skills. He has been teaching survival skills since 1983, when he founded the “Woodlore” School of Wilderness Bushcraft. His Outdoor Survival Handbook was published in 1990, and his first TV appearance was in 1993 in the BBC2 series Tracks. His presentation style is often praised as authoritative but relaxed and friendly. His love of his subject and his sense of communion with nature are evident in his programmes, as is his respect for indigenous cultures. He has developed something of a cult following amongst students in the United Kingdom. Ray Mears has become synonymous with survival and wilderness bushcraft through his television series Tracks, World of Survival, The Essential Guide to Rocks, and Extreme Survival. He spent his life leaning these skills and is a master of the subject. Wanting to be able to sleep out on the trail and unable to afford camping equipment, he resorted to a Robinson Crusoe approach to solving the problem. Digesting every scrap of information relating to survival that he could find in his local library, he soon began to re-learn skills that had not been employed on the North Downs for hundreds of years. Since those early days Ray has expanded his horizons by travelling the world. He has won the …