Offas Dyke Solo Hike Part 2 of 2
Podcast | 3 months ago
Starting at the exact half way point of the Offa's Dyke Path - this second episode sees me try to reach the North Wales coast. A total distance of well over 180 miles, far further than I've ever hiked before. Check out @KeiteiVentures if you want to see som...
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Offas Dyke Path Solo Hike Part 1of 2
Video | 3 months ago
The big hike I've been working up to for months. Beginning a couple of miles south of the official start point I set out to walk the entire length of Wales from the Bristol Channel to the Irish sea. Roughly 180 miles of trail which is 60 miles further than ...
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Dartmoor Green Lanes By Motorbike
Video | 4 months ago
I wanted to test my new home-made camping tarp and just for a change, rather than another hike, I thought I'd take the bike! Camping map: https://www.dartmoor.gov.uk/about-us/about-us-maps/camping-map The kettle is an Mkettle The chair is a Helinox ground c...
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Making a Lightweight Camping Tarp
Video | 4 months ago
The first camping shelter I made came in at a staggering 5kg, the second a more sensible 920g. Now, before the next big hike, I want to make something smaller and even lighter. So join me (and the cats) as I fire up the Beaver 3 sewing machine once more and...
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Project Awesome 38: ZIL 131 Cab Restoration
Video | 4 months ago
In this video we carry on working down the big list of jobs and finally get to tick off item one! Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:41 Wheels and Blasting 04:23 Grill 18:01 Tyre and wheel fitting 23:43 Doors 34:09 Grill fitting 38:01 Door fitting The goal of Project...
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Brecon Wild Camp with Polish Army MRE and M kettle reviews
Review | 5 months ago
In this little adventure I head up to the hills on part of the Beacons Way then find a nice spot to camp. In part a warm up for adventures to come, I test whether I can manage with just a kettle instead of a full cookset, is a Polish Army ration pack tasty ...
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Project Awesome 37
Video | 7 months ago
Fixing the bonnet - a job I've been putting off for 20 years! Chapters: 00:00 Wings 7:16 Wheel 12:09 Bonnet The goal of Project Awesome is to build a fully functional, fully mobile pipe organ. The organ is being constructed from mix of salvaged church organ...
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Project Awesome: In The Hall Of The Mountain King
Video | 9 months ago
In The Hall Of The Mountain King by Edvard Grieg (1875) arranged for the 63(ish) note organ by Mark and Max of Project Awesome and performed in a shed late 2025. The goal of Project Awesome is to build a fully functional, fully mobile pipe organ. The organ ...
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Project Awesome 36: The Organ Story
Video | 9 months ago
We've been building this thing for so long it now gets it's own history lesson! From a pile of broken parts rescued in the 1980's to something almost resembling a playable instrument today. This is the tale of two men and how they spent years of graft and t...
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Project Awesome 35: Pipe Organ History Lesson
Video | 9 months ago
We are putting a great deal of effort into constructing an instrument many people have never even heard of - here I blitz through an explanation of both church and cinema/theatre organ and why they are awesome (by design!). The goal of Project Awesome is to...
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Workshop Tool Trolley - A No Budget Build
Video | 10 months ago
In the workshop it's very handy to keep the most used tools close by, but if you don't always work in the same spot, a mobile solution is required. Here we have a 1950's-ish era storage unit repurposed into a tool trolley. Then my old tool trolley, which wa...
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Project Awesome 34: Cab work continues
Video | 10 months ago
Mark rejoins the team as we take the dismantled cab parts, blast them and start to fix the holes. The goal of Project Awesome is to build a fully functional, fully mobile pipe organ. The organ is being constructed from mix of salvaged church organ and theat...
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