Cutting our logs

In this co-ed group of Swedish scouts, the talents are deployed in cutting logs with a traditional cross-saw while one holds the log tightly in the woodland clearing near to their Summer Camp.

Unusually, the group have a brush with a long tail with them which to be honest isn't something I can ever recall being used in this setting before but rightly in Scouting, we leave no evidence of our activities behind and so do tidy up after ourselves ready for the next person to appreciate where we have been.

Log making

Gathering material while camping is more a preoccupation for those who are Scouts or above because it used to meet some of your needs such as finding material for tindering or putting on the open fire.

It's not always enough to just find and drag it back to camp though because it may need to be cut or have any bark removed.

Here the Scouts are using a simple cross-cut  hand saw to remove the bark to making cutiing this branch into logs much easier.