My nephew is a bit of a wiz when it comes to building and fixing things. He’s an early teen now and has been taking apart, fixing and re-assembling small engines for years. Recently he started buying components for remote control aircraft online and has been his own air frames. …
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Things have been busy over the last few weeks at the farm. We’re still in setup mode, and a lot of work is still needed to be done. The kids have been staying involved, which is great. They’ve taken on the tasks with excitement and are happy to announce, “yay, …
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If you’re a DIYer and you don’t watch Intense Angler’s excellent youtube channel, you need to head over and subscribe. John has grown his audience to 150000 subscribers with his popular “Tip of the Week” series. If you’re not convinced, then take at the video above as John demonstrates 5 …
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You can never have too many canoes, but you can run out of places to store them. To solve that, you’ll probably need to make a canoe rack, so we’ve made a DIY video for a canoe rack that can store up to 3 canoes. We like to keep ours …
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You know that favourite jacket of yours that hangs in the closet because the zipper slider is missing or broken? We’re going to fix it! If you have a jacket, tent or anything that has a broken or missing zipper you need to take a look at FixnZip. Even if it’s …
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This past weekend we were up in Prince George visiting, when a friend pulled out some homemade model rockets and solid fuel engines. They were leftovers from school projects, so we decided to take the kids and try them out. Setting them up required taping the engines, adding a …
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When Mr. and Mrs. Adventure first got married, we were given a fancy maple dining set. It lasted us very well for six years and we packed it away into storage when we moved to South America. Within a year of returning with four Jr. Adventures they were falling apart. …
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After many months of outdoor adventure we took an opportunity to finish off this indoor adventure project. We started our bouldering wall a while ago, but this weekend was a weekend in (due to rain) and we made a lot of progress. The kits came with a tool to …
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On a recent tour of garage sales in our area, we found this little treasure: A DIY Bottle Catamaran kit. At $3 I figured it’d make a great spring project for my son and I to work on. Typically these things retails for $15 on amazon so it was a …
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What do you do when someone breaks in and damages the drywall in the playroom? You do the obvious thing: Make a bouldering wall. Last fall I started working on converting a downstairs wall into a multi-angled bouldering wall for the kids. It frequently got sidelined by more important …
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Did you forget your cutlery on your backpacking trip? Try this tutorial on making a wooden spoon the safe way. The results can be much nicer than you need! Keep it safe out there and have a great summer in the outdoors with your friends and family. Feel free to …
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I honestly thought I’d use my tyvek ground sheet once or twice a year tops, which made it a hard purchase to make (even at $15). It turns out to have been one of my most used pieces of gear and best investments. Last summer I bought a 4′ x …
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