This fanciful chain reaction pioneering project was found at the Ropes and Poles Blog Rain falls during the night and runs down the trough into the billy-can, thereby upsetting the balance of the guillotine and bringing the razor-sharp knife Read More →
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Mike Malone asks; … we've been informed that, for safety reasons, Scouts are now not allowed to be on any handmade structure more than 3-4 feet off the ground. Is that the current rule? I Read More →
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Pioneering Made Easy has a great collection of pioneering knowledge with down-loadable plans; worth a look!
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Check out this piece on knotting from CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Serena Altschul takes us to the International Guild of Knot Tyers in the United Kingdom, where enthusiasts from around the world converge to discuss Read More →
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Learn how to tie the First Class Scout Badge Knot over at the Boy Scout Trail website. Not a particularly useful knot nor extraordinarily decorative but one really ought to know how it is tied. Read More →
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Author Gerald Finley has put together a fine, no-nonsense book 'Rope Works Plus'. The expanded version of his original 1997 book 'Rope Works' features clearly illustrated directions for tying and using knots, splices and lashings, Read More →
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Peter at Ropes and Poles is back to blogging after a lengthy sabbatical. Take a look at these amazing pioneering models from Malaysia.
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View Larger Map The Shiang Yang Open Scout Troop of Ipoh, Perak Malaysia was founded in 1999 and is chartered to the Meow Yuen Zen Buddhist Monastery. They have achieved much in their relatively short Read More →
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Here’s a clear, easy to follow description of making rope using the spinning method in the form of a PDF file made by Troop 228. Surprisingly high-quality rope in a variety of sizes can be Read More →
Peter at the Ropes and Poles Blog writes about Tekes-Esh (Hebrew for fire writing) – a ceremony held by Israeli Scouts: Scouts make fire sculptures for this ceremony, using paraffin-soaked cloth ‘snakes’ attached to a Read More →
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An earlier post about the Flickr Pioneering pool featured a picture of a giant tent complex. A reader named Dan commented; The tent you are looking at are standard German scout tents. Each scout carries Read More →
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Peter at Ropes & Poles has discovered the Flickr Scout Pioneering pool set up by Michael Beat from Switzerland. There are around 330 photographs in this pool, and it’s growing rapidly.Take a look at pictures Read More →
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A report from Peter at the Ropes and Poles Blog on this year’s Kon-Tiki competition in South Africa. This is a fantastic annual event! Troops each build a raft that they live on for the Read More →
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