On our first safari in RSA we enjoyed the braii so much that when we built our patio, we added one of our own.
The fire is started in the firepit area (with a gas starter ) and sundowners are consumed. Then when the coals are ready, we shovel them to the grill area that swivels and adjusts with a trailer hitch jack.
When dinner is over we put more logs on and sit around the fire pit, with more sundowners .

What did you bring home besides trophies and memories?

Neat!

Really don't see that as stealing, I think of it as taking a good basic idea and making some improved modifacations.

Looks rerally great and I bet it works really good.

I don't know if I stole the idea but I built a biltong box a few months ago and have been making biltong all winter. In fact, I just got finished spicing up 3 flank steaks cut into strips and placed in the box. Should be ready in about 4 or 5 days.

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Originally posted by Jorge400:
I don't know if I stole the idea but I built a biltong box a few months ago and have been making biltong all winter. In fact, I just got finished spicing up 3 flank steaks cut into strips and placed in the box. Should be ready in about 4 or 5 days.

I'm just in the process of finishing my box off.
I brought a bag of Freddy Hirsch biltong spice back from Namibia, and I can't wait to use it.

I dont know if you would call it stealing, but there have been many times I wished I had my tracker from my first Safari here in the US when I was tracking wounded game.

I don't think that I stole anything from Africa but I think that Africa stole part of my soul. There's no other reason why I would have this intense burining desire to return.

I have been trying to figure out how to buid something exactly like this. Could you elaborate on the design and construction of the trailer hitch jack grill?

I collected sand from the Kalahari and various grasses. I used those to develop the colors for my trophy room.

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I dont know if you would call it stealing, but there have been many times I wished I had my tracker from my first Safari here in the US when I was tracking wounded game.

Didn't Madonna adopt some kids from Africa? Maybe you could do the same with a tracker? Maybe you could get a tax exemption for an adopted child, tell folks he is big for his age.

A piece of wood called "Rodney".

I brought a bag of sand from the flat along the Zambezi where I shot my Chobe Bushbuck last fall and it will be used in the life size mount - the sand not the bag.

On my first trip in 1971 my PH wanted a smoke, but discovered he had no matches. I don't smoke, so I had none either. He turned to the tracker, who, without further ado, whipped out his knife, took a couple of dead branches, each about a foot long, split a notch in the end of one, into which he placed a short pointed piece of some harder wood and bound it with a strip of bark, then cut a notch in the middle of the other branch, laid it on the ground, placed the pointed end of the other artifact into the notch and started twirling it between his palms. In due course, smoke appeared, and shortly afterwards a blaze sprang up in the tinder he had placed under the lower branch.

I still have the firemaking tools, but making a fire with them has eluded me.

My version of a braai pit. I put one up at each house I have lived in. I don't have lots of coin so I build with free materials.

I named this one 'The GROTTO' as is is stone and water.









Right now it is burried under five feet of snow so these photos kind of freak me out. It is a great place to hang out in nice weather. The stream is full of brookies and some rainbows.

I have brought home some small rocks from RSA 02, more little rocks from Zim and seeds 04, Tanzania more rocks, ivory, quills found chasing buf, leopard bullet went thru chui & right into tree and dug it out, more Rocks, feathers, and quills 09, an lifetime of memories. She still has her grip on me.
She is calling me back 2012.

Mike

Blacktailer

I like your Braai set-up. I sure don't have anything that elabrate, but I did bring back a Panda Kerosene(parafine to you Africans). I enjoy using it in hunting camp.

I also brought back a Potjie(sp?). I love that thing, I just wish I have brought more than one home.

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Originally posted by Aspen Hill Adventures:
My version of a braai pit. I put one up at each house I have lived in. I don't have lots of coin so I build with free materials.

Ann
Your set-up is outstanding! I showed the photos to two people who are much more experienced than I when it comes to outdoor design. They were both very impressed also.

Last trip I snuck in some ricketsia africanae with me.

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Last trip I snuck in some ricketsia africanae with me.

Yikes! Hope your all better!

Some Zim-dollars!

Mike, that looks like a posed picture, no sweat or dirt.

And definitely a serious look on his face!
Max

Max, you know he is always serious when it comes to Africa.