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Birch bark canoe, WOW!

I am in awe. Absolutely speechless. Best video I've ever seen. I sincerely hope his skills are being passed on to his sons/daughters so that his craftmanship lives on in the future. I've built several houses and barns, but I feel like an infant watching his woodcraft.
 
We watched a video like this in my woodworking class at school. Good stuff, simply amazing to say the least.
 
I'm only ten minutes into the video, and so far the guy has used as tools 1) an axe. 2) a small folding knife. 3) a smaller fixed-blade utility looking knife. 4) some rocks. 5) his teeth. :eek:

That's a great testimony to the fact that knowledge is the most important part of bushcraft, rather than the tools. This guy does what he's doing with what to us would be a minimal tool kit. :cool: Awesome. Now I just gotta finish watching.

OH...That guy is a machine with that axe. I know the video is edited, but he's just GETTIN' it. :thumbup:
 
I just watch that whole skit. That guy has MAD SKILLS!!! He built that canoe with about 5 handtools and a regular pocket knife. Amazing!
 
Wow .....amazing. Not a tape measure in sight and the finished product looks good enough for a display. His full tool kit would fit in a small pack and his axe skills are a true show of exprienece and skill. Generations to perfect the skill and all could be lost in one generation. Hope he passes his skills on ....... when you see this you have to wonder if faster internet, more gadgets and beter health care is really making life better for us ;)
 
99f250 said:
That guy is awesome, did you see his hands? Would like to see him sharpen those blades, and what would you give for one of those canoes?
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You'd give about $600 per foot! That's just about the going rate these days.
 
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Truly amazing skill and beautiful to behold. It really drives home the the remarkable skills that our ancestors must of had, and why it's important to keep those skills alive.



18:30 Dog climbing the ladder with the kid helping, so damn cute.
 
If the documentary was made in 1971, he's got to be long gone. Hopefully his grandkids are passing his knowledge on down.
Denis
 
Amazing! Thanks for posting it!

I wonder how long one of those canoes would last. He has obviously done that a number of times...

And is that a common skill, or was this guy the canoe maker for the whole province? I wonder how many folks could do that back when it was the only way to get a canoe...
 
chopchop said:
Amazing! Thanks for posting it!

I wonder how long one of those canoes would last. He has obviously done that a number of times...

And is that a common skill, or was this guy the canoe maker for the whole province? I wonder how many folks could do that back when it was the only way to get a canoe...
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I think it was a way of life and every male learned how to do it growing up. Those days are gone now and I would imagine that very few people still posess that type of knowledge. It is a shame actually, IMO
 
Dang. I guess that's what you call "advanced bushcrafting". :D I don't think I'll be whipping up one of those bad boys anytime soon.

That canoe was amazing- I guess they must have all been like that before the "palefaces" showed up and wrecked everything. Some pretty sophisticated engineering went into that canoe- about 5 or 6 different species of trees were used, with different parts being used for various desired material properties. That canoe is the end product of thousands of years of development. Elegant and beautiful.

Fascinating. :thumbup:
 
Another from the National Film Board of Canada is "The Moose Skin Boat". Village elder,Dene Tribe, takes his extended family way up the Peel River in BC fall-spring. Film shows them hunting, skinning moose. In spring they build a huge moose skin boat from many hides using only axes and Grohmann #4 survival knives. He then loads the family in and floats the Peel River back to Fort Norman. Unbelievable skills and confidence to trust the lives of his entire family to the boat.
 
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