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Birch bark canoe, WOW!

Truly awesome display of skill. His axe work looks like it's comes from more than a few years of practice, if I tried that I reckon I'd be looking for a pirate outfit supplier to go with me new hook.:D

The good thing is there are more and more people out there making video records of these skills so that they won't/shouldn't ever die out.
 
LostViking said:
That was the "Best Hour" of tv I've watched in a very long time.

Thank you,
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Agreed, what a pleasure to watch, the hour flew by. Just compare this to 'reality' shows!

Makes you wonder, if they put stuff like this on at prime time, it may begin a nice change in the youth of today....

1: Outside
2: learning skills and problem solving
3: Portraying tools being used for their intended purpose,
4: Ahh what a dream! ;)
 
Do you think young people today would rather watch something great like this, or go to the mall and hang out? The answer is pretty sad, I'm afraid.
 
dawsonbob said:
Do you think young people today would rather watch something great like this, or go to the mall and hang out? The answer is pretty sad, I'm afraid.
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Actually I bet you would be suprised at the answer. I think the bigger problem is that parents don't want to spend quality time with their children. It takes effort to be a great parent and a lot of them just want the kids to be on auto pilot. I am not that old but what is that saying about idle minds or hands? My son would love to build a canoe with is dad. I would also be willing to betcha that his friends would all be in my back yard right along side of him, getting involved. Just my thoughts on the subject.

My son has all the video games and he plays them for way to long, if we have nothing to do that is productive. Not looking to argue, just puttin my thought out there.

Paul
 
valcas1 said:
Actually I bet you would be suprised at the answer. I think the bigger problem is that parents don't want to spend quality time with their children. It takes effort to be a great parent and a lot of them just want the kids to be on auto pilot. I am not that old but what is that saying about idle minds or hands? My son would love to build a canoe with is dad. I would also be willing to betcha that his friends would all be in my back yard right along side of him, getting involved. Just my thoughts on the subject.

My son has all the video games and he plays them for way to long, if we have nothing to do that is productive. Not looking to argue, just puttin my thought out there.

Paul
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I think you may be right, valcas1. I shouldn't generalize like that. I grew up in the '50's, when any boy would have loved that. I was just thinking that times have changed, but like you say, it depends on the parents.
 
Got a kid here (not mine) 13yrs old. Stays in his room on X-Box or DVD all day at the weekends. However, when I put on Ray Mears DVD's he was glued to it and wanted to know if I had more.
 
valcas1 said:
Actually I bet you would be suprised at the answer. I think the bigger problem is that parents don't want to spend quality time with their children. It takes effort to be a great parent and a lot of them just want the kids to be on auto pilot. I am not that old but what is that saying about idle minds or hands? My son would love to build a canoe with is dad. I would also be willing to betcha that his friends would all be in my back yard right along side of him, getting involved. Just my thoughts on the subject.

My son has all the video games and he plays them for way to long, if we have nothing to do that is productive. Not looking to argue, just puttin my thought out there.

Paul
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I have to agree with all of what you said. To many times we (as parents) get caught up in our day to day activities and overlook just how much are kids looks to us for examples. My little guy is on only about three and if I pick up a drill or a hammer he is right there beside me with his little tool kit. Then on the same hand if I were to sit in front of the TV he to would be right beside me. Once I came to realize this we got rid of our TV. I want for my son to have the skills that are vanishing with each passing day. We spend thousands of dollars on the latest and greatest equipment and forget that it was not all that long ago that a basic knife, bow, even house was a great luxury. Now we need 60" plasma screens and $1200 bows just to accomplish what our ancestors did with what they could make themselves.
Watching this guy was a real pleasure. If there was this kind of thing on TV then maybe I might still have one. This is the definition of reality show. These skills were not a way to make a dollar. Instead they were a necessity for everyday life.
 
Amazing as it is to watch someone do something like that, it is sort of surreal when you think about it. Those people living the way they do; not preoccupied with politics, wars, H1N1, Lindsay Lohan's latest plastic surgery, etc... Makes you think about what LIFE is all about...living.

Those hands look like they've built a thousand of those.
 
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