Modern Kephart & Nessmuk Trios

[A.L.]

Wonderful trios and pictures people, thanks a lot for sharing! :thumbup:

Here's my trio:

CS Trail Hawk (recently got off the paracord and hung the head better and even higher)
Condor Hudson Bay
Mora Classic 2

 

[pathwinder14]

Cold Steel Rifleman's Hawk. Corona folding saw. Cold Steel Bushman. If I could ad more it would be a Leatherman Wave, a Spyderco Delica 4, and a SAK classic.

 

[mtwarden]

from today's ski trip into the Elkhorns

 

[Student762]

Mt Warden absolutely stunning trio my friend, very practical. What's the maker for that Puuko?

 

[mtwarden]

Mt Warden absolutely stunning trio my friend, very practical. What's the maker for that Puuko?

danke

the puukko is a Kkauhavan Puukkopaja, Finland- moderately priced for a lot of knife; I'm going to grab another one from them

 

[Balldboy]

Great Thread!!!

 

[22-rimfire]

I wonder how important a folding saw would be to Sears or Kephart if they were available back in the day?

 

[22-rimfire]

I have just started to go through a USGS publication, dated 1905 titled "The Southern Appalachian Forests" by Ayres and Ashe. (Used to pick up stuff like this years ago and discovered it rooting around in my "junk".) This is precisely the time when Kephart was living in around what would become the Smoky Mt National Park. Love looking at the old photos in particular, but I noticed that Chestnuts figured prominently. We of course know that the Chestnut blight hit and killed most every American Chestnut tree. Mentioned that they can get to a trunk diameter of 7 feet or more. All I have ever seen are huge snags and those are mostly gone now. They had pretty much rotted by the 60's.

The blight fungus was introduced to the US around the time this was published and by 1940, most of the Chestnut trees in the Eastern US were dead. Chestnut was favored for construction of fences and cabins.

The book is obviously dated, but historically I find it very interesting in relation to the forest. It is essentially an inventory of the timber resource organized by watershed. I am focused on the area around the present Smoky Mt NP in TN and NC.

Now we have the beetle that is attacking and killing Hemlocks. The same fate is in store for this important eastern tree.

 

[bore]

I think Kephart or anyone back then would be all over the boreal 21 if it was available. Or a plain bow saw. Don't think the pocket saws would have been that useful back then heck even now. My thought is anything a silky type saw can cut I can just stomp on and break. A bow saw is much more better interesting about the chestnut trees