in this episode I'm back in the garage doing another simple wood working project. Follow me along as I guide you through how I make a pioneer style wooden pack frame!
I once cut a sassafras tree in June the bark looked good and straight and as soon as it hit the ground it started twisting and flipping on the ground like a snake,.. crazy shit it was like 98 but I never dreamed wood could do that. All wood is a little different, the time of year when you cut it, different woods different results. I treat all greenwood the same I work it close to dimension put some wood glue on the ends wipe it down with linseed oil and clamp it straight or heat it and bend it and clamp it the way want it weather its a Bow or what ever let it season for a year. and wipe it with linseed oil occasionally. If I wanted a back pack in a hury I just tie sticks together. But I love some of these people's back back results on you tube there are some serious craftsman out there. Pure art work. Great video
Hey man. Great content on your channel. I really enjoyed your. approach ti cracking the wood and/ but still using it. Learning a lot of the good stuff here !
If you drill a hole at the very lead end of the crack (maybe 1/4 inch or slightly larger) in the upright so the lead end disappears into the hole it will distribute the stress at the end of the crack and tend to prevent it from lengthening. Of course you would lash it too. This is very handy for cracks in plastic as well. I have saved many cracked plastic containers this way, such as trash barrels. Thanks for the video.
If you think the wood is crooked now wait till it starts drying twisting and cracking. You can get good results with a band saw,.. you cut it the way you want it then you wipe it down with linseed oil and clamp it straight for a year. Then assemble it in a year. I'd use spruce, strong and light. Green wood works easy,.. but tears into the grain with old fashioned tools. Band saw and shape and wipe it down with linseed oil about 3 times in a week and you clamp the wood straight or curved and let it dry in your living space. or in a building that has summer breeze's but no direct sunlight. A year seems to season the wood well,.. then you finish working and assembling. you can use megalithic technology at that point. To season poor pine bow wood Apaches would rough shape the wood and throw the wood in boiling mud to season it then they bent the reflex in it while it was hot then they tied it to a form and tillerd it later. Ash works pretty well with out cracking if you work it right. You can actually get free wood just find a really light pallet they use what they consider junk pine and its perfect for a back pack it would feel like balsa wood. for a quick back pack you can use the plastic grain sacks like burlap but plastic. Their free ruck sacks.
Nakoa Warrior all very good points and advice. A bit outside the scope of what i was doing here. But a yearcafter building this frame it hadn't moved in the slightest in terms of warps or cracks. A bitof shrinking in some of the joints. But i was still able to throw 40 pounds on it and it was holding just fine. Cheers
Thanks for posting. It would be good to see you load the pack up with say 50 pounds of gear and then show how you are able to put it on with your straps that way. It seems that the straps will be very hard to use when you have the pack loaded with 50 pounds of gear. And I would wonder about the base triangle supporting 50 pounds with very thin joints.
Tuesdays Runner i never go anywhere with that much gear. i also moved to canada recently and no longer have this pack frame. if i were to use this style frame for a large load i would definetely have to make a much beefier frame to accomodate the load... as far as getting it on: it would be most advantageous to set the pack on a fallen tree or some sort of "table" to facilitate getting the straps done up without having to hoist and hold the pack otherwise unsupported... work smarter, not harder
It's called Wildwood wisdom. Picked it up on amazon. The instructions are fairly basic...but its a great book full of all sorts of american fronteirsman type tips, tricks and on the go camp life accessories.
Tubular Topher the frame itself is extrememly light. Maybe a pound at most. Plaus my favorite wool blanket and a sil nylon tarp as a minimum... Not more than 7/8 lbs
Truly you are a craftmens. Problem solver. You speak the language of wood. I enjoyed your video. Thank you sir.
Thanks for walking this through. I am putting together a 17th c backwoods kit for historical reenactment and this is now on my to do list. 👍
Thank you
I once cut a sassafras tree in June the bark looked good and straight and as soon as it hit the ground it started twisting and flipping on the ground like a snake,.. crazy shit it was like 98 but I never dreamed wood could do that.
All wood is a little different, the time of year when you cut it, different woods different results.
I treat all greenwood the same I work it close to dimension put some wood glue on the ends wipe it down with linseed oil and clamp it straight or heat it and bend it and clamp it the way want it weather its a Bow or what ever let it season for a year. and wipe it with linseed oil occasionally.
If I wanted a back pack in a hury I just tie sticks together.
But I love some of these people's back back results on you tube there are some serious craftsman out there. Pure art work.
Great video
Hey man. Great content on your channel. I really enjoyed your. approach ti cracking the wood and/ but still using it. Learning a lot of the good stuff here !
Thanks mate. Unfortunaley life took over and i dont really do videos anymore...maybe someday i will get back at it
@@robertnoel2363 Sorry to hear.! Life has a tendency to do that... Take care and stay strong!
nice frame! I have made myself a roycroft frame and was thinking of adding the bottom frame as you did!. awesome.. great video.
If you drill a hole at the very lead end of the crack (maybe 1/4 inch or slightly larger) in the upright so the lead end disappears into the hole it will distribute the stress at the end of the crack and tend to prevent it from lengthening. Of course you would lash it too. This is very handy for cracks in plastic as well. I have saved many cracked plastic containers this way, such as trash barrels. Thanks for the video.
If you think the wood is crooked now wait till it starts drying twisting and cracking.
You can get good results with a band saw,.. you cut it the way you want it then you wipe it down with linseed oil and clamp it straight for a year.
Then assemble it in a year.
I'd use spruce, strong and light.
Green wood works easy,.. but tears into the grain with old fashioned tools.
Band saw and shape and wipe it down with linseed oil about 3 times in a week and you clamp the wood straight or curved and let it dry in your living space. or in a building that has summer breeze's but no direct sunlight. A year seems to season the wood well,.. then you finish working and assembling. you can use megalithic technology at that point.
To season poor pine bow wood Apaches would rough shape the wood and throw the wood in boiling mud to season it then they bent the reflex in it while it was hot then they tied it to a form and tillerd it later.
Ash works pretty well with out cracking if you work it right.
You can actually get free wood just find a really light pallet they use what they consider junk pine and its perfect for a back pack it would feel like balsa wood.
for a quick back pack you can use the plastic grain sacks like burlap but plastic. Their free ruck sacks.
Nakoa Warrior all very good points and advice. A bit outside the scope of what i was doing here. But a yearcafter building this frame it hadn't moved in the slightest in terms of warps or cracks. A bitof shrinking in some of the joints. But i was still able to throw 40 pounds on it and it was holding just fine.
Cheers
Thanks for posting. It would be good to see you load the pack up with say 50 pounds of gear and then show how you are able to put it on with your straps that way. It seems that the straps will be very hard to use when you have the pack loaded with 50 pounds of gear. And I would wonder about the base triangle supporting 50 pounds with very thin joints.
Tuesdays Runner i never go anywhere with that much gear. i also moved to canada recently and no longer have this pack frame. if i were to use this style frame for a large load i would definetely have to make a much beefier frame to accomodate the load... as far as getting it on: it would be most advantageous to set the pack on a fallen tree or some sort of "table" to facilitate getting the straps done up without having to hoist and hold the pack otherwise unsupported... work smarter, not harder
I’ve been analyzing old pack frames and it seems like most have more of an air space because the side beams are thicker.
Digging the hat
Hi, nice work. What book is the one that you show?
It's called Wildwood wisdom. Picked it up on amazon. The instructions are fairly basic...but its a great book full of all sorts of american fronteirsman type tips, tricks and on the go camp life accessories.
Good video, and very instruktive. What Wood is it, Hazel?
+Søren Graves Thanks mate, The wood is just Willow, soft and easy to work with, light when dry.
Btw, where did you get your hat?
Name of the book?
WildWood wisdom
I'm left curious as to the title of the book waved on screen too far away to read on a screen shot but no title referenced?
That would be:
Wildwood Wisdom
Unsure of the author, lost the book.
@@robertnoel2363 Thank you for taking the time to send reply, enough heads up information to track copy down via Amazon. All best, Ken
How much does it weigh in total with gear?
Tubular Topher the frame itself is extrememly light. Maybe a pound at most. Plaus my favorite wool blanket and a sil nylon tarp as a minimum... Not more than 7/8 lbs
The hat is from a wellington NZ based company. Hills Hats out of petone. Recycled coffe bean sacs. Best hat i ever owned