All Things Wooden

[petrochemicals]

The recent arctic powder snow and wind leading to huge drifts is something I have never encountered in my life before, never seen it.

As chance would have it Ray Mears was on T.V. plodding around in the arctic, and Ray being Ray got himself another pair of shoes of someone.
These where snowshoes, handcrafted by a genius from wood and hide. I did a quick search here, but to no avail.

This got me thinking about how to make a pair from wood. Alot of other posts also have had a leaning towards manufacturing items from wood (Roycroft pack), and I would love to know things people can manufacture quickly and simply from wood and bark, or other easy to hand materials.

For example,

traps
snairs
carrying devices
snowshoes
fire aperatus

I know there are wood shelters and canoes, but things like this are complicated, time consuming, and take a while to master, and alot of effort. Someone like me is highly unlikely to ever need one. But if I where out on the Isle of man last week,snowshoes would have been handy!

 

[crosslandkelly]

There are lots of tutorials on youtube. Here's a couple.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KygTgLVSDDM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiRiE9WxtNo

 

[petrochemicals]

par exelance !

 

[Skaukraft]

I am gathering materials to make a pair of native american snowshoes with raw hide webbing.
The result will hopfully look a bit similar to the second pair down on this site: http://www.bridgerlandaudubon.org/wildaboututah/110210snowshoes.htm
Building them isn't very difficult, the difficult part is to find enough rawhide and last, but not least, find the time to sit down and do it.

 

[hog]

Ray does a few of these things.
A deadfall trap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvRR5MTBBQI

Making a rucksack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xhJFaoH_8k
Snowshoes (not the one on Northern Wilderness with Pinnoque the Native American )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ROh_mAaPt8
Fire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwr5ybkqBss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAs2xnfNidM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWuL-VT_hRg

Best student I ever had. LOL.

 

[John Fenna]

For my rawhide I just buy big dog chews
Soak them well, unwrap them and then spiral cut the rawhide while it is in the "supple but not slimey" state and there you have it - babbiche/rimpee/rawhide thonging ('scuse the spelling on those North American and South African terms)

 

[hog]

Good Boer stuff !! some of the most comfy chairs I have sat on are riempie.( Lekker om by die vuur te sit op n riempie stoel).
http://www.wikihow.com/Riempie-a-Chair

 

[Artzi]

Snowshoes (not the one on Northern Wilderness with Pinnoque the Native American )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ROh_mAaPt8

These are actually quite easy to make and can be used at swamps too during the summer time!

 

[Skaukraft]

For my rawhide I just buy big dog chews
Soak them well, unwrap them and then spiral cut the rawhide while it is in the "supple but not slimey" state and there you have it - babbiche/rimpee/rawhide thonging ('scuse the spelling on those North American and South African terms)

Im in to testing different chew bone types at the moment. Some of them are to prosessed to work, and some are to thin. But I got my handso on a piece of untanned moose skin. And that will probably be the most authentic anyway.

 

[petrochemicals]

thanks all, the snowshoes do look a good one, quick 'n easy, suppose good for mudflats, thin ice too!

One I have tried to make before with no sucess is a rock face water collector. If you have water running down a rockface, before you can bottle it you would need to funnell it from the face. I tried very unsucessfully to use a tree branch leaves an all, to try and use the natural form of the forks to gather the water to one point. Any ideas?

And also as bad as this may sound, farmers often skin a dead calf ,lamb or foal and dress an orphan infant in the skin, to try and develop a fostering bond between mother an offspring. Not expert advice, but an idea.

 

[Fraxinus]

One I have tried to make before with no sucess is a rock face water collector. If you have water running down a rockface, before you can bottle it you would need to funnell it from the face. I tried very unsucessfully to use a tree branch leaves an all, to try and use the natural form of the forks to gather the water to one point. Any ideas?

Try using a piece of rope/string to wick the water off to a container. The cord could be self made.

Rob.

Just found this:- technique at around 07:40

[video=youtube;P8V5nANXXMU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpag e&v=P8V5nANXXMU[/video]

 

[petrochemicals]

I'll br rude and try and drop this to the top of the stack again.

I have seen chairs made by people using a piece of material. BCUK Member "Hog an Ice" made one with 2 pieces of wood I remember. Looks quick.

 

[ForgeCorvus]

Berry picker

Different sort of berry picker