General non-MG related discussions. No politics here please!!
For you water enthusiasts, here is a good way to spend your time - build a birch bark canoe. Many of you have all the materials handy where you live, and it would certainly be something different from all this car stuff. Anyway it is worth a looksee into what this fellow has done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27VZtSl02B8
That was really interesting. Unfortunately we don't have birch in New Mexico. I bet Wyatt could build one, though.
moocho talent..that was great, thanks. speedy1...Haaa 20 years ago just maybe...today to farkin tired and not enought talent....just finished up that small job I mentioned with my builder pal then came down off the ladder and stepped on a nail stickin up thru the old roof board...GDm that hurts.
Cool deal- impressive work. I'd settle for getting the bark off the tree in one piece, but I doubt I could- maybe a scale model?
Beautiful canoe; lots of hard work. I think this is not his first.
That is amazing. It takes something to be able to build an entire canoe in 8 minutes and 12 seconds. It would take me a lot longer.
Seriously, that is one skilled individual!
With my lack of skill, I can se soooooo many places that could go terribly wrong. My health insurance wouldn't be enough to cover the cuts, sprains, stitches and pulled muscles.
I'm thinking that an Old Towne would be just the ticket.
Makes me appreciate the canoe we had as kids back in OK. A buddy's dad gave it to us to use for fishing after patching its canvas skin in a few places. I don't recall now if it was an Old Towne or not but it was that sort of construction. We loved that old canoe but it soon became apparent that it was not the greatest fishing platform nor the best thing to be navigating the Arkansas River in back in the mid 50s (before the Army Corps of Engineers worked on it). Mostly, tho, it set me up for my own canoe 25 yrs later in ID - much nicer waters, much better fishing. Very nice to be out on the lake before dawn, and get out of the water before the jet skis and ski boats would hit the water.
Had to build one in grade five. Everyone did in my school as it was part of the history program at the time.
Mind you, it was only a foot long...but still.:P
...did fifty miles down the pine river with a fella who built one, we hit a sharp rock trying to make a tight turn and punctured it, that nite he boiled some spruce sap and glued it back shut...I was quit impressed as a young lad....
Could probably attempt to build one of those, but my neighbour would likely complain when I cut his tree down.