These Snowshoes are AWESOME!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Today I'll finish lacing and then try out my new snowshoes!!
link to lacing instructions www.ekcsk12.org...
another useful link when making snowshoes:
www.motherearth...
"Scheming Weasel (faster version)" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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great job Zack, I really like the way you think outside the box. I'm wishing you the best in your future endeavors. I recently retired from the fire service and am still building my ranch/homestead. just discovered your channel yesterday. TH-cam seems to be my go to place for learning new skills. thank you for sharing.
Those things worked a treat!!!! That land is beautiful man!
They worked better than I had anticipated since this was my first time ever using snowshoes lol. The land IS beautiful up there, very wild and essentially untamed. and my favorite part is the population density of 3 per square mile (mostly concentrated within a few miles of the 4 towns in the county.
Brilliant!! That's something I've wamted to make since my honeymoon in Canada where I used snow shoes for the first time. Thank you for the awsome idea
I'm glad you enjoyed it Glen!
Me and my LL Bean snowshoes feel outclassed by this badass skill lol. This is excellent, I've always wondered how it was done. :)
lol nah, just a different means to the same end. I'm surprised how much fun snowshoeing really is, I'm looking forward to more next winter
Hell, I'm in for more snow :).
Thanks dude you did this what I want to see so easy!
I'm more of a Fall fan, but any DAWG time is perfect! Nice job on the shoes
Patrick I somehow had never heard that term but after looking it up I love it and agree wholeheartedly, his voice is so much easier to hear without the din of ....well... everything.
Looks amazing and great snow shoes mate, love em very cool great job.
Thanks Fishmut they were really fun to make.
Another excellent, honest video.
Are you Canadian or American? It’s cool either way I’m just curious. Can’t tell difference sometimes.
Pretty crafty. Thanks for sharing.
Don't forget the best view from the kitchen window when choosing where to build your house.
It's funny you say that, Joe. My Mom said just the same thing while we were discussing view.
Great video. I am writing to you from Asturias in the north of Spain, here it snows from time to time and I want to do some snowshoes. Is it possible to have the patterns step by step to braid the rope ?. Thanks a lot.
Yeah this is why I live in Texas. It's a bone chilling 45 degrees today but should be back up around 80 by the weekend so no frosty the snowman shoes for me. Regardless nice work on the shoes.
lol thanks Pat, welcome to Texas, if you don't like the weather just wait 15 minutes. That's what Mr. B told me when I showed up.
Hi there, amazing work! I had made mines with PPRC pipes with joints. Unfortunately mines broke after first try. The pipe literally broke near to the joints. Maybe it is because of cold, or because of the weakness caused by the welding process. Anyhow, I wonder abot the condition of yours after some time. Can you please share how are they now after some use?
Hi Selim, I would guess the same regarding weakness caused by the PVC cement since it does dissolve the PVC to some extent in order to weld it. Sadly, after the week or so last winter that I got to use them, I havent been back up north in the snow to use them again. If I get up there this winter and use them, I'll post an update.
Have you tried using a netting needle?
You inspired me Zack. I made a pair to take up to Tahoe when we head up next trip - lots of snow this year. How long did yours end up being. Mine are pretty darn long. I haven't trimmed any pvc off. And they are heavier than I figured they would be but I suppose some of the weight rides on the ground as you're walking.
AWESOME! I want to say they were 52 inches or so. I thought they were kinda heavy too but I had no frame of reference. I looked up a couple pair of commercially available ones and then weighed mine and they turned out to be about half the weight of the "store bought" ones. YMMV
Awesome shoes!! Ya done good.
Thanks a lot! they work really well.
Amen brother!
Thanks Henry
Bravo!
Thank you Dan, I felt pretty doggone triumphant :)
Супер 👏 . Даже при не знании английского языка всё понятно и просто.
still think we need to find out what the limits on stress tests these can handle. the properties that make PVC so nice to use for projects like this can also bite us in the ass. just like it gets pliable with heat, it gets brittle with cold.
Hey Richard, I'm glad you found this followup vid. I was trudging around in 13 degrees for a day and didnt see any evidence of embrittlement. Not saying that it doesn't get that way, I just think that with the way the force is distributed, it didn't present a problem. I had several times when I stepped in places where only the toe and tail were supported, made me pucker a bit, but no cracking or problems.
Lots of people make these, even the boy scouts make them in mass quantities. (You probably saw that already) I don't hear of complaints.
nice idea, like it!!
Thanks! it turned out pretty well if I do say so myself.
how primitive will the homestead be? lectric and water? solar? wind?
Well, that sort of remains to be seen. Depending upon how much it costs to bring power to the building site we eventually settle on, there's a good possibility of harnessing any and all energy sources except for "the grid". I'd like to be as independent of local infrastructure as possible as the power grid there is prone to failure for (relatively) extended periods during the winter time as well as during the summer.
спасибо!
Very Cool!
I was quite happy with how they turned out.
Awesome
Thanks!
Nice job. It would be all that lacing that would stir me away from doing this project. Where is an illegal when you need one? :)
lol it really wasnt that bad if you could do it while being left alone. The addition of 2 children under the age of 4 and a couple of juvenile cats was not helpful in the least. That's why you didnt get to see the first one get laced
Should make and sell these id buy a pair
Great looking. Video needs a little help though as through some key points your too fast and not showing well the actual weaving.
Yeah, that is complicated. I'll just stay inside.
lol so did I......until I got them done!
cool but you are walking around on spring weather crusty snow that anyone can walk around on...lol
The video did get a little long so I understand if you didn't make it all the way thru but if you go to about 12:44 you'll see that it's not exactly snow that anyone can walk on, at least not my 210lb self. Thanks for watching my video, I appreciate it!