I'm a minute and a half into the video and i already a like and a fav: a kindly older gentleman calmly and patiently assembling a simple yet sophisticated canoe in a same way as practiced since stone age. gotta love the chillness and milenial stretch of the technology!
Cut the tree deeply and evenly (being careful not to cut the tree all the way around, thereby ringbarking it) and the whole section of bark peels away in one piece.
This is just wondrful to watch, although I have to wonder if that tree survived. It looks like only old growth trees would provide the width of bark needed and white men cut them all down a long time ago, a lot f it wasted. Grrr.. Must be a metre or so! As kids we used to make corrugated iron canoes in a similar way (sans fire) by bashing flat and folding the ends around a piece of 2x1. Holes were plugged with chewing gum and away we went on the receding floodwaters of Christmas Creek. Must be 29 and a half rusty hulks in that creek because of us. Terrible really. I dont remember bringing them back. Just made another one from another piece off the chicken shed. Mind you, when the tramway ceased operation they just chucked a million dogs and rails in the creek. Ah yes, the wisdom of retrospective memory and another century.
Hi Hanna, thank you for your comment. Yes, the tree survived, I go and check on it whenever I'm down at Bundanon Trust. Yes, indeed you need to find a big old one to be able to obtain enough bark to make a canoe.
I'm a minute and a half into the video and i already a like and a fav: a kindly older gentleman calmly and patiently assembling a simple yet sophisticated canoe in a same way as practiced since stone age. gotta love the chillness and milenial stretch of the technology!
my wood work class is making me watch this lol
What does putting it on the coals do? Does heating it make it easier to bend and manipulate?
yes
nice
nice! do you have to take off the bark?
Cut the tree deeply and evenly (being careful not to cut the tree all the way around, thereby ringbarking it) and the whole section of bark peels away in one piece.
@@cabdude2 Thanks
Would this kill the tree?
No, if you allow enough bark on the tree to keep growing. The ratio is at least one-quarter of the circumference need to stay on the tree.
This is just wondrful to watch, although I have to wonder if that tree survived. It looks like only old growth trees would provide the width of bark needed and white men cut them all down a long time ago, a lot f it wasted. Grrr.. Must be a metre or so! As kids we used to make corrugated iron canoes in a similar way (sans fire) by bashing flat and folding the ends around a piece of 2x1. Holes were plugged with chewing gum and away we went on the receding floodwaters of Christmas Creek. Must be 29 and a half rusty hulks in that creek because of us. Terrible really. I dont remember bringing them back. Just made another one from another piece off the chicken shed. Mind you, when the tramway ceased operation they just chucked a million dogs and rails in the creek. Ah yes, the wisdom of retrospective memory and another century.
Hi Hanna, thank you for your comment. Yes, the tree survived, I go and check on it whenever I'm down at Bundanon Trust. Yes, indeed you need to find a big old one to be able to obtain enough bark to make a canoe.