It's the way it used to be done back in the days when there were lots of 130 years old trees. And besides, this guy builds two canoes from every tree trunk. That's twice as productive as most dugout builders.
mariano mmm What do you think he is building, a public transit system?! LOL One man could provide for his entire family with one of these canoes. The Western mindset, so detached from the realities of life. They will starve to death sitting on a sack of flour, while complaining that it was a waste of a good sack.
Trees fall over and rot too. I just found a broken white oak that I'm going to cut up for boat parts. It's easily 60 or 70 years old, and not going to get one bit "better" laying on the ground. Also they discuss the need/utility of such a small craft in the beginning of the video. Don't fret, most big trees are cut into little bitty pieces for millions of consumers to mostly ignore.
Many of the waterways within the swamps of southeastern North Carolina are narrow, very crooked, and often shallow. Small boats with a shallow draft were needed in order to navigate those tight areas and be able to glide over unseen trunks and branches of dead trees that often lay just beneath the water surface. The fisherman could fish with a cane pole in one hand while slowly, and quietly, manuvering the boat with the other hand by holding the paddle just above the paddle end, inserting it vertically into the water, and working the paddle back and forth in kind of a figure 8 motion. Trees were not cut down to make these dugout boats as there were usually plenty of cypress logs that had fallen over the years from storms, etc.
Actually this was my Dad and he would pull trees that had already fallen to make the dugout canoes. Lots of trees had already fallen or had been cut down for the railroad to be put in a long time ago. And yes back then, they were concerned more about surviving than they did tree hugging.
So beautiful work...
This is priceless 👏🙏
thanks, I love these kinds of videos.
We own one...carved by my Great Uncle!
Awesome and very knowledgeable video
What is the purpose of the wood pegs in the keel ?
+Ron Savage They show the carver when they have hit the right depth, to keep the walls and keel a uniform, indicated by the length of the pegs. - Mike
In Bolivia, natives use fire...
Finland too.😃
They don't have home depot.
В Беларуси это называется душегубка,
"nobody in Louisiana knew how to build a dug out canoe"
HAHAHAHAH!
what do you call a pi'rog?
I highly doubt European colonists "refined" Native American dugout canoe technology - the latter had perfected the craft over millenia before contact.
So, you cut a 130 years old tree to make a 10 ft canoe , in witch, you can onlly take one adult person and not much more than that?? Ineteresting....
It's the way it used to be done back in the days when there were lots of 130 years old trees. And besides, this guy builds two canoes from every tree trunk. That's twice as productive as most dugout builders.
mariano mmm
What do you think he is building, a public transit system?! LOL
One man could provide for his entire family with one of these canoes.
The Western mindset, so detached from the realities of life. They will starve to death sitting on a sack of flour, while complaining that it was a waste of a good sack.
Trees fall over and rot too. I just found a broken white oak that I'm going to cut up for boat parts. It's easily 60 or 70 years old, and not going to get one bit "better" laying on the ground. Also they discuss the need/utility of such a small craft in the beginning of the video. Don't fret, most big trees are cut into little bitty pieces for millions of consumers to mostly ignore.
Many of the waterways within the swamps of southeastern North Carolina are narrow, very crooked, and often shallow. Small boats with a shallow draft were needed in order to navigate those tight areas and be able to glide over unseen trunks and branches of dead trees that often lay just beneath the water surface. The fisherman could fish with a cane pole in one hand while slowly, and quietly, manuvering the boat with the other hand by holding the paddle just above the paddle end, inserting it vertically into the water, and working the paddle back and forth in kind of a figure 8 motion. Trees were not cut down to make these dugout boats as there were usually plenty of cypress logs that had fallen over the years from storms, etc.
Actually this was my Dad and he would pull trees that had already fallen to make the dugout canoes. Lots of trees had already fallen or had been cut down for the railroad to be put in a long time ago. And yes back then, they were concerned more about surviving than they did tree hugging.