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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

>From what tree did they make his pre-fibreglass ultralight ?; and with what 
>did they replace cast iron, 'originally', for lighter cooking ware.  I would 
>guess aluminum, for years, on the cooking. Lots of people still buy 
>cast-iron for outdoor cooking, though. Probably now, people like sage using 
>even more lightweight metal than aluminum ......bobford


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--- On Fri, 10/31/08, Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Nessmuk, was Crock Pot thread
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, October 31, 2008, 6:08 AM
> > Woodcraft and Camping
> > By Nessmuk
> 
> Nessmuk was the pen name for George Sea and is a
> fascinating person. He was
> a very small person at just over 5 feet and 100 pounds and
> often in poor
> health.  He died in 1890 at 69.  He was an adventurer
> hunting and camping
> all over the east and later writing for Forest and Stream
> as Nessmuk.  He
> pushed ultra light camping at a time when camping gear was
> a gun, knife,
> wool blankets, canvas tents and cast iron cooking pots. 
> His ultra light
> canoe Sairy Gamp was built by Ruxton and was a marvel of
> ultra light
> construction before fiberglass.
> 
> Thirty years later little had changed, read W.O.
> Douglas' book on his
> camping trips in the Washington Cascades during the
> twenties.  His pack was
> a cast iron pot full of beans rolled up in a wool blanket
> and canvas sheet
> slung over the shoulder and a hatchet on the belt.
> 
> I find Nessmuk's writings great reading.  There was a
> recent book about a
> woman who retraced some of Sears journey in her own
> lightweight canoe,
> Fairly Damp.
> 
> > Roy
> > Who bought an unused Army surplus pick-axe head, and
> needs a handle.
> 
> I bought a post maul head at an auction this last summer. 
> At an antique
> tractor show last weekend I saw a man selling handles and
> bought what what I
> hope is a handle that fits.
> 
> Don Bowen  KI6DIU
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
> 
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