History of Camping Gear: An MYOG Pack From Around 1912

The problem with collecting period Make Your Own Gear artifacts is identifying the vintage of those artifacts. With this piece, we have one that arrived in context with a tent of known vintage. This is Part 1 of a 2 Part series. Here we examine the pack, and in the next video we will use what we've learned to replicate a similar pack.
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[@wyattchinn1036]

This is my new favourite UA-cam channel.

[@sargevining]

Thanks for watching! got more stuff coming now that I'm home from my camping trip.

[@pagodaracingmountpennreadi8915]

Thanks for the video sarge..
I have a large French F1 rucksack from 70's. The bag portion is very similar to this bag, including two ropes.
The upper half above the lower rope can fold double back into the bag so it is like a standard rucksack.
With the upper half extended full length it is more like a duffle bag. When fully extended my Woods Artic Bag is a very tight fit with just enough room for a change of skivies on top.
One of the ways the F1 differs is that it has a "floating lid" that rides up and down on ¾" cotton web straps to adjust to varying pack heights.

[@sargevining]

Thanks for watching! There's so much about this bag that points to the future. I was going to credit the maker with "inventing" the extending collar for a pack, but couldn't find anywhere that mentioned "first use". But, yah, this pack bag could be filled up beyond the point where the rope holding the shoulder straps attaches and go about a foot and a half above the head, so you could fit the Woods bag in there.

[@houndsman406]

Great channel
Keep em coming !,,,

[@sargevining]

Thanks! I'll keep making them as long as you keep watching them!

[@JakeHellbach]

Great video, can’t wait for the how to video.

[@sargevining]

Thanks for watching! Couple of days to edit, then we'll post her up.

[@jenniferbauman4802]

Good video. God bless. From Glenn CATT in Massachusetts.

[@sargevining]

Thanks for watching. I'm from up in that neck of the woods. Live Free Or Die!

[@jenniferbauman4802]

@@sargevining that's cool you remind me of a History teacher I had in school. Long time a go. Good video. God bless. From Glenn CATT in Massachusetts. Ya just trying to live.

[@MichiganSilverBack]

Iam loving this history of gear stuff! I didnt like the recent haversack controversy (I dont know the truth, I love the bt vids), so I made my own. It turned out so good my wife wanted it for the farmers market.. lol. So I found a 1307D BSA pack and frame at a flea market. For $95, I couldnt buy it to cut apart for a pattern. I found one on ebay for 24.50, so you bet I bought it.. Iam gonna replicate those for the grandboys! Anyways, these vids are informative and motivational! Thx!

[@sargevining]

Thanks for watching! I'm so glad you're making packs for the grandboys, and that I can help you with that. Those are the best memories a boy can have. You might want to check out the companion video to this one where I replicate it, and you can see the replica in use in the video "A Trip to the River, 1923" as well as the one where I load it up "Base Weight 1913". I'm a bit surprised that it works so well, not uncomfortable at all.

[@57WillysCJ]

That pack is a nice find. The maker's identity could have endless possibilities. A less well off college kid, a former sailor or ones son. Could even be an original hobo, not the type thought of by most today but the itinerant worker of the period. What people think of as new these days is almost laughable. You see it in the automobile industry a lot. This new feature usually was already in production in the 20s-30s. Even people living in their campers was already done in the 20s. John B. Bachelder's 1875 book Popular Resorts and How To Reach Them which divided in to 3 catagories 1) On foot, 2) By horse back, 3) With a horse drawn wagon, or 1869 William H.H. Murray book Adventures in the Wilderness; Or Camp Life In The Adirondacks. That all done, considering Marcy's book The Prarie Traveler was just published in 1859 to help people traveling to the west. There is much to know and some of it hard to concieve. By the way Kelty's pack is a real nice pack even if it wasn't the first, but the combination of nylon and aluminum was a wonder of the day and a design I sitll prefer today in this modern backpack world.

[@sargevining]

Thanks for watching, and sorry for the late reply. I just found out there's this other way of seeing comments. O love that Kelty pack, and how I found it. That's a story I'll be telling in the future. I like to think the original owner of the MYOG pack was a young man who was gifted the tent by his parents and he made the pack so he could use it.