How to Pack a Rucksack for Summer Camping: RARE 100 year old Rucksack
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2022
- This week I show you a really cool 100 year old pack designed by a woods master and show you how to pack it with gear from the 1920's and 1930's!
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You make me miss the old BSA days
Cheers brother and thank you for the support!
I really enjoyed that. I might make one someday based on that design but just a bit bigger.
You can find the plan and directions in the Patrol Leaders handbook and on Google. Search Camp-o-sack. Happy sewing my friend!
Agreed, I'm a pretty big guy with very wide shoulders. I like the old backpacks that were super wide they would fit my back just fine. I made one out of blue jeans but the modern blue jeans are too stretchy so I really don't use it. I rigged it up to a folding stool that I was able to use as a frame can I have my backpack straps attached to it but candles it was super comfortable and extremely useful
@@jamesbowen5573 great idea
Great video. Great kit. Keep up the great work. It helps me with my boy scout kit . Thanks. God bless. From Glenn CATT in Massachusetts.
I am glad it did! Cheers!
I’ve seen pictures in other old books of similar boards in use. Add cord and use them for clothes hangers. Not sure but a thought
I like the Square and Compass logo. Great content, Kent sent me to your channel!!!
Thank you! Are you Hiram?
@@honorableoutfitters I am indeed a Sun of the Widow. Two of my favorite topics are the history of the Boy Scouts/Military and Masonic Esoteric History+++ R Stubbins Centralia Lodge #63
@@songofsolomonjrs9939 It's a true pleasure to meet you brother!
Cool video as usual. Started with the haversack knapsack and then the Yucca Pack, in the 1960s, and added a pack board to the Yucca for 4season camping in the early 70s. And later purchased a nylon Gerry backpack with aluminum external frame. Post military Service in the 70s and 90s mostly used an Alice pack ever since. Although I did purchase an internal frame back pack to do part of the AT, its max comfort rating was only 35 lbs. I originally padded my Yucca and pack board shoulder straps with wool felt. And foam green pad to the Alice straps. When Molle gear came out I added the better shoulder straps, and lumbar pad, and sustainment pouches, to the Alice. The pack board helped carry tent, Yucca and sleeping bag better. The pack board also helped carry a big duffle bag or several bags.
The gradual changes shows your experience friend! It seems like as technology and knowledge changed you adapted. Thank you for sharing!
Very interesting video, thank you again. I would like to see a demo video on that 1907 shelter half if possible, too. If you've already done that in a video, my apologies and please direct me to it.
It's coming up on the 3rd! Cheers brother!
Very informative. One of my favorite videos.
I appreciate that!
It's an early internal frame pack. Many of today's internal frame packs use aluminum or high tech plastics in the same locations
Pretty cool right? I love to see the origins and stepping stones of progression of things! Thanks for the support!
The first thing I thought of was that the longer boards could also be used for makeshift splints for broken bones. Along with a blade, the holes might be used for a bucksaw and the small board could be for string tension???
If Greenbar Bill have instructions on how to make one. I'd be all for scaling one up in size.
He does have the plans in the Patrol Leader's Manual. If you Google Camp-o-sack you can find the plans. Happy sewing my friend!
Totally enjoyed. Thanks kindly. Subbed!
Thanks for the support brother!
As usual a stellar job well done!
Thank you, I appreciate it!
Let's see some camping!!
I will be trying to do a monthly outdoor background video starting in September. Unfortunately, with my family and professional life I don't have the ability and time to record much of my camping trips.
Those board would make a frame for a saw if they had just a couple different notches in them, a blade and a wire tensioner.. It doesn't seem like the original use, but it could be an adaptation.
Great video brother! I loved the green bar info!
Thanks brother!
Great episode, I subbed. This makes me want to design a similar style pack out of nylon fabric, since I dont make packs anymore out of cotton canvas, I am a avid outdoorsman and love most camping activities. I to use to be a scout, sort of, I was in a program called Law Enforcement Explores, with the New York City Police Department from 1995-1998, made it to the rank of Lieutenant, it was a program affiliated with the BSA and I really enjoyed it, made who I am today. I wish I was able to join the Boy Scout, but never got a chance, but we were similar in that we had our own type of Jamboree where law enforcement explores from around the east cost would gather and compete in law enforcement type actives, like drills, arrest procedures, traffic stop procedures, domestics violence procedures and more, our nemesis was the FBI, and Customs troops that we have to beat every year, but we did pretty well in our first year, we came it at second, and by year 3 under my command and the captains we here able to beat the Customs Troop, and came in first. Fond memories I have. Keep up the good works we need more teacher like yourself.
Thank you and that is a really cool story experience, I appreciate you sharing it! There really aren't that many Explorers these days and it is a great program for young people to explore possible careers. When I worked for the BSA as a District Executive I loved working with organizations to start and maintain the Explorer program. If there was one in my area in a career I was interested in I would have jumped at the chance.!
@@honorableoutfitters Glad to share it. So true, Explorer programs are a shell of what they used to be, especially here in NYC. Wow thats cool to have been working as admin for the BSA, must have been very exciting.
Sargevinny led me here. Seen a few of your videos already.
Suggestion: in your creator comments could you not put a link to your store? or is that against youtube rules?
Hey Mr dryer Eddie here just wanted to say hello and thank you for sharing your videos love your scout stuff I have the pack with the d ring's I want to replace the leather straps on it I wanted to know if you can tell me how to get the brass rivets apart so I can put straps on I also have two other packs one fits on the aluminum frame and the other one is a small pack 574 we're you put your name and address to the leather is bad as. Well the straps need to be replaced to I was wondering if you knew how to do fix them God bless you and your family keep up the awesome work looking forward to seeing more great videos from your brother thank you for sharing your videos and appreciate you taking the time I making these videos God bless Eddie over and out just can't wait to see what you come up with next and do you put any water repellent on your packs I was thinking about doing it to mine what would you recommend to do God bless
All I can suggest is take a rotary tool like a dremmel or a file and carefully grind off the heads of the rivets. Be careful with the dremmel and take several breaks so that the rivets don't get too hot and damage the canvas. If the bag is in really rough shape then the canvas may be too far dry rotted. So many of them end up in a hot attic or garage or in a moisture laden basement to be forgotten about. When that happens rot or mold gets to them and normally the damage to the material makes them worthless for actual field use. If you want to try refurbish it, carefully taking out the stitching from the leather, apply a canvas patch to the front and back, and replace the leather name tag with glue, rivets, and stitching. Hope this gives you some ideas one way or the other. Good luck brother!
@@honorableoutfitters thank you for sharing your info on this I really appreciate your time to help me with this thank you God bless you and your family keep up the awesome videos can't wait to see what you come up with next God bless thank again brother Eddie over and out keep the adventure alive
Mr dryer Eddie here just wanted to know do you put any water resistant spray on your packs, sleeping bag, on your tent half's or any other stuff can't wait to hear from you soon God bless you and your family Eddie over and out keep the adventure alive keep the adventure going
I do not on the artifacts because they don't get used in the field but in my reproductions I do.
23 years old I always wanted to be in Boy Scouts but my parents never had the money
It's never too late to learn and grow in outdoor skills brother! Consider joining me and others (including some pretty big names in the outdoor community) in the Traditional Campcrafters Guild honorableoutfitters.com/jointheguild/ We have a great group of people who are sharing their knowledge, experiences, and networking. We also have special events and get-togethers. Check it out and interact, we are all on there for the same purpose and enjoyment!
Hello! From Argentina. I am restoring an old scout backpack, I am researching on waterproofing. I remember my old tarp, and my own childhood backpack, were made of canvas, but was totally waterproof. The exterior would get wet, but the interior, was totally dried. I could even use my back pack as a bucket to carry s lot of water, and not a single drop would come out. Were you able to find out how were then waterproof back then? I am making quite a research on the topic.
Historically melt 1:1 ratio of paraffin and beeswax together and paint it on. I like a 33% yellow bees wax, 33% paraffin wax,, 30% boiled linseed oil, 3% pure pine tar. Very waterproof :)
@@honorableoutfitters thank you! I am driving myself crazy trying to figure out what's tar name in Spanish, cause I am in Argentina.
Do you think that, this great waterproof I was telling you about was something like the Mix you said? Or might have been something different. I swear, (and I never swear) I couldn't find anything even close to that in my entire life.
@@honorableoutfitters I found three old recipes to waterproof, in my "old patrol guide manual" printed in 1960 (it is in Spanish) but as per the drawing, some decades older. Feel free to write me if you want a scan copy of that book, or the recopilation of the original "scouting for boys" magazines. (It is a very old edition, Wich is a book, but with the complete and mainly unedited content, Including the original covers . A relique.
Can't be that rare, I bought one off of eBay a couple of years ago. I had to resew one of the shoulder straps back onto it. Other than that it's just a really faded
Nice! Is it a shelf piece or do you take it into the field? Mine is in too of a fragile state to.
Also, happy Thanksgiving my friend!
@@honorableoutfitters oh no I've used it it's full of gear in my garage somewhere probably next to my Alice pack. I painted my room and everything got moved to the garage.
@@honorableoutfitters Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family as well.
@@honorableoutfitters I try to use all my gear the only thing I won't ever use is I bought a Arctic canteen, and they had repaired were the cap goes in I don't know what they use to glue it but it's kind of nasty and I don't really want to drink out of it. It's some kind of rubbery stuff. I might clean it up one day and try to get rid of all that and then use epoxy to fix it but I really don't go anywhere where I would need something that freeze resistant. I like winter camping but I've never had any problem with it freezing when it gets that cold I don't bother with being out there. I don't like 15° or lower