That was more interesting than I expected....A lot of information without too much fussing around...Love seeing the details of kits though... Gonna watch another now
Just happened across this video. Enjoyed the content a great deal. Very informative with a practical and easy going presentation. I learned a lot and appreciate that!
This made me smile. "The haversack was issued to keep issued rations in and not other items." In the modern army, the gas-mask pouch is "to keep the gas mask in and not other items" but, strangely, is often found to contain chocolate bars and non-issued rations. Modern technology is wonderful but these guys knew how to make themselves comfortable with the much less than we nowadays seem to think "essential". The modern philosophy seems to be carry the latest, coolest gear - the old-timers seemed to think "know how to use it." Time for a thinning out - or is that just my hair?
@@brendancripps8890 I ended up briefly talking to him on a facebook reply, I sure wish his channel was still alive, I think he could do quite well today the content is fantastic.
Do you live like the mountainman did in the fur era, my grandpa is full apache, my dad half and me a quarter, but both my dad and grandpa taught me how to hunt, live, and make my own weapons since I was about 7, I'm 15 now. My grandpa is 74 and he lives with an apache boy, chayton, and live in the Northern New Mexico completly away from the modern world, they live there traditional way. So since I was about 8 I spend the whole summer with them and live the old way. I'm glad I get the chance to live this way and not caught up in this modern world like most young people are nowadays
I envy the traditional way of life, one grandfather of mine was part Comanche and part Cherokee, I plan to live a free life in my future, a life that is mostly traditional Comanche
I am 14 still and plan to leave soon with my friend to get away from modern society as much as possible, we may head north, or west to the great mountains, those are the most reasonable since we are on the plains, we will be on foot, we will have to make a travois to carry much water with us, and much food that we will hunt
We just graduated eighth grade today, I’m sure most of us were nervous, but I’m not sure that we will be missed by many, my friend is an orphan, his care takers aren’t very nice, at all, and I just want to leave and get back into my comfort zone in nature, instead of constantly being around trucks and cars and loud ass motorcycles, I also need the stress relieved from me, and when we leave it will help me much
Hello! The 33rd Regiment of Foot was known as the Havercake Lads because it was what they were fed on when they joined up. My mates from Yorkshire still call their pack up lunches "snap" and the kit they carry them in "snapsacks". Please make more videos; they are very interesting!!
Thanks for the videos Teton. I've been checking back to see when you have new ones. I'd love to see some videos on trade beads, sharpening stones, and traps of the fur trade era. Thanks for inspiring this here pilgrim to put on an authentic portrayal. ; )
Hey Todd, just discovered your videos and they are very entertaining and instructive.What I wanted to let you know is that i live in the Flemish part of Belgium and my language is very close related to Dutch. The words haversack, rucksack and knapsack are in my humble opinion all coming from the Dutch/flemish words "haverzak, rugzak and knapzak". "Haverzak" literally meaning oatbag which was indeed strapped at the horse's nose, "Rugzak" (again literally) meaning backpack and the "Knapzak" and slitbag (don't know the Dutch word for that) were bags used by our farming (great)grandfathers when (out of poverty) they left their families for months to do heavy seasonal work for rich French farmers (harvesting potatoes and beets). All the best and keep up the good work! Marc.
I enjoyed the video. One suggestion I would make is as a soaper. Castile soap is a lye soap made with olive oil and while it was produced in the period and imported it would be more likely that they would have used a lye soap made with tallow or lard as it would have been readily available. Not a big deal, just something that jumped out at me.
There are pieces of ship’s bread that are still edible today in museums. The recipe is all over the internet Max at Tasting History has a couple videos. And, of course, our kindred spirits at Townsend’s have them. Both also have recipes that were made from hardtack, ship’s biscuit, and some of them are mighty appealing.
Thanks for showing your kit I learned a lot about pack and their us and how they are called does mountain men carry fishing kits as well. sorry if I am wrong
When your out on a trek sans horse how do you carry your blankets? I use a snapsack with a split strap and I can roll and tie a blanket and ground cloth around it
Very good series on containers. It is confusing for new traditional muzzleloader shooters to understand and buy the shooting bag and the possibles bag. Every seller of these bags identify shooting bags as possibles bags.
strange how deutch words are beïng used over the centuries and adopting them into other languages. For instance: the haversack is the sack used to store you're food. In origin the haversack is a sack to store the oats to feed the horse if no grass or hay is available and not the person who carries it. If you look at the form of the sack you can imagine the sack draped over the horseshead. Primarily used in the medieval cities in europe where they needed to take the food for the horse with them so they did not have to take the horse out of the city. The knapsack was used to store the food of the man/women. Usuly not more than a piece of cloth tied to a stick to be caried over the shoulder. Over te centuries and into another language the meaning of the word simply changed. Haversack in dutch is haverzak, Knapsack is knapzak.
Haversack is German for Wheat Sack not French ---- Knapsacks is also German : Knapp means from middle German : almost like things I almost need........
I think you read too much, and get out too little. I can't say I've ever seen a shooting pouch that was only used as a shooting pouch, or a haversack that was only used for food, or a backpack like the one you held up that was actually called a backpack. A knapsack is a whole other story. Mountain men, of course, like darned near everyone else of the time, made more items than they bought, and called them whatever they wanted to call them. Three fourths of them had no clue what any book said about it, and didn't care. No, even when they did know, still used each item as they wanted to use it, and didn't give a rat's whiskers about it's intended use. Not that I ever found an intended use in a catalogue of the time. I do know from my great-great grandfather that a "possibles bag" could be a shooting pouch, a leather bag with a drawstring, a haversack, or anything else. But mostly it was a large shooting bag, and that's all it was. I doubt if anyone,, anywhere, at any time in history, every used any type of bag just as the name implied. Few are that stupid. Next you'll be saying that a Swedish bread bag is used only to carry bread.
