Anyone watch any of this fellow?
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I've watched a few here and there.
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They are great shows. Seen them many times on PBS. For the time period he taped them he did an excellent job. I think his cabin still exists.
His ability to make anything is amazing. If he had only had coal....
His ability to make anything is amazing. If he had only had coal....
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Yes, first watched it on a VHS a friend of mine had and I've watched some on youtube, amazing what he did. My memory might not be serving me well but I thought I read he lived there till he was about 80.
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American ingenuity at it's finest T!!! 
Kinda always reminds me of my exhistance in Vermont more or less. THEN, met a good woman, had kids & moved here to NYS---a lil more civilized!!!! LOL
Kinda always reminds me of my exhistance in Vermont more or less. THEN, met a good woman, had kids & moved here to NYS---a lil more civilized!!!! LOL-
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He continued to go to his cabin in later life until he could no longer manage it. His cabin and the area are now a site maintained by the Canadian gov. This is what my Grandfather and his brothers were like. I still have many handmade tools and such things they made with nothing but their skill and files and grinding stones etc. I lost a good many hand crafted things in a fire, like snowshoes. Somewhere we still have a set made from Caribou hide.
Did the "good women" domesticate you FF or did she give up trying!!!freetown fred wrote: ↑Sun. Jan. 16, 2022 7:58 amAmerican ingenuity at it's finest T!!!
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She acknowledged DEFEAT--AND--then she left 26 yrs into it!! I think it was mostly because I sold the Harley!!!! LOL