Oliver Cameron alaskan homesteader

[randyt]

Wasn't sure where to.post this but it involves reading so here it is.
http://www.olivercameron.org/

 

[Magpie]

Thank you- its a nice website, look forward to looking around it.

 

[Alaskajohn]

Thank you for posting this. There is a lot to explore at the linked website. Bookmarked it!

 

[randyt]

Here is a book written by a guy that grew up around the area that oliver homesteaded. I think it may be from this book I first heard of Oliver. Ole Wik also.lived in the area. He wrote some for TMEN and a book on woodstoves.



Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska https://a.co/d/bC6Xfua

 

[randyt]

I think there were/are a lot of folks like Oliver. It's just their stories were never told

 

[Sourdough]

I think there were/are a lot of folks like Oliver. It's just their stories were never told

100% true. And there is now no motivation for them to be told.

 

[elkhound]

I think there were/are a lot of folks like Oliver. It's just their stories were never told

trapline twins at Denali

 

[elkhound]

@Sourdough @randyt ...this is what i want to see...tool rolls these guys had and used.i have a small tool roll but always looking to modify it to get better use from it.this guys drill is fantastic..also look real close at his axe.it has a notch in front and hole drilled in poll to hold a bent flat piece to work as an adze.

 

[randyt]

@elkhound did you come across the part where he is in norway and
makes a double bit axe from two single bit axes? A double bit axe in norway is unheard of. In the book. I posted, the author talks about Oliver visiting and making folding saws for him and his brother.

 

[elkhound]

@elkhound did you come across the part where he is in norway and
makes a double bit axe from two single bit axes? A double bit axe in norway is unheard of. In the book. I posted, the author talks about Oliver visiting and making folding saws for him and his brother.

didnt look at that section yet.


a tool i want that doesnt exist that i know of is a mini version of a pulaski axe....maybe even hatchet sized to go on your belt. be used as an adze or a digging tool.

 

[randyt]

didnt look at that section yet.


a tool i want that doesnt exist that i know of is a mini version of a pulaski axe....maybe even hatchet sized to go on your belt. be used as an adze or a digging tool.

You'll have to make like Oliver's axe in the photo you posted

 

[Bacpacker]

didnt look at that section yet.


a tool i want that doesnt exist that i know of is a mini version of a pulaski axe....maybe even hatchet sized to go on your belt. be used as an adze or a digging tool.

I need to take a pic of a tool I found at a gun show. Might be something youd like.

 

[randyt]

An article about Oliver
https://www.adn.com/our-alaska/article/seth-kantner-memories-homemade-man/2013/11/09/

 

[Bacpacker]

Bump. Reminder for me to post a picture

 

[randyt]

I recently acquired 3.5cords of cedar. I plan on making a sod igloo utilizing the cedar