It's not that everyone is going to choose to go live in temperatures down below zero Fahrenheit. It's just good to have these skills so you can survive no matter what. Even now, at age 66 I could build myself a structure from scratch with a chain saw and a few friends in the wilderness if it was necessary. So, some skills are sort of like riding a bicycle. Once you learn the basics you never really forget how to survive sometimes anything.
My father taught me to be an electrician summers from ages 12 to 17. I found the more trades I learned and was proficient at the better it was for me. So, even when I started buying and creating my own businesses in my late 20s I still had many potential trades like electrician, carpenter, computer programmer etc. Around 1980 I started teaching my kids to program their own games in Basic language on my then 2 year old TRS-80 which was our very first home computer. Then in 1987 I bought an IBM Clone AT and an Epsom printer from Silicon Valley near my home in the Greater San Francisco area for about 2500 to 2700 dollars. I then taught the kids MS-Dos until Microsoft created the first versions of Windows and then taught them how to use that too. Then in the mid 2000s I shifted from PCs over to Apple products because I was tired of dealing with viruses and PCs crashing all the time.
The more skills you have the more things you are going to be able to survive well as you go through life.
Here's some more info on the mountain Man programs:
- More images for mountain man: Building a cabin in Alaska
Richard Proenneke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke... who lived alone for nearly thirty years in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin he ... about the site, from the gravel taken from the lake bed to create the cabin's base, ... In 1973, Keith published the book One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan ...Alone in the Wilderness - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKssJan 27, 2009 - Uploaded by swererbob... in the lower 48 states what life was like in Alaska, building his cabin, .... Mountain Man arrested for ...Alone in the Wilderness, DVD and VHS available, the story ...
www.dickproenneke.com/Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin on the shore ... Buy One Man's Wilderness, an Alaskan Odyssey (Dick Proenneke) ...The Story of Dick Proenneke and how he built a cabin by ...
www.dickproenneke.com/DickProenneke.htmlTo live in a pristine land unchanged by man... to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed... to choose an idyllic site, cut trees and build ...Mountain Men Episode Guide - Season 3 - HISTORY.com
www.history.com/shows/mountain-men/episodesCheck out the episode guide for Season 3 of HISTORY's Mountain Men and see details and airdates for episodes. Find more series information, only on ...Marty Meierotto - Mountain Men Cast - HISTORY.com
www.history.com/shows/mountain-men/cast/marty-meierottoOne hundred miles south of the Arctic Circle in the harsh Alaskan wilderness, trapper Marty Meierotto spends the sub-zero winters living in a primitive one-room ... Alone in the Wilderness - The Art of Manliness
www.artofmanliness.com/trunk/441/alone-in-the-wilderness/Sep 13, 2010 - Mr. Proenneke is a true mountain man, a man who gave up society to challenge ... There are people still coming to Alaska and killing themselves in ... footage but the one where he builds his cabin is easily my favourite. Its just ...
On this particular program I watched today from Alaska the guy and his helper decide to build a cabin from scratch with just a chainsaw and spikes that look to be at least 1 foot long spikes that they drive in with sledge hammers or the backs of mauls. They used a building technique I hadn't seen before that would be more useful for building a quick cabin with a minimum of tools.
They are building this in the snow so that is difficult because it means the two or three days that they are building this thing they have to camp out in the snow until the cabin is done. So, the guy cuts the corners of what looks like Lodgepole pine trees at a 45 degree angle to meet each other and then he puts vertical a tree that has been cut with two flat edges to meet all the logs he is laying down for all four walls. So, one vertical piece that goes up to the bottom to the roof level so there is one going vertical on all four corners.
So, you are going to need a whole lot of 1 foot long or more length spikes to build something like this.
The most dangerous part of all this is to put on the roof. But you have to be coordinated and strong to begin with to do all this. The biggest dangers of course are dropping a 100 to 200 or more pound log on your foot or leg, smashing your hand or fingers with a maul or sledge hammer on or near a spike or cutting yourself badly from the chainsaw if you forget where you just drove a spike and run into it by accident or break a chain on a spike and throw a chain into your body somewhere. So, all of it is dangerous so the more handy you are to begin with the safer you will tend to be doing it. And you have to know when to quit during the day when you are too tired to continue. This is the way I used to get injured in my 40s when I still built things a lot when I tried to work too long and got tired. So, knowing your abilities both when you are fresh but knowing when to stop will keep you out of the hospital. A man's got to know his limitations or he is soon maimed or dead. So, Know yourself and what you are capable of before you begin doing something like this not just after. Because after will often be too late.
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