Those Mexican packing saddles shown on minute 6:00 to 6:30 were and are called: cacaistles or cacastle. These cacastles of saddle which is how they were called, were used for so many uses, to carry fire wood, sugar cane, wood, etc. the list goes on and on. Anyway it is good to see the Mexican ways still alive and preserved even by nonMexican packers. That is an undeniable prove of how useful and practical the Mexican cacastles saddles are until this day.

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Thanks everyone for this awesome video!

On the topic of ditching and braiding the prime cause for this are equestrians, not so much about trail design in my opinion.

Not sure who the audience for this presentation was, but great info as far as it went. As a novice packer myself, I would like to have seen a more detailed look at each pack system really up close (especially the Salmon River set up, simply because I had never seen it before). The hitches and knots were done so quickly that there was no way to follow or learn them. There was no info on where to place each tree type on the animal (forward/backward relative to the anatomy), but I appreciated the descriptions of how tight and what position the breast collar and britchen should be in. There was no info on weight limits relative to the size/weight of the pack animal and no discussion on how to string the animals together (except for the quick look at the tie string). I would not really call it a class, as much as a very general introduction to packing systems and gear. (And maybe that was the only goal.) What struck me the most was, however, was the poor quality of the audio, especially because most of the sound issues could have been easily avoided. 1) Mic the presenters, 2) Video in a quiet environment away from road noise and passing vehicles.

It shouldn’t be hard to splice the better quality video into this presentation.

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Yes, I'm still filing saws. Northern Michigan gives me lots snowy/rainy days to work in my shop.

Nice presentation! One suggestion of freeing a bound saw is to snug a log beneath but not directly under the kerf then drive wedges from each side of the snugged log in contact with the binding log. Wedges work best when providing direct lift (as opposed to secondary lift in the kerf) and your saw will be released. Wedges are your friend and it helps to have a lot of friends when you're miles from the trailhead.

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