*RAY MEARS* BIRCHBARK CANOE

[@Goldguy69]

As a jeweler who pays close attention to detail...this demonstration of canoe making was fascinating & creative.

[@timloer5419]

I had a book about the building of birchbark canoes. I remember it mentioning that the members of certain tribes would actually put a mark claiming a certain young tree, so their selection would be respected until the tree matured to the best harvesting of the bark! Honor among the oldest of bushcrafters! One of the most interesting videos I've ever seen! Thanks!

[@AMpufnstuf]

I'm not good enough with the bark to do one of these for a few more years now, but I love working birch with hand tools. And I love watching Ray Mears.

[@davidbarclay3651]

I actually wept at the end. So so beautiful to see her glide in the capable hands of a great man. I love this video!

[@barrettbrown2757]

Chi miigwetch my friend pinnock for sharing your talent of canoe building with us at the Wabano center in Ottawa. You are the best!

[@theplotdragon]

What a gorgeous piece of art. Thank you for sharing this wonderful experience with us!

[@anitamitchell3452]

The most enriching hour I've spent today ... thank you so much for sharing. Now, if I just had that canoe and that lake!

[@belikeshanana]

This really does give you a new respect for canoes. I fully enjoyed watching this.

[@curiosoneee]

NICE ! I always enjoy watching something like this .

[@bosse641]

Such a beautiful area the canoe was made in. .....lovely. .....and I sure would love to make/own one of these birch bark canoes!

[@freak-qs2qg]

Amazing thing of beauty to watch. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video and share it with the world.

[@mrbluenun]

Its nice to see the wood is not trimmed to a size but roughly cut keeping an eye on the central few grains which the subsequent split will be and so on, and that is what makes this look easy. Trimmed to a size with no care to have a central grained piece and it would not split so even or so long.

[@Mikadelosangeles]

If I ever build a canoe in my life time, it would be well worth my time. There is something deeply spiritual in this art; the coming together of both nature and man.

[@charlesleblanc6638]

Wow that was really well put together, and actually liberating for someone that is thinking of making one of these magnificent craft.

[@AAA_Ranch]

I live in Campbell's bay about 1-1 1/2 hours from Maniwaki where this canoe was made. I wish I could meet Ray the next time he visits Québec.

[@akaAlexthekid]

Beautiful.... This is my favourite Mears vid by far, absolutely love it

[@AlaskanCharlie]

That is just awesome. Its to bad there are not more birch bark canoe makers around.

[@EdwinDueck]

I'm not a big canoe fan, but I love that one, it's very beautiful.

[@MCFCRuss]

fantastic craftmanship

[@thereverendmikejones]

Wow, outstanding. Well done, well documented, and well enjoyed.

[@subroto1961]

What a vid Man ! Last time I felt so mesmerized and engrossed when I watched Popcorn Sutton brewing his infamous moonshine the old school way.

[@neonshoji]

Great video! Thank you for putting this up as well as all of the others.

[@gordonburns8731]

Absolutely brilliant.

[@Twanimoto]

"Someone talks about how great it feels to have an Englishman paddle me around for a change" Classic ! LOL Great Video !!!

[@Citeman101]

Great video...makes me want to start one today! Oh, no Birch Bark in western California. Dang :-)

[@graphicish]

Wow I did not expect to watch the entire thing... That was awesome

[@adronias]

such a great episode.

[@gregbutts7362]

Sucks that these sorts of skills are disappearing, would love to try this myself.

[@georgecuyler7563]

I'll never be able to afford one, but I do want one. Back in highschool we use to take the kids from the academy I attended and take them camping,if their grades were good. We did the Chain of lakes out here in British Columbia and they loved it. I'm a traditional puller and those students who had been on the water before were shocked to see wakes behind the canoe I was in. The staff finally said I could no longer pull because I continually left everyone behind.

[@tgmb9523]

I like canoes and it would be awesome to build one.

[@Thestripper1]

Wow. That is a great build! Wish we had cedar wood here in Norway. Don't think it would be doable with anything else than that. there's lots of birch around though. Great big ones to if you go look around a bit.

[@mattt6078]

The Sami still do it, you should look around for what wood they use.

[@timothylongmore7325]

Spruce my friend. You probably know this by now. Yeah natives here used white spruce in areas where cedar didn't grow. The eskimo used driftwood for their kayaks. Split differently but you need very clear log. Look up books by or related to Edwin Tappan Adney , and books based on his work.

[@rafehargett]

this is an awesome video I really enjoyed it

[@theguywitheyebrows]

epic. ray mears is a champion.

[@brent9129]

That is amazing! Excellent build. I'd love to know what those lashings were made from or where abouts they grow? Anybody? I'm going on a trip soon and I'd love to impress my friends with some bush-craft.

[@dontimotedelaplantxa7426]

roots of spruce trees, stripped of their bark, splitt, and finally soaked for a while in water, maybe even boiled.

[@AztecJimmy]

Wonderful gift to... dare I say mankind. Beautiful, priceless. I kept thinking how could he monetize this process? I would pay good money and take a vacation to build a canoe with him. Then I thought money would ruin the magic of it all. This video at times brought tears to my eyes. Especially when it showed the native people of the land and their life. Perhaps I will learn person-to-person from a resurrected one in the paradise earth to come. (Isaiah 65: 21,22 Job 14: 14,15) Good Job!

[@GregVasquez777]

wonderful!!

[@Mossyz.]

I could build a canoe very easy.......but i just dont want to :) Nice doc....thx u.....x

[@DevinAK49]

I hope I get the chance to build something so beautiful someday.

[@KamenDesantis]

How did he seal the bow and stern? That missing part is kind of important...

[@TheCreativeNuisance]

"Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side." - The Talmud I want this unhurried but purposeful approach back in my life.

[@mpshags]

Them talking about all of the "good, strait" trees being gone made me really think. I want you all to take a look around your house and see how much of it is made out of wood....and consider how many trees had to die in order to make that happen. Then think about how many houses there are.....

[@amandeis]

Beautyful nine days ! Thanks fore upload

[@jimfurman3145]

Awesome video!

[@MattAlisch]

so before there were steel tools in canada, how did they build this i wonder.....i guess stone and copper tools

[@kylekelly1167]

Bones of Animals can be sharpened on stones to have a wedge shape to it.

[@MrMcGillicuddy]

can you gather the materials and process them and build the canoe at a later date or do you have to do it while the materials are flexible and fresh?

[@timothylongmore7325]

watch 906 Outdoors. You can pre-make parts or soak stored materials

[@stoo234]

cordless drill spotted..46,18. bottom right hand side...he he.. cheeky ray...

[@stoo234]

***** no. i dont drink. 46 mins 18 secounds in. cordless drill spotted.bottom right hand side of screen. if you cant see it i should ask... you blind bro?lol ;]

[@bukhutrey8022]

Crispymenace Its not about a cordless drill "spotted" .Did you miss the whole painstaking work it took to make that thing what it is? We can understand they got a time limit.perhaps the drill that you cleverly "spotted",was necessary to fix something that would took 2 days more to get through..think about it..

[@stoo234]

bukhut Ahmad lol.. 2min 30 seconds till 2 min 45 sec.. 'our boat was to be differant made using only traditional methods'.. lol like a traditional cordless drill.. to be fair it did look ni cd not lithium ion ;] i know...lol i like ray too thats why i watched this in the first place.. cheeky tho.thanks for the comment.;]

[@bukhutrey8022]

Crispymenace TY we are all fans of Ray.I know ur a fan too.lol

[@stoo234]

***** got one you cretin. how else would i have commented on youtube? ask yourself why i watched this in the first place.... i love rays stuff it s entertaining and informative. happened to spot this obvious deceit by chance. iv e eyes like a sh*t house rat my uncle used to say..lol ;] thankyou for your comment.though unlike ray it was niether informative or entertaining. cheers crispy.

[@Quagmire88]

The Bob Ross of canoe Building...

[@jacko8022]

just beautifull

[@unclejohnthezef]

great job!

[@azaktube]

Will it blend?

[@squat224]

still, from his perspective it IS the finest craft man has ever made, because he did it himself. Was it still an exaggeration? You bet, its called an opinion.

[@TheRazerBruce]

I love how he says that you would only need to take a trip to the forest to gather some resin in order to repair the canoe, I think he missed the part where he would need to kill a bear :L

[@mellowb1rd]

No need for fat for a temporary repair. But crushed charcoal also makes the resin less brittle. Besides, if you can't kill a bear with your bare hands, you're not man enough to be in the woods

[@mellowb1rd]

mellowb1rd But Ray doesn't kill bears. He knows a long forgotten trick to make them tear off some of their fat and bring it to him.

[@brentj3569]

+mellowb1rd must have learnt from Chuck Norris. ...

[@LetoZeth]

+james bruce - You don't have to kill the bear to repair it. But you might have to kill a bear to restore it.

[@dazaessox]

work of art

[@willcravens2893]

Great vid! @34:39 what knife is that?

[@3falconsflight374]

RoCk oN Peterborough! My home town! :D

[@keikei2185]

Amazing.

[@danielvannguyen9769]

Beaut!

[@kalahunter2444]

What is called Bushcraft today is what I learned in the Boy Scouts back in the 1940's when I was in the 4th,5th,6th grade of School.

[@peterbrydon7036]

In Indonesia doors and Window frames hand made and no nails in sight. also tables and chairs made in Riau using ratton and held together by ratton stitching, providing maintaineded lasts a life time.

[@deanoboland]

Fantastic

[@horsewhisperer5751]

ray mears shaves the wood,the other guy builds the canoe.quess who as my respect.

[@squat224]

I like how you faded into fake ships there at the end. Nice touch. I think its a matter of perspective on this, HE built that, he didn't build a longship or a plane.

[@monkeyboy4746]

I caught Ray sitting at a shaving horse, I bet they did use drawknives.

[@KuopioKallavesi]

Context for the whole statement is "bushcraft", Viking longships and similar are not necessarily 'bushcraft' ?

[@Oldcoinsandstuff1]

Did you get the canoe? How much would this cost???

[@timothylongmore7325]

They run around 5000 $

[@exilfromsanity]

Wait a minute. Where did they get the britch bark? Did it just fall from the sky like manna?

[@waterflow2324]

+Tim Hitt No man I think he definitely got it from a pine tree.

[@exilfromsanity]

Tim Hitt The point being this is a demonstration on building a birch bark canoe. The main ingredient is birch bark, the damn canoe is named for it, but not a word spoken nor a second spent on how to acquire it. What to look for that makes the best bark, not how to strip it, whether it needs to be cured, scraped, dried, how to store it,or anything else. Makes the program somewhat less than complete doesn't it?

[@waterflow2324]

Haha just pulling your string man I know it is kind of unusual he didn't focus on any of that

[@commentcopbadge6665]

+Luckystrike You're just one of those, huh?(smh)

[@exilfromsanity]

Tim Hitt "birch trees shed their bark" So it did fall like manna!

[@torontoont2218]

wow , very nice video I'd love too make one,

[@c4sken]

They didn't hollow out a tree. Its made from Cedar lumber and Birch bark. But yes, great stuff.

[@mrbluenun]

Don’t know about others, I feel kinda ‘cheated’ because we never saw the most important part, the patching and relaying of different Bark to cover and replace the split stuff, and that would have been crucial to the ongoing maintenance of this craft when it wears and gets damaged. I also wonder where the Canoe is now and where the double layered bark made this Canoe too heavy for one person to handle easily. I would dearly love to see this or hear of it now if anyone has the info? mrbluenun

[@monkeyboy4746]

They're using steel axes to split the wood, so they should be able to use a drawknife to whittle it down without breaking the "rules".

[@johnrossSorbie]

l want to build one, you can put a tent on it

[@mrbluenun]

I was interested to hear of the Law mentioned in this video which defined the design of Government Furniture be made from naturally split wood the only way to be sure of the chairs, seats and tables lasting and not going out of shape in some cases. It annoys me to think anyone now, or so it seems can advertise "Solid OAK" when in fact its solid Oak, but not split with-grain or matched along the length in any way which takes the natural beauty away and well, it is nothing but plywood really.

[@libertyman3072]

💪💪👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💪💪

[@ianstevenson1311]

unbelievable

[@djonesoutdoors2024]

First step; Find shady spot to build canoe.

[@mrbluenun]

And before I get a load of post on this, I know plywood is and always will be the perfect wood type for designed in stability, but look at any new furniture that most people working can afford and if there is three draws along the front, chances are they will be made entirely from different pieces of wood, colours grains, shades, all different which the new makers will see and copy and never know how or why furniture should be made with the parts that show are from a single slab of wood.

[@Freethinker225]

Just skip to 13:08 for the best part..... !

[@JoanneLeeJS]

i only made it to 9:30, and i've become all emotional and teary... bye bye

[@BeeRich33]

Viking longship? Uh, not even close. The longship doesn't even exist today. Hardly revolutionary.

[@xmoroseguyx]

Great stuff, But you would have thought you could cut down and hollow out a tree trunk in 9 days, And you would avoid the need for all that complicated carpentry

[@georgerickard5509]

I would have liked to see them strip that bark.

[@dylanlacroix5822]

CANADA FTW

[@bradkrit]

Feels

[@jamesodinson]

me and you sir must fight!

[@garystewart2512]

Any one know rays phone number I have lost it

[@Barnes466]

We must save some dna from that Canadian, and Ray too :)

[@jamesodinson]

Haha thanks, but I gotta disagree with ya on the perspective thing. He did say "birch bark canoes are the finest craft PEOPLE have EVER made" not the finest craft HE ever made. Although it probably is the best craft he built. I think he was just excited and exagerating a bit or perhaps he honestly does believe a birch bark canoe is the best craft people have ever made. If its hand made water crafts my vote goes for the Viking Longship.

[@yakupcetin5391]

without using any nails super'm very interested in me but I'm doing my belt but using nails

[@waterflow2324]

No traditional here... kill something, use every bit of it, make tools out of it sharpen stones the original way and wedges. make your own cord and bonding materials. Boom you got your self a canoe🚣

[@spydergs07]

So this guy has been building canoes for years and didn't know how to repair a simple split?

[@fionamcauley3407]

jane ryre]

[@DepthWave]

Anyone else feel sad watching them hitting an axe with a hammer? that's how you mushroom the head... and using an axe head as a wedge... :( it's a shame... they should have either used a mallet or a wedge... or a riving brake and froe

[@stevesawatsky]

Citizen Smith nope, nobody.

[@kennethskinaway7212]

I know what a shame. they ruined a good axe

[@eprespacal1]

they are only tapping the axe with the hammer... and the endproduct is a beauty..

[@DepthWave]

should have used either wedges or a baton/mallet. Hitting an axe with a hammer slowly deforms the eye and leads to mushrooming.

[@Maurizio4672]

u pirit'i mammata

[@jamesodinson]

Sweet sweet build indeed but NOT the finest craft people have ever made Mr Mears...58:10. How about the Viking longship or the Chinese junk or the Wright brothers aircraft or Captain Nemos Nautilus or the Captian Jack Sparrows Black Pearl or Noahs Ark ect...ect....

[@stevens5541]

Unsubscribe