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whammoed:
--- Quote from: shmokes on June 20, 2012, 01:09:06 pm ---You are, by your own standards, not a real man. :cheers:
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Pffft, how do you think I trained the beavers? Nothing keeps a beaver in line like whack with my stone mallet.
Gray_Area:
--- Quote from: Mysterioii on June 20, 2012, 01:11:28 pm ---Man there's nothing like a well-trained beaver...
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Yeah. The only thing they won't do is trim themselves.
SavannahLion:
You guys are completely mad training your beavers. Dive into your local archives, those beavers did it standing up.
I wouldn't touch those beavers myself.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 20, 2012, 10:34:01 am ---
Every ounce counts on a long hiker's pack. It does make a difference. The handles don't make a saw all that much bigger but if the hardwood handle is a pound that adds up.
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That's not the only reason though, if you look at how one might pack handle-less tools in a pack, you can cram quite a bit more in the space taken up with the wood handles. In other words, he was probably able to carry more tools even though that would've added pounds. He shed a couple of pounds losing the wood, but he gained it all back, and then some, by carrying more tools. The extra weight gain from the extra tools gave him a bigger advantage in the long run.
ChadTower:
He said himself it was for weight. In the documentary and in his journals. :)
Of course we both know that both answers are correct. I'm just going with what Dick Proenneke said.
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