Old timers

[mike_belben]

Short vid i think you guys would like. 


Ott Blair: Sled Maker - YouTube

[Nebraska]

Beautiful, proud man. World needs more men and women like him.  Not entitled but determined. 

[moodnacreek]

Very good, thanks.        Old boy used to hammer saws once described making stone boats from bent logs, using a sawmill. Only wood and bolts where used.

[Chuck White]

Very nice video, thanks for posting!

[samandothers]

I appreciate you sharing.  Probably not many would say they'd rather work than take welfare given his situation.

[moodnacreek]

Anybody remember Lil Abner, the Al Capp comic strip? A satire about the mountain people not understanding the government interfering [ with there life style] and offering them welfare. That was then, this is now.

[WV Sawmiller]

   Neat video but pretty old. The old man would be 136  126 years old now - he said at the start he was born in 1894.

   I gather he drove the pegs in the side are the stanchions. I never did see where he sawed them off. I first thought they were used to pin the pieces together but looks like he had some others he left a foot or so high.

  I assume it took at least a couple of big horse or mules to pull a sled that big.

   Thanks for sharing.