And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tumplines (I guess) are used the world over for freighting over food trails. I have a pack I used when much younger that had a tump line to give my shoulders a break with a frameless rucksack. It worked well, as long as my feet weren't required to negotiate broken trail. Then balance became an issue and I had to give it up until trail smoothed again.
The thing that catches my eye is the craftsmanship in materials. The pack basket, in particular, but also the patterned fabric, the padded thingy under the pack, etc. Notice how the headband transitions from a woven product to braids. The rope looks fine enough to be machine-made, and maybe it was. Reminds me of an anecdote about a traveling salesman, making cold calls. He drops in to a factory and after the handshake he asks, “What do you folks make here?” “We make gears.” “You MAKE GEARS!? I didn’t know you could make them! I thought you had to buy them!”
Tumplines (I guess) are used the world over for freighting over food trails. I have a pack I used when much younger that had a tump line to give my shoulders a break with a frameless rucksack. It worked well, as long as my feet weren't required to negotiate broken trail. Then balance became an issue and I had to give it up until trail smoothed again.
ReplyDeleteTumplines...hmmm, here in Merica we call them Asian wimmen.
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DeleteThe thing that catches my eye is the craftsmanship in materials. The pack basket, in particular, but also the patterned fabric, the padded thingy under the pack, etc. Notice how the headband transitions from a woven product to braids. The rope looks fine enough to be machine-made, and maybe it was. Reminds me of an anecdote about a traveling salesman, making cold calls. He drops in to a factory and after the handshake he asks, “What do you folks make here?” “We make gears.” “You MAKE GEARS!? I didn’t know you could make them! I thought you had to buy them!”
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