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The last cabin I stayed in also had an awesome free-standing coat rack made from a whole small tree with the branches trimmed and...

Modern technology is awesome sometimes. Sometimes the old ways are just as good or better. It's nice to find traditional practices...

My father’s 1873 Winchester rifle was hung on two crooks above the front door. My replica of a .62 caliber flintlock Northwest Indian...

I am now inspired to forage for some crooks to hang my axes on the wall instead of standing on the floor. Jim

My Scandinavian ancestors on my mother’s side of the family, made these hooks in the old country. They carved them with intricate...

Ok, so the post is actually about hooks for poles, and they're not on a wall, but the idea could be applied widely. I wanted easier...

This winter i refinished my pole. It is a 10ft, 1 1/2 inch diameter softwood pole. A "HomeDePole" For the last several years I'd used...

Seems like the answer is: "it depends". Thankfully when poling, trim is easily adjusted on the fly by means of hopping.

Right and right. I just picked a single simple example to imagine, but yes I assume a mid-stream would serve as well.

I'm a bit unclear, Rick, about how the stern crosses the eddy line before the bow when breaking out of an eddy, which would be quite...

If you can get the cap off again, a rubber washer between wood and metal may do the trick.

The last cabin I stayed in also had an awesome free-standing coat rack made from a whole small tree with the branches trimmed and...

Modern technology is awesome sometimes. Sometimes the old ways are just as good or better. It's nice to find traditional practices...

Modern technology is awesome sometimes. Sometimes the old ways are just as good or better. It's nice to find traditional practices...

My father’s 1873 Winchester rifle was hung on two crooks above the front door. My replica of a .62 caliber flintlock Northwest Indian...