Happy People: A Year in The Taiga

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"This documentary explores life along the River Yenisei in Russia, where the industrious inhabitants of a rural village truly live off the land."

Absolutely amazing.

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[jacob]

Very good. If you haven't watched Dick Proenneke's videos of the Alaskan equivalent, do so.

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I was very intrigued by the part where the one trapper used a mallet and some wedges to split the lumber into boards for making skis. This was a technique I had not heard of, and could be really useful if one has access to some trees, but not to a lumber mill. Anyone heard of this being done / how hard it is?

[jacob]

I believe it's being used to make bows as well. Here you [also] need the strength that comes from following the grain. When making a bow, you shave the wood away so that the grain runs unbroken. I haven't used the method for making boards, only firewood. I'd guess it's proportionally easy to the straightness of the grain. So ranging from dead easy to impossible.

If I didn't care about strength, I'd just use a rip saw.