Ever wonder what people used for packs in the past?

ineffableone · Post by **ineffableone** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 5:44 pm

Some external frame/pack basket inspiration. http://74fdc.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/e ... -journeys/

A few snippits of what is shown.

Recreation of Otzi style pack

Packframe/canoe chair

And next time your complaining of a heavy pack. Just remember this guy, Laco Kulanga a record holding Nosicz with a record 207.5 kg load. That is 457.459 lbs btw.

Ringulf · Post by **Ringulf** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 1:09 pm

Viking mobile scud?

Post by **Eledhwen** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 1:12 pm

That is the frame and pack found with Otzi the Iceman. It kind of surprised people to find a frame backpack with an early Bronze Age man. Otzis' outfit, from clothing to gear, is very similar to Scythian and Native American types.

Eledhwen

RikJohnson · Post by **RikJohnson** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 2:53 pm

Eledhwen wrote:That is the frame and pack found with Otzi the Iceman. It kind of surprised people to find a frame backpack with an early Bronze Age man. Otzis' outfit, from clothing to gear, is very similar to Scythian and Native American types.

Eledhwen

Similar problems produce similar solutions.
it's mainly the minor details that we worryabout.

ineffableone · Post by **ineffableone** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 4:30 pm

BTW a member of BCUSA is the maker of the canoe chair packframe.

Well, Imagine my surprise when I clicked on the link posted.....and there was my canoe chair pack frame shown and listed.....for a post I made in another forum.

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/foru ... anoe-chair

At least they gave me a reference.....but I kinda made it up, so not sure it can be considered a historic reference.

Still a pretty cool packframe design. making it a chair and packframe.

ineffableone · Post by **ineffableone** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 4:38 pm

RikJohnson wrote:
Eledhwen wrote:That is the frame and pack found with Otzi the Iceman. It kind of surprised people to find a frame backpack with an early Bronze Age man. Otzis' outfit, from clothing to gear, is very similar to Scythian and Native American types.

Eledhwen

Similar problems produce similar solutions.
it's mainly the minor details that we worryabout.

Yep you look at the pack frames in the link and you see a pretty similar trend. There is very little difference in the over all concept. Similar solutions for how to carry a load on a persons back appeared independently all over the place. Even when you get to modern materials the basic frame construction doesn't change much.

Post by **Beornmann** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 11:31 pm

Here's a couple finds from my Pinterest Board, Middle Ages & SCA

http://vikinghandcraft.blogspot.com/201 ... kiepe.html

http://goldlockes.wordpress.com/category/wikingerzeit/

http://www.skelmirs-werkstatt.de/index. ... ad---kiepe

http://www.etsy.com/listing/168751870/b ... aign=Share

There's more but I did link all of them.

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