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sms · Mar 17, 2018

We used them for trapping.

TimV · Mar 17, 2018

Yup. Have my grandfather's pack basket, complete with deer blood stains from packing out meat more than half a century ago from their hunting camps several miles back in the Adirondack woods. Know a lady locally who for many years made LL Bean's packbaskets, though she no longer does it on that scale, having went back to her first love, which is silver jewelry. There's still some Amish locally who make them, but like many traditional crafts they've fell out of favor, in this case with the popularity of backpacks using nylon, aluminum, and similar materials.

CGID · Mar 17, 2018

The technology and materials that go into modern backpack design seem ridiculous. I think marketing has people convinced a backpack can't function unless it's made of aerospace materials. People in less fortunate parts of the world carry refrigerator size loads on their backs using a piece of rope.

dahlin · Mar 17, 2018

Have carried many traps in and many muskrat and beaver out in a pack basket just like that. Randy

Adirondack case guy · Mar 17, 2018

I used one a lot when I was a teen and ran a trap line. Trapped mushrats, mink, occasional weasel, and on occasion a skunk.
I came upon a skunk in one of my traps one morning, It wasn't moving and I retrieved it from my trap, and put it into my pack basket, and continued on down my trap line.
Well I guess it was playing possum because before I got home, It crawled up to the top of the basket, and it wasn't very happy, and before I could shed the basket I got a real good dousing.
It took a week before all the stink left my body. I wasn't very popular in school that week.
Loren

TomH in PA · Mar 19, 2018

Still have one around here, we used them on canoe trips.

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