Horse Packing
A Manual of Pack Transportation
1st Edition
Published on 17. August 2007
208 pages
978-1-62873-063-0 (ISBN)
Description
Horse packing-using horses (and sometimes mules) as a form of conveyance for supplies and goods-was once a cornerstone of human transportation. Filled with precisely drawn illustrations and written instructions on the many types of required hitches, cordage, ropes, splices, and knots, this practical guide expertly covers all aspects of a formerly commonplace skill. It includes fine explanations of general packing rules and background on pack organization; records of endurance; the diseases that can strike pack animals and how to avoid them; cargo slinging; and much more. For anyone interested in the storied history of pack transportation, or for those who still travel with pack animals and want to do so safely and efficiently, this unique volume is a necessity.
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Charles Johnson Post 1873 - 1956: Artist, Journalist. Engaged as artist-journalist and editoral writer with the Associated Press. Directed the film "The Making of a Sailor" for the Navy Department. Author of such books as "Private Enterprise Did This" and "The Little War of Private Post." Demonstrated first successful talking motion pictures. Inventor of Post process of subtractive color photographs. He also painted famous Spanish War collection of Spanish American War in Cuba.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- HORSE PACKING
- DEFINITIONS
- GENERAL RULES
- STANDARD OF ORGANIZATION FOR MILITARY PURPOSES
- MARCHES
- RECORDS OF ENDURANCE
- DESCRIPTION OF STANDARD PACK MULE
- POINTS OF A PACK ANIMAL
- DISEASES OF THE PACK ANIMAL
- THE APAREJO
- CARE OF THE PACK ANIMAL.
- DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS.
- THE BODY OF THE APAREJO.
- THE BODY.
- THE CRUPPER
- THE APAREJO COVER OF SOBRE-JALMA
- THE APAREJO CINCHA
- THE CORONA
- PACKERS' BLINDS
- THE PACK COVER OR MANTA
- LASH ROPE WITH CINCHA AND HOOK
- SLING ROPES
- LAIR ROPES
- HICKORY RIBS
- HAY
- TO FASTEN THE LATIGO
- TO LAIR UP A PACK
- SLINGING THE CARGO
- THE ONE-MAN CARGO SLING
- CROSS SLING
- SINGLE DIAMOND HITCH
- DOUBLE DIAMOND HITCH
- WIMAN ONE-MAN HITCH
- POLE HITCH
- SAW BUCK SLING
- NO. 2 SAW BUCK SLING
- CROSS-TREE HITCH - A One-Man Hitch
- THE SQUAW HITCH
- LIFTING HITCH - A One-Man Hitch
- STIRRUP HITCH - A Two-Man Hitch
- SADDLE HITCH
- TO CONSTRUCT A TRAVOIS
- APPENDIX - SPLICES
- INDEX
