{"id":482,"date":"2010-10-04T13:13:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T13:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2010\/10\/phillips-decker-and-canadian-pack-saddles.html"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:13:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T10:13:17","slug":"phillips-decker-and-canadian-pack-saddles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2010\/10\/phillips-decker-and-canadian-pack-saddles.html","title":{"rendered":"Phillips, Decker and Canadian Pack Saddles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Phillips-Decker-and-Canadian-Pack-Saddles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Phillips-Decker-and-Canadian-Pack-Saddles.jpg\" alt=\"Phillips, Decker and Canadian Pack Saddles\" width=\"400\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reader BG Hearns <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowtechmagazine.com\/2010\/03\/packing-mixed-links-updates-4.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\">writes<\/a>: &#8220;While your link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2010\/03\/diamond-hitch-manual-for-pack-animals-.html\" target=\"_self\">1916 pack manual<\/a> is of historical interest, what you ought to know is that low-tech packing has advanced considerably over that publication and anyone who wishes to pack with animals should know that there are much superior options available today. The manual describes a very difficult to use piece of equipment that is so easy to get wrong that only a few experts could ever use it properly.<\/p>\n<p>What your readers ought to know is that in 1924, the US army adopted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militaryhorse.org\/studies\/phillips\/pack.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Phillips Pack Saddle<\/a> which was much simpler and easier to use. Other advances in pack saddles since then are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deckerpacksaddles.com\/250_DPS_Decker.php\" target=\"_blank\">Decker style<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.outfitterssupply.com\/decker-pack-saddle.asp\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.custompackrigging.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Canadian saddle pack<\/a>, neither of which require complex knots, both of which incorporate simple, effective new design ideas, and both of which could be easily made in a small shop. Perfect for low-tech affictionados.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the note, BG. I have added some more links to your comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader BG Hearns writes: &#8220;While your link to the 1916 pack manual is of historical interest, what you ought to know is that low-tech packing has advanced considerably over that publication and anyone who wishes to pack with animals should know that there are much superior options available today. The manual describes a very difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,167,70,224,315,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}