every day in the woods just a constant
challenge its urgency after urgency
project after project got an otter the
river otter this is one of my most
valuable pelts brings a top price and
not many people do but I try to eat a
few otter now and then
it’s an incredibly intense dense meat
but I’m a pretty intense dense would
have been though at an age when most
people retire
frontiersman Colbert carves a life for
himself out on the wild swamps of
Georgia all by hunting and trapping he
sells the pelts to pay for his living
expenses about $2,000 a year when you
really enjoy what you’re doing it’s not
really work I don’t wear a watch and I
don’t do time I’d rather spend an hour
in the woods lost than 10 minutes in a
traffic jam
Drebin by the nose grab them by the tail
all right
the part that ideally comes in two
different sections the body and the head
one thing that I like to make with otter
once the meats fallen off the bone and
very tender is make Auto chili and if
you’ve never had otter chili which
probably haven’t he’d come visit me
sometime Kolbert walked into this swamp
21 years ago leaving a financial career
in suburbia behind don’t have
electricity no electricity no
refrigerator if I were to win the
lottery and have a lot of money I still
wouldn’t buy electricity to me is just
impractical
he spent 14 years building a two-story
cabin by hand but last year tragedy
struck and it burned to the ground I’m
overwhelmed since the fire Kolbert is
toughing out life in this open air
fishing deck but winter temps dropping
as low as 23 degrees I’ve turned coal
Birds attention to a permanent solution
since you’ve been here last I’ve been
really really busy with lots of projects
when I rebuild my life and rebuild my
cabin I need lots of material all of
this super heavy wood is a result of
weeks and weeks and months of harvested
material this giant chunk of a large
utility pole I’ve had my eye on that for
about 12 years and every time I’m
sitting on my porch and I see that log I
said yeah me and that log go back a long
way we’re still friends
basically just this one four will be a
two-bedroom mansion with a wraparound
porch I still need to gather material
and bring it to location we’ve had some
big rains the last few days the rivers
coming up so I’ve got a window of
opportunity where I can go out and
harvest or bring material in it’s a
dance it’s a balance between the water
levels finding material and building my
house and all the other things in my
life
challenge its urgency after urgency
project after project got an otter the
river otter this is one of my most
valuable pelts brings a top price and
not many people do but I try to eat a
few otter now and then
it’s an incredibly intense dense meat
but I’m a pretty intense dense would
have been though at an age when most
people retire
frontiersman Colbert carves a life for
himself out on the wild swamps of
Georgia all by hunting and trapping he
sells the pelts to pay for his living
expenses about $2,000 a year when you
really enjoy what you’re doing it’s not
really work I don’t wear a watch and I
don’t do time I’d rather spend an hour
in the woods lost than 10 minutes in a
traffic jam
Drebin by the nose grab them by the tail
all right
the part that ideally comes in two
different sections the body and the head
one thing that I like to make with otter
once the meats fallen off the bone and
very tender is make Auto chili and if
you’ve never had otter chili which
probably haven’t he’d come visit me
sometime Kolbert walked into this swamp
21 years ago leaving a financial career
in suburbia behind don’t have
electricity no electricity no
refrigerator if I were to win the
lottery and have a lot of money I still
wouldn’t buy electricity to me is just
impractical
he spent 14 years building a two-story
cabin by hand but last year tragedy
struck and it burned to the ground I’m
overwhelmed since the fire Kolbert is
toughing out life in this open air
fishing deck but winter temps dropping
as low as 23 degrees I’ve turned coal
Birds attention to a permanent solution
since you’ve been here last I’ve been
really really busy with lots of projects
when I rebuild my life and rebuild my
cabin I need lots of material all of
this super heavy wood is a result of
weeks and weeks and months of harvested
material this giant chunk of a large
utility pole I’ve had my eye on that for
about 12 years and every time I’m
sitting on my porch and I see that log I
said yeah me and that log go back a long
way we’re still friends
basically just this one four will be a
two-bedroom mansion with a wraparound
porch I still need to gather material
and bring it to location we’ve had some
big rains the last few days the rivers
coming up so I’ve got a window of
opportunity where I can go out and
harvest or bring material in it’s a
dance it’s a balance between the water
levels finding material and building my
house and all the other things in my
life
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