Everything happens in life, you need to be able to adapt to extreme conditions. In this instruction, we will consider the case when you find yourself in the forest and you need to spend the night. Suppose you went for mushrooms and got lost, your house burned out, and you had to sleep in the forest, situations can be different. It is safest to spend the night above the ground, as different animals, birds that can not only scare you, but also bite you, or even eat it, run around it. Overnight on a tree is still good in winter or in rain, since it will not be necessary to lie on wet and cold ground.
Let's consider in more detail how you can build a simple overnight stay on the trees!
Materials and tools used by the author:
Material List:
- sticks, bottles, pine branches.
Tool List:
- ax;
- knife (for bottle cutter).
The process of arranging the overnight stay:
Step one. Make the stairs
First you need to make a staircase to build an overnight stay at the right height from the ground. To make it, you need long, even sticks; hazel is a good fit. In sticks we will make grooves with an ax, they are needed for fastening steps (transverse sticks). We also chop the desired number of steps.
The diameter of the sticks is chosen intuitively, depending on how much you weigh.
To tie the steps, the author made ropes from plastic bottles. To do this, an improvised machine was made from a knife and a stick for cutting bottles into ropes. These ropes are quite strong, and if the bonds are heated at the stake, they will also be compressed. We collect the stairs of the desired length.
Step Two "Overnight frame"
We select two trees in the forest that will stand at the right distance from each other. The distance should be such that it is possible to lie between the trees, but the shorter the structure, the stronger it will be. For the frame you will need to find 4 long sticks of suitable thickness, we tie two on the bottom, we will lie on them, and two more on top, this will be the roof. So that the sticks hold well, grooves can also be made in the trees. Sticks can be tied, nailed, or fixed in any other available way.
To make the structure more rigid, you can install the transverse parts on the frame, and it is better to install them more so that our flooring does not fail.
Step Three Flooring and testing
Pine or spruce branches are perfect as a flooring. And if you do this in the summer, then in principle any branches with leaves will do. On the base, you can first put the sticks thicker so that it is strong, well, and from above we put fir branches. All this smells great, the coating is soft and reliable.
Similarly, we cover the roof so that rain, snow or hail does not pour on us. That's all, you can climb and check. The author can withstand such a design without problems.
Hope for you homemade was useful, do not forget to share your ideas and knowledge with us!
