In this video we show you how to make a travois.
A travois is a pull sled that was
originally used by the First Nations to transport one's Goods
You could use this
in a survival situation to transport an injured or extremely sick person to a
safer location or to cross a portage on a canoe trip
Or in our case to transport
heavy logs for our fire and building materials for our shelter
That's right, let's show you how we built this one
The only tool we'll be using to build this
travois is our knives.
To construct this travois you're gonna need two
12 to 15-foot hardwood poles.
And four cross poles range from 5 feet to 3 feet
tapering in length
With strength and stability in mind look for intersecting
branches off of your main structure in your cross poles to add to the strength
and durability of your travois.
We're gonna be using two knots to lash our
cross poles onto our structure of our travois. The first knot is called an
overhand slip knot and all I'm going to be doing is making a loop with my
cordage going around that loop in my main finger tucking the tag end through
the loop, pulling through tightening that up and what that does is it gives me an
adjustable noose that I can either make smaller or bigger
Then all I'm gonna do
is take my tag ends and do what's called a cross wrap and this is going to help
secure my cross pole to the actual structure at this point I'm just going
to cross over
that way I'm getting a full cross wrap
So now that I got a solid lash I'm just going to be going around doing what's
called frapping and that's taking the cordage and going between the brace pull
my cross pull and the cordage that's already on.
And the last knot that I'm
going to be showing you is called a surgeon's knot and this is a basic knot
and all you're gonna do is do an overhand knot once, twice
I'm gonna pull tight to bind that lashing and then to secure it you're
just gonna do another overhand knot
If you don't have any cordage with you
you could take a shoelace or a strap or something from a coat or you could dig
up some root these are spruce root that we split in
half and they also work as lashing
We'll give that a nice smooth bottom
so that it drags a little easier
Alright let's see if this thing actually
can pull a human
So assuming I'm injured or really sick and my partner here
needs to take me to a safe location across a portage. Hit it let's see what we can do
Just works really good
All the way home please
Oh he always forgets to
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