HuntressOfLight
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Ever built a teepee ?
I am currently doing my standard slow-morning weekend wake-up routine and needed something to occupy my mind in the fog of said process, thus decided to make polite inquiry and also write about my personal experiences teepee building, thus far. Did you know that Native American Women (stupid term) built the teepees? Well, that is what I have been led to believe, true or not.
For said reason, I have refused repeated offers from various males to assist me, other than two separate cuts from two different males upon two different days. The latter nice male had no business operating a chainsaw, absolutely none at all, but that's another story entirely, in and of itself.
There is a learning curve involved with building a teepee, I learned the hard way. I am on my first new build, after having messed with attempting to, twice, revamp a previously existing, delabitated one, which was once rather nice, I had heard. I desired to winterize it, via addition of a huge tarp.
^... Above was as far as I had managed with revamping the old one, before a mischievous feline of some kind (too busy to look for tracks, but Brewster was all over it) had decided to rudely and crudely, profusely mark the tarp in which I had painstakingly added. It did so upon the teepee's interior, first night. Brutal discovery it was, the following day.
Lesson: always close off access to your teepee, when away from it. SO, for that stinky reason, when beginning construction upon the new teepee, I simply flipped the tarp inside out, with intention upon washing it down via a specific enzyme neutralizing agent, later today...
The next dilemma was rather entertaining, as well. ..
How does a tiny person raise a huge tarp into the air? It was a long way up there to the top. I required wind and a tree service industry tool, a throw ball utilized for rigging. Being how none were sitting about, I grabbed what was available and simply made one. What happened next was much more entertaining.
If it had been attached to a raft and already set upon the west end of the pond, l would have quickly sailed into the beavers' home (which did prompt thoughts of raft building...)
Need more rope, so that I can reduce that ceiling gap when desired and run the rope down through each grommet of the door.
It remains a work in progress, whenever time permits. I am currently focused upon the west fronting entrance and although interested within the teepee functionality prefer to build a rustic tree branch hut.
I have still yet to meet the young boys having built the first one but intend upon hunting them down fairly soon, welcoming them to the new one, being how it was their great idea and initial labor gathering much of the material. As far as I am concerned, it is their teepee. I simply intend upon borrowing it here and there.
I am currently doing my standard slow-morning weekend wake-up routine and needed something to occupy my mind in the fog of said process, thus decided to make polite inquiry and also write about my personal experiences teepee building, thus far. Did you know that Native American Women (stupid term) built the teepees? Well, that is what I have been led to believe, true or not.
For said reason, I have refused repeated offers from various males to assist me, other than two separate cuts from two different males upon two different days. The latter nice male had no business operating a chainsaw, absolutely none at all, but that's another story entirely, in and of itself.
There is a learning curve involved with building a teepee, I learned the hard way. I am on my first new build, after having messed with attempting to, twice, revamp a previously existing, delabitated one, which was once rather nice, I had heard. I desired to winterize it, via addition of a huge tarp.
^... Above was as far as I had managed with revamping the old one, before a mischievous feline of some kind (too busy to look for tracks, but Brewster was all over it) had decided to rudely and crudely, profusely mark the tarp in which I had painstakingly added. It did so upon the teepee's interior, first night. Brutal discovery it was, the following day.
Lesson: always close off access to your teepee, when away from it. SO, for that stinky reason, when beginning construction upon the new teepee, I simply flipped the tarp inside out, with intention upon washing it down via a specific enzyme neutralizing agent, later today...
The next dilemma was rather entertaining, as well. ..
How does a tiny person raise a huge tarp into the air? It was a long way up there to the top. I required wind and a tree service industry tool, a throw ball utilized for rigging. Being how none were sitting about, I grabbed what was available and simply made one. What happened next was much more entertaining.
If it had been attached to a raft and already set upon the west end of the pond, l would have quickly sailed into the beavers' home (which did prompt thoughts of raft building...)
Need more rope, so that I can reduce that ceiling gap when desired and run the rope down through each grommet of the door.
It remains a work in progress, whenever time permits. I am currently focused upon the west fronting entrance and although interested within the teepee functionality prefer to build a rustic tree branch hut.
I have still yet to meet the young boys having built the first one but intend upon hunting them down fairly soon, welcoming them to the new one, being how it was their great idea and initial labor gathering much of the material. As far as I am concerned, it is their teepee. I simply intend upon borrowing it here and there.
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