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I built a bed shed, a small shelter with a sleeping platform built into it. Its quicker to build than a large hut but can be extended later on when materials and time become available. Its not far from the dome shaped grass hut I built earlier. The hut took about 2 weeks to make only because its difficult to find grass in the mountain if built in a field it would be significantly faster.
The hut is 2 m long and 1 m wide. Four posts were hammered into the ground, two 1 m high posts 1.25 m long, 25 cm underground on the low side and two 2m high posts 2.25m long, 25cm underground on the high side. Onto this, a sloping rafters was lashed on with fish tail wait-a-while, a spiky palm with a vine like habit. To remove the needle like spikes from the plant, the leaves are pulled off so that the frond sheaths come with them. This ma
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