Gary Marshall shows us how to make a traditional temporary woodsman’s working shelter – ‘a rustic bodger’s lash-up’ in his words.
In 40 Acre Wood, we dismantled a dilapidated rough pole and tarpaulin shelter. I showed Robin and Diana a photograph of a coppice worker’s open sided shelter, found in a first edition of Country Notes by Vita Sackville-West. We thought this would make an ideal replacement. So, the project is our attempt to construct our own authentic woodland worker’s temporary shelter – based on a traditional Kentish design, using only basic materials and tools to hand. The trickiest bit was finding straight growing poles with forks in the right places to fell. The wood’s full of poles and they all look right until you need them!
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