🛞 Paths, Wheels and Water
Sleds, bridges, wheels, boats, and a wheel the stream turns for you — how to move more than your own back can carry.
Build a sled to drag heavy loads
Two smooth runners and a lashed frame let you drag what you could never lift.
Lift heavy things with ropes and poles
A tripod of poles and a good rope let one person raise a beam or pull a log out of a river.
Dig and line a well
Reach the water under your feet — sited clean, shored close behind you, roped to a hand above, and never trusting air you cannot see.
Lay paths and small bridges
Firm dry paths and a safe log bridge tie your fields, water, and neighbors together.
Make a wheel and axle
Build a solid wooden wheel that turns true — the shape that carries civilisation.
Build a hand barrow or cart
One wheel, two handles, and a frame move a whole harvest with half the work.
Lash a raft
Dry logs and good knots make a raft that carries you and your load across calm water.
Burn and carve a dugout canoe
Hollow a single log with careful fire and a scraper until it floats light and true.
Build a water wheel
Let the stream turn a wheel that grinds grain or lifts water — the first worker that never tires.