Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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You told me to build a travois, so I built a travois. The type of hut I'm building requires a lot of different materials that can be collected in the general area. Wood is fairly easy to carry but rocks are heavy and only a few can be carried at a time. Do you think a travois is an efficient way to move rock in this terrain?

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Key moments:
00:00 Introduction
00:20 Setting wood posts and beams
05:49 Gathering clay
06:21 Shelter from the rain
06:45 Gathering dry yucca leaves
07:22 Turning yucca leaves into strong rope
10:12 Setting more posts and beams
10:49 Testing the strength of the frame with pull-ups
13:09 Gathering large rocks
13:36 The idea to build a travois
14:33 Building the travois
20:43 Utilizing the travois to haul rocks

Music credit:
Drums of the Deep by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0