What can be cooked from squid: quick and tasty
Life in the taiga is unforgettable memories and nastalgia of the past. In this photo story, I want to tell you about my new winter hut, which we built with my friend Maxim, with whom we spent all our childhood a winter hut. Winter quarters, one of those few values in life that I really value.
Living in the taiga or walking for a while knowing that there is a house there, there is a roof over your head, and you can spend the night and even live, heat the stove, it is unforgettable and has left an imprint on my whole life, unforgettable moments of life.
Long ago, when we were still pigs, Max and I built the first hut on this very spot. I was 15 then, and Max was a year older than me. The hut was, of course, not adapted for permanent residence, it froze quickly, since it was made of thin boards, and as insulation the walls were sheathed with old blankets. We built this hut in winter in 45-degree frosts, brought in boards, carried them on our hands for several kilometers. They chopped frozen bread with an ax to have a haste to eat by the fire, you can write a story. Which I will probably do someday. There were many interesting and unforgettable events.
Our first dwelling stood for about four years, but in September 1992, someone burned it down and only one ashes remained of the hut. All our best youthful days, all forest adventures, all the conversations at night about our beloved girls, about the future, about life, which seemed so simple and understandable to us then, remained in that ashes.
Later, having matured, hunting, picking mushrooms or lingonberries in those places, I always went to the place where our hut was holed up. Every year there are fewer and fewer signs that people once lived here for a long time. The coals were more and more covered with grass and young birches. And only a few things preserved after the fire said that this clearing in the middle of the forest was once inhabited.
On some quiet and warm autumn day, I loved to sit on the trunk of an old larch that had collapsed nearby and not think about anything except taiga and childhood. This place has always given peace to my soul, torn by everyday problems. And now, exactly twenty years later, we are reviving our place and are building a real winter hut instead of a hut, this is our tribute to this place, since we owe it a lot. the edges. Finally we got together.
Here we are: I am on the left, Max is on the right
Here is our old and dear clearing, where our first residential building stood. The place was already heavily overgrown with young growth and we already had to cut down the overgrown meadow. About five years ago, I had to carry out a total weeding here, getting rid of thin stunted birches that grew with my height and took up all the free space in the clearing.
Started on July 25, 2009. In two days, they cleared the place and laid a salary - the first crown, the basis of all future construction.
We prepared logs for several future crowns, sawed them to size, sanded them. Before leaving, they put another half of the wreath.
Here I would like to tell you more about our faithful assistant - the Partner P350 chainsaw. This is the cheapest saw today, it is considered an amateur tool, it is recommended for short-term work in the country and country house... The people contemptuously call it a "delimber" for its relatively low power. Looking ahead, I will say that the saw worked flawlessly throughout the construction, sometimes for 14 hours a day instead of the prescribed 2 (as recommended in the passport). And then - in the winter we sawed her firewood with the same success. The instrument, even though a year has passed, is still in service and it is still a pleasure to work on it. So inexpensive things are sometimes made with high quality.
And the construction continued at that time. The crowns grew one by one. It started raining, so a small canopy made of galvanized sheet metal was erected over the fire.
Appreciating every minute, we hardly got distracted from work. Every three hours they drank tea with cookies or sandwiches. Doshirak was steamed twice a day. And despite the hard physical work, for some reason I did not want to eat.
There were days when it rained from morning to evening - sometimes drizzling, and sometimes downpour. Then we threw more firewood into the fire so that we could come up and warm up from time to time, put on chemical protection raincoats and work on. Here is Max in the photo:
In the rain, the productivity of our labor dropped significantly. The raincoats did not save much from the omnipresent moisture. The logs were slippery and looked like large bars of soap. It happened that only half a day was made in a day. Well, the mood was to match the weather - gloomy. But the construction continued nonetheless. The floor has already been laid. Slowly but surely the crowns grew one by one. And now the outlines of the future hut are already visible (Max and I in our language called it "the contours are drawn"). In such a context: "Well, some contours are already being drawn!"
Roofing works have begun nearby. We design and assemble the roof of our future home. It is much easier and more convenient to prepare the structure on the ground than on the spot, we invent the structure along the line. 
In the next photo, the so-called - line. This is our second most important tool after the chainsaw. We did it ourselves (or rather, Max did it). I have never seen anything like this in stores, it is needed to mark logs for a sample of longitudinal grooves.
The very name of the instrument already contains its purpose. The logs are traced with a devil. Logs do not have an ideal shape, despite the apparent roundness and regularity of the shape, they have bumps, bumps, irregularities from sawn knots. A line drawn along two logs marks all irregularities and bends, and if you cut a groove along the correctly cut logs, they will fit tightly on top of each other, leaving no gaps.
The log to be drawn must be put in the place where it will subsequently be located, fix it so that it does not play, does not swing and, God forbid, does not fall. The more accurately the logs are cut, the less work will be then with their fit to each other. Therefore, there is no need to rush here. It happens, of course, that even a carefully drawn log then nikah does not want to lie down in its place and you can spend half a day adjusting it. And it happens the other way around - hastily marked it out, but it lay down, as if it had been there all the time. Now Max will demonstrate how it looks like tracing logs in practice:
After the log is cut, it must be removed, turned over with our marks up, and the groove must be selected with a chainsaw. First, we saw along, making from three to five longitudinal cuts (depending on the thickness of the log). 
Then we saw across, here the number of cuts is unlimited. The more often the transverse cuts are, the easier it will then be to select the groove.
Choose a groove with an ax, first you need to knock out all the "cubes" that you saw with a butt. And then clean up and correct, cut the groove. (To my great regret, the photo of the log with the selected groove has not been preserved). Then we turn the log over and put it on the log house, on which the log was drawn on, not forgetting to put moss on the lower log, preferably wet.
Now I will make a small lyrical digression, which I will devote to the boards. Boards ... Oh, this is probably the hardest part of the construction. There is no road to the winter quarters. We were taken by a timber truck to an abandoned quarry. And then about 2 km - on yourself. There were 65 boards in total. Of these, 17 forties and 48 inches. Planks of the 3rd grade, raw and heavy. Worn like this: first 1 forty + 1 inch (17 walkers). Then they dragged all the inches, three boards at a time (10 walkers). They wore it for three days, and took the fourth one a little.
Well, the blockhouse has finally been raised. The ceiling is laid, the rafters are exposed. The contours are drawn more and more clearly.
It's time to cut window hole... By the way, a frame with glass was found in an abandoned quarry. So the opening was already adjusted to the size of the found frame.
I am standing on the roof, looking into the distance. And why is there such heaviness and sadness in the soul? It's just that Max is leaving tomorrow. We hadn't seen him for 6 years before. How long will we not see you?
This concludes our joint construction with Max. He had urgent business and went home. We were finishing the winter quarters with my wife, Yulka. During construction, I noticed that the living creatures living next door to us very quickly got used to our presence, to the daily roar of a chainsaw and the sound of axes. Apparently they realized that we did not pose a danger to them and ceased to be afraid.
On the old, already almost completely overgrown with alder forest, we often noticed hazel grouses running away on the ground, several times we saw a small absolutely fearless owl, which looked at us with curiosity and surprise with its big sleepy eyes, tilting its head now to the left, then to the right, letting us in less than one and a half to two meters.
Another of our neighbors was a squirrel who lived on a tree near the construction site and hunted by unobtrusively and very delicately picking up the remnants of food from our table. In contrast to the chipmunks, who were engaged in outright robbery "on an industrial scale." It is a pity that the camera was not always at hand, and even in those rare moments when I did take it in hand, I preferred to capture the moments of our construction site, since they will not be repeated, and I will always have time to photograph the animals.
There were a lot of mushrooms this summer and autumn. Aspen mushrooms grew to huge sizes - a ten-liter bucket could be filled from one good meadow. Although there were "tough guys" who themselves were the size of a bucket. But such large aspen mushrooms are no longer safe, something is already accumulating in them, so it is better not to risk it. There were a lot of waves and hollyhocks (in the photo, it is the hollow trees). The temptation was haunted all the time - to pick up aspen mushrooms, boil them, then fry them with butter and onions, even without potatoes ... but every minute was expensive and there was no time left not only for picking and cooking mushrooms, but also for simply taking pictures of them with a camera.
And also during construction, I inadvertently drank in the heat of ice water from a stream and fell ill with a sore throat. The symptoms started at night while sleeping by the fire. In the morning, on top of everything else, it started to rain. I suddenly felt infinitely exhausted and exhausted.
He offered Max to go home for a day - to relax. When I got to the apartment, the first thing I did was measure the temperature - the thermometer was 39.2. But the sore throat disappeared as suddenly as it began. Three days was heat and fever, and on the fourth I woke up completely healthy. But I was somehow distracted from our construction site. So, I stopped at the fact that Max left and we were completing the winter hut together with my wife.
We nailed down a few boards and decided to immediately cut an opening for the pipe. I start the saw and start ...
The boards were sewn, it is necessary to lay roofing material on this side of the roof. I stand and think how it will be more convenient to do it. I say to Yulka: “I’ll probably have to put together a ladder, without it it will not work”. In general, while pondering, I did not notice how my wife had already climbed onto the roof and shouted at me from there to carry roofing material. “With us,” he says, “it will take half a day on the stairs, but roofing material can be laid anyway.
In general, I did not expect such building talents in her. Yes, she did it so cleverly. She beat, nailed, and I was just like in that saying - bring it, give it, go to the figs, don't bother! (joke).
We put the final polish, eliminate minor defects. In one place, the roofing material was torn when it was unwound. Most likely in the store where we bought it, it was stored lying down. I had to patch up the hole. To do this, set fire to a piece of roofing material and dripped it with hot tar.
But the most solemn moment is the first firing of the stove. Everything - the winter quarters came to life, breathed. Here's another taiga hut has become more. A sacrament has come to pass ...
The winter hut is built. And I finish my story. Let me summarize. Built from July 25, 2009 to August 23, 2009. Almost a month, it is intermittent. In general, the rack took a full 14 days. It could have been built faster, but the rains hindered greatly, reducing the pace of work to nothing.
In addition, 4 days out of 14 we carried boards and other materials. Used 10 liters of 92 gasoline and 10 liters of chain oil. It took building materials: board "inch" 3rd grade - 48 pieces, board "forty" 3rd grade - 17 pieces, roofing felt - 2 rolls, insulation "Isover" - 1 roll, well, every little thing - nails of different "calibers" , door handles, hooks, staples, and tools - axes, cleaver, etc.
A week later, after we finished building our hut, the autumn hunting for waterfowl began. But our first hunt was not very successful.
We came to the winter hut in the evening. They boiled tea, lighted the stove in the hut. At night we took some pictures with the flash. This is how our winter hut looks from the inside.
We got up at five o'clock in the morning. We had breakfast and went to the lake. We spent the whole dawn in the bushes, cold and wet with dew, but did not even see a single duck. They didn't want to fly something. When the sun came up, so that it would not be so boring, we took pictures ourselves and took some pictures of nature.
At ten o'clock we returned to the winter quarters. After a sleepless morning, I wanted to sleep. Yulka fell asleep, and I, turning on the bunk, got up and took up small household chores. By three o'clock in the afternoon, it began to rain. We had to go back. I boiled the kettle and woke my wife up. We slowly drank tea and sandwiches and went home.
The autumn duck hunting season in 2009 was very short - less than four weeks. During this time, we did not manage to go to the winter quarters anymore. We hunted several times in other places. And the next time they visited their hut was only in October.
The best time of the year.
Wednesday 24 March 2010 Snow should have been falling from day to day. There are a lot of unfinished small things at the winter quarters. It is necessary to insulate the door, seal the gap between the cutting of the ceiling and the pipe, prepare firewood ... Therefore, despite urgent matters, my wife and I decide to go to the forest on the weekend.
The wife also has the flu and takes pills. I offered - maybe we won't go now, but she insisted - we will go. It's quiet in the taiga. Even the jays with nutcrackers have disappeared somewhere. Not a soul is seen or heard. And we go in silence, talking, I don't want to break the silence. We are silent, each thinking about his own. The weather is the best that can be: sun, light frost, not hot and not cold. When we turned onto the mary, it turned out that it was frozen. You walk without sinking like on asphalt. No mosquitoes and midges. This is the best weather and the best time of the year in the taiga.
And here is the hut. And again a joyful feeling in my soul. I am glad that during our absence there were no strangers and no one did something wrong, joyful that we are here again. Everything around is sprinkled with red larch needles. It seems that underfoot is a soft carpet.
They lit the stove, made a fire, boiled tea. Yulka, having drunk another flu pill, lay down for a few minutes. As a result, I slept almost all day. I didn't wake her up - let her sleep. During this time, I insulated the door and door frame strips of felt. Chopped wood. I did everything without fuss, without hurrying anywhere. But most importantly, I insulated the gap in the place where the pipe passes through the ceiling. At one hunting forum I asked for advice on how best to do it, many responded to the case. But I chose Dmitry's advice (om_babai) as the simplest one. Here are photos of how it was and how it became:
I found an inversion nearby - a large root of a fallen larch. I scooped up earth from under it. Rather, it is not even land in the sense in which many imagine, but rather loam, something between sand and clay. He covered the pipe with stones (small and large in the packing, so that there were less gaps), pushed the isover, poured three basins of loam, and again covered everything around with the isover.
Then I doubted for a long time whether I did the right thing, whether it would keep it warm, whether it would wake up, whether it would become excessively hot from the heat during the intense heating of the stove? But, looking ahead, I will say that all my fears and doubts were in vain. In winter, the earth woke up a little inside - on the stove. But there were no cracks. The heat was not wasted. And if I am now - in March - sitting in front of a computer and writing these lines, this can only mean one thing, that in terms of fire hazard, such sealing is quite safe.
This is how our weekend passed. In leisurely and pleasant affairs, and in silence. They returned from the taiga almost recovered. Taiga heals everything - both nerves and flu. What is this report about? Yes, actually about nothing. Just about autumn, about the taiga, about the last days before the long northern winter ...
How to build a hut in the forest with your own hands? For experienced hunter-traders, this is not difficult. Passionate about their work or hobby, people erect cozy and warm houses in a deep forest with everything necessary for spending the night along the route or even living for some time if an unforeseen situation occurs.
Peculiarities
Any hunter-fisherman who has a piece of forest at his disposal sets up a network of winter quarters. Usually the network consists of a main hut, where you can live permanently, and small winter quarters, in which you can spend the night along the way. Therefore, the distance between winter huts should be equal to one day's crossing.
The main purpose of the hunter's hut is a roof over his head and strong walls that can shelter from severe frost, evil blizzards, torrential wind (a common version of wall insulation with moss is shown in the figure below) and the dangers of the night taiga (including bears, so you need to think about additional protection of the house). In the winter hut there are always some products of long-term storage and a supply of firewood for a week. The doors in such houses are not closed so that every hunter, forester, mushroom picker or tourist who gets lost in the taiga can survive in harsh conditions.
By the way, not only hunters live in small huts, but also hermits or indigenous peoples of the north, who know how to build a hut in the forest very quickly. More often, of course, it is the hunters who are engaged in the construction of winter quarters.
Site preparation for construction
How to build a winter hut in the forest with your own hands? First of all, you need to pay attention to finding a suitable place for building a house. The main enemies of the hunting base are people and bears. It is desirable that the house is generally accessible only to the person who built it, at most - to his closest circle (friends, relatives).
You need to build in a secluded place. The hut should not stand on the banks of the river, on a path or road, the house should not be visible from vehicles passing nearby. So, a remote site is required. Separately, it is necessary to take into account the visibility of the space, depending on the presence or absence of foliage on the trees. These rules are difficult to follow in relatively populated areas. In general, a fishing hut hidden from prying eyes can only be in the deserted and wild taiga, it is very difficult to hide in other forests.
The house should not be visible from the air. It is desirable that a helicopter cannot land next to it. For this, logs for construction are not taken entirely near the hut, but partly nearby, the rest - in other places. The safest way to hide a house better is to move 20-25 kilometers away from the nearest road. This is roughly a day's transition.
The approach to the winter quarters from a relatively visited place should not stand out in any way. There should be no path or road. The way to the hunting lodge can run, for example, over stones in the bed of a dry stream or through a spruce forest, where a springy bedding of needles lies underfoot. Some especially careful hunters even go to their winter quarters on a different path each time.
It is advisable to choose a place on a small edge, protected from strong winds, in a pit. This will protect the lower crowns from heavy torrential rains and spring floods. In no case should you build a hut in a ravine. It is permissible to build a house only on a small hill or flat area. There should be a source of clean drinking water nearby (stream or river).
Selection and preparation of materials
How to build a hunting lodge in the forest? The construction site must be cleared if necessary. The forest will go to the crowns, and the stumps are usually burned out. It is better to make the first crown of a small hut from larch, because this tree rots more slowly than the rest. If there is no larch nearby, then from what is. You can put stones under the crown or put logs directly on the ground.
The main material for building a house is coniferous trees. Pine and larch are great, but you can also use spruce or fir, cedar. Cedar can be chopped without mercy, because thinning sanitary felling makes room for the stronger and big trees... Thick trees are not suitable, the optimal diameter is 15-25 cm. It is better to make the first few crowns from thicker logs, and then use less thick ones.
How to build a hut in the forest with your own hands, that is, without anyone's help? This is more difficult, but quite possible. You can drag the logs to the construction site alone. Experienced taiga people say that raw pine (25 cm in diameter) will weigh about 40 kg per meter. For one person, a length of 3-4 meters is enough. A four-meter log will weigh about 120 kg.
There is no need to lift the whole log, it is easier to drag it with a drag. It's hard, but very real for one person. If it is very difficult, then you can cut trees thinner, but then more materials will be required in quantitative terms. The picture below shows how to cut down a tree.
How many materials will be required for construction? Optimal height walls - 180 cm. So a person of average height does not have to bend over. It turns out 9 logs per wall (180: 20 = 9). There are four walls - 36 logs. Additionally, you need wood for the floor and roof. The forest can be cut with a margin.
Different methods of laying crowns
How to build a hut? From the prepared materials, that is, logs, you first need to remove the bark. A sharpened shovel is used for debarking, taiga ax or a scraper. At the beginning of May, the bark already leaves well, but it is still better to use trees harvested in winter. Dried logs are harder to handle, but considerably lighter.
The crowns can be placed “in the paw” or “in the bowl”. The option is simpler - "in half a tree". The "in the bowl" method allows you to achieve a better fit of the logs to each other, that is, the likelihood of cracks is significantly reduced. Damp moss is laid between the logs. It is better to use it raw, because it does not crumble, dries along with the logs and is a natural preservative that slows down the decay of the tree. Moss should be used more so that no gaps remain.
Additionally, corners and window shutters need to be reinforced. The deep taiga forests are inhabited by bears who often break the house from the corner. Planks with bristling points are often laid against the wall, window sills, along the corners, behind the threshold and on the threshold. Hunters call them “hedgehogs”.
How to make floor and roof boards
How to build a hunting hut in the forest? The walls are just the beginning. Next, you need to lay the floor, make windows and doors, erect a roof. For the floor, boards are needed, which are made on site. You need to pick up straight grained trees. The log must be gently dismissed into planks. First, small cuts are made with an ax at the base of the trunk, then wedges are driven there so that they touch the entire diameter of the log. These boards are much stronger than sawn boards because the fibers are retained.
Insulation of the floor and laying of boards
How to build a hut in the forest with your own hands? After the walls were erected, the floor and the roof remained. The floorboards are not laid on damp ground. The bottom layer is covered with loose earth or sand mixed with moss, stones of different sizes, polyethylene or any available insulation. Moss is placed directly under the boards so that there are no cracks.
How to build and insulate a roof
How to build a hut in the forest with your own hands? The most difficult thing for inexperienced hunters who started building a winter house is the roof. Roofs are pitched and gable, with or without an attic. It is better to build with an attic, because in summer you can dry herbs there, and it is warmer in winter. At any time of the year, the attic can be used as a storage room.
The attic roof can be laid not with planks, but with small logs or halves. Between them you need to lay moss, and pour earth on top and cover with polyethylene. For the intermediate roof (this is the floor of the attic), the film is not necessary, but then you need to use more moss to protect well from the rain. The cold is no longer so terrible, because due to the attic there are actually two roofs.
How to quickly build a hut in the forest? If you need to build a house quickly, then you can build regular roof without an attic, but in such a room it will be colder. It is better to lay the logs on top with moss and cover them with earth in order to somehow keep more heat inside.
If desired and if necessary, you can mask the roof with a special camouflage net. You can do this yourself. You need any mesh for weaving the base (rope or fishing, but not fishing line, because such a structure will not last long), pieces of moss, leaves, rags, dense ribbons of dark green, gray, brown or white... Camouflage elements are woven into the structure of the network. Each should be tied not in the center, but with a tendency to asymmetry.
The stove is the main element of any winter hut
How to build a hunting lodge with your own hands? There is a roof, floor and walls. Isn't it a home? Still, the main element of any hunting lodge is the stove. Otherwise, the hut will protect only from the wind, and it will be impossible to spend the night in it. Hunters most often use iron stoves, which provide heat quickly, but cool down just as quickly. We'll have to throw up firewood every hour so that the whole house does not cool down.
Brick ovens take longer to heat up, but they keep the heat better. For a settled life, you will need a good brick stove, but you can overlay an iron one with bricks and stones. This way it will be possible to keep the heat much longer. You don't need a lot of bricks, it is enough to build a small oven with a hob so that it is convenient to cook food.
How to quickly build a hut? How long does this process take? Construction takes from several weeks to months. Much depends on the hunter's skill in carpentry, because the main material (wood) is harvested locally. A person, even without a special tool, but with great practical experience, will build a hunting winter hut rather quickly, but sometimes it happens that the whole day is spent on fitting the groove of one crown.
After the construction of the furnace, you can proceed to the internal work. In the winter hut, you need light from an icon lamp or a kerosene lamp, but you need to strictly follow safety rules, because the housing is wooden. You also need to leave a supply of food and chop wood.
Important legal issues
All land where forest-type vegetation is located, areas without forest, but created for its restoration (clearings, felling), land in the forest and next to it belong to the state. The federal leadership develops a forestry policy, sends out documents to the sites, maintains an inventory of forest lands and makes a decision on changing the category of plots.
Is it possible to build a hut in the forest? Officially, a plot for construction in a forest can only be obtained if you change the category of land. In the constituent entities, this is the responsibility of the Forestry Department, and the transfer of land in the non-delimited territory is carried out by the Government of the Russian Federation.
To re-register land, you need to collect a large package of documents that will be considered at the local, regional and federal levels. The whole procedure can take up to a year or more. The process is complex and long. If you submit yourself, there are no guarantees of the result.
In many cases, building land in a forest is easier to lease for 10-49 years. The tenant's responsibilities include improving the condition of the land, soil reclamation, environmentally friendly environmental management, and timely payment. On the rented land, you can grow seedlings, conduct research, collect healing herbs and edible resources, establish apiaries, hunt, cut trees.
Free use of forest areas is possible. Upon application, you can get a plot for the period specified in the legislation (usually up to 10 years). The priests of religion, northern peoples, ordinary people for a certain type of activity (beekeepers can use plots for up to 5 years), employees of organizations close to forest protection and defense have the right to use land free of charge.
Are hunting winter quarters illegal?
The issue of building winter quarters on an unbounded territory is the imperfection of the legislation. Hunter-fishermen work under a contract and quite officially, hunting or fishing grounds are assigned to them. In these territories, it is permissible to erect temporary residential buildings for spending the night. It's another matter if the houses are used illegally (by poachers) or for year-round living.
It turns out that it is possible to build a winter hut in the forest, although the current legislation on this issue is still ambiguous. But for the construction of a house intended for long-term residence, you need to rent or redeem land, and only then start construction.
Of course, there are many illegal buildings in Russian forests. Some of them are even used for year-round living, but they were built by whoever and when, are not registered anywhere, which means they are illegal and have no owner. Such buildings can be appropriated or demolished by someone with impunity.
The taiga winter hut plays an important role in the life of every hunter-fisherman. Since the main hunting takes place in winter, the need for such winter quarters is very great. A hunter-fisherman, having at his disposal a certain area of the forest, sets up a network of such winter quarters. The network consists of a basic hut, in which the hunter lives, and road huts, in which the hunter only spends the night on his way through his lands. Since its route is very long and in order to bypass all the lands, it takes days, and maybe weeks, then for each overnight stay the hunter must build a winter hut in the taiga, the distance from them should be equal to the daytime winter transition.
But, in addition to the hunters-traders, the taiga winter hut is extremely necessary for the taiga hermit to live in the taiga, who decided to leave all the benefits of civilization and go to live in the forest. Also in such forest huts live the indigenous peoples of the north, for example, the Mansi people. They know how to build them very quickly and, as a rule, erect a hut only in winter, and in summer they live in tents. But some families have already lost the habit of their traditional dwellings - chums and live in huts all the time.
Preparation for the construction of a winter house
If for a good, solid log hut, the forest should be harvested in advance (it is recommended in December), then for a simple hunting winter quarters, you can immediately use raw logs. Since the hunter spends the night in this winter hut, maybe two or three maximum and goes further along the way. It is not beauty that is important here, but, first of all, simply the ability to spend the night guaranteed in a warm place, prepare your own food and process sable skins.
Whether you are a hunter-fisherman or a hermit, then you will choose a winter hut, not a hut. Building a winter hut is much easier than building a solid Russian hut. For a hunter, the main thing is simplicity and reliability, because he has not one such winter quarters in the forest, but several. And the basis of the house where his family lives is in a nearby village or city. To the hermit big house to nothing, because it is also important for him to quickly build a dwelling for himself and already start living in it, because the hermit will have enough other worries. But suppose with you that the hermit will use this winter hut as a temporary hut, while he is building a solid hut. How will it look ...
So, before building a taiga winter hut, our hermit or hunter chooses appropriate place... This is either a small clearing or a plot right in the middle of the forest. There must be a water source in the vicinity.
If this is not a clearing, then you will have to clear a place for construction, the forest at the same time will go to the crowns. The problem will be with the stumps - they are usually just burned out.
We prepared the place, pulled out the grass - and now we need to think about the first crown of the future winter quarters. In general, by and large, you can put the first one that comes in, if this winter hut is not very expensive for you, but if you are going to live there for a long time, then it is better to approach this issue more seriously. The first crown of the winter hut is recommended to be made of larch, since it rots very slowly compared to other trees, but if it is not nearby, then from what is. Stones can be placed under the crown, or logs can be placed directly on the ground.
Coniferous trees serve as construction material. Pine, larch are well suited, but spruce and fir are also possible. You can also use cedar and chop it down without undue pity, because such thinning sanitary cuttings, on the contrary, make room for larger and stronger cedars. It is not worth cutting down thick trees, the optimum will be 15-25 cm in diameter. The first two or three crowns are best made from thicker ones, and the rest from less. You can drag the logs to the place alone, without a partner. A raw pine tree with a diameter of 25 cm per meter will weigh about 40 kg (suggested by a seasoned taiga). The length of the log, i.e. the length of the wall of your winter quarters will be enough for you about 3-4 meters for one person. It turns out that a 4-meter log with a diameter of 25 cm will weigh about 120 kg. But you will not lift the whole log, but only one side of it, the other you will be dragged. It's still hard, but quite real for one person. If it's really hard, then you can cut thinner trees, you just need a little more of them - and that's it. How to cut a tree is shown in the figure:
Laying crowns
Before laying the crowns, the logs must be debarked, i.e. remove the bark from them. You can, of course, not do this, but you are going to live there for a long time? For debarking, you can use a pointed shovel, a scraper, your taiga ax for hopelessness. Around the beginning of May, the bark should peel off well from the tree, and it also peels off better from already dried logs harvested in winter. Dried logs are more difficult to handle than raw ones, but they are lighter.
There are two main types of crown-laying: "in the bowl" and "in the paw". There is also a simpler version of the "in the paw" method, widely used by hunters - "half-tree". The following photos show winter huts with crowns laid by these methods.
Laying "in the bowl"
Laying "in the paw"
Half-tree laying
The simplest method is "half-tree". With the "bowl" method, the logs adhere better to each other, and, therefore, there is less chance of cracks in the walls. Moss is laid between the logs, which is full in the taiga. Moreover, raw moss is much better than dry moss. Dry moss crumbles and is blown away by the wind, while wet moss fits well. Do not worry that moisture from the moss will contribute to rotting, everything will soon dry out on its own, along with our damp logs. Moreover, there are many natural preservatives in moss that slow down the decay of the tree. It is good to sew the crowns of your taiga winter quarters! You shouldn't feel sorry for moss at all! Otherwise, it may not be pleasant for you at all, since in winter every tiny crack brings a lot of problems when cold air is blown into it.
The photo shows an example of crowns folded by the "half-tree" method and their reduction. It can be seen that the first crown is covered with earth and longitudinal grooves are made at the logs.
It is not at all necessary to make longitudinal grooves. In this photo, they were made using a chainsaw, but you are unlikely to have it in stock. You can simply cut it off with an ax and put more moss on this place. Actually, the whole point is in moss, the more it is, the better!
How many logs will be required for construction? Well, in general, a lot, but this, of course, is not the answer, and therefore, let's count with you. The height of the walls will be, roughly speaking, 180 cm, i.e. so that a person with an average height does not have to bend over. Divide 180 by 20 and get 9 logs per wall. Multiply by 4 walls = 36 logs. But the winter quarters must also have a roof and a floor. This will require boards, more on them later.
How many logs will be required for the boards is difficult to say. If you cut down the forest with a reserve, then this remnant will be useful to you in different ways elsewhere. The forest will not become much poorer, considering that you will be cutting mainly as a sanitary felling. Also, do not forget about windows with doors - for them it will be necessary to make cuts in the logs, and it would be desirable to fasten the logs themselves with a thorn. To do this, you will need to drill through the logs and hammer a wooden spike into this hole so that the logs do not disperse.
How to make boards?
Naturally, you will not have the opportunity to buy boards and bring them to the forest, and this is useless. Boards are made on site. To do this, you will need to select the most straight-grained trees, without twisting and bending the trunk. To make boards, you only need an ax, and everything else is already done with it. You will need to cut a couple of wedges with which you will chop the log. The board obtained by this method is called "Scrap". First, we make small cuts at the base of the trunk with an ax, and then with the butt of the same ax we simply drive our stakes into it, in turn: first one, then the second. So that the stakes touch the entire diameter of the trunk. And with this method, carefully we dissolve the log onto boards, which will be much stronger than those sawn with a saw, because all the fibers are preserved, but we chop along them. You can also use a wooden sledgehammer instead of an ax, then the blows will be softer.
In the photo, the boards are sawn with a chainsaw, but it will look about the same.
In the photo is the Karelian Robinson Victor from the Peterhant forum
How to make a roof?
Roofs at winter huts are of two types: with an attic and without. Attic roofs are pitched and gable. In principle, you can build any of them. Below you can see examples of these roofs.
Roof with attic
Roof without attic
Roof with attic, pitched
What is an attic for? Firstly, it can be used as a pantry, putting various things there, to dry herbs in the summer. Secondly, the attic is warmer, especially when the attic is closed, as the roof becomes smaller, and warm air rises upward. And the lower the roof, the easier it is to keep warm in such a winter house. Most hunters build their winter huts with an attic. But it is easier to build without an attic, this will require much less material.
The attic roof is essentially two roofs: one is located at an angle of 90 ° to the walls, and the other is already above it. From the bottom photo, we see that the first roof can be laid not even with boards, but directly with small logs or their halves.
Between the logs, it will also be necessary to lay moss, and pour earth on top or cover it with roofing material (polyethylene). But for the intermediate roof (ceiling), the film is not at all necessary. The photo below shows mineral wool but instead there will be moss and earth. In the photo we see two vertical supports attached to the walls with brackets, a roof ridge and 6 slopes.
Boards are laid on top of the slopes, and without much beauty, since it will be necessary to cover the top with a film. It is hard to drag the roofing material, so you can take plastic wrap instead. The main thing is to protect you from rain, and the lower roof will protect you from heat transfer. Lay the floor in the same way from the same rail.
Winterhouse stove
The most important element of any taiga winter hut is a stove. Without it, the winter hut will only protect from the wind, but it will be impossible to live in it. Most often, hunters use iron stoves... Some even make themselves from scrap materials. What is so good about an iron stove? The fact that it quickly gives warmth. When the hunter came out of the way, he needs to heat the hut as soon as possible and prepare food. With a brick stove, this would be much more difficult, because you had to wait for it to heat up. An iron stove is good for a traveling winter hut, but not for a residential one, in which a person plans to live happily ever after. Because the iron stove both heats up quickly and cools down quickly, and you have to get up every hour to throw up the wood, otherwise the house can quickly cool down. Therefore, for a settled life, you will need a good brick oven, or, at worst, you will have to carefully cover the iron oven with bricks / stones. But it's better to take the time and still build a brick oven. The thermal conductivity of brick, like stone, is low, and therefore it heats up slowly and naturally cools slowly. You should be patient for a while while the stove is heated, but then you will sleep like a baby until the morning.
For a small winter hut, it is not at all necessary to build a large Russian stove with stove benches and different compartments. It is enough to build a small one. Here is an example of such a small brick oven in the next photo.
As you can see, it doesn't take too many bricks to make a stove. Above - hob... This will be quite enough for a small taiga hermit's hut. If you wish, you can, of course, more. The only question is the material. Where to get a brick for a stove? You can make it yourself from clay and assemble a stove from raw brick.
In principle, I told all the main things, in any case, you will have to gain your experience and rely only on your own strength. Somewhere you decide to do it your own way, and somewhere you make mistakes. Learn from mistakes. The main thing is to learn the basics and have an idea of construction in your head, and then it's up to you.
Long hikes, hunting, gatherings by the fire and the forest starry sky, this weight is very attractive to romantic natures. For some, these are isolated events from life, but for others it is life itself. If you belong to the second category, then you will probably be interested in information on how to build a winter hut in the taiga. Based on some building rules, you can build an excellent place suitable for rest from hard working days.
The main inhabitants of taiga buildings are commercial hunters, whose work takes place mainly in winter. In order to have where to settle at this time of year, they build themselves one main and several additional huts, placed throughout the forest area.
The main purpose of the hunting lodge is a roof over your head, strong and reliable walls that can shelter from the harsh taiga climate. In the house, a fisherman, and even a simple traveler, can rest, warm up, light the stove and prepare a meal before the next working day.
As a rule, there are no locks on the winter quarters, so everyone who is nearby will be able to take advantage of the hospitality. There you will find a weekly supply of firewood, and a simple tourist set (matches, canned food, salt, cereals, etc.). The house will also come in handy in the summer, when many people start going for mushrooms, berries, fishing and hunting small game. Beekeepers can come to the flower meadow for several days.
Features and rules for the construction of a winter house in the taiga
For a hunter-fisherman or a hermit, it is not the size of the building that is important, but its functionality, so options with large houses disappear immediately. Their construction will take a lot of time and effort. An experienced taiga breeder knows that one needs to build one winter hut for permanent residence and a number of small travel time-stops. The hunter has at his disposal a certain “klaptik” of the forest, on which his fishing activity takes place. Nets, traps, traps are set up there and, as a rule, one day is not enough to bypass all the possessions. For this, separate houses for spending the night are being built with their own hands at a distance from each other equal to one winter day of light.
How to build a winter hut in the taiga alone? Cook everything necessary tools and materials. It is best to make a list of everything you may need in advance. It includes:
- chainsaw for cutting logs;
- axe;
- measuring instruments;
- pencils and markers;
- consumables (nails, wooden planks, insulation, roof decking, etc.).
Each complements the list based on their needs.
The interior arrangement depends on your needs. You can build shelves and cabinets for storing utensils and supplies.
After the preparatory measures, the construction of the winter house begins. It is carried out in several stages.
Choosing a place for the construction of a winter house in the taiga
Much depends on the choice of a suitable place. Take this issue seriously if you plan to stay in the winter hut for the entire season. There must be a source with drinking or running water and protection from the wind near the hut. Also, the house should be located on a small hill in a pit, preferably of natural origin. This will save the lower crowns from spring floods and heavy torrential rains. Look around so that there are no dry bones around. In a gust of strong wind, they can break and cover your temporary hut.
If you cannot find a suitable clearing, you will have to do it yourself. To do this, the trees are cut down (they can also be used for crowns), the stumps are uprooted or burned out, the grass is pulled out. As a result, you should get an even and clean perimeter of vegetation. You cannot build a winter hut in a ravine, groundwater, especially in spring, will simply demolish it.
What material to use
If a structure for permanent residence is built only from pre-prepared and dried logs, then fresh material is suitable for wintering. Of course, you do not need to carry it, everything you need is taken on the spot and processed properly. In a temporary hut, beauty gives way to practicality and reliability. As mentioned above, you can use the trunks that were cut during the clearing of the site.
They build a winter hut in the taiga from coniferous trees. Spruce, pine, fir will do. Cedar is especially good. In addition to strength, it has a healing aroma. It is recommended to lay the first crown out of larch and place it on oak stumps dug into the ground. It turns out the so-called wooden foundation... Larch practically does not rot, so the structure will last a long time.
Choose trees that are not thick. The trunk diameter should be no more than 25 cm, the length 4 m. For the first three crowns, prepare thicker trees, the rest can be made thinner.
You can cope with the tray of material yourself, if your partner is not around. One log weighs on average 120 kg, but since you will be pulling it by one end, such a burden is quite feasible for a healthy man. If the weight does not seem to be lifting, choose thinner but larger barrels.
The height of the hut is made small, slightly higher than human height. How many blanks are needed can be found out by simple calculations. With a ceiling height of 180 cm and a log thickness of 20 cm, the consumption per wall is 9 trunks. We multiply them by 4 walls and it turns out that 36 logs will go to the perimeter. It is also necessary to equip the floor and roof, and for them you will need boards. They also require logs. The entire construction will take about 70-75 barrels.
How to build a winter hut in the taiga, laying crowns
The most important stage of construction begins. Logs felled and cleared of branches and twigs are cleared of bark. This is necessary to get rid of tree dwellers, which will eat up your house pretty quickly. You can remove the bark with an ax, a shovel, or a scraper. If you want to spend a little time on this activity, start construction in early May. At this time, the bark slides off especially easily. If possible, prepare logs in December, then after drying, they lend themselves well to debarking.
The crowns are laid in three ways: "in the bowl", "in the paw" and "in half a tree". The latter is the simplest and fastest construction method.
Laying "in the bowl"
Allows the trunks to fit snugly against each other, so gap sealing is minimized. At this way laying in each upper log, stepping back slightly from the ends, cut out a semicircular recess into which the lower trunk will enter. After assembly and shrinkage of the frame, the logs form a solid and non-blown structure. The technology of laying "in a bowl" makes the winter house warm, condensation does not form in it, which causes the development of the fungus.
To mark the place for cutting out the lock, a special tool is used - the "line". It consists of a handle and two parallel pointed ends. Using this method requires some knowledge in carpentry and will take a lot of time, but the result will please you.
Laying "in the paw"
With this arrangement, the ends of the logs do not protrude, but form a right angle. This allows the entire barrel length to be utilized and saves on material. Of the minuses, the possibility of drying out the corners at the junction points, which leads to the formation of cracks and blowing, is distinguished. The technology of execution "in the paw" requires clear marking and experience in these works, otherwise high-quality construction will not work.
There are three options for connecting "in the paw": straight, dovetail and with an additional spike. The first method is more popular for temporary buildings. In the log at the ends, grooves are cut to the length of the section of the element and a depth of half the thickness of the trunk. Cutting can be done on one side, or on both sides.
Half-tree laying
This method of erecting the walls of the winter quarters is the most convenient and does not require special skill. The ends of the logs are cut off by about a quarter from the top with an indentation from the edge of 25-30 cm. The same is done with the lower log. Logs are stacked on top of each other groove in groove.
Regardless of the method of installation, all crevices and grooves are clogged with wet! moss. This is the most important condition. The more moss, the better and warmer it will be inside in winter. It is important to use exactly wet raw materials, since they do not crumble or fly away from the wind. As the trunks dry, the moss will also dry out.
Window and door openings are cut into the finished walls. The cut logs are fastened together with a thorn. To do this, a through hole is made through all the logs, into which a wooden spike is hammered.
Making boards
Boards will be needed for the floor and roof. They are made on site by sawing solid logs. Pick up the smoothest trunks, no jaggedness, no kinks, no thick branches. Only an ax is needed as tools. Several longitudinal cuts are made at the base of the trunk; pre-prepared wooden stakes are stuck into them. With the butt of an ax, the stakes are alternately driven into the trunk and split into boards along the fibers. It is important that the split is the same along the entire length. Though appearance such lumber and not very attractive, but it is more durable than the boards sawn with a tool.
We make the roof and lay the floor
There can be two options for the roof: with and without an attic. In the first case, one is done or gable roof... Attic buildings are more functional. You can carry things, tools, materials left after construction on it. Secondly, such huts are warmer due to the fact that the roof is lowered, and the heat is better retained. Loft log cabins are built faster, and less material is spent for them.
Before building a roof, you need to equip the ceiling. For this, boards or small logs are used. As in the walls, the joints are well filled with moss. Earth is poured on top as insulation, but the benefits of civilization can also be delivered - roofing material, plastic wrap or mineral wool.
For construction gable roof we make supports in front and behind the hut, securing them with brackets. A skate is laid on them, on top of which there are 2-3 legs on each side. The resulting frame is covered with boards and, again, the joints are clogged with moss. From above, the roof is covered with a film, which is fixed with wooden planks nailed to the slopes. The last layer is roofing material, mica or metal.
The floor is made in a similar way to the ceiling. The boards are stacked and canned with moss. It is advisable to adjust them to size before laying, so it will be easier to work with them.
Making a winter house stove
The stove is the heart of the taiga refuge. She will warm, and feed, and dry after the rain. It will be impossible to live in a winter hut without a heating device. Iron devices are most commonly used. They melt quickly and are able to warm up the room in a matter of minutes. The disadvantage of iron stoves is that they both quickly heat up and cool down quickly, so every 1-1.5 they need to be fed with a new portion of firewood. If you want to sleep at night, you can line the iron stove with bricks. As you know, this material does not heat up so quickly, but retains heat for much longer.
Consider your chimney well. This must be done even at the stage of roof construction, because it requires holes for the output of the pipe. The stove is usually placed in the middle of the hut for its uniform heating. If you are installing the oven in a corner, cover the walls with which it comes in contact with metal sheets.
Taiga is a habitat for wild animals that can become uninvited guests in your shelter. To avoid this, the door must be made reliable and tightly closed from the inside. Attach hanging hooks to the ceiling to keep them out of the reach of the mice.
The construction of a winter house is not as difficult as it seems. Follow the sequence and basic rules to get a roof over your head before starting your winter hunt or help a lost wanderer survive in the harsh taiga laws.
»Today we will go to the remote taiga to build a hunting winter quarters. A small hut in the forest serves the hunter as a second home and he must build it himself, with his own hands. A story and a photo of a taiga hunter, as well as his friend Maxim, with whom they built a hunting hut together ... Winter huts are built at a great distance from a permanent settlement of people in the depths of an impassable taiga or forest, where there is least of all human activity, where the animal is not frightened by people ...
The main purpose of the hunting hut is, of course, a roof over the hunter's head, strong and reliable walls that can shelter the taiga from severe frost, pouring rain and an evil blizzard, the taiga has its own laws and they are very harsh! In the hut, the traveler can rest, warm up and light the stove, cook food, as well as sleep and gain strength.
By the way, they don't hang locks on such houses, they only close the door .. -You ask why? The answer is simple .. so that every person, be it a hunter, fisherman, tourist, mushroom picker, lost his way, could simply survive in harsh conditions. In the winter hut there is always a supply of firewood for at least a week, a little food (stew, canned food, cereals, salt and matches) This is an unspoken and strictest law of hunters, in the hut there should always be a supply of the above. If you had to survive in a hunting hut and she saved you, then please replenish the stock of firewood and provisions if possible, who knows who else may be in trouble in the taiga.
Choosing a place for construction happens as follows, the first step is to choose the most suitable place in the forest, preferably on a small edge protected from strong winds. There must be a source of clean drinking water nearby, be it a stream or a river, because in case of illness, a person was able to get to the water and not disappear from dehydration. The hut should be located on a small hill in a pit, preferably of natural origin, this will save the lower crowns from spring floods and heavy torrential rains. In no case is it necessary to build a dwelling in a ravine, only on level ground or on a hill.
A hunting hut lasts from several weeks to a month, it all depends on the skills and skill of a person in carpentry. The material for the construction is taken naturally on the spot, the best way is to harvest pine, larch, and the lower very first crown must be cut from oak and put the frame on oak stumps dug into the ground - this is such a columnar foundation. Chopping a log house is a business oh .., not simple and delicate .., I'll tell you friends) Sometimes it can take all day to fit the groove of just one crown. There are several types of joining of logs (paw, dovetail) Harvesting of wood, logs that have been felled and cleaned of branches and twigs must be cleaned of bark, because various “friends” live under the bark who will grind your logs if you do not. The cleaned wood must dry out !!! A raw log house will warp! Mezhventsovy joint groove is insulated with freshly harvested and damp moss, WET MOSS !!! The height of the hut is mostly small, so that a person of average height can stand tall (for example, as in a bath, the same) The roof is strictly gable, covered with a lung roofing material(roofing material, mica, metal if possible)
This is the heart of a hunting hut, it will warm up in inclement and frosty weather, dry clothes soaked to the skin, and you can also cook food on it. Basically, hunters put light metal stoves in winter huts and cover them with stones collected in the vicinity, thus increasing the efficiency of the stove, namely, the heated stones then slowly and evenly give off heat. But if it is not possible to deliver the stove deep into the forest, then you will have to lay it yourself out of stone and clay.
And so on, let's move on to the rack of the winter hut built by one of the taiga hunters and his friend Maxim. Background it all started back in 1995, the older and middle generation remember these terrible years when everyone survived as best he could, so my friend Maxim and I were still teenagers 15-16 years old and began to master the profession of a commercial hunter, catching game in they lived in the taiga, they collected cranberries, blueberries, mushrooms, nuts, the taiga generously gifted us and took care of us in its own way. With Max, far from our village, we built our first hut, it is better to call it even a hut, because we made it out of poles, boards, and inside we knocked it off with old blankets, in winter she certainly froze through the horse, but we really liked it even though all the shortcomings. Quite a few years have passed since that time and we have grown up, we started families ourselves, but only that native place where our hut stood, we do not forget, and in 2009 we decided to put a capital hut there. In the photo, the owner of the hut and his friend Maxim. 
The place where the hut was located has not been visited for a long time, and some hooligans set fire to the building itself. It hurts to watch, of course, but hoping for the best, we proceed to the construction site, clearing the clearing. 
In the place where the hut stood there is a small depression, they cut down the first crown of larch, it is resistant to moisture, and before that they dug in oak blocks as a foundation. 
Then we immediately start forming doorway.
We sawed the logs with a chainsaw "Partner" worked 14 hours a day without breakdowns, checked the inexpensive tool for strength, the saw did not let us down) 
The weather was not always sunny, on the second day of work it started raining and had to quickly make a canopy of galvanized sheet metal. 
It was raining slowly, but we continued to work. 
The rain parted and we had to put on chemical protection raincoats and work further, because we did not have much time, and there was a lot of work ahead. 
And now the outlines of the future hut are already visible, the frame was connected in a dovetail, but it turned out, what happened) 
In parallel, the creation of the roof and the rafter system of the hut went on. 
The markup was done homemade tool, called "hell" 
First, a longitudinal groove is cut, then transverse cuts and are selected with an ax. 
We saw cross cuts. 
Freshly harvested wet moss is laid between the crowns. Attention! Moss should not contain foreign materials (sticks, twigs, etc.), only clean moss! 
The board was brought from the mainland, namely, on a timber truck, friends threw it to the nearest quarry and then Maxim and I carried boards on ourselves through the forest, only 65 pieces, it was very difficult and it took us 4 days. 17 forties and 48 inches. Magpie on the floors and ceiling, Thumbelina on the roof lathing, bunks, table, benches. 
The floors are laid, the ceiling is laid and we move on to rafter system, roof in two slopes. There is a lot of snow in the taiga in winter, and if you make one slope, it can crush the boards, but it is much more reliable. 
Then we proceed to sawing a window opening in the wall of the hut, glass with a frame was found in one of the abandoned quarries, so they were adjusted to fit the finished frame. 
In autumn, in the taiga, there is an abundance of mushrooms, which are not available: boletus, aspen, white, mushrooms, there are even ash woods (see in the photo below) grow in alder thickets. 
We lay the boards close to each other and immediately make a hole for the outlet of the chimney. 
The oven and pipe are installed. 
Moving on to the second half of the roof. Pay attention to the door! She small size, this is done so that the hut does not stand out when opening, but it is better to cut down a small canopy or make a log house in front of the entrance to the hut. 
With a chainsaw we saw off the excess protruding parts of the rafters. 
Soon, Maxim left and the owners were completing the hut together. 
A magnificent woman, she helps her husband build a hunting hut, a real wife! 
We coat the joints of roofing material with molten tar. 
We installed the stove, flooded it, everything is just fine) 
After the construction was completed, it was urgently necessary to return home, to the city, because a lot of things had accumulated during the absence and rest in the forest. My wife and I returned to the taiga only in the fall with the opening of a duck hunt. Arriving at the place, they examined the hut first of all, were there any guests, whether everything was in place, to the surprise it was in perfect order, it is just that it often happens that the beast is hooligan, or the passers-by are ignorant) It was in the evening, there was nothing to do, took a picture for memory, melted it stove, had supper and went to bed until morning, and at 4 o'clock they went hunting to the lake. 
In the morning we moved to the lake, on the way we took a photo against the background of the rising sun. 
Returning from the hunt, they melted the stove, prepared a meal, and hung up the clothes to dry. wife went to bed, and I took up household chores) 
While it was free time engaged in ceiling insulation and pipe sealing, chimney sprinkled with loam from under the larch upturned by the roots. 
I made the embankment in this way, everything is fireproof. 
It remains to sew up the attic of the hut with a board, so that strong wind did not blow out cotton wool and did not pour rain and snow. 
We managed to build such a winter hut in a taiga forest, now it has become very convenient and comfortable to go fishing and hunting, there is a place to rest, warm up and spend the night, no need to carry a tent with you. Thus, one more hunting hut in the taiga has become more.