Pole transport

There's lots of ways to carry these things around. The Native Americans used horses, mules and dogs, hundreds of them for a large village.

I used my friend's 16' trailer to get them from Seattle to the island where I'm staying for the summer. He came a long way to help carry the poles back so I could prepare them close to the tipi site. This was a challenge: strapping everything down, hauling it up a busy freeway, carrying each pole across a meadow and into his barn. Not to mention researching oversize load laws for WA state and whether or not we needed to apply for a permit. Then there's driving it all onto and off of a ferry and across some narrow and perilous island roads. For his efforts? Well, see that whiskey barrel planter…? (I threw some bamboo plants in for good measure.)

After the poles were finished, other friends helped take them to the Tipi Landing Pad, an awesome spot they made in the woods just for me. Including logging out a road, stacking wood, and making the pad slightly mounded so moisture would move away, graveling and sanding it, etc. Stuff that takes tractors and chainsaws and things I don't have at hand. Oh, and pickup trucks with contractor racks.