The continuance of your life depends on you building a bridge over the running water. You have no tools, including no phone or access to internet.
Can you do it?
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What are the structural requirements of the bridge? Does it need to be able to accomodate wheelchairs, or horses, or cars? Is it a bridge just for me to use? How long should the bridge be expected to operate for? One crossing? 10 years?
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To carry your weight + weight of resources you'd need to carry across the bridge
You have an empty cabin on one side, all the resources are on the other side of the water (edible berries, fruits, nuts, mammals you can kill to skin and eat and use their hides)
Bridge will be used indefinitely, there's no guarantee you'd be found or are able to escape the vicinity
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You're still gay and I'm still based. Only thing getting rekt is your mums butthole by my bwc
Terminally on IST
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Terminally gay.
Gay
How about the shitty bridge only works once, and you use the resources in the cabin to help produce a permanent one?
Yes.
I'd just walk upstream until I find a spot where I can easily swim across.
Why not downstream?
Because if I walk downstream there might be more streams joining the river, meaning I'd have more water to swim across and I'm lazy.
assuming minimal requirements (1 average man to cross ~10 times): frick fat forest nymph for test boost, hit rocks together until i have a sharp rock, use that to chop down small trees, dig post holes, construct bridge, walk across
>dig post holes
Okay....
>construct bridge
?????
problem?
>dig postholes
Ya dig postholes in solid rock with no tools
Great plan there bucko let us know how long that takes ya
Yes.
I still don't know how those Romans built those aqueducts.
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superior medbvll genes
with tools
>tfw those things can stand like that for centuries without maintenance while modern bridges can shit themselves despite modern tech and while being taken care of
Romans sure were good at this shit
we could build bridges that can last as long now, especially if we had slaves and if the bridges were only going to carry water/horse carts
structures in modern times are mostly designed to be replaced periodically because codes and needs change, also they are carrying orders of magnitude more weight and subject to more vibrations
well their aqueducts don't have to withstand 40 ton trucks running over them every day
Ill just swim as im not a non white
Yes quite easily though it would be time consuming making that much rope. Alternatively i could use stone if the there is lime in the area. If there is neither material for making rope or lime I would have to resort to the most labor intensive method of using wood. Having to make an axe wouldn't be much of an issue but i would still have to fell and shape dozens of trees.
How do you create rope?
The implications is create tools from scratch.
>The implications is create tools from scratch.
No shit. My implication is that this requirement makes it all but impossible for a single individual in any reasonable length of time. Much less any of the anons posting here that have probably never even used an axe before.
It isn't that difficult to rig up a bridge in the woods lol. Maybe spend some time outside once in a while.
It's no big deal of you have a few basic things like a hatchet and a knife. If all you've got is your bare hands, it's not going to happen. Inb4 "I'll just make an axe out of a rock" stfu, no you want
This ain't Minecraft mate. You can punch a tree and get wood. Nobody here can make a sufficient axe to cut down a fricking tree in any reasonable time frame. This isn't just making a bridge in a wood, it's a raging fricking torrent.
when you don't have tools, you don't axe down a fricking large high canopy tree
you can use your weight to lever break small trees however
you can also use 2 trees close to each other to lever split a long cane/ branch
Yes those little saplings are going to span that river mate.
I never said anything about a river bridge, brother
makeshift bridges are done with rope
and someone needs to ford the river once to connect the other side
So you're not crossing the river like op asked?
How are you going to make a rope exactly?
do you not know what rope is?
you just find some plant with strong fibres and tie and twist them together
Never spent time outside? OK, here's the plan.
>It's a forest, search for a tree that already fell.
>drag to river.
>Bridge the river by standing it up and letting it fall across.
Y'all need to approach this a bit more resourcefully. I've never been in some woods that didn't have Dead or fallen trees.
There are many plants suitable for making rope. The process is also quite simple. Soak, thresh, dry, twist and you get cordage. To lengthen twist ends together. To thicken twist equally thick cords together. Eventually you get rope. You need roughly 7 times the length of a gap to make a rope bridge.
That's a pine forest, what plants are you going to use? What's the tensile strength of your rope going to be?
The answers to those questions are shit and frickall
Pine inner bark is suitable for cordage
If is used inner pine bark the tensile strength would be around 5lb for a single piece of cordage and about half that strength at the joints between two pieces. Once I wrap two piece together again back to 5lbs. To have a reasonable amount of strength I will need to double it at least 7 times. That means I while need to make 128 cords 7 times the length of the river to build a bridge to get to the other side. With about a month of time to create tools to harvest and process materials into cordage I could probably make 1 strand of cordage a day. So it would take roughly 158 days to make a rope bridge. Still I think it is probably the fastest and easiest way to get it done.
You could use weaker cordage to lash together a plank that could be placed across the river. You'd be done a lot faster.
Rope bridges with planks don't really take less rope and usually use thicker rope as the rope now has to support the weight of you itself and the planks. The reason rope bridges with planks were built is you could cross them with your hands somewhat free to carry stuff and you could move larger stuff across them. Sure we could always be building a more practical and bigger bridges , but at that point why don't we shoot for steel refineries and make suspension bridges.
Not a rope bridge with planks, lash together poles to form a plank and set it across. You'd only need string since the cordage isn't load bearing
You could construct a wooden bridge, but depending on the length of the bridge necessary could be quite difficult and would be more time consuming. Yes you can build a wooden bridge, but they are much harder to make over long distances. Also I am not a skilled wood worker and you would have to be felling, stripping, shaping, and cutting each tree with a stone hatchet. If I was 230 lbs of pure muscle and didn't have to worry about food then it could be a quicker way, but I would go for a stone bridge over a wooden one. Since you are by a river there would be access to sand and you would be able to make mortar. Again it depends on how wide the river is. If it is short just setting a few large logs across would probably be quickest.
That's fair I'm judging the task based on OP pic, I think a wooden bridge would work well in this case.
Additionally, how are you planning on anchoring the end of the rope bridge on the other side of the river?
Well for that I will just swim across and use rope to make sure I am not carried away by the current. If we are considering crossing a gorge then I would have to make a grappling hook and try to twist around a tree or large branch which would be very difficult and be very dangerous.
How you getting over that river anons?
Give him 5 minutes, the river will be drained
Well there’s a few ways to do it. But mainly I would make the tools out of wood and stone and cut down a large tree to lay it across the river.
Or, create enough proto rope to build a semi workable rope bridge
>no tools
so no axe, saw, knife, or any other woodworking equipment? I'm just supposed to drag dead logs over and hope they hold?
Yes I can, as long as there isn't a short time limit
>t. Engineer with outdoors experience
>Without tools
The answer is no obviously, and anyone that says otherwise it's completely delusional.
>you can get in the stream to build the bridge
>you can't cross the stream
This is like one of those borderline-sexual groomy games they force you to play at 5th grade camp
>you can get in the stream to build the bridge
That wasn't in the stipulations.
How was the first saw invented? Or the first axe?
>no tools
Lol. That's pretty much just saying you're dead kid.
No. I have no idea how to build things. My dad does but he didn't teach me anything
sage
I would find a tree that can span the gap and fell it by slowly whittling away at the trunk with a rock or something
A tree than can span that gap and hold your weight is going to frick your hand long before you cut it down.
I’ll just wrap my hand in my socks so it doesn’t wear it out too bad
Cut in a hole and put some embers in it to slowly burn away the wood while I do other stuff.
also
making rope takes a while but it's mega easy to do using long leaf fibers
takes a while, but if you have nothing, might as well
I would grab a stick and snap it in half, I would then out the pieces together to make it whole. I would then use this hole as a new shelter. No need tk cross the river if all my provisions are this side.
Can I use kidnap someone with excessive amounts of melanin and use them for unpaid labor? If I can it will take me ten years, if not it will take about a month
Why would it take longer if you have a slave?
I think you know why
>Find a smaller tree growing on the riverbank.
>dig out the roots one one side with your hands and a stick.
>when enough soil has been removed, push it over the river.
>bridge.
Oh and there is the obvious:
>start a fire with pine sap, sawdust and a couple of sticks. Use those gains.
>build fire at the base of a tall tree.
>when tall tree has burned out enough at the bottom, push it over the river.
>bridge.
It's a matter of fitness to see if you'd be able to survive in the wild. Of course resourcefulness is a big indicator of survival, but fitness is an indicator also.
Tl;dr - it's on topic.
No amount of muscles will make up for lack of knowledge and tools.
You could go to IST
Skyrim modding has come a long way huh
I was a swimmer so why would I even need a bridge?
Obviously not that water. But a smaller stream, sure. I made a bridge out of the leftover from a forest clearing beneath my family's summer house when I was 9-10 years old.