How to build a lookout tower: four poles, a lot of cord, and triangles.
Day 42 in Tollan. The travelers are one ridge away, and you can't see over your own wall. Four tall poles with a floor on top? Build a small model first: push the top, and the square folds right over. Add one stick corner to corner, and it makes two triangles. Triangles don't bend.
1. Pick the spot: inside the wall, facing the ridge.
2. Cut four long poles, as thick as your leg and four times your height.
3. Twist lots of bark cord in the evenings.
4. Lash two ladders flat on the ground.
5. Dig four thigh-deep holes and walk the first ladder up, rung by rung.
6. Raise the second ladder and tie the two together, top and bottom.
7. Give it a shove. It still wobbles.
8. Brace every side corner to corner. Now it's all triangles.
9. Lay a floor of short poles on top, and lash a rail around it.
Climb up and look out. You can see all the way down the valley.
And at dawn, the four of them start down the ridge...
Episode 16 of Isekai Engineer: Fantasy Survival Guides.
Missed Episode 15? Watch how to build a palisade first.
Next episode: How to Make a Bow.
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