tilts

tilt nThese tilts were all constructed upon the same general plan. They were on an average about eight by ten feet in size, with a slightly sloping roof so low in the rear Bob could scarcely stand erect. The chinks between the logs were filled with caribou moss. The roof logs were covered with boughs, over which was spread first a blanket of moss and then a coating of six inches of earth. Each was provided with a doorway about four feet in height and two and a half feet wide, which was fitted with a door constructed of lashed saplings covered with bark. Within, a platform of flat stones was arranged to accomodate the sheet-iron stove, with a stove-pipe hole (over) [Reverse] through the roof directly over it. Long springly saplings were utilised in erecting bunks at the rear and long the side of the tilt opposite the stove. These were later to be covered with spruce boughs, and would serve both as beds and seats, and were elevated some eighteen inches above the earth floor.PRINTED ITEM G.M. Story JUN 1970JH JUN 1970Used I and SupUsed I and Sup1Not usedtilts, tilt-back, tilt line, Tilt's distance, BAY TILT, linneys, smoke like a tilt, sit in one end of a tilt and burn the othersense 1 of DNE-cit, not Sup; Reverse found at T_1390