Foresters’ hut

FORESTERS’ HUT

The foresters’ workday in the remote forests began at dawn, day after day. Their daily lives were a mixture of hard work felling trees with an axe and hand saw, sleeping on a bunk bed lined with bracken or leaves, and meager food. The felled wood was harvested from remote forests and transported into the valleys along wooden slides, usually in winter. In the spring, when the thawing snow ensured that high water remained for a long time, the wood was floated along the Savinja river to sawmills. The sawn timber was then secured together to form a floating raft and taken down the river.