when you go hiking in the black forest in the future... ...and something is snoring... but where is this coming from? ...you should watch up in the trees... may be someone is sleeping in the treehouse... three meters above the ground it's swinging free in the air... this is how it will look like... soon in the black forest... the idea is from the scouts with scoutleader tobias weissenmayer in calw/black forest/germany. ...they want to open a treehouse hike in the black forest ....so swr4 and stefanie molitor visited the scouts to see the inventures how they work on the prototype.
it looks a little bit like a flying teepee... ...you see how they do sawing and screwing... ...a massive wooden plate is the underground and the top is a clear roof... ...because the hikers can have a free few in the nature. but this is not the only particularity of this treehouse: "its not based on the ground so it can swing in the wind, not good for sea sick people." jonas said. jonas is a scout and member of the treehous crew... ...he is right! if you stay up in the treehouse it's a little bit shaking sometimes. because the treehouse is actually a hanging house.
it's fixed on three trees with three ropes.... ...a very intelligent solution for a simple idea. "we saw that in the black forest are not enough sleeping posibilities in the wilderness." gabriel said. ...for example open hiking huts. ...so we searching solutions to finde more sleepingplaces for hikers... ...or save places, if you go hiking with horses... ...so our solution was: a treehouse! since 2 years the group is working on this mammut-project. (in 2016 its 5 years) this is because of all these government rules...", tobias weiãÿenmayer said.
"for us it was a huge challenge. we had static engenieers... ...also a tree-engenieur and kybernetic engenieers worked with us. and many other specialists worked and helped us in the background. because otherwise we would not stand on this developement level for a use in the future." the government rules is one problem. to find people who offer trees for the prototyping as well. but only a few treehouses will became a treehouse hike.... ...so the scouts start a promotion tour in the black forest to find more people for the project. julian said: "we ask on farms, campinggrounds youthhostels, hotels if they are interested..." we taked to the people and most where excited from this project.
...most were facinated and many would like to support this!" julian said. but for the treehouse hike the scouts need to find lots of money... ...but the project already was it worth, because to work on treehouses its facinating. "there are lots of problems. sometimes the plan is wrong... ...sometimes there are two centimeters too much... ...so you must do a improvisation and you have to make a new inventions.... ...you must always find new solutions... ...but the fact is: what you have in the head, this is what you have in the head", kilian said. ...and nobody else has this knowledge in the head!"